Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Melissa & Doug Seaside Sidekicks Giveaway!



Summer is finally here! I can think of no better way to spend the summer than by being outdoors with my family and friends. We live on an island and are surrounded by many beautiful beaches. You know where we'll be this summer!
I am looking forward to creating lots of fun memories with my toddler. She loves running on the beach, swimming, and...playing in the sand!

Melissa & Doug is one of my absolute favourite and most trusted brands when it comes to children's toys. They've got everything from educational toys, art supplies for kids, wooden puzzles, to play food and all kinds of other fun items to promote children's imaginary play and cultivate their imagination! Not only are their toys fun, but they're also safe, durable, and high quality.

My own toddler has an impressive collection of Melissa & Doug toys and puzzles. She loves them! She loves to scoop ice cream and make sandwiches with her toy food and she absolutely loves her Trunki!
You can only imagine how thrilled I was we were when Melissa & Doug sent me us a set of their Sand Play toys!
Perfect timing! The weather is gorgeous, it's sunny outside, and the beach is beckoning! It's definitely time to hit the beach and have fun in the sand with the new Sunny Patch Sand Play toys!
Seaside Sidekicks Sand Baking Set 

When I'm not teaching or helping Hubby with something on the farm, I'm in the kitchen preparing something for my family and ESL students to eat. Little One really enjoys being in the kitchen with her Mama. Sometimes she loves it too much and it makes getting dinner on the table a lot slower.

Thankfully, she now has the Seaside Sidekicks Sand Baking Set! The set is complete with a mixing bowl, a lid (which when turned upside down can double into a sifter!), three measuring cups, a mixing spoon, and a whisk. To say that Little One enjoys playing with her baking set is a huge understatement! She's been screaming, "I cooking! I cooking, Mama!" all afternoon!

 Seaside Sidekicks Sand Cupcake Set
What does one do with a sand baking set? Bake cupcakes of course! With all the mixing and whisking, Little One created adorable sand cupcakes with her cupcake set! Cake Boss, watch out!
The set comes with a cupcake tray, four cupcake tins, four cupcake toppers, a molder, icing tool, and a mesh bag to keep everything handy and together! The mesh bag is by far Mommy's favourite! What a great way to keep all these amazing sand toys together!? Love it!

Seaside Sidekicks Sand-Molding Set
What kid doesn't love to create things with sand? These sand molds help make creating sand creatures even more fun! Mommy loves that all the pieces fit perfectly inside the turtle. It makes for a hassle-free, compact way to store toys when going to and from the beach (or even the sandbox!).

Clicker the Crab Pail and Shovel
A must for kids in the Summer? Definitely a sturdy pail and shovel! There's nothing worse than a cheap plastic pail and shovel that will break into pieces under the weight of wet sand! This cheerful, bright pail and shovel is fun with the adorable Clicker the Crab designs!

 WIN IT!
Want a set of your own Melissa and Doug Seaside Sidekicks Sand Toys? I am very excited to be working with Melissa & Doug and to give one lucky reader a chance to win a complete set of the Sunny Patch Seaside Sidekicks sand toys! That's right! All FOUR sets of Sand Play toys! Melissa and Doug is generously offering a prize pack of all four products to one reader!

To win, leave me a comment on my blog and tell me how these Melissa and Doug Seaside Sidekicks Sand Toys would make your summer an even better one! (1 entry)

Please leave your e-mail address (and a separate comment for each entry if you are making additional entries).

Additional entries:

1. "Like" Melissa and Doug on Facebook and tell them  Random Thoughts and Musings from the Island  REVIEWS sent you. (1 entry)

2. Follow Melissa and Doug and @chancesmommy on Twitter and tweet this giveaway!
    "I entered to win a @MelissaAndDoug prize pack from @chancesmommy " (1 entry)

3. "Like" Random Thoughts and Musings from the Island REVIEWS on Facebook. (1 entry)

4. Follow me on Google Friend Connect. (1 entry)

5. Follow me on Networked Blogs (1 entry)

6. Grab my button and post it on your site. Please leave me the link where I can find where you posted. (1 entry)

Contest Rules:
This contest is open to U.S. residents only. Contest ends on Friday, July 15, 2011 at 11:59 PM ET. A winner will be chosen at random via Random.Org and will be notified by e-mail. The winner has must respond within 48 hrs of being notified, otherwise another winner will be chosen. The prize will be mailed directly to the winner from the prize sponsor.


Good luck, everyone! Hope your little ones enjoy these sand toys as much as my toddler does!
 "Look, Mama! I cooking!"
DISCLOSURE: This giveaway is sponsored by Melissa & Doug. All the thoughts and  opinions expressed on this blog are my own. Facebook has no responsibility for this giveaway.

39 comments:

  1. Oh, she's gorgeous. I would love to win this, and I'm not sure if it would go to Elizabeth or one of my little nieces. Choices choices! It would make my summer better to know that I had made one of their summers more fun, so they can cook, too.

