Have you heard that Disney just released Tinker Bell to DVD and Blu-Ray? It’s a new movie that features Tink and all her friends in Pixie Hill the magical secret fairy hideaway in Never Land.
You’ll hear Tinker Bell (Mae Whitman) speak for the very first time, and unlock the magic of nature with her friends, Fawn (America Ferrera), Iridessa (Raven-Symone), Rosetta (Kristin Chenoweth), and Silvermist (Lucy Liu). The impressive voice cast also includes singer-songwriter Jesse McCartney as Terence, keeper of the pixie dust, and Academy Award winning actress Anjelica Huston as the voice of Queen Clarion.
Here’s a Tinker Bell preview along with cast interviews:
As part of her WOW! Women on Writing Blog Tour, book author, Gayle Trent is doing a guest post on cake decorating with kids. I’m thrilled to have her posting here at My Readable Feast!
Gayle’s new book Murder Takes The Cake is a story about Daphne Martin, a forty-year-old divorcee who has started fresh in a new home with a new career, Daphne’s Delectable Cakes. Then Daphne finds her first client dead and the thrills begin! The book even comes with recipes.
Gayle also blogs at Fatal Foodies and loves to decorate cakes.
When I was asked why music and arts programs are a vital part of our children’s education, I remembered a video I recently saw of Barack Obama speaking to a school group in Wallingford, PA:
Obama summed up my feelings quite nicely:
Part of what arts education does is it teaches people to see through each other’s eyes. It teaches us to respect and understand people who are not like us. That makes us better citizens and makes our democracy work better.
What’s so funny ’bout peace, love and understanding?
He’s talking about empathy, and Obama’s not the only one advocating using art education programs to do this. In a 2006 Lancet essay, Development of children’s creativity to foster peace, Dr. Ashfaq Ishaq wrote:
The arts can aid a child’s holistic development, especially empathy… A RAND study noted that the communicative and personal nature of creative expression, accentuated through collective arts activities, can forge social bonds while supporting identity formation and cultural transmission.
By teaching empathy through music and art programs, we give our children the skills to succeed and live peacefully in a diverse world.
I just posted a review of Manhattan Toy’s new Groovy Girls RSVP doll line and website on my other blog, A Mama’s Rant at Join the party with Groovy Girls RSVP. They’re great dolls and a positive alternative to Barbie or Bratz dolls. Check it out!
More Groovy Girl activities
Besides playing with the dolls, there are lots of groovy things to do:
There’s a terrific Groovy Girl website with all sorts of online fun especially if your doll has Groovy Girl RSVP codes.
Since having your child online all the time isn’t practical – mom needs the computer, too! – you should look into the Groovy Girl offline activities, too. There are downloadable scrapbooking pages, coloring pages and journal pages to print out.
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Have you heard that Disney just released Tinker Bell
is a story about Daphne Martin, a forty-year-old divorcee who has started fresh in a new home with a new career, Daphne’s Delectable Cakes. Then Daphne finds her first client dead and the thrills begin! The book even comes with recipes.
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