The Fungle.

This is a fun website for kids. Ashu and I explored the beta version of The Fungle together a couple of days back and as expected, the kid is hooked. As a beginner reader, Ashu was nt able to read everything on her own and needed my help to navigate in the beginning. Then I left her alone with it and came back 10 minutes later to see her dressing up her avatar, listening to a story and then playing a game! But being the scaredy cat that she is, she asked me to help because she was afraid of the snake that appeared in the game! Its nice that the stories and books are read alongs since she can listen to them. And I like the fact that theres an option of switching off the read along for kids who can read.

And like I wrote to Narayanan, the CEO, the Bee Mail idea is pure genius. Ashu went to bed asking if she got a bee mail! :) We cant wait for the Fungle to go live.

Please check it out if you are interested.

Heres Utbt's review of The Fungle and a short interview with the CEO.

Cross posted at http://boosbabytalk.blogspot.com/2011/02/fungle.html

RIP, Tejaswee.

IHM lost her daughter, Tejaswee to Dengue on 11th August. It was heart breaking to receive the news. May God rest her soul.

Im in awe of IHM and her positive post. Hugs, IHM.

Mother's Day Special Event from Indusladies.

Indusladies.com, with over 5 lakh monthly visitors, is one of the largest websites for Indian Women. For the upcoming Mother's Day, they are producing a "Mommy Blogger's ebook" with a list of all Indian Mommy bloggers and their best 5 posts. They plan to send that ebook to all their 90,000 members and also promote it among our 6000+ facebookfans and twitter followers.

Participation ends on May 6th. Click here for details.

Update:

I am also copy pasting the details from the website here.

If you would like your blog to be included in that list, please email (to partners@indusladies.com) the following as soon as possible and before 6th May.

1. Your blog URL

2. Your blog Name

3. A 5-8 line description about your blog (or about yourself as a blogger)

4. Link to 3-5 of your most popular blog posts.

We hope to hear from you. Please forward to your fellow bloggers as well.

Indusladies Team.

P.S - If you have any questions, please email

partners@indusladies.com.

Its poll time!

Please go to Utbts for her latest poll on Language Development. She always comes up with interesting research on child development and I cant wait to know the results this time. Go here - http://utbtkids.com/2010/02/23/time-for-the-next-poll/

And to Shrutis for the February Artsy craftsy challenge. The voting is open at http://mindfull-meanderings.blogspot.com/2010/02/vote-now.html

Thank you.

Valentines Day Crafts.

My daughters music class teacher did a fun craft today and I thought I ll share it here. Even though I ve visited the DLTK craft site so many times for inspiration, I ve never printed their ready made templates before. Today I was searching for the template the music teacher had used and found many more cute ideas. For some fun heart shaped animal crafts, go here - http://www.dltk-holidays.com/valentines/crafts-animals.htm

For the heart shaped mouse template and many more cute ones, go here - http://www.first-school.ws/theme/animals/crafts/heart-shape.htm The penguin card is very cute too. Thats the one Im planning to make with my older daughter today. Since all she has to do is cut out the shapes and then glue them looking at the picture, it should be easy. Also less work for me! :)

Or if you are immensely talented like Smitha, you can make a Valentine Pizza or bake wonderful cookies or make fruit lollies or even a heart shaped fried egg. :) Me? I ll stick to the ready made craft templates thankyouverymuch and may be ask the husband to get inspired by her blog! ;)

Happy Valentines Day everyone! Let Love rule! :)

Blog Contest - Artsy Craftsy Challenge.

Shruti at http://mindfull-meanderings.blogspot.com/ organized a fantastic artsy-craftsy challenge. Im sorry Im too late in announcing the contest but take a look at the all the entires here - http://mindfull-meanderings.blogspot.com/2010/01/artsy-craftsy-jan2010.html All of them are mind blowingly good and one can get loads of idea to keep the little fingers busy! :) Please vote for the entry you like best. The voting ends on 28th Jan.

Way to go, Shruti. Hope there are more contests coming up.

Karadi Tales Twitter Contest.

Karadi Tales is all set to give away exciting prizes to 10 winners in the next 10 days! For details, go here - http://karaditales.com/FormBlogDiscussion.aspx?BlogTitleId=4

I ve copied the details from the link below:

Do you have a story to tell? Can you tell your story in 6 words and under
140 characters? Intrigued? Read on!

Everyday, from November 4 to 13, Karadi Tales will post a new theme on
Twitter, inviting everyone to contribute with their 6 word stories based on it.
We will declare the best entry the next day and the winner will win
himself/herself a gift hamper containing an assortment of Amar Chitra Katha
collections and Charkha audio-books.

Inspired by www.sixwordstories.net,
we tried this idea within our organization.
We gave ourselves the theme:
Karadi Tales tagline
Our winning entry: Surrogate Grandmother. Stories on
compact disc.
Our winner: Shobha Viswanath! :)

Get the idea? Geared
up for 2 weeks of fun? Here’s what you need to do:
Step one: Follow us on
Twitter (twitter.com/karaditales)
Step two: Check out the theme of the day
Step three: Reply to the tweet with your 6 word story

It’s going to
be a whole lot of fun! We promise we’ll be completely fair in judging the best
entry.

Will You Tweet With Us?

PS Spread the word! Get
your friends and family to participate!

PS Is anyone wondering why we
are doing this? It shall be revealed on November 14!

Please note: We
don't have the budget to ship prizes overseas .. so if any winner lives outside
India, we can either ship his/her prize to an address in India or offer him/her
our downloadable products!