Kinder Surprise is a Special Treat for Road Trips

Usually during the summer holidays when school is out, my family and I go on road trips or fly to see other countries. When we go on these long road trips, I take a few things to surprise my children. These surprises come in handy to cheer them up during their unhappy moments. Special treats like Kinder Surprise usually put my children in a better mood.

Kinder® Canada's Initiative To Bring Joy During This Season

Kinder® has partnered with Children’s Miracle Network for the “A Joy To Share” program. This is one of the ways Kinder® is helping to bring joy to families this holiday season. We as parents can take action and involve our children to think of others and help out.

Making Magic Carpets For An Aladdin and Jasmine Themed Party

My daughter is a Disney princess fan and my son a Marvel Heroes fan, so we are very excited about the new Kinder partnership with Disney princess and Marvel Heroes toys. Two in three eggs within the specially marked Disney princess or Marvel Heroes Kinder surprise packages will have their favourite character. Browse and vote for your favourite toys on Kinder Facebook.

We Made a Monster With Soap Inspired by Monsters University

From the time my children watched Monsters Inc., Monsters Mike and Sully have been regularly spoken about in our home when they play. When I told them there are Monsters University toys inside Kinder they were super excited. The new partnership between Kinder® and Monsters University guarantees that specially-marked Kinder® Surprise® packages to have 100% licensed toys; kids will get one of the twelve toys without disappointment each time :) We like collecting these loveable monsters inside Kinder, check the new collection of toys and vote for your favourite on Kinder Facebook.  

Eggciting news from Kinder

This is the time of the year we will all soon be thinking of eggs.  Here are some eggelicious ideas.

• Boiled eggs
• Scrambled eggs
• Party eggs
• Drawing characters on eggs
• Dying eggs

Kinder has lots of eggciting news for all of us...

Kinder Shake and Win Contest
Enter the Facebook contest until March 8th to win their coupons.  Kinder will be giving away 1000 free Kinder Mini Eggs coupons and 1000 Kinder Surprise 100g Egg coupons.

Kinder will be supporting Children's Miracle Network by donating $1 up to $25,000 for every new friend on their Facebook page from March 1st to 31st.  This will bring joy to many children across Canada so be a part of it and spread the word.

Check out the New Kinder Easter Gallery to see the fabulous toys found inside their Kinder Surprise Maxi 150g and Kinder Surprise 100g eggs.  Don't forget to vote for your favourite 2013 Easter toy collection.

Kinder's Easter bunny Harry will be touring and making surprise visits to family events in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver this March to celebrate Easter.  Harry will be giving out free samples of Kinder Mini eggs.  Keeps tabs where Harry will be visiting by checking out the Kinder Canada Facebook page.

Just in time for the Easter holidays Kinder has some delicious, cute Kinder Surprise packages. 

Egg Painting Kit, where children can decorate the plastic shell and put a Kinder egg inside to give as a gift or hide it for egg hunting.  We don't have to worry about smelly eggs just in case they forget where they hid the eggs :)  

We really like the soft toy and the mix of different Kinder chocolates in this cute gift package that is sure to please adults and children.

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Girls will be girls and Boys will be boys with these Kinder Surprise Toys

Kinder® Surprise® limited edition Barbie™ and Hot Wheels™ packages have thrilled both my son and daughter.  They were super excited to see a package of Kinder eggs made especially for each of them.

Cool stamp inside Kinder® Surprise® limited edition Barbie™  

My daughter couldn't be happier that the eggs were wrapped in pink, as she thought it was marked just for her so she can tell it apart from the ones her brother has :)  It is funny how girls get attached to pink and all things Barbie and princess related.  
After seeing this Barbie signature stamp, even I wanted to open up all the eggs that were wrapped in pink just to see the Barbie toys.  I have asked permission from my daughter to use this cool stamp :)

My son was super excited that the Hot Wheels pack of Kinder® Surprise® contains his favourite super cute racing cars.  He has already opened a few but hasn't got what he is hoping for yet!  If I hadn't put the rule about one egg per day ;) I am sure he would have opened all the eggs in one day.

It is funny how girls will be girls and boys will be boys.  From a young age when I watch my children play I see how they have automatically learned to differentiate boys and girls toys.  Even their approach of handling and playing with the toys are different and interesting.

