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Product Name: Boca Beth My First Songs in Spanish
Rating: 8
Where to buy: http://www.bocabeth.com

Description: This 15 song CD will help your children learn Spanish through lyrics to songs. These short fun songs will help your child learn to count to 10, their different body parts, colors and more. These songs are not only in Spanish but also English to help your child learn both languages at the same time.

Review: Like it or not the Spanish language has become a large part of our society. Our young children will be faced with this language throughout their lives on a daily basis as they become adults. It’s just a fact. Why not help your child learn to speak Spanish at any early age so they will never have to struggle like many adults are doing today?

The Boca Beth site is one of the best for helping you find the right way to start your young child on their journey through learning the Spanish language. This CD is no exception. It is geared for children ages birth and up.

These cute little songs are set to music we parents grew up with such as Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and The Farmer in the Dell. With both Spanish and English words included. There are songs about animals, days of the week, using your manners and so much more.

This CD is so much fun for both my child and myself. We listen, sing along and dance around the house all while learning to speak Spanish together. It’s exciting when I hear my daughter say her colors in Spanish or count to 10. She has even started saying different foods she likes in Spanish. I can’t keep up with her most of the time.

I love the idea that it is in English and Spanish both. It makes it very simple for my child to relate the Spanish words with things she can see and knows in English. When she counts she does it in English then in Spanish and uses her fingers to keep track. It’s great to just sit back and listen and realize she comprehends both languages together. Not to mention, it makes it easier for me to know if she is picking up the correct words. I knew very little Spanish before we bought this CD and it was always a bit hard for me to know what words meant what in English…now I can learn the basics right along side our daughter.

If you are looking for a way to help your child learn Spanish as well as English try Boca Beth. She also has videos that are great and a puppet that the children just adore.

Product Name: Fisher-Price Digital Arts & Crafts Studio
Rating: 8
Where to buy: Amazon.com
Reviewer: Guest Review

Description:  Designed for children ages 4 to 9, this arts and craft studio plugs right into your home computer and gives your children hours and hours of fun art and craft activities to do all on their own. 

Review: Being a mom of 3 very lively children, I wanted to find something they could do that would occupy their time but would also help them learn to use their creativity.  Knowing Fisher Price, I felt I could find just that with them.  I found this great studio and it keeps the kids occupied for hours.

This wonderful invention plugs right into my home computer.  It has 85 different projects that my children can tackle with very little struggle.  It’s easy to understand for all of them and they have fun making and creating all different types of arts and crafts.

Included in this studio is the base that the kids can see their creations come to life on.  It also includes CD software and a USB cable making it easy to set up and use.  The software includes over 250 different colors, 300 stampers and over 70 scene starters.  There is no end to what the kids can make and do.

The stylus is capable of being used as a pencil, a stamper and even more.  With things such as connect the dots, party hats and greeting cards, my children can make things that amaze them and all our family and friends.  It’s so easy for them to use, which makes it fun. 

There are things such as coloring pages, flying airplanes and leaping frogs they can play, color and create.  The software that comes with this studio is just filled full of all types of different activities.  You can also purchase other software that can take their creations to new levels.  Their imagination can run wild.

They also can save and print their creations with no problems.  Best of all you have parental controls so nothing on your computer can be jeopardized by those inquisitive little minds and fingers.  They have total control of their own table and pencil while you have control of the PC.

Children need to be able to let their imaginations go and to use that imagination to create their own ideas.  This studio allows them to do that.  I no longer hear “I’m bored.” or “Why can’t we watch TV or play video games?”  For hours and hours of fun, try this arts and craft studio.  Your children will be glad you did.