November 13, 2022

Holiday Gift Guide

holiday gift guide
As the end of the year approaches and the holiday season is around the corner, we put together a list of items that would make wonderful gifts for family and friends! Take a look at the list for unique gift ideas from memories, games, books to toys. Enter the giveaways below to have the gifts delivered before the holidays!
stratford trail
Make memories at Stratford, Ontario
Explore the beauty of winter in Stratford. This quaint town is couple of hours from Toronto and would make for a perfect day trip! 
startford trail
The unique Christmas Trail will be enjoyed by those who enjoy travelling and shopping! For $35 (+HST) participants will get to select six gifts from the festive, trendy holiday items from one of the thirty three stops. Purchase the vouchers at either Destination Stratford or Bradshaw. The Christmas Trail ends on December 20th.

Enjoy the lights on Stratford Festival from December 16th to January 27th happening every night from 5 to 10 p.m. While there, be sure to enjoy a meal or dessert at one of the many restaurants. 
stratford trail
This trip is a beautiful way to make memories and put everyone in a cheery mood in time for the holidays!
nosy parker giveaway
Books from Canadian Authors
Review of books - Revenge of the Raccoons and Beautiful You, Beautiful Me and Giveaway of Nosy Parker from Lesley Crewe.
turtle and guy jeremy and jazzy
song book from Jeremy and Jazzy, Turtle and Guy, a story based in Toronto about coping with the feeling of confusion and discovering how to identify emotions in healthy ways. It is an awesome book with colourful pictures for young children to learn about problem solving. There is a QR code linked to activities children will enjoy. 

Jeremy and Jazzy books comes alive through music. It is all about emotions and making mistakes as Jeremy, Jazzy and the gang embark on dazzling adventures where themes like community, mental health and self assurance are celebrated. The book can be read by itself or as a sing-along with the Jeremy and Jazzy Say Hello album and the Jeremy and Jazzy animated series, which is on CBC Kids and CBC Gem. 

Pre-orders Turtle and Guy: A Jeremy and Jazzy Adventure on Amazon.ca and the books will ship on November 15, 2022. It will be available in retail stores in January 2023. 

Giveaway
If you live in Canada enter to win the Turtle and Guy book and the puzzle using the giveaway tool below. This giveaway ends on December 9. Please leave comments and follow my social media networks to be eligible to win.
Update: The winner is Darci
blobbys pizza
Educational Games
Blobby's Pizza priced at $22 is an educational game with bright colours to teach children age 9 and up fractions, decimals, and percentages as they engage in strategic pizza eating contest! Children will enjoy accumulating the highest bill and building a whole pizza of the same type using the fraction cards while being strategic to use the monsters to steal pizza from other players' tables. 
full of bull
Full of Bull priced at $20 is a mental math game that helps kids strengthen analytic skills, social and emotional intelligence, and algebraic thinking. The players have to win bids to get points using two shared dice and two hidden dice to calculate the bids, or use chips or bluffs to increase their bid.

Train set and Giveaway
brio train
BRIO Train Set can be built together as a family, and would make a good gift for children over 3 years. This toy encourages STEM learning, fine motor skills, and creativity. It is a beautiful way to add holiday cheer each day by watching the steaming train drive around with realistic steam effects! The battery-powered engine produces safe-to-touch steam as it moves and is easily refilled using the water load. 
brio train
This festive train set includes snowy tracks, a north pole train station with a Christmas tree and of course, a Santa Claus character. Buttons on top of the train can be used to move forward and reverse, as well as to activate the front LED lights. Crafted to BRIO standards using high quality plastics and FSC-certified European beech wood.This post will be updated as we approach the holidays with more giveaways and ideas!

Giveaway
If you live in Canada enter to win the train set using the giveaway tool below. This giveaway ends on December 9. Please leave comments and follow my social media networks to be eligible to win.
Update: The winner is Kathy

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84 comments:

  1. I would love to win the book and puzzle for my grandson, right now he is dealing with the same, so I'm sure this would be great for him to read

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  2. I would love to win this for my grandson

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  3. I would love to win this book and puzzle for my great nephew, it sounds amazing

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  4. I would gift this to my grandchildren. I think they would get lots of enjoyment from it.

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  5. I would love to win this set for my grandson.

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  6. I would share this prize package with my grandchildren and i will be enjoying the book.

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  7. I would like to gift this book and puzzle to my son.

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  8. I would like to win this for my nephew

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  9. I would love to win this for one of my grandsons!

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  10. My childcare children will love this prize

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  11. I would love for our son's to enjoy the train together

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  12. love to win to add to our children library! Always need new puzzles and books for when the grandkids and others visit!

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  13. I would love to win this for my grandson he would love it.

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  14. I would love to win this for my granddaughter, it will be fun to put it together .

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  15. The train contest hasn’t gone live.

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    1. Thank you for letting me know you can now enter the train giveaway.

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  16. The book and puzzle would be perfect for my grandson. Florence Cochrane

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  17. Love to win this book and puzzle for my grandson. I love the need for reading and thinking!

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  18. Problem solving is an important and sometimes confusing and hard thing to learn. I think Turtle and Guy book and puzzle would be a great teaching tool.

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  19. A book and puzzle would be great for my niece, the train set for my son Darci Paice

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  20. I would love to win this puzzle and book for my youngest granddaughter.

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  21. I would love to win this for my niece.

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  22. I'd love to win this for my granddaughter who loves books and puzzles

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  23. I would love to win this for my sons! They love trains! Thanks for this generous chance!

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  24. I would love to give this to my sons, they love trains! Thanks for this generous chance!

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  25. I would so love to win this for my son who is diagnosed with autism. He loves trains so much and just smiled when I showed him what I was entering

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  26. This would be perfect for Lucas, I’d have it set up at the base of the Christmas tree, too.

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  27. It would be great to win the train set for my grandson, he would be thrilled with it!!

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  28. I want to win for my little one to read and learn some new skills with a puzzle!

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  29. I want to win Train Set for kids to play, they like trains and love making stories!

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  30. I would love to win the train for my kids and also
    To use as Christmas decor

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  31. oooo I would LOVE to win this for my whole family really. My daughters would love this and the whole family would enjoy admiring it

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  32. I would love to win the train to set it up every year to be enjoyed with my family I have always wanted a Christmas train

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  33. I would like to win the book and puzzle for my grandchildren. Thanks for the chance.

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  34. I would like to win this train for my grandchildren to enjoy. It is such a cute train and they are all fascinated by trains.

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  35. Hubby and I are model train enthusiasts and am sure hubby would so enjoy this. Robyn Lee, yourstrulee@sasktel.net

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  36. I would love to win this for my great nephew, he is crazy for trains

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  37. Would love to gift this to Bo. Robyn Lee, yourstrulee@sasktel.net

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  38. I would love the train to put around my tree for Christmas. After Christmas my granddaughter will love playing with the train. Perfect as I always wanted a beautiful train.

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  39. Love to win for the grandkids! would be nice circling the tree!

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  40. I would like to win the train for my grandson

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  41. I think the whole family will enjoy the train set.

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  42. I would love this soo much ❤

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  43. I love the look of the train set and I know my kids would really enjoy it if I won!!

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  44. The book and puzzle look fun, my kids would really enjoy it if I won!

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  45. I would love to win this for my sons!

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  46. Beautiful train set! My grandchildren would really enjoy this set.

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  47. I would like to win this for my household - my youngest would especially love it.

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  48. I would love to win this train set for my hubby and grandsons, they would all love it!

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  49. I would like to win this for my grandson. He really likes trains so would get a lot of enjoyment from this

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  50. I would love to win the book and puzzle for my niece who is very intuitive and a good reader.

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  51. The train will be for my 3-year old nephew who is filled with energy.

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  52. I would love to put this train set under our tree.

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  53. I would love to win this train as I know my kids would love it.

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  54. I would love to win the train set for my son. He has a small collection of Brio trains and plays with them regularly. He would really enjoy this train as it is unlike any of the other trains he has.

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  55. I would love to win this train set for my grandchildren who are getting so excited for Christmas.

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  56. I love the train to gift to my nephew.

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  57. I would gift this to my grandson . He has such a love for trains and how they work .

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  58. I would love to win the train set to add to our Christmas decor. I know we all would enjoy iy, but especially my grandson.

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  59. I would love to win this train set 🚂 for my nephew. He wound love to play with it or even have it set up under the Christmas tree. 🎄

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  60. I'd love it for my son. He would be quite thrilled with it.

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  61. My 4 year old nephew would love this train!

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  62. My nephew would love to have the train set. He's into trains

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  63. All of my nieces would love those books. they're bookworms

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  64. I would love the puzzle and book for my grandboys!

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  65. My grandboys love trains! We would play all day!

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  66. Would love this to share with my niece and nephew

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  67. I would love to win the train set for my grand god-son! he would love this for Christmas time :)

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  68. I would love to win this for my grand-godson! he would love this!

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  69. I'd love to win so I could gift it to my nephew. He would love to play with it.

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  70. I want to win the train because my nephews will love it

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  71. This train set would be for my 4 year old nephew. He would love this so much!

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  72. What great prizes!! I think my grandson would love to see this train under his tree Christmas morning.

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  73. Love this!! My grandson would love to see this under his tree on Christmas morning.

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  74. This train set would be fun to win for any of the kids in my family. It sounds like a fun train set

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  75. I would love to win the train set for my grandson who loves trains.

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  76. My grandchildren will enjoy this train set

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  77. My grandchildren would be the ones enjoying the trainset the very most.

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  78. My pups would love to watch 5he train go around the tree.

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  79. Trains are the best!

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  80. My granddaughter would love this.

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  81. I would love to win the Turtle and Guy book and puzzle for my middle little. I think she would enjoy it the most. She's very into puzzles right now.

    Amber Y

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  82. I would love to win because I've always wanted a Christmas train set and this one would be perfect for the little hands in my home. I think my girls are old enough now to take care of it too. I'd probably enjoy it as much as them!

    - Amber Y

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  83. I want this for my little niece, she is the perfect age and would get tons of play out of the train and books!

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