Apps

BabbaBox by BabbaCo

I’m always looking for ways to keep the kids engaged and having fun together at home. Especially as my oldest has started school, our family time together has become a little more scarce.

When I heard about BabbaBox memberships, I was very intrigued.

BabbaBox

BabbaBox membership

What’s included in the BabbaBox?

BabbaBox memberships can be monthly or annual. You can also choose to give them as a gift: 1 month, 3 months or annual.

Each box is created by child development experts to cover four major components (from the BabbaCo website):

1. Create – Two to three projects that kids do with their hands. ALL materials are included.
2. Explore – A theme-based product where your child will engage with the world and nature.
3. Story TellCarefully curated books to stimulate your child’s imagination.
4. Connect – Interactive learning with prepaid downloads approved by BabbaCo experts.

BabbaBox review

Here’s what I love about BabbaBox:

1. Every little thing you need is included in your BabbaBox.
If a project calls for gluing, you’ll find glue in the box. You don’t ever have to hunt something down around the house while excited kids are just ready to have fun!

2. It’s a perfect family gift.
The suggested age range is 3 through 6. Our 2.5-year-old was able to easily join in on the fun, as we were all working on the projects together.

3. Each month features an inventive theme.
Our most recent BabbaBox was a detective theme. The kids had a blast making their own fingerprints and creating their own matching game. They’ve been tracking down suspects around the house ever since. (We’re saving the last activity for more fun together another day!)

4. It includes a book every month.
We’re a family of readers, so we love this. I love that we can continue to connect to that month’s theme, even when we’re winding down at bedtime.

5. Multiple projects and activities can be spread out between sessions.
This helps with the feeling that we’re truly getting our money’s worth each month. We’re able to complete one or two of the projects one day and save the rest of the activities for another day.

I’d highly recommend a BabbaBox membership, if you’re looking for a quality way to spend time with your family. This would be a perfect family gift for the holidays!

What would your kids like best about a BabbaBox?

Disclosure: We paid for our BabbaBox membership ourselves. I am an affiliate of BabbaCo, but I truly believe in the value of these activities for families and wanted to share and test it out ourselves before recommending it.

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Cinderella Royal Ball Augmented Reality app

We’ve had a ball with the new Cinderella Royal Ball Augmented Reality app.

If you didn’t see our fun time searching for Cinderella in store yet, you can read about our adventures here.

Royal Ball AR app

Why, it’s an official invitation to the Royal Ball! (A little birdie told us that everyone can get an invite, via the Royal Ball Augmented Reality App, which your parents can download right to their phones for you. It’s available for both Apple and Android phones.)

The Royal Ball AR app has it all: playing dress-up, a carriage ride and a dance party. Use the app in store at Walmart to search for Cinderella, scan her image and unlock new features (additional costumes and carriage accessories).

Cinderella app dress

My daughter enjoyed “trying on” different dresses and asking me to take her photo in each combination.

Even my son got in on the fun, by personalizing different carriages and posing for a photo or two inside the carriage with his sister.

Cinderella DVD with bank

They were both impressed to see the magic 3D carriage pop up on the cover of our new Cinderella DVD as we explored the aisles of Walmart. Who are we kidding? So was I, actually!

Check it out for yourself below – and be sure to download the app, so you can check it yourself next time you’re at the store!

Cinderella 3D carriage

The app did not lose its luster when we returned home, either. No, the kids kept asking to play – and continued to try different costume combinations and carriage decorations.

Cinderella AR app

And then they threw a royal dance party. We all joined in!

Cinderella Royal Ball

We’ve had such a great time shopping and exploring with the Cinderella Royal Ball AR App. I hope they continue to make this technology available for future movies. Our trips to the store have been so much fun lately – and the kids couldn’t agree more.

To follow along on our full adventure, check out the rest of our photos here at Google +. 

And I’m so happy to say that we watched our new copy of Cinderella (my favorite!) on our latest family movie night and it was as big a hit as I hoped! The kids loved it.

Just another (adventurous) day at our house.

