Mickey Mouse Shorts Messenger Bag

Subway kids has a number of Mickey Mouse Shorts inspired messenger bags! Each one is about the size of an ipad and has a super cute Mickey and Minnie image printed on the front. On the inside, along with your Subway meal, you'll also find a fun puzzle.

The bag is not super sturdy but will hold enough snacks and toys for a day trip or a day camp.

I believe the images come from scenes from these episodes:

• Croissant de Triomphe
• Tokyo Go
• O Sole Minnie
• Third Wheel
• The Adorable Couple

Painting and Decorating Easter Eggs

Easter means time for lots of egg decorating and coloring!  This year I picked up a few kits to try.

The first kit is from the dollar store. The egg clamp and spinner caught my eye and I was instantly intrigued. I've always found it hard to color all the way around the egg without getting paint all over the hands.

With this kit, you simply snap in a egg into the clamp and then paint away. It even comes with a paintbrush and paint! What a deal!

I found that the clamp works best with medium or small eggs. My jumbo egg barely made it. In fact, my second egg cracked while trying to squeeze it in.

The paint wasn't the greatest. I had to mix it up a bit to get deeper colors. And the brush was pretty bad too. It was thin an stiff and I believe I splattered more paint outside of the egg than on the egg...I would use a different paint and brush next with this kit to make painting less frustrating.

The second kit is Dudley's Roll It kit. It is about $5, which is a good deal for all the pieces it came in. The kit came with a paint tray, 6 colors, 6 rollers, and a bunch of egg discs to elevate the egg from the table.

This kit was a lot of fun. The rollers were easy to use and really allowed you to spread the colors around. I was able to wash the rollers and the tray after using it so that they can be used for another paint project.

What's really nice about this kit is that you just start painting. Most other kits need you to dunk the egg in a cup of coloring first then wait for it to dry before you can decorate it. With small kids, who has the patience to do that! Give them a white egg and they can start rolling! My girls had half a dozen eggs finished in no time.

I'd advise that you also get the egg scissors, really good for picking up wet eggs :)

Watch the videos below for a demo of each kit!

My Little Pony Series 2 Fashems

Fashems, fash'ems, mashems, mash'ems are cute and squishy rubber/plastic toys. They are made as collectable figures for a number of popular characters including My Little Pony, Disney Frozen, Disney Princess, Doc McStuffin, Hello Kitty, Littlest Pet Shop, Sofia the First, Ninja Turtles, Marvel, Disney Pixar, Disney Planes Fire & Rescue, Disney Planes, Angry Birds, Flappy Bird, Marvel Avengers, Transformers, Furby and WWE.

You can get them in sets or individual surprise capsules. I've found that they're super hard to find in regular stores and much easier on Amazon or on eBay. In the stores, either they get snatched up the moment they hit the stores or I'm just not looking at the right places.

I got some My Little Pony Fash'ems and after opening two of them I was hooked. I wanted to collect the other 4 ponies in the set. So I got 7 more Fashems, thinking those were good odds to get the 4 to complete my set. Unfortunately I was only able to get all the ponies but one! Darn, now I'm on the hunt for the last one!

Watch the video to find out which one I'm missing!

Play-Doh My Little Pony Cutie Mark Creators

The Play-Doh My Little Pony Cutie Mark Creators set by Hasbro is a fun set to take along on trips. The set comes with 2 ponies, Pinkie Pie and Princess Twilight Sparkle, 2 stamping options, and 4 small tubs of Play-Doh.

For younger kids, I recommend that they just fill in the areas on the pony to give them colorful manes and tails. Simply take the playdoh and fill in the space.

For older kids, they can use the pony as molds to create then swap the play-doh on opposite sides of the ponies to show the designs. Take the playdoh and fill in the space on both sides. Then using a larger piece of play-doh, remove the play-doh in the spaces. Flip the play-doh and put it back into the space on the opposite side of the pony. Now you can see the design!

Either way is fun and you get to customize the colors of the ponies!

I got mine at Amazon, but you can find it at almost any large toy or department store.

Watch the video below to see how it works!

Frog Life Cycle Play-doh Surprise Egg - Evie's Toy House vs. Magic Toys ...

Fun Keroppi play-doh surprise eggs that teaches the life cycle of a frog.

Starting from the tadpole, the two legged tadpole, froglet with tail, froglet with short tail and then the adult frog.

Calling all Hello Kitty Fans!

xoxo Hello Kitty Best Friends - all included items

I found this adorable set while browsing the toy section at Target. What caught my eye was that this Hello Kitty had much longer arms and legs than what you usually see on a Hello Kitty doll.

The doll is about three inches tall and comes with a number of accessories. A lunchbox that opens and closes with a snap. An apple that fits in the lunch box. A small blue mouse. A 'toy' Hello Kitty. A backpack clip that attach the doll to the zipper of your backpack. Finally, a surprise item in a blind bag.

The quality of each item is very good. All items are hard, but the doll's head is firm rubber with a soft texture. The arms and legs of the Hello Kitty doll are movable, but the figure doesn't sit very well as the dress gets in the way of the legs fully moving to a sitting position.

xoxo Hello Kitty Best Friends in box

I picked up mine at Target, but it can also be purchased at Amazon along with a few other styles.

Watch the video for the unboxing.

Play-doh Disney Princess Mix'n Match Ariel, Cinderella, Snow White with Sparkle Compound

These individually packaged Disney Princesses are perfect ideas for prize boxes, Christmas stocking fillers, and Easter baskets.

Each package comes with a Disney Princess, a dress that is removable and swappable with other Disney princesses. It also comes with two small tubs of sparkly glitter Play-doh.

To design, you simply take the Play-doh and fill in the spaces in the Princess dresses. When you are done, you can use the stampers on the bottom of each Princess to stamp and create accessories.
I purchased my online at Amazon:
Ariel

Cinderella

Snow White


Aurora

Jasmine

Rapunzel