Due to the awaiting surprise and cool toys inside Kinder, I have noticed my children are willing to share the chocolate with us just so they can open as many Kinder chocolates as possible.  I think they love Kinder more for the purpose of having a collection of Kinder toys, which I think will make good memories as they grow up :)

Contest:
To launch these cool Kinder® Surprise® Barbie™ and Hot Wheels™packs, Kinder® Canada will be giving away 40 prize packs in their Facebook starting on January 10th for 4 weeks.
Simply become a fan of Kinder® Canada and follow the instructions on their Facebook.   

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Kinder® A Joy To Share

Kinder®’s "A Joy To Share" program supports the Children's Miracle Network who helps save and improve lives of children by raising funds for children's hospitals since 1983.
Check their Facebook page to see how many families this program as helped.  Every time we share the video stories of the families Kinder will donate $1 up to $5000 to the Children's Miracle Network.

Although we give and share throughout the year, I find as the holiday season approaches we give and share more...

• We share gifts within our family and friends
• Giveaway things that we no longer use such as clothes, appliances and other goods that are in good condition to Goodwill and other charities
• Donate food to those in need through food banks in our community
• We collect and contribute non-perishable items to our children's school fundraisers for the holiday season, this makes our children happy and feel good to see their gifts being sent to those in need
• Help organizations and NGOs when they are doing fundraisers such as collecting pennies to build wells in developing countries
• Buying gifts that will help people in developing countries such as through World Vision

Just in time for the holidays Kinder® has dressed up their eggs and has packed the kinder eggs in a tree shape box, a train with 6 kinder eggs and giant kinder egg.  These eggs have the new 2013 collection of Kinder® toys, which my children like as the toys are cute and creative.
They also have packages of mini eggs that has a delicious milky hazelnut centre.  This package of kinder mini eggs are not nut free. 

Giveaway

Kinder® Canada will be giving away 7500 coupons for their Facebook community from November 26th for 10 weekdays so you can taste their new Kinder® Mini eggs for free.  They will give out 750 coupons each day at 12 pm ET.     

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Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa holds a special place for us, as it was my daughter's first movie at the theatre. Madagascar has been one of our favourite movies. My children and I have watched part 1 and 2 several times at home. We are excited to watch Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted in the theatre on June 8th.

Painting eggs and Joy to share Kinder Canada

We painted eggs using two different techniques. If the egg has been out for more than 2 hours don't consume.

To paint the eggs you will need...

eggs

food colouring

rubber band

kitchen paper towel

water

vinegar

The tie dye method

Damp a paper towel with water and put about a 1 tbsp of vinegar all over the paper towel. Spread different colour food colouring in a pattern. Place the egg and fold the paper towel to wrap the egg. Pour or sprinkle some water over it. Place a rubber band around it and leave it until the paper towel is dry. Remove the paper towel and see the colourful egg.

Rubber band method

Place a few rubber bands around the egg. Place the egg in 1 tbsp vinegar mixed with 1/2 cup water and 1/2 tsp food colouring for a few hours until it becomes the colour that is preferred.

Kinder values the time we spend with our children throughout the year. Kinder Canada has partnered with Children's Miracle Network to bring joy to families in need. It is important to remember, reflect and be thankful for our blessings and help others in need.

Many families have benefited from Children's Miracle Network, check the Kinder Facebook page to read their stories. It is important for all of us to help our communities in some way i.e. donating or volunteering our time and to remind ourselves and teach our children to be thankful, this will make us humble.

Follow Kinder on twitter @KinderCanada or @KinderCanadaFR, they are giving away 100 Kinder eggs a day for 10 days from March 19th to 30th.

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Stained vase craft and Kinder® contest to win $500

The Family day long weekend and the March break is just around the corner. I am planning on spending some quality time during the day with the children making crafts and food. I am also looking forward to relax, stay close to home and visit local attractions like the Ontario Science Centre :)

Celebrate treasured memories

My KINDER Moments has a fabulous creative application on their Facebook page.

This application is easy to work with and it adds fun to the pictures. There are many choices of frames i.e. birthday, special holidays, vacations, haircut, hockey etc... Each time a mom makes a frame they will automatically be entered to the monthly promotion. This month it is a $500 cash card :)

The application is on the right hand side of the Facebook page. Click My KINDER Moments, then fill the simple form. Click an image from the computer or Facebook album. The image you choose can be moved around the frame to fit the way you like. Once the picture is framed you can share this special picture with your family and friends.

Here is a glimpse...

Have fun framing your special moments.

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