Question about a gift for an orphan?

Joanna

Hi u guys ok so for our after schoo club we have to give a gift to an orphan nd i got an 8year old >male< and i dont know what to buy i was thinking a remote control car .. so if u have any 8year old brother or know someone around that age what would u suggest the price limit is $ 20-25 thanks :)

Answer
If you get a battery operated toy throw in an extra pack of batteries.

Forget educational and just go for pure fun. Also, this toy must travel as this kid is in the system and may go from group home to home or same with foster care, from home to home.

Remote toys, actions figures, transformer bots, lego set, walkie talkies, matchbox car set (of 20), velcro dart board.

http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&keywords=toys%20for%208%20year%20old%20boys&page=1&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Atoys%20for%208%20year%20old%20boys

Gift suggestions...?

comic book

My cousins's twins are turning 5. I wanted to get them an educational and entertaining toy, but i'm having a hard time finding a good one. They seem to be attracted to technology and like taking apart many of the toys they already have. any suggestions?

Answer
There are oodles and oodles of educational games and toys out there for kids age 5. When my grandson was 5 I bought him three educational computer games. One was space travel and taught the solar system and planets. Another was Dinosaurs (which he was into at the time). This game taught about the various dino's, how the bones are found and excavated, and about the history of the planet in relation to the dino's. The last game was Amazon and taught the famous river and its animals, inhabitants, and history. All 3 were filled with puzzles and games for them to play and solve. He played with all three, which is rare because normally he checks a game out then moves on.

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Traveling on plane with toddler, what to pack?

New Mommy!

In a couple of months we'll be going to Florida with our 3.5 year old. Last time we flew on a plane with him he was 3 weeks old and slept the entire flight. I got a connecting flight just to give him a chance to get off the plane and walk around for a couple of hours.

My question is what should I pack for him? I've read a lot of articles of people suggesting we pack books and his favorite toys. Others suggest we pack very little because everything will get thrown under the seats or lost. I have an iPad in which he has a folder of educational apps which he likes and is entertained. I will download more educational apps before we leave and that he has not seen. I think I might download a few movies just in case, but am concerned if they will play on the plane. Also less carry on baggage.

Any other suggestions? Our nephew has a nintendo dsi and my son is absorbed in the Mario game, but I think that might be pushing it with so many electronics for such a little guy.

TIA!

Answer
I took my daughter on a plane last summer when she was 3 1/2 and we packed very little.

The iPad sounds like a great idea, I packed a Nintendo DS, but that's just what we had, if he has a few games that he loves and a new movie (or an old favorite) that should keep him occupied for several hours. Just don't forget to bring headphones!
I would also bring some gum and/or hard candies to help him pop his ears and bring a small water bottle (bring it empty and fill it once you get past security). I would also bring handi-wipes and a favorite blankie or snuggle toy.

Keep in mind, also, that airports don't usually have child friendly food or drinks. Because you are traveling with a toddler you can bring extra liquids as long as they are in sealed containers. I brought a few juice boxes and a few single serve boxes of shelf stable milk (I used Horizon, but I think there are other brands as well) as well as an empty sippy cup and a few sturdy snacks (fruit snacks, granola bars and Wasa crackers).

Question about a gift for an orphan?

Joanna

Hi u guys ok so for our after schoo club we have to give a gift to an orphan nd i got an 8year old >male< and i dont know what to buy i was thinking a remote control car .. so if u have any 8year old brother or know someone around that age what would u suggest the price limit is $ 20-25 thanks :)

Answer
If you get a battery operated toy throw in an extra pack of batteries.

Forget educational and just go for pure fun. Also, this toy must travel as this kid is in the system and may go from group home to home or same with foster care, from home to home.

Remote toys, actions figures, transformer bots, lego set, walkie talkies, matchbox car set (of 20), velcro dart board.

http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&keywords=toys%20for%208%20year%20old%20boys&page=1&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Atoys%20for%208%20year%20old%20boys

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Gift suggestions...?

comic book

My cousins's twins are turning 5. I wanted to get them an educational and entertaining toy, but i'm having a hard time finding a good one. They seem to be attracted to technology and like taking apart many of the toys they already have. any suggestions?

Answer
There are oodles and oodles of educational games and toys out there for kids age 5. When my grandson was 5 I bought him three educational computer games. One was space travel and taught the solar system and planets. Another was Dinosaurs (which he was into at the time). This game taught about the various dino's, how the bones are found and excavated, and about the history of the planet in relation to the dino's. The last game was Amazon and taught the famous river and its animals, inhabitants, and history. All 3 were filled with puzzles and games for them to play and solve. He played with all three, which is rare because normally he checks a game out then moves on.

what is a good gift for children ages 4-10?

