May 21, 2012

Website Spotlight – Wish Upon a Hero: Granting Wishes For Everyday People

Remember the movie Pay it Forward with Haley Joel Osment, Helen Hunt and Kevin Spacey? Such an amazing concept – do something good for one person and ask them not to thank you but pay it forward to to someone else.  I thought of that movie when I heard about Wish Upon a Hero.  An amazing website where you can grant people small or big wishes.

One of today’s wishes comes from a Mom with 7 children – the oldest of whom fell and now has to have surgery.  She’s asking for get well cards to come in the mail to him.  How easy is that to do?  And a wonderful thing to teach your children.

Other posts involved people looking for certain goods – maybe you have an old baby product you aren’t using that you are willing to give to someone?  Check out WishUponaHero.com.  At the time of my writing this review, 82,100 wishes will have been granted through the site.

Great Facts about PBSKids

We love PBS Kids here.  WordGirl, Dinosaur Train and the latest: Wild Kratts are some of my kids favorite tv shows to watch.

I thought this was a fun little image full of some great facts about PBS Kids and wanted to share it.  You can see more here too.

Garden Party World: Fun Virtual Play for Kids, Plus #Giveaway

Updated:  Congrats to Kristin H for winning the year subscription to Garden Party!

My kids have been playing on a new virtual world site called GardenParty.  It’s a cute little site where you customize a character, have a treehouse and a garden.  Users play games and interact (via a safe chat type mode) with other players while they grow things in their garden and build a home in their treehouse.

Garden Party is free to play but there is a paid subscription to get into member-only places.

If you’re looking for a fun new site for your kids, check this out.  My 7 & 4 year old have been playing with it and it doesn’t require too much reading so the 4 year old is even able to play on his own.   Visit GardenPartyWorld.com to check it out.

Giveaway: I have a code for a 12-month subscription to the paid service!  Enter below by commenting.   One winner will be selected after March 20th and notified of having won.  They will have 48 hours to respond.

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