Hola Hola Jumpiteerz! Mari here, hey what’s your favorite animal? Mine’s a Tiger and I got really excited to see Woo Kids Jr post some printable coloring pages for Tigers! Here’s one you can click on for a bigger picture which you can then print and start coloring.

For the rest of the coloring page got to Kids Jr.

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Hola hola Jumpiteerz! Hey so we found a really cool application from one of our favorite places in the whole world: Lego. You know those colorful pieces you can use to build stuff? It’s called Lego Digital Designer and it let’s you build lego bricks on your computer, we downloaded it to see what we could create with it.

At first we didn’t know where to start but after tinkering with it for a while we thought we create the Jumpitz House and here’s where we are so far:

It’s not finished but we’ll be working on it for the next couple of days. In the meantime you should definitely give Lego Digital Designer a try and see what you can create with it!

P.S. How do you think the Jumpitz House looks from the outside? What would you like it to have?

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Hey Jumpiteerz! Wan to have some fun? How about we do a ‘Funniest looking animal’ drawing contest and whoever wins we get to show it off with a YouTube video? We can start by putting the drawings in our Fan Page and then we’ll let YOU the fans decide who wins.

All you have to do is:

1. Go to Crayolas’s online coloring application. (it’s FREE)

2. Use the coloring tools to draw the funniest looking animal you can. It doesn’t need to be a known animal. Just do something funny!

3. Send it to us. You can save your masterpiece as a picture and send it to us or if you are already a FAN on FB just upload it.

4. Add comments on the FAN page and let us know what you think of the drawings.

Here are 3 ways you can send it to us:

1. Through Twitter @jumpitz. Use Twitpic to upload to twitter with @jumpitz so we can pick it up.

2. Upload it to the Fan Page on Facebook.

3. Email it to us customerservice@thejumpitz.com 

That’s it! Depending on the number of drawings we get we’ll announce a winner this week!

Our favorite animal is a lion and as you can see we drew one as best we could (yes we know it doesn’t resemble a lion! haha) using Crayola’s online coloring application.

And remember the funniest looking drawing wins!

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Hey Jumpiteerz want to talk to the Jumpitz?

Now you can interact with your favorite Jumpitz character through Twitter!

Follow @jake @josh @emily @mari and @nathan

They’re all there and will be Tweeting throughout our upcoming road trip!

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Hey Jumpiteerz! We’ve been adding new learning activities to the website.

In the past two weeks we added fun facts about the world in 2009 where dates such May 10 is for Mother’s Day but also June 1 is the International Children’s Day as well as other things you probably didn’t know.

We also added a complete list of fun facts about breakfast page that has facts such as:

• the word cereal comes from Cerealia, the name of ancient Roman ceremonies that honored Ceres, the goddess of grain.
• The word “breakfast” literally means to break fast. As we know, fasting is the act of not eating over a period of time. We may not think of it this way, but we virtually fast while we sleep — even if we dream about food. The act of eating breakfast is literally breaking the fast!
• Desayuno is Spanish for breakfast – just drop that into this morning’s conversation.

That’s it Jumpiteerz!

Jump into the learning activities page for more fun facts and crafts.

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Where always in search for fun things to do, especially things we can do with our hands.

Crafts! what’s not to like about doing crafts. Kids love them and it helps that it keeps them entertained.

Wendy over at Spark Plugging posted a very useful post of her favorite kids craft blogs.

Here they are!

	Craft Jr. is my new blog (OK, I’m biased that mine is one of my own favorites!) where I will be posting all of Sparkplugging’s craft projects from now on. I’ve been a little OCD about it, I think I have a lot of pent up craftiness to let loose over there!
	The Crafty Crow is a ‘Children’s Craft Collective’ in which they gather up great craft projects from around the web and post them all in one place. They find some of the coolest stuff on the web!
	One Pretty Thing is also a collection of crafts from around the web, but it is mostly crafts kids can make – some of them are things adults can make for kids. Total eye candy here, plan on getting stuck at the site for a very. long. time.
	Fem Manuals is written in Spanish, but I’m just blown away by the creativity of their projects and use of everyday materials to make absolutely beautiful things! They also post a lot of photos to Flickr so that you can mostly figure out how to make their projects without needing to read Spanish.
	Little Birdie Secrets has adorable kids crafts sprinkled in with some really yummy looking recipes, including pies and cupcakes in jars!
	Zakka Life shares gorgeous crafts made with the most surprisingly simple materials. Who knew paper bags and toilet paper rolls could be so chic!
	Dollar Store Crafts – a woman after my own heart! I hate going to my local crafts store and dropping $100, especially when I know I can make great stuff from the dollar store for less than $10!
	CROQ Zine is written by the same people behind Dollar Store Crafts, and is the companion blog to the CROQ Zine print magazine. Just the illustrations on the covers are worth a visit!
	Kiddio is a combo craft project and craft collective bog, and another one that finds ways to make everyday objects into lovely bits of awesomeness.
	Kids Craft Weekly is more of a newsletter than a blog, but you can get a taste of the coolness they have to offer both on their site and in their Flickr photo pool.
	Plaid Kids Crafts is the kids craft blog by the people from Plaid craft supplies. They may not be an indie blog, but their creativity makes up for it!
	Make and Takes is a well established blog written by a crafty mom who seems to have a never-ending stream of creativity. She also has some super-cool recipes tucked in here, including one for Root Beer Cookies. Don’t tell my son – he won’t leave me alone until I make them!
	One Crafty Place is one of my new favorites on this list. This is a craft collective blog, and also includes some irresistible adult crafts too. As if I need more things to do right now!
	Wee Life is full of crafty creative stuff along with some local things to do with kids for several major cities. Plus they have a scrumptious section of printables. Yay!
	Skip to My Lou is so beautifully designed that it makes me feel happier just to see it. She also does frequent giveaways of crafty cool stuff, what’s not to love??

Do you have any favorite kids crafts blogs

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Hey Jumpiteerz we found a some very cool coloring pages of animals which can also double as easy letter practice worksheets for preschool or kindergarteners.

Here are a few of them.

>>> Checkout the rest of the Zoo Animal Coloring Pages

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How to Amuse Toddlers – More DIY How To Projects

After finding out why toddlers don’t listen to the advice of their parents, we thought we’d look for useful ways to keep them busy.

Here then is an instructable on how to keep your toddler amused written by Steve Gerber who’s been providing private childcare for infants and toddlers for the past six years and here are a few activities he’s used to keep toddlers busy.

step 1 Playing With Water

step 2 Sandbox

step 3 Dress-up

step 4 Tape

step 5 Cooking

step 6 Animal Safari

step 7 Pretend to fix things with tools

step 8 Playdough

step 9 Cardboard Box Playhouses

step 10 Playing with coins

step 11 Books

step 12 Coloring

step 13 Climbing

step 14 Swinging

step 15 Make popcorn

step 16 Doll house

step 17 Bounce on a big ball

step 18 Refrigerator magnets

step 19 Field trips

step 20 Musical instruments

step 21 Pretend cooking

step 22 Play in a tent

step 23 Go for a walk

step 24 Last resort: Send your toddler to someone else!

So if you’re having trouble keeping your toddler amused, give some of these activities a try.

Are there other activities that didn’t make the list?

Share your ideas in the comments!

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Hello Jumpiteerz! Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, a day to celebrate LOVE and Friendship. We browsed through the web to find fun Valentine activities for kids and here is what we found:

• Valentine’s Gifts ideas for kids

• Valentine’s Day recipes

• Valentine’s Day cards for kids

• Valentine’s Day Coupon codes

• Preschool Valentine’s

• Valentine’s Day gifts, poems, quizzes, history and facts

• Printable Cute Animal Valentine Coloring Pages

• Valentine’s Day Box Project

• Easy and Fun Valentine’s Day Treats

• 25 Free or Almost Free Printable Valentine Activities

• Cooking With Kids: Easy Valentine’s Day Cupcakes

• Valentine Books for kids

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  Last minute Valentine’s Day ideas

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Hey Grandparents! Here’s a free ebook of 100 free things to do with your grandchildren.

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