Summertime is here and what better way to spend the summer with family and friends than on an adventure to visit one of our national parks and/or recreation destinations. July is Park and Recreation Month in the U.S., and the theme for this year’s celebration is “Rock Your Park.” The National Park and Recreation Association wants you to show the country how parks and recreation make your life extraordinary! Whether it is visiting your local park, a playground, swimming pool, or taking a family trip to one of our national park treasures, celebrate our country’s love of the great outdoors this month! Visit the organization’s website to find out ways to get involved: http://www.nrpa.org/july
You
can also turn your visit to the local park into a game by
participating in the Dinosaur
Train
Geocache Challenge. Geocaching
is a family friendly outdoor adventure that blends technology, gaming
and environmental discovery. Each geocache features one of the
dinosaurs found on the online Dinosaur
Train
Field Guide and contains educational information related to that
dinosaur. So, perhaps pick your local park as a destination to hide
your own Dinosaur
Train
container. To participate in the Dinosaur
Train
Geocache, visit
http://www.pbs.org/parents/dinosaurtrain/geocachingchallenge/
Buddy
and his friends on the Dinosaur
Train
are always up for an adventure and exploring the world around them.
Why not take them along on your adventure to the park or camping or
on a family road trip with all-new fun and easy travel product for
camping/outdoors, new games and fun to read books to pack on your
adventure!
- New book from Reader’s Digest: Dinosaur Train Lift the Flap “Let’s Go To Volcano Valley” (SRP: $9.99). Ages 2+.
- New Dinosaur Train product for camping adventures Pacific Playtents (available in October) includes: the Dinosaur Train Station House Tent (SRP: $89.90); Dinosaur Train Dino Bones Dome Tent ($59.90); Dinosaur Train Dino Bones Tunnel ($59.90). Ages 3+.
- New Dinosaur Train soft sporting fun from Kelly Toy: Play All Ball (SRP: $1.99), Bat + Ball (SRP: $9.99), Golf (SRP: $14.99), Football (SRP: $6.99), Baseball Mitt set (SRP: $7.99) and more. Ages 3+.
- New Dinosaur Train 3-Wheel Scooter in colorful buddy and friends graphics, from VM Global. SRP $24.99. Ages 3+.
- New Dinosaur Train game from Patch Products: “Take “N” Play Anywhere™ Let’s Go for a Ride! Magnetic Playset. SRP: $14.99. Ages 3+
And, Buddy will
also be spending time in the great outdoors in July. Dinosaur Train
on PBS KIDS (check local listings) in the adventurous episode “Buddy
the Tracker.” In the episode, Buddy and Don are “footprint
detectives” as they track and find creatures they know at the Big
Pond. The plot thickens when they discover fossilized tracks that are
millions of years old!
Although
the summer vacation comes to an end in August, fun with Dinosaur
Train
continues! Get ready for an all-new season of Dinosaur
Train
this August with “Dinosaur Big City” on PBS Kids premieres August
22 and the DVD release of Dinosaur Train: Dinosaur Big City on August
23 (SRP: $14.99).
From the
world-renowned Jim Henson Company,
Dinosaur Train is seen in over 13 million households every month* and
embraces and celebrates preschoolers’ fascination with both
dinosaurs and trains. The series encourages scientific
thinking and other skills as it teaches viewers about natural
science, natural history and paleontology.
*
Nielsen NPower, monthly NTI cume audience average, September 2010 –
December 2010
About
the book:
Get ready to board the Dinosaur Train and meet some new friends!
Buddy, the adorable preschooler Tyrannosaurus Rex, and this adoptive
Pteranodon family are always on the move. Today, they are going to
Volcano Valley. Along the way, the train is making stops at the
Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous stations to make dozens of
dinosaur discoveries. With more than 40 flaps to lift, kids will want
to explore Buddy’s world again and again!
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2 comments:
As a young boy, I was fascinated with dinosaurs as well. I didn't have cartoon shows about dinosaurs back then so I spent a lot of time in the library reading books about them. Who knows your son might decide to work with dinosaur fossils when he grows up! Thanks Katie!
I liked Land of the Lost as a child.
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