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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:
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!
oh i will love any of these things! Share them with all my family
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!
would love the cookbook! a huge Rachel Ray fan!
Yum-O!! You know the name speaks for itself. Way to go Rachael Ray
I would like to win since I am creative and I am a mom and I like the prizes.
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 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 would love to share your giveaways with my neighbours!
Great contest!
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)
Great ideas & awesome giveaways! Thanks!!!
replacing the quotation marks in the code worked! The button is up on my sidebar now!
Telling all my friends! Great giveaway!!
Yes, yes…I would love to win this!!
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.
I added the button to my blog!
Thanks for offering this, it looks like tons of fun
Added the button to my sidebar. Happy Summer! :o)
We blogged about the 1st 3 contests soo far! Soo much summer fun!
http://kristiniac.blogspot.com/2008/06/thursdays-tantallizing-finds.html
I still can’t get the button to work
I still can’t get your button to work on my blog 🙁
blogged it here:
http://gseemoore.blogspot.com/2008/06/more-great-giveaways-at-5-minutes-for.html
This is a great giveaway! 🙂 My son and daughter
would love this.
Your code isn’t working for me – there’s no button showing up – just this “”csdsmbutton.jpg””
I got the button up and will blog about the contest later today! Great contest!
Thanks for hosting the fun!
I hate to cook dinners (something I inherited). I love to bake. So any help and suggestions I can get will be so welcomed by me and my brood.
Sorry I couldn’t get your button to work! UGH!
I put the button up on my sidebar!
Thank you for the hint, Megret! My button is up.
Blog post is up, and button’s in the sidebar!
To those having trouble putting in the button, try replacing the quotes in the HTML text with quotes you add in — they look different on my computer, and when I switched them out, it worked great. 🙂
My button isn’t working, either, I think Blogger is adding extra quotation marks into the HTML. So weird. Maybe it will work later…
I don’t have a blog, but I’ve told my friends about the site and giveaway.
I just went to my blog and the button isn’t working! There’s just a ? there
How cool! I posted it on my blog as well!
me, please. my kids so need this book so I never have to cook again! 🙂
My button is up 🙂
Having a problem with the button as well. Going to link up at least for now and toggle with it later. The heat is not allowing me to work any longer.
I had a hard time with the button too, but I was finally able to get it up!
I wrote a post but the button didn’t appear. Regardless, I’ve linked to you in that post. Looking forward to lots of fun ideas!!!
Yes, I thought I had linked, but it is not working
I had to take out the quotes also but it’s up now!!! 🙂
The button’s in the sidebar. I had to take out the redundant quotes (not sure why that happened?) to make the code work.
Yay for a new giveaway event!
The code isn’t working for me….
Thanks for putting this together. I can’t wait to hear some of the ideas.
I can’t wait to see ideas you gals have!!
Button is up. Looking forward to the summer fun!
Count us in! We have the sidebar up!
Button and post are up!
got the button up on my sidebar! =)
Posted your button on my sidebar. Can’t wait! I am always up for new things to do with my little guy.
got mine up and I can’t wait!
I’m in!! I can always use new ways to occupy my kids.
I’ve added the button to my sidebar. Woohoo, bring on the fun.
Sounds fun! I love stuff like this…I’ll spread the word. Love the button too. Very cute!
I am excited! My button is up!
I’ve posted that cute sunny button on my sidebar
Fun idea. Button is in my sidebar.
What a fun theme…and just in the nick of time! I actually was thinking yesterday that I need to come up with more activities to do with my toddler. I hope you’ll feature some “things to do” that are applicable to the under 3 set too. 🙂
I just wanted to say that this is a fabulous idea!!! I’m looking forward to reading everyone’s ideas!
We’ll put the sidebar button up today to launch our blog.
Posted about this event, got your button up and looking forward to the fun!
The button is on my blog.
I too am having problems with the buttons working on my sidebar.
I’m linked up! Yay!!!
All linked up on my contests page! Fun!
Steph
button going up!
Whoohoo!! My button is UP y’all!! 🙂 Bring on the summer fun!!
Sorry for the code trouble. It had corrupted for some reason. I have fixed it now.
I’m having the same issue as the previous commenter. I just get red X’s when I try to post either of the buttons.
I tried posting the buttons on my sidebar but it is not working. I am not sure if it is the code or my blog