    (I've already liked Random Thoughts reviews on Facebook...does that count for two?)

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  2. we live right by the beach so this cold make sand play a thousand times more fun...every weekend we could make new and fun things with sand!
    ykatrina at hotmail dot com

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  3. Oh my goodness, how cute are those. My daughter would love the baking set.

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  4. I would love to win, we are planning our FIRST beach trip soon & those toys would be PERFECT. I also ADORE Melissa & Doug toys, we have several. And we are also planning to get a sandbox soon, which we could also use them for.

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  5. I would love for my girls to be able to play at the beach with these toys! Hours of family fun! Thanks for the chance to win these great products!

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  6. I like them on Facebook and mentioned you sent me!

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  7. I like you on Facebook.

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  8. aw, it would be so cute if my little girl won these toys, her daddy is a chef, so she is destined to know how to prepare GOOD food! what great practice this would be, lol, starting out with sand/mud pies, lol. our email is mandysayshi@hotmail.com

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  9. My kids would love this for the sandbox since we don't live near a beach but we are planning a camping trip and they can use it for the beach when we go camping! WE love how cute, adorable and wellmade the melissa and doug toys are! Thanks for hosting a great giveaway!!

    dlaney@hotmail.com

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  10. I tweeted @momof4andadog

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  11. I like you on facebook

    dlaney@hotmail.com

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  12. I like melissa and doug on favebook

    dlaney@hotmail.com

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  13. OK, I like you on facebook, too. Just in case I need to tell you in a separate message. :)

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  14. I liked Melissa and Doug on Facebook, too. I don't have Twitter. :)

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  15. Just got my little one a sandbox. Haven't given it to him yet. Would be so exciting to give him these toys to play with at the same time!! He would go crazy.
    megcmcguire@gmail.com

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  16. "Liked" Melissa and Doug on Facebook and told them Random Thoughts and Musings from the Island REVIEWS sent you.
    megcmcguire@gmail.com

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  17. "Liked" Random Thoughts and Musings from the Island REVIEWS on Facebook.
    megcmcguire@gmail.com

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  18. Followed Melissa and Doug and @chancesmommy on Twitter and tweet this giveaway!
    "I entered to win a @MelissaAndDoug prize pack from @chancesmommy http://fb.me/OO39mufe"
    https://twitter.com/#!/megcolmcg/status/88473127914438656
    megcmcguire@gmail.com

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  19. "Liked" Random Thoughts and Musings from the Island REVIEWS on Facebook.
    megcmcguire@gmail.com

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  20. Followed you on Google Friend Connect.
    megcmcguire@gmail.com

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  21. Followed you on Networked Blogs.
    megcmcguire@gmail.com

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  22. These toys would make our beach and sandbox pretend play oodles of fun! Buckets and shovels and molds alone and making our summer drone and drone, we'd love to have these fun toys to play with. Luke (4) Evan (2.5) and Ava (1)

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  23. My daughter loves her new sand box that she received for Easter and this Melissa and Doug set would make her summer even better! She is at a wonderful age where playing "pretend" is the best, so I can just envision her having "sand tea parties" with all her buddies!

    bearrabbitbear@hotmail.com

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  24. my son loves playing in the sand. These toys would make it even more fun to play!
    schramm.j@gmail.com

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  25. "Like" Melissa and Doug on Facebook and tell them Random Thoughts and Musings from the Island REVIEWS sent you: Julie Ghrist
    schramm.j@gmail.com

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  26. follow on GFC: Julie G
    schramm.j@gmail.com

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  27. My child loves baking with me so I know she'll love making sand pies or cupcakes! These would be perfect for the summer outdoors!

    starswishesbubbles@gmail.com

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  28. I follow you on gfc

    starswishesbubbles@gmail.com

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  29. I don't have a blog, Twitter or Facebook. If I did, I'd post your button, like/tweet you and M/D, and follow you/MD! Does that count? ha ha ha

    starswishesbubbles@gmail.com

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  30. I like you on Facebook.

    Miguel

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  31. I like Melissa and Doug on Facebook and told them you sent me.

    Miguel

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  32. My daughter would love to have these toys. Always trying to find new and fun things for her to play and discover with outside

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  33. We would love to have these toys to play with on our trips to the beach. We also have a huge backyard with lots of dirt where she can create to her heart's content.

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  34. Oops. Forgot my e-mail address in the last comment.
    Beckymthayer@gmail.com

    I also just liked you on Facebook. :-)

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  35. It'd be something fun to do in the otherwise yucky sand that just gets everywhere! :)

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  36. I follow you on Google Friend.

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  37. my 3 yr old would love these toys. her happiness make everything gr8. she loves to play in sand

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  38. My niece would LOVE to play with these next time we're building a sand castle! Stephanie miss_steph112@hotmail.com

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