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I love playing games online. I frequently visit games section of MSN and Yahoo to play board and word games especially.

I recently introduced my 10 year old to the online gaming world. Though she loves playing outdoors with her friends, she enjoys playing games online too. Since she is a pro at computers thanks to her homework, which requires online research, it was easy for her to get the hang of playing games. She is allowed just 3 hours a week to play games online.

Since I frequent Yahoo for games, I put her on to kid’s game section on yahoo. Yahoo Games have all genres of games for kids ranging from card, board and tiles games, and sports games to arcade games with pool and blocks, ET. Al. She loves playing tic-tac toe, blocks, connecting dots, and flower frenzy, ET. Al. She enjoys playing games from kid’s bops section.

Now that my daughter is enjoying playing games online, I will have to start searching for more sites, which offer games of all kids. She likes to play games, which I play on yahoo.com.

Though I rarely leave my girl alone on the PC, last fortnight I found her surfing a new site for kids called theKidzpage.com. She told me that one of her friends had recommended this site for free online games for kids.

Next day I sat and surfed thekidzpage.com and found it to be a really good site for kids that offers free kids online games, coloring pages, jigsaw puzzles, educational games and activities, clipart that keep kids busy and entertained for hours together. With over tons of pages of fun, learning and activities with new games daily, kids love this site. I know my daughter is hooked on playing educational games, holiday themed games and much more on this site.

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Shopping for toys is a daunting task. My previous toy shopping experiences without my son has not gone down well with him. While I leaned more towards educational toys or games, his choices were completely different.

It was decided that for his birthday he would choose his own gift. We took our son for toy shopping few days before his birthday and he really surprised us with his choice. Since our focus was buying something educational, we veered towards the educational games section for preschoolers.

After browsing through all the available games, he finally settled for Cranium Cariboo with the treasure hunt theme, treasure chest and key to unlock the chest. When we asked him the reason for this game, he said it’s colorful and has many different objects, letters and shapes. I feel he was bowled over by those six colorful balls.

The game board has pop open windows that may or may not hide a colorful ball. The hiding places of each of the six balls are a mystery every time when the game is played.

Combining matching colors, numbers to sets of objects, letters and shapes, the ball, pop open windows and the treasure chest hold enormous appeal for kids.

The game is simple to play. The players send six balls through secret tunnels; waits till they settle down and then take turns in playing the game. The first player draws a card that could be a number, letter, a color or a shape. He/She then has to match the card to the tile on the board. If matched, then with the help of special purple key, unlock the tile to reveal a colorful ball or nothing. If ball is present under the tile, it has to be placed into the tumbling tide pool. The last ball when placed in the pool opens a treasure chest to reveal a shiny jewel and determines the winner.

This game is built on the popular treasure hunt theme. To make it more appealing to kids, the makers have also included a treasure map.

While playing this game, my son learned to use his matching skills to match the card to the tile, he also learned color, shapes and counting.

I am really happy with my son’s choice of game. Just the other he was telling me that if he has to attend any of his friend’s birthday party, he would like to buy them something educational games as gift. So sweet…

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Last week, my daughter was invited to a birthday party of a girl with whom she is friendly at daycare. Next day when I picked my lil one from the babysitter, she told me that her friend had got some read and write pad as a gift from one of her aunts.

I happened to meet her mother the other day and asked her about read and write pad that her daughter was talking about. She told me that it was Read & Write LeapPad from LeapFrog and she told me how helpful it is.

I searched online for Read & Write LeapPad and found it on sale on Amazon and company’s website.

Read & Write LeapPad is for preschoolers in the age group of 4 – 8 years. The LeapPad brings the magic of books to life. The uniquely designed learning system makes stories come alive right on the page through talking characters, engaging narration, music and playful sound effects.

Your child chooses from a collection of wonderful interactive storybooks featuring their favorite characters. Let your child touch the pages of the book with a magic pencil to hear letter sounds and words read aloud, characters coming to life and play thrilling learning activities.

Besides the Read & Write LeapPad, there are LeapPad Plus Writing Books, which helps your child practice writing letters, words, play games and even solve math problems.

By teaching - reading, writing, phonics skills and mathematics, Read & Write LeapPad offers a right touch to inspire a love of books that will last your child a lifetime.

If you are buying from Amazon buy this in collaboration with LeapFrog LeapPad® Educational Book: Kindergarten - Reading/Writing (5 - 6 year olds), which teaches your child how to write capital and lowercase letters, short and long vowels, consonant blends, digraphs, writing simple words, beginning sounds, middle sounds, rhyming and spellings. Amazon is offering the Read & Write LeapPad with the above-mentioned educational book.

I now have to get my husband to use his credit card to buy this for our girl.

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