Moms Wear Your Tees Blog: toy giveaway

Thenewtoy.com is a whole new twist on toy buying. Rather than focus on huge selection, they focus on one new toy each week! TheNewToy goes into detail on each toy they feature with lots of high resolution photos and video of the toy and of the toy being kid tested! You can sign up for their weekly email on the feature toy.

What caught my eye about TheNewToy, was one of their featured toys- Perplexus! This toy originally appealed to me because it is completely self-contained and I thought it would be handy to have for road trips to my mom's house! Perplexus is distributed by Plasmart and is intended for ages 6 and up. My daughter is only 5 but I thought she could probably handle Perplexus because she is great at puzzles. She was really excited when we got it and she wanted me to teach her how to play it right away. I was busy cooking so she started to figure it out herself. It kept her busy the whole time I was cooking dinner and when dinner was finally finished she said, "Already? But I'm not ready!" Now that is a good toy!

Perplexus is a basically a self-contained sphere maze. The player maneuvers a small, steel ball through 100 twists, turns, and barriers on their way from start to finish. It’s a 3 dimensional maze that is completely encapsulated in a clear, plastic sphere that must be shifted, flipped, and twisted to guide the ball to the goal. It does NOT require any batteries and there are you can't loose any pieces! Another cool thing about Perplexus is that it is a really fun way to improve fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. Even by husband loves Perplexus! My daughter and my husband argue over whose turn it is! My husband said, "Wow, this would make a great Christmas present." In short, Perplexus got their seal of approval.

GIVEAWAY DETAILS: The New Toy will provide one winner with one Perplexus 3 dimensional maze. ($21.99 value)

Giveaway Dates: November 5- November 19, 2010 Midnight CST

How To Enter:
Do one or more of the following and post a comment below about each action you took. Each comment will count as a separate entry so your chances of winning increase but only the #1 entry is required.

1. Required: Visit The New Toy and leave me a comment another cool toy you saw
2. Follow Moms Wear Your Tees Blog in right margin w/ Google Friend Connect or subscribe to RSS feed
3. Follow The New Toy on Facebook
4. Like the Moms Wear Your Tees Blog Facebook page in the top right margin
5. Tweet and leave URL: Enter to #win @thenewtoy Perplexus fun 3D maze #Giveaway http://www.momswearyourtees.blogspot.com @MWYT

Giveaway Rules:
GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED. Winner selected through random.org- #136, manthas24.

The New Toy did provide the game in the hopes that I would share my honest opinions. I received no monetary compensation and the opinions expressed are my own those of my family.

Pepsi Refresh Project is giving away $1,300,000 each month to fund great ideas that will have a positive impact. My friends from Carl & Me - Exceptional Toys have an awesome idea to change America! They want to create Project Play, a family friendly cafe with healthy food and wooden toys! As a parent I can definitely say that is an idea that I would vote for and I wish there was something like that near me!

If you too value healthy foods and quality educational play, please Vote for Project Play.

This grant will fund development of the guides and curriculum used to encourage play time whilst explaining engineering and mathematical fundamentals. Eventually, we hope the concept to become a franchised concept to be implemented across the USA.

So you love the idea, don't you? Want to see it succeed? Go ahead and vote for it and then help spread the word.

GIVEAWAY DETAILS: One winner will receive a $100 Gift Certificate to Carl & Me Exceptional Wooden Toys! (Who couldn't use that with Holidays around the corner?!)

Giveaway Dates: October 12- October 31, 2010 Midnight CST

To Enter This Giveaway:
Do one or more of the following and post a comment below about each action you took. Each comment will count as a separate entry so your chances of winning increase but only the #1 entry is required.

1. Required: Vote for Project Play. This can only be done once per person.
2. On the same page you vote on, share Project Play via Twitter in the right hand margin, comment with the URL which you can get by clicking on your timestamp
3. On the same page you vote on, share Project Play via Facebook in the right hand margin, comment with the URL
4. On the same page you vote on, you can grab a small widget for you site or blog. Comment with the URL where I can see the widget
5. Blog about this with a link to Carl & Me Toys and link to Voting for Project Play (Leave three comments with the URL for your blog post for this to get three entries for your blogging)

Giveaway Rules:
GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED. Winner selected through random.org- #82, AStarrA.

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