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educational toys or fruits or others in celebration of eid al fitr

Answer
The peace for you dear questioner,

a trip to the nature, somewhere that is really really pretty. Somewhere in the wild, or in another land/region/state/town...

let them know about quran 29:30 and 3:137

translations:
[29:20] Say: Travel in the earth and see how He originated the creation, then God creates the latter creation; surely God has power over all things.

[3:137] Many ways of life have passed away before your time. Go, then, about the earth and behold what happened in the end to those who gave the lie to the truth.

http://www.misconceptions-about-islam.com/religion-science-reason-compatible.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWVNesAm94Q - that's good for under 2 year olds.

You could always offer them toys and candies, but when you do give them the offer, let them know they can either have these toys/sweets on this earth, or wait to get something better in the hereafter in heaven. -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZEAFQCXnL4

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What do you think of our educational toy?

Emi

Hey all!

I work at PenPal Notes: Educational Lunch Notes (http://penpalnotes.com/), and I was hoping to get your feedback about our product. Created by parents looking to inspire reading, PenPal Notes follow the young panda Tej as he travels on his magic carpet across time and the globe. Write a personal note on the back, and accompany Tej as he embarks on his adventure of learning! Each series contains 20-40 illustrated lunch notes and a set of fun stamp stickers.

After 4+ years of development, we have finally started to sell PenPal Notes, and we were wondering how parents responded to it. Do you think that lunchtime/lunch notes should be a time for relaxation and not education? Would you be willing to set aside 15 minutes every day to go over these notes with your kids?

Any feedback would be so helpful, thanks!

-Emi

Answer
I think they are really cute. I visited the website and looked at the taste buds box of cards.

The website is great. I love how I could click on the taste buds circle and have the box come up. Seeing what was in the box really helped me to see what you are selling. Without the box of cards opening up, I thought of it as being a mat on the tray at McDonalds. but clearly it is much more than that.

The drawing of the panda is cute, and the colors are great. Personally, I wouldn't make too much of the magic carpet. You have enough going on without that. Just mentioning it is enough.

I am an adult college student. Last semester at college we had to read books for my Children's Literature class. One book I read was called "The Tequila Worm". Despite the name, it was a great book. The book was for an older age group than you are trying to reach, I think. Anyway, it was about a girl in Mexico. She had a great family, and they always celebrated with food. As I read it, I thought of the many ways you could celebrate with a classroom of students as they read the book over a period of time. There were pinatas, special foods, etc. There was also some celebration around Easter time about preparing eggs in a certain way. Would you want to connect your product to Children's Books as another way of extending their use and appeal? Another book to look at would be Lois Ehlert's alphabet vegetable book.

I'm thinking this is a great product, but it could be expanded beyond the mom putting the note in the lunch bag. As a teacher, I'd like to send these notes home with my students, so their parents can read them and talk about what we did in school that day. Have you talked to Scholastic Publishing? This seems like a Scholastic product.

Also, this is a good way to promote interest in healthy eating. I wanted to go and try new cheeses just by reading the note about French cheese. As a Mom, this would give me some ideas for supper menus at home that are healthy. I see the notes as inspiration to the family home cook. I could tell my boys "Your lunch note is a clue to supper tonight".

Here is one thing that would keep me from buying the product. I have two kids, and I have to send a lunch with each of them. In order to buy your notes, I have to spend $20 on lunch notes in order for them both to have the same thing. Could you put two or three copies of the same note in the pack? Or for teachers, can you give them a classroom supply using 4 or 5 key notes to send home to parents? You could call it "The Classroom Pack". Make it be 30 copies of 4 notes, for a total of 120 notes. That would last a teacher about a month, if she did one a week. What a wonderful boost to a unit on food!

You asked if lunchtime should be a time of relaxation and not education. These notes are cute and the educational part of them is "light" enough that it shouldn't tax anyone's down time. It gives parents and children an opportunity to connect and have something to talk about. It is a conversation starter.

One more idea- how about targeting families who homeschool their kids? I would think this would really appeal to them.

Good Luck. My husband and I have tried a few times to start a business, with no success. I hope this works for you.

I have a 2 year old and a 1 year old what would the appropriate amount of toys be a day if alternated?

penny

they have ALOT of toys i mean alternating a certain amount a day so they dont get bored

Answer
Try choosing the day's toys by either category, or theme.

You could have one toy per kid per category : one art toy each, one musical instrument each, one dump truck each...

Or you could have "art day" and have ALL art supplies that day, etc. then have "travel day" and play with train sets, toy cars, etc... you could even make it educational and ask "Which toys go with our theme today?"

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What are some good hobbies to take up?

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Tai

As summer is approaching, I would really love to try something new. Does anyone have any suggestions? And please try to limit the sports suggestions.

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1.Aeromodeling
2.Amateur Astronomy
3.Amateur Radio
4.Animals/pets/dogs
5.Arts
6.Astrology
7.Astronomy
8.Backgammon
9.Baseball
10.Basketball
11.Beach/Sun tanning
12.Beachcombing
13.Beadwork
14.Beatboxing
15.Becoming A Child Advocate
16.Bell Ringing
17.Belly Dancing
18.Bicycling
19.Bird watching
20.Birding
21.BMX
22.Blogging
23.BoardGames
24.Boating
25.Body Building
26.Bonsai Tree
27.Bowling
28.Brewing Beer
29.Bridge
30.Bringing Food To The Disabled
31.Building A House For Habitat For Humanity
32.Building Dollhouses
33.Butterfly Watching
34.Button Collecting
35.Calligraphy
36.Camping
37.Candle Making
38.Canoeing
39.Car Racing
40.Casino Gambling
41.Cave Diving
42.Chess
43.Church/church activities
44.Cigar Smoking
45.Cloud Watching
46.Coin Collecting
47.Collecting
48.Collecting Antiques
49.Collecting Artwork
50.Compose music
51.Computer activities
52.Cooking
53.Crafts
54.Crafts (unspecified)
55.Crochet
56.Crocheting
57.Cross-Stitch
58.Crossword Puzzles
59.Dancing
60.Diecast Collectibles
61.Digital Photography
62.Dolls
63.Dominoes
64.Drawing
65.Dumpster Diving
66.Eating out
67.Educational Courses
68.Electronics
69.Embroidery
70.Entertaining
71.Exercise (aerobics, weights)
72.Fast cars
73.Fishing
74.Football
75.Four Wheeling
76.Freshwater Aquariums
77.Frisbee Golf - Frolf
78.Games
79.Gardening
80.Garage Saleing
81.Genealogy
82.Geocaching
83.Going to movies
84.Golf
85.Go Kart Racing
86.Grip Strength
87.Guitar
88.Handwriting Analysis
89.Hang gliding
90.Hiking
1.Home Brewing
2.Home Repair
3.Home Theater
4.Horse riding
5.Hot air ballooning
6.Hula Hooping
92.Hunting
93.Illusion
94.Internet
95.Jet Engines
96.Jewelry Making
97.Jigsaw Puzzles
98.Juggling
99.Keep A Journal
100.Kites
101.Kite Boarding
102.Knitting
103.Knotting
104.Learn to Play Poker
105.Learning A Foreign Language
106.Learning An Instrument
107.Learning To Pilot A Plane
108.Legos
109.Listening to music
110.Macramé
111.Magic
112.Making Model Cars
113.Matchstick Modeling
114.Meditation
115.Metal Detecting
116.Model Rockets
117.Modeling Ships
118.Models
119.Motorcycles
120.Mountain Biking
121.Mountain Climbing
122.Musical Instruments
123.Needlepoint
124.Owning An Antique Car
125.Origami
126.Painting
127.Paintball
128.Papermaking
129.Parachuting
130.People Watching
131.Photography
132.Piano
133.Pinochle
134.Playing music
135.Playing team sports
136.Pottery
137.Puppetry
138.Pyrotechnics
139.Quilting
140.Rafting
141.Railfans
142.R/C Boats
143.R/C Cars
144.R/C Helicopters
145.R/C Planes
146.Reading
147.Reading To The Elderly
148.Relaxing
149.Renting movies
150.Rescuing Abused Or Abandoned Animals
151.Robotics
152.Rock Collecting
153.Rockets
154.Rocking AIDS Babies
155.Running
156.Saltwater Aquariums
157.Scrapbooking
158.Scuba Diving
159.Sewing
160.Shark Fishing
161.Skeet Shooting
162.Shopping
163.Singing In Choir
164.Skateboarding
165.Sketching
166.Sky Diving
167.Sleeping
168.Smoking Pipes
169.Snorkeling
170.Soap Making
171.Soccer
172.Socializing with friends/neighbors
173.Spelunkering
174.Spending time with family/kids
175.Stamp Collecting
176.Storytelling
177.String Figures
178.Surf Fishing
179.Swimming
180.Tea Tasting
181.Tennis
182.Tesla Coils
183.Tetris
184.Textiles
185.Tombstone Rubbing
186.Tool Collecting
187.Toy Collecting
188.Train Collecting
189.Travel
190.Traveling
191.Treasure Hunting
192.Trekkie
193.Tutoring Children
194.TV watching
195.Urban Exploration
196.Video Games
197.Volunteer
198.Walking
199.Warhammer
200.Watching sporting events
201.Windsurfing
202.Wine Making
203.Woodworking
204.Working In A Food Pantry
205.Working on cars
206.Writing
207.Yoga
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What are some hobbies I could do for my free time?

Jonathan C

Hello. I am an actor in Los Angeles, looking to limit my overall stress with some fun hobbies. I don't hang out with a lot of people so please list hobbies that I can eathier do alone or with a few friends. Thank you : )

Answer
Aircraft Spotting
Airbrushing
Acting
Aeromodeling
Amateur Astronomy
Amateur Radio
Animals/pets/dogs
Arts
Astrology
Astronomy
Backgammon
Badminton
Baseball
Basketball
Beach/Sun tanning
Beachcombing
Beadwork
Beatboxing
Becoming A Child Advocate
Bell Ringing
Belly Dancing
Bicycling
Bird watching
Birding
BMX
Blacksmithing
Blogging
BoardGames
Boating
Body Building
Bonsai Tree
Bowling
Brewing Beer
Bridge
Bringing Food To The Disabled
Building A House For Habitat For Humanity
Building Dollhouses
Butterfly Watching
Button Collecting
Calligraphy
Calligraphy
Camping
Candle Making
Canoeing
Car Racing
Casino Gambling
Cave Diving
Cheerleading
Chess
Church/church activities
Cigar Smoking
Cloud Watching
Coin Collecting
Collecting
Collecting Antiques
Collecting Artwork
Compose Music
Computer activities
Cooking
Cosplay
Crafts
Crafts (unspecified)
Crochet
Crocheting
Cross-Stitch
Crossword Puzzles
Dancing
Darts
Diecast Collectibles
Digital Photography
Dolls
Dominoes
Drawing
Dumpster Diving
Eating out
Educational Courses
Electronics
Embroidery
Entertaining
Exercise (aerobics, weights)
Fast cars
Fencing
Fishing
Football
Four Wheeling
Freshwater Aquariums
Frisbee Golf - Frolf
Games
Gardening
Garage Saleing
Genealogy
Geocaching
Ghost Hunting
Glowsticking
Going to movies
Golf
Go Kart Racing
Grip Strength
Guitar
Handwriting Analysis
Hang gliding
Hiking
Home Brewing
Home Repair
Home Theater
Horse riding
Hot air ballooning
Hula Hooping
Hunting
Illusion
Internet
Jet Engines
Jewelry Making
Jigsaw Puzzles
Juggling
Keep A Journal
Kitchen Chemistry
Kites
Kite Boarding
Knitting
Knotting
Lasers
Lawn Darts
Learn to Play Poker
Learning A Foreign Language
Learning An Instrument
Learning To Pilot A Plane
Legos
Listening to music
Macramé
Magic
Making Model Cars
Matchstick Modeling
Meditation
Microscopy
Metal Detecting
Model Rockets
Modeling Ships
Models
Motorcycles
Mountain Biking
Mountain Climbing
Musical Instruments
Needlepoint
Owning An Antique Car
Origami
Painting
Paintball
Papermaking
Papermache
Parachuting
People Watching
Photography
Piano
Pinochle
Playing music
Playing team sports
Pottery
Puppetry
Pyrotechnics
Quilting
Rafting
Railfans
R/C Boats
R/C Cars
R/C Helicopters
R/C Planes
Reading
Reading To The Elderly
Relaxing
Renting movies
Rescuing Abused Or Abandoned Animals
Robotics
Rock Collecting
Rockets
Rocking AIDS Babies
Running
Saltwater Aquariums
Scrapbooking
Scuba Diving
Sewing
Shark Fishing
Skeet Shooting
Shopping
Singing In Choir
Skateboarding
Sketching
Sky Diving
Sleeping
Smoking Pipes
Snorkeling
Soap Making
Soccer
Socializing with friends/neighbors
Spelunkering
Spending time with family/kids
Stamp Collecting
Storytelling
String Figures
Surf Fishing
Swimming
Tea Tasting
Tennis
Tesla Coils
Tetris
Texting
Textiles
Tombstone Rubbing
Tool Collecting
Toy Collecting
Train Collecting
Train Spotting
Travel
Traveling
Treasure Hunting
Trekkie
Tutoring Children
TV watching
Urban Exploration
Video Games
Volunteer
Walking
Warhammer
Watching sporting events
Windsurfing
Wine Making
Woodworking
Working In A Food Pantry
Working on cars
Writing
Yoga
YoYo

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