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LeapFrog Leapster Learning Game Pet Pals

February 11th, 2010

LeapFrog Leapster Learning Game Pet Pals




This will help you to learn important reading and math skills as you feed, groom and care for your puppy, take it for walks, play catch, and more. Then show what you know in the big dog show and win “money” by showing off your smarts. Kids will learn phonics skills, counting, letter writing and responsibility. For use with the Leapster Learning System or Leapster TV Learning System, this is sold separately.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Great game for dog lovers
My daughter received a Leapster for her 5th birthday. Pet Pals was her first game and she played it non-stop. I wasn’t sure it was challenging enough to hold her attention, but it really did. Maybe because she just loves dogs so much & we don’t have one! She loves cleaning and grooming the dog of her choice and competing in the dog show.

5 Stars Pets
My daughter LOVES this game, its very educational when it comes to following directions as well as helping your child with letters and numbers. my daughter is obsessed with dora and spongebob, but she much rather play this game over those. you cant go wrong with this leapster game!

5 Stars one of our daughter’s best leapster cartridges
Our daughter, almost 4, received Pet Pals as gift. She and her brother have several other cartridges but this is perhaps the best so far. She has a lot of fun with it. Pet Pals is also very intuitive and gives very good prompts. I highly recommend this as a nice addition to a small child’s leapster collection.

5 Stars Great for long car rides!
It was a gift for my grandson’s third birthday. A little complicated the first day or two and then he got the hang of it and loves it. He has learned a lot from it. Great for the car or appointments.

5 Stars great game
My 5yr old daughter also loves this game. She has left her Princess game to get dusty and only plays Pet Pals. Her 7yr and 2yr old brothers try to sneak turns on it, too.

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LeapFrog Leapster Learning Game SpongeBob SquarePants Saves the Day

February 4th, 2010

LeapFrog Leapster Learning Game SpongeBob SquarePants Saves the Day




SpongeBob Squarepants teaches your child important skills while letting them play with a popular cartoon character! A brand-new restaurant in Bikini Bottom is competing with the Krusty Krab. To build up business, SpongeBob decides to invent a great new Krabby Patty. Children will have fun helping SpongeBob while they learning crucial kindergarten skills.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars A Great Gift for a Great Kid
I got this for my four year-old niece for Christmas… She’s a SpongeBob fanatic, so I was pretty sure I couldn’t go wrong. She immediately popped it into her Leapster and played with it for the rest of the day. She was pretty focused on the Crab Claw game and seemed to really enjoy it… After I told her to stop and listen to SpongeBob count the money she was dropping into the machine instead of just throwing it in until it switched to the claw… well, she was learning something without realizing she was learning… which is the whole point to this “edutainment” thing, right?

The animation, itself, is a bit lacking, but it’s SpongeBob and Squidward and the whole gang… and that’s all she needs to have a good time… and learn a little something while she’s at it.

I would have liked to see a record option on the music “game,” so she could tinker around and then listen back to what she created… but just having her interested in something for more than five minutes at a time is awesome enough.

Overall, she was having a blast with it, so it was money well spent.

5 Stars Best of ALL
My son is 4 years old and he has almost all the leapster games. But He loves this game the most! He is always laughing while learning counting and numbers. A must buy!!!

5 Stars A gift…
I bought this game as a gift for my grandson’s 5th birthday. He is a huge SpongeBob fan. He really enjoys the game and is learning along the way. I was amazed at how quickly he picked up the concept learning about coins.

5 Stars Popular game at our house
We have two leapsters going at our house. My three year old likes to play the Sponge Bob game but she prefers Pet Pals. I think Sponge Bob is a bit over her head. Sponge Bob is my six year old son’s favorite. He can do the simple math.

4 Stars Good for 4 years and older kids
this game is a little bit difficult for my 3.5 year old son, i am hoping in a year or so it can be useful to him.

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Live Butterfly Garden

January 31st, 2010

Live Butterfly Garden




Witness one of nature’s most spectacular transformations up close with this reusable, collapsible habitat. Fine, transparent mesh lets you see butterfly metamorphosis up close. Product includes easy-to-use feeder and complete instructions for habitat. Butterfly larvae with food shipped directly to your home. The habitat collapses for storage when not in use. You can adopt and raise a handful of caterpillars, watch them transform into painted lady butterflies, then lift the garden cover to release your beautiful specimens into the wild. This exciting habitat makes a fabulous introduction to the miracles of nature. The larvae and food available round the year.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Butterflies at home
My kids love this! They begged me to get one after doing this activity at their preschool. We got the kit, sent away for the larvae and received them in about a week. Watched them form crysalises and then into butterflies. We now have 4 butterflies, and one is waiting to emerge. We are feeding them and watching them spread their wings in their cage. It’s a great learning activity for the kids and very affordable.

5 Stars Great learning experience
Overall this was a great product for my child to observe. The obvious issue is explaining to your 6 year old how fragile these insects are and that she can’t mess around with it all the time. That is why I gave the item a lower rating for durability, it’s a look, but don’t touch kind of thing. The kit itself is very durable and can be saved for future use!

We had a lot of fun with it thought, watching everyday in anticipation for our beautiful butterflies to enter into the world.

5 Stars Love butterflies!
We bought this for my daughter’s 5th birthday — and she loves it! I also bought the book From Caterpillar to Butterfly, and the whole experience was very educational and fun. However, be careful when ordering the caterpillars. I requested that they be shipped to us on a certain date (as offered on the order form), but they arrived a week later — so it’s obvious that no one really read the order form. We were leaving town and had to ask our friends to take over … which was very disappointing. Otherwise, it truly is a wonderful gift that every child should experience!

5 Stars Love to see the butterfly
This is the second times we got this product. The first one was a birthday gift for my son who was 3 years old. This time I got it for him, as he really loves insects especially caterpillars and butterflies. He goes to park everyday to catch butterflies and then releases them after 1 or 2 days. We fed the flesh flowers sprayed with sugar water.

We love this kit. We received the caterpillars about 1-2 weeks. All 5 caterpillars are alive. They were tiny, seeing them double in size everyday is amazing. After we release the butterflies, the butterfly garden is very useful for my son to keep the bugs he catches everyday.

3 Stars Tumble Buggy
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Purchased two cars for grandchildren. One conked out after 30 minutes. (give me toys) was fast to replace it. Great Vendor but product may have a few flaws but not the vendor’s fault. The price was good and I would buy from this Vendor again if Amazon did not have in stock.

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LeapFrog Tag Activity Storybook Pirates The Treasure of Turtle Island

January 23rd, 2010

LeapFrog Tag Activity Storybook Pirates The Treasure of Turtle Island




Read about pirate kids Will and Abby as they decode a map so they can beat mean old pirate One Tooth to the treasure! After the story, discover leveled learning activities that help build phonics skills, vocabulary and reading comprehension. Plus, connect the Tag Reader online to the LeapFrog Learning Path to see what your child is learning.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Grandson loved it.
Purchased the tag reading system, along with this book for my Grandson’s 5th birthday. He and his sister are limited to what they can watch on TV and movies, so this is something he could enjoy. He loved this!! Kept him busy in the car, and for hours on end. They have always been read to, so learning to read is a really big deal for him. Realize tho that it has to be downloaded on a computer, so they can’t just open the box and start reading.

5 Stars Awesome Book!
My son is 5 and LOVES pirates! This book is great and comes with everything that a little boy who loves pirates would love to read / hear about . . . I also love the reading comprehension questions that go along with it!

5 Stars Pirates The treasure of turtle island
The boys, 4 & 5, both enjoyed this book and have re-read it over and over, as well as done the games. It was worth it.

5 Stars Excellent play value
My son spends a half hour to an hour reading this book before he mores on to another book. He can also read the book with his younger sister. It gives me time to make dinner while they play.

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LeapFrog Leapster Learning Game Disney Princess

January 22nd, 2010

LeapFrog Leapster Learning Game Disney Princess



User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars We Love It!
My daughter & I love this game!!! It’s fun for her and I love the fact that she is learning to write letters, numbers, and shapes. It’s a must have for the Leapster 2.

5 Stars Outstanding Game!
I read the reviews before I bought this and they were not that great. I bought it solely because my daughter loves the Disney princesses. Well, this turned out to be her favorite game and I love it too! It teaches so many great skills and the best part is it is so encouraging even when mistakes are made. My daughter tends to give up when she makes mistakes but with this game she just keeps plugging along because it never makes her feel bad it just keeps guiding them forward. The games are very cute and very educational. She is learning the correct way to write her letters, gaining lots of hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills. Definitely a must have for the princess fan!

5 Stars Great buy, my niece loves it!
Great product, my niece loves it. Amazon delivered it on time! The external cartridge games are great but it also comes with few games/paintbrush type programs that keep the kids busy for hours learning colors and shapes.

4 Stars Leapster games make learning Fun!
My girlfriends daughter enjoyed this game. Leapster games apply learning concepts to games. Good graphics and sound.

5 Stars Fabulous game for girls!!
I bought this game for my daughter’s 5th birthday. She loves princesses, so this game was perfect for her. She loves all of the characters and learning activities that it comes with. I like that you can choose which level you want to play each game, so it can be played at many different learning stages. Right now she is just learning how to put letter sounds together to read simple words, but eventually when she can read more words she will be able to do the more difficult levels. This game really is so fun for girls and I love that she is actually learning something while she’s playing instead of just staring at a screen or playing with something that isn’t very stimulating. My 3-year-old daughter loves to play around with game on the Leapster too. She doesn’t really know how to play the games yet, but she loves the princess characters and she is quite entertained by it as well. We have only had our Leapster for a few months, but it has been such a great learning tool and fun activity – I just wish we bought it and the Disney Princess game a long time ago! I would definitely recommend this game to anyone!!

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