Creative Summer Days
The advent of summer is a source of mixed feelings:
- happiness about a more laid-back schedule
- anxiety about how I’m going to answer the “I’m bored, Mom” ‘s
- resolve to make the most of the extra time to start some good habits
- determination to use some of these months to reinforce and advance school skills
Do you feel the same way? Well, 5 Minutes for Mom is here to help.
From June 10 – 18, we’ll have new ideas (and of course, giveaways!) to help keep your kids and the whole family busy, healthy, and happy! All of the contests will be listed here. To enter, leave a comment on each separate post for the items that you’d like to win.
All of the winners will be announced on June 24.
- The first creative idea is to Cook! with the opportunity to win one of 5 copies of Yum-O! The Family Cookbook.
- The second challenge is to Play and Learn with two winners receiving two computer games — Mia’s Reading Adventure: The Bugaboo Bugs and JumpStart Advanced Preschool World.
- In our third giveaway, you can provide a creative summer adventure for your child if you win one of 5 Giftventure gift certificates.
- One of you could win a great prize pack to help fuel your child’s imagination from education.com.
- 5 of you will give your child the safety to Explore with a cell phone package from kajeet.
- Are you always trying to encourage your kids to eat their veggies? Enter to win one of 5 Henry and the Hidden Veggie Garden books.
- Our seventh giveaway invites those of you who can travel to New York City on August 2 the opportunity to Experience Walking with the Dinosaurs (sponsored by One2One Network).
- Education.com is sponsoring another great prize pack to keep your kids’ creative juices flowing this summer. Enter here.
- Three of you could win 2 new books from Maple Tree Press designed to encourage your kids to Exercise!
- One of you will win three CDs that will encourage your whole family to Sing and Dance.
- Three of you will win a set of three audiobook CDs to Listen to as a family.
- We have five Trip Flix DVDs so that the whole family can Travel (Virtually).
We’d love for you to spread the word.
Write a post announcing the giveaway event on your blog or display a button in sidebar. Here’s the code for the small sidebar button:
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I still can’t get your button to work on my blog
I still can’t get the button to work
We blogged about the 1st 3 contests soo far! Soo much summer fun!
http://kristiniac.blogspot.com/2008/06/thursdays-tantallizing-finds.html
Added the button to my sidebar. Happy Summer!
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I added the button to my blog!
Thanks for offering this, it looks like tons of fun
I love cooking and cookbooks. My children and I have been working on our family cookbook for a few years but it is never finished because we keep finding new yummy reciepes.
Yes, yes…I would love to win this!!
Telling all my friends! Great giveaway!!
replacing the quotation marks in the code worked! The button is up on my sidebar now!
Great ideas & awesome giveaways! Thanks!!!
We love reading at our house. Happy to spread the word!
My kiddos LOVE tomatoes. Oh, my goodness they can eat them fried, in salad, raw (like apples). They are our MOST favorite…followed by “little trees” (broccoli)
I would love to share your giveaways with my neighbours!
Great contest!
Thanks!
I couldn’t get the banner to work on my blog.
But I did make a post and linked to this site and the contest, so hopefully that will be ok. Thanks for the ideas/giveaways ladies!
I’m creative; I’m a mom; And, I am interested in winning your sweepstakes. So, I have entered in the hopes of winning.
I would like to win since I am creative and I am a mom and I like the prizes.
Yum-O!! You know the name speaks for itself. Way to go Rachael Ray
would love the cookbook! a huge Rachel Ray fan!
I enjoy watching Rachel Ray’s cooking shows. The meals she prepares are interesting and more importantly not that complicated. I would love one of her recipe books!
oh i will love any of these things! Share them with all my family
Here’s a great idea for moms for the summer! It’s iMOM’s latest program called Operation Summer. It’s a FREE summer-long program that will draw you closer to your children, and you’ll have fun with them while doing it. Go to http://bit.ly/iMOMOpSummer to learn more and sign up! And don’t keep it top secret – tell your friends that iMOM Operation Summer is here! I know you’ll love it!
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