Friday 26 February 2016

Friday 19 February 2016

"My First" Magformers Review and Giveaway

Magformers has just increased their fun factor by releasing a great new line of their amazing toy.  The "My First" line is geared towards preschool children. The full "My First" line is now available on the Magformers site.

My kids got to try the 54 piece set; it includes a nice variety of shapes in 5 bright opaque colours.

We were very pleased to discover that the new line includes the same strong, fully embedded magnets as the regular Magformers .  So they can be combined with the original sets, for hours of entertainmemt


The "My First" 54 piece set comes with:
  • 12 triangles
  • 6 diamonds
  • 24 squares
  • 6 trapezoids
  • 6 rectangles

The set also includes a big set of play cards! The 29 different cards are geared towards a range of abilities and skills.  They start with teaching colours, shapes, names of fruits and animals.  Some sheets have cutouts for children to place the corresponding piece in.  The more complex sheets provide an image of a finished product for the child to build.  The cards help work on many great skills helping children develop form constancy, visual figure ground, visual sequencing, visual closure as well as spacial awareness.



 My girls spent hours already playing with this set.  They love the strength of the magnets, which allows for them to transport their buildings and build great 3 dimensional structures.




















I also have one of these great sets to give away to one of my readers.

Open to US and Canadian residents.  The giveaway will end on March 7th 2016 at 12:00 am.  The Winner will be chosen randomly.  Winner will be contacted by email and will have 48 hrs to respond to claim their prize.  Mommy's Multistesting has no responsibility for lost prizes.

Disclosure- I received the items reviewed as a free sample.  No monetary compensation was provided.  My participation was completely voluntary.  All opinions are completely my own.

Thursday 19 November 2015

Magformers Wow Set Review and Giveaway

I was really excited with the opportunity to review another Magformers set (see here to see what I said last time) This is one of their newest sets  -the wow 27 piece set, featuring new solid neon colours.


This set includes:
  • 10 squares
  • 4 sectors
  • 4 triangles
  • 1 rectangle
  • 2 arches
  • 2 trapezoids
  • 2 wheel set
  • 1 square with a girl attached
  • 1 square with a boy attached
  • 15 double-sided activity sheets
The activity sheets are fantastic