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The Perfect Gift for People who have Everything: Adopt an Animal with the World Wildlife Fund

November 4, 2017/in Christmas, Community, Product Review /by ValleyFamilyFun

The Perfect Gift for People who have Everything: Adopt an Animal with the World Wildlife Fund Disclosure: I volunteered to write this blog post to help promote the adoption kits from the World Wildlife Fund because this is something we regularly do, anyway! We received an adoption kit as an example to use in our […]

Everyday Superheroes with Matt the Music Man

October 30, 2017/in Product Review /by ValleyFamilyFun

Everyday Superheroes with Matt the Music Man Disclosure: We received a copy of Matt the Music Man’s new CD, Everyday Superheroes to review for this blog post. All opinions and all the fun was ours. Matt the Music Man is proud to announce that his new album, Everyday Superheroes will be released on November 3, […]

The Perfect Gift for People who have Everything: Adopt an Animal with the World Wildlife Fund

November 4, 2017/in Christmas, Community, Product Review /by ValleyFamilyFun

Everyday Superheroes with Matt the Music Man

October 30, 2017/in Product Review /by ValleyFamilyFun

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The Perfect Gift for People who have Everything: Adopt an Animal with the World Wildlife Fund

November 4, 2017/in Christmas, Community, Product Review /by ValleyFamilyFun

The Perfect Gift for People who have Everything: Adopt an Animal with the World Wildlife Fund

Disclosure: I volunteered to write this blog post to help promote the adoption kits from the World Wildlife Fund because this is something we regularly do, anyway! We received an adoption kit as an example to use in our post. All opinions are our own.

Every Christmas and birthday we struggle with what to buy for the kids in our lives.

Everyone has too many toys.

Parents often request that people don’t buy presents for their kids, yet we feel badly if they get nothing to open.

So, what do you get for kids who already have too much? Give them the gift of wildlife from the World Wildlife Fund!

There are countless gift options available every holiday season, but few are as meaningful, or as memorable, as helping to conserve iconic wildlife for future generations.

When people symbolically adopt a species from WWF-Canada they are giving a gift that means the world. In addition to supporting vital conservation work, each adoption kit includes a:

high-quality wildlife plush
personalized adoption certificate
stunning species poster with information about the animal and conservation work the gift supports
reusable tote
charitable tax receipt

When our adoption kit arrived in the mail, the boys couldn’t wait to open the box to find who would be inside.

Even at age 11, Daniel immediately fell in love with our Atlantic puffin and affectionately called her Penny.

“She’s so soft!”

He pulled out our wildlife encyclopedia and started to learn all he could about puffins.

Adoptions are a great way to wow nature lovers and teach children about generosity and helping the planet. With more than 30 species to choose from, finding the perfect gift is easy.

New species: Canada lynx, red foxes, three-toed sloths, Atlantic puffins and black-footed ferrets.
Returning favourites: narwhals, polar bears, reindeer, elephants, snow leopards, tigers, grey wolves, hippopotamuses and giant pandas.

New this year: A card only options is available for many of wildlife adoption species.

Check out our complete collection at wwf.ca/shop.

WHY ADOPT?

Canada’s wildlife is in trouble. WWF-Canada’s new Living Planet Report Canada shows that half of monitored vertebrate species in the study suffered declines, and those that are declining are suffering deep losses.

By adopting this holiday season, Canadians can give remarkable gifts that support WWF-Canada’s mission to reverse the decline of wildlife.

These wildlife packages are also great for birthday presents! We’ve given our friends a fox and a tiger before.

And, one year the kids and their friends decided to raise money on their own to adopt a panda through the World Wildlife Fund.

HOW TO ORDER/SHIPPING

WWF-Canada offers free shipping on the purchase of two or more adoption kits (or orders of $80 or more) being shipped to the same Canadian address.
Purchasers will receive a $30 tax receipt for every $40 purchase
Call 1-800-267-2632 to order by phone or order online at wwf.ca/shop
Orders must be received by Dec. 13 for urban addresses and Dec. 11 for rural addresses to ensure delivery by Dec. 25. Priority shipping options are available.

HOW TO ORDER/SHIPPING

WWF-Canada offers free shipping on the purchase of two or more adoption kits (or orders of $80 or more) being shipped to the same Canadian address.
Purchasers will receive a $30 tax receipt for every $40 purchase
Call 1-800-267-2632 to order by phone or order online at wwf.ca/shop
Orders must be received by Dec. 13 for urban addresses and Dec. 11 for rural addresses to ensure delivery by Dec. 25. Priority shipping options are available

This holiday, consider symbolically adopting an animal to symbolically adopt to help conservation efforts of the World Wildlife Fund- Canada.

Everyday Superheroes with Matt the Music Man

October 30, 2017/in Product Review /by ValleyFamilyFun

Everyday Superheroes with Matt the Music Man

Disclosure: We received a copy of Matt the Music Man’s new CD, Everyday Superheroes to review for this blog post. All opinions and all the fun was ours.

Matt the Music Man is proud to announce that his new album, Everyday Superheroes will be released on November 3, 2017! This is his second children’s album, and it’s awesome!

About the Album

Everyday Superheroes is a collection of all-original songs that are fun, educational and rockin’! The lyrics that Matt carries throughout the album are to promote self-confidence and respect for kids in an exciting way. The album was recorded by Carey Langille and features local musicians such as Darrin Harvey, Rick Spinney of the Spinney Brothers, Heather Kelday and Peter Mackey.

We loved Matt the Music Man’s first album, too! See our review:

We decided to hold our own CD Launch Party, so I gathered my nieces and nephews, ages 3-11, and we did a few activities to go along with the new album!

One of our favourite songs is Little Canadian Animal. Just try not to hum this song all day long!

Making Beaver Lodges

We started our party by learning about beavers and making our own lodges using pretzel sticks and chocolate frosting.

There were no set instructions.

The best part was eating your creation at the end!

Beaver Ornaments

Next, we made our own beaver ornaments. They turned out so well, we’ll tie thread around them and use them for Christmas tree ornaments!

We used a hot glue gun to assemble them, making one at a time.

Glue a pompom to the top of a pine cone. Add eyes, white felt teeth and a brown felt tail. Then, we cut off some pieces from an extra pine cone to glue on for ears.

They were so cute! And the kids were pretty proud!

Everyday Superheroes

The title track for the CD is Everyday Superheroes, and how “You can be a Superhero, too”.

It has a great lesson, and we had some great conversations talking about how we could be superheroes, too.

While we were talking, we made superhero masks from craft foam. We printed patterns from this website.

Our foam was a bit smaller, so we had to resize a bit, but we reworked it a bit in our tracing. The kids decorated the masks and we added yarn to hold them on.

They were a great looking bunch.

And, then we had a superhero dance party!

We just LOVE Matt the Music Man’s new CD, just as much as his first album. You are never too old to listen to the music and sing along!

Matt will be playing a very special show to celebrate his new album, Everyday Superheroes!

Sunday, November 5th at 3:00! Louis Millet Center, New Minas, NS.

It will be a SUPERHERO dress-up party, so come dressed up like your favourite superhero!

For children of all ages!

Hosted by DARRIN HARVEY of K-Rock With special guest HEATHER KELDAY

FREE ADMISSION! FREE CAKE!

CD’s: $15 or both albums for $25!

Matt will be signing CD’s for all!

Learn more about Matt the Music Man and support our local music scene.

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The Perfect Gift for People who have Everything: Adopt an Animal with the World Wildlife Fund

Everyone has too many toys.

Adoptions are a great way to wow nature lovers and teach children about generosity and helping the planet. With more than 30 species to choose from, finding the perfect gift is easy.

WHY ADOPT?

HOW TO ORDER/SHIPPING

HOW TO ORDER/SHIPPING

This holiday, consider symbolically adopting an animal to symbolically adopt to help conservation efforts of the World Wildlife Fund- Canada.

Everyday Superheroes with Matt the Music Man

One of our favourite songs is Little Canadian Animal. Just try not to hum this song all day long!

Making Beaver Lodges

Beaver Ornaments

Everyday Superheroes

We just LOVE Matt the Music Man’s new CD, just as much as his first album. You are never too old to listen to the music and sing along!

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