And for more Cinderella-themed fun, follow Cinderella online here and over here or Cinderella on Facebook, and follow Disney on Twitter and Disney Princesses on Facebook.

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Disclosure: I am a member of the Collective Bias™ Social Fabric® Community.  This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias™ and Disney Consumer Products, Inc. #CBias #SocialFabric  As always, though, all opinions are our own.

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Cinderella Royal Ball Augmented Reality app

Stretching your arms and stifling a yawn, you slowly wake to the tweets of your feathered friends who have gathered at your windowsill.

If only they knew what a wonderful dream you had been having, they wouldn’t have been so quick to get you stirring.

The rest of the house remains quiet as you prepare yourself for another day of the same old chores, delivering breakfast, singing to yourself as you go. “A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes…”

Every day it’s the same.

Scrubbing the floors, washing the draperies, the mending, the sewing and the laundry.

“Cinderella! Cinder-ELLA!”

Yes, the day starts out just like every other… or so you think. Today, though, a special surprise is waiting for you that will soon change everything all at once.

Royal Ball AR app

Why, it’s an official invitation to the Royal Ball! (A little birdie told us that everyone can get an invite, via the Royal Ball Augmented Reality App, which your parents can download right to their phones for you. It’s available for both Apple and Android phones.)

It says every little princess is invited, especially the ones who are kind to others and keep up with their chores. Certainly they deserve a celebration the most, of course!

OK, then. There are lots of preparations to be made for such a royal bash! And none of them include scrubbing floors.

They do include dress-up. And that’s perfect, because you and your brother are old pros at dressing up.

Cinderella app dress

You get dressed in your prettiest princess dress. After you finish getting ready, your handy assistant tells you that you can unlock even more dress-up choices by visiting the Cinderella Royal Ball AR app trigger points at Wal-mart.

Your carriage awaits to take you to the dance party, but first you make a quick detour to the store to make sure that all your options are available.

It sounds like a princess-themed scavenger hunt, and one thing this princess knows how to do is to be a big helper to her mom — and how to make it fun as you go!

AR app

These were the images we needed to locate and scan throughout the store. If we found them all, we’d unlock the rest of the features on the AR app. More dress-up costumes, more accessories and more options for building our own carriage are always a good thing!

Here’s what we found when we made it there.

My First Princess Cinderella

My First Princess Cinderella hanging with her BFF Snow White. Hi, Little Cinderella. Hi, Little Snow White! Have you seen any of these images around here? Not yet? OK, we’ll keep looking. Thanks!

Cinderella costumes

Whoa… the ultimate Cinderella dress-up station. I know one little princess who would love to spend some time here, especially knowing that Cinderella wears her favorite color pink, too! But I think we’re getting closer to completing our mission. So we continue on.

And just like that, we turn the corner and we spot it.

Cinderella display

“We found her, Mommy! Look! She’s even wearing the same dress as me!”

Cinderella

I admit I was a little disappointed to find out that there was no special Cinderella Retailtainment event that weekend at the store, as planned. But sometimes princesses’ moms have the right idea when they don’t disclose every last detail of their afternoon adventure plans to their little princesses ahead of time. My little princess was none the wiser and we were still able to have a fun adventure totally on our own. Ahem, with the help of the Royal Ball AR app, that is!

Cinderella with tin bank

Imagine her surprise when I told her we were able to purchase our very own copy of Cinderella on Blu-ray and DVD! There was even a combo pack that included a collectible tin bank. We can’t wait for our next family movie night.

Scanning the DVD cover, our 3D magic carriage pops up and awaits us once again.

And just like that, we’re off to the Royal Ball to dance the night away!

Just another (adventurous) day at our house.

To follow along on our full adventure, check out the rest of our photos here at Google +. 

And for more Cinderella-themed fun, follow Cinderella online here and over here or Cinderella on Facebook, and follow Disney on Twitter and Disney Princesses on Facebook.

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Disclosure: I am a member of the Collective Bias™ Social Fabric® Community.  This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias™ and Disney Consumer Products, Inc. #CBias #SocialFabric  As always, though, all opinions are our own.

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