Friday, April 2, 2010



Yo Gabba Gabba Party Ideas For the Best

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Yo Gabba Gabba party ideas make planning a great kids birthday party easy. You can decorate your home using bright colors, so think orange, pink, yellow and blue balloons, streamers and tablecloths. The Yo Gabba Gabby party supplies range will provide you with the party bags, paper plates and even fun party favors to send home with your guests.Confetti plays a big part in the show and can be used when you are playing games.

Give the kids a packet when they arrive and let them throw it around as and when they want. Music also plays a big part in this party theme. Let the kids Dancey Dance the party away with some tunes from the Yo Gabba CD.The beauty of the Yo Gabba Gabba party is that you can choose one of any number of characters and plan the party theme around them. For example if Brobee is your child's favorite, your party would have plenty of trees.


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It is very easy to make sandwiches and fairy cakes look like trees with a little imagination, cookie cutters and some food coloring.If Muno is the favorite, then you need to dig out purple, hot pink and black mountains. You can do this by using beanbags. Use plenty of flowers if Foofa is the one your child loves and use white mountains if it is Toodee.If you have a variety of old dress up clothes you could have the kids make up their own versions of the Yo Gabba Gabba characters and get them to put on a play or a puppet show.

Have some more of that Yo Gabba Gabba music DVD or CD at hand to help.Continue the theme in the party food matching the colors you use for the different characters. You can make rainbow trays using fruit and vegetables in a variety of colors. Jello always goes down well as does brightly colored candy like M&Ms or Skittles. You can create realistic looking grass by dying shredded coconut green. You can use the fairy lights from your Christmas tree to decorate the table.


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For the Birthday cake, I would suggest that you go with your child's favorite character and decorate it with that in mind. The Yo Gabba Gabba party supplies include a cake topper and some cupcake toppers that will provide you with the props you need to decorate your own homemade birthday cake.Don't feel like baking? So buy a cake from your local bakery and let them decorate it. Either birthday cake will taste and look great. The kids will love it! A Yo Gabba Gabba party needs lots of fun kids games. For starters you can play Three Legged Aliens, a little variation of the old classic three legged race.

Simply divide the children into pairs, and tie one set of ankles together. Whoever is first across the finish line wins the race. The Yo Gabba Gabba party supplies range will provide plenty of ideas for prizes for these games as well as small gifts for the guests to take home when the time comes. There are so many Yo Gabba Gabba party ideas to choose from you will want to host this kids birthday party theme every year!

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Kids Games

When video games were first introduced, we had basic games such as space invaders, Pac man and tennis - remember pong? Everyone loved to play and the games were age appropriate for all ages. Unfortunately, as the gaming graphics and technology improved, the realism grew right along with it. As a result, parents need to be on their toes when selecting age appropriate video games for their children.


Fortunately for parents, the gaming industry has put a ratings system in place to help select the right game for the age. This system is the Entertainment Software Ratings Board, also known as the ESRB. The purpose of this system is to rate all gaming software from the ones that are appropriate for everyone to the ones that are only appropriate for adults.


The ratings are as follows:

EC (Early Childhood)

E (Everyone)

E 10+ (Everyone over 10 years of age)

T (Teens)

M (Mature, anyone over 17 years of age)

AO (Adults only)

RP (not yet rated)

These ratings are clearly printed on the front of every video games sold. Most of the games sold today range in the E to M ratings categories. Games that are rated E are fun for everyone. These are usually games such as Super Mario Brothers, Mario Cart, etc.

These games have very little violence and the violence you may encounter could be things like a character jumping on a silly monster or your car crashing into a barrier. Of course no one gets hurt in these games and there is no blood or gory graphics.

The T games are made for Teens, however parents may want to be careful about these games and check them out before you buy them. T rated games have more mature games and may include fighting, real life type crashes and may show graphic scenes including blood.

The M games are rated M for mature themes. These are the types of games that have profanity, nudity, and extreme violence and gore. M rated games are definitely for adults only. Some kids may borrow one of these games from friends and try to sneak it past their parents. So constant vigilance is important when monitoring the games your children play.

Most retailers are very cautious about these video game ratings and they will require ID if someone under 17 tries to buy a game with a Mature rating. Many large retail stores will send in decoys to try to buy M rated games to test their employees. However, sometimes kids are still able to purchase games without ID.


Take the time to play video games with your kids. You will get feel for the games they are playing and they will realize that you are aware of what they are doing. If kids know that their parents are involved and aware of what they are doing, they are less likely to get into trouble. This includes playing inappropriate video games.


Encourage your children to keep their gaming system in the family room or game room. By keeping the games in a common family area, kids are more likely to play games that they know their parents approve of. Kids who keep their game systems in their bedrooms have the opportunity to be sneaky and try games with higher ratings than their parents approve of.


Pay attention to the ESRB ratings on video games, play the games with your kids, and encourage them to play in family areas of the home. You will be taking an active part in their interests and you won't have to worry about them being exposed to mature themes at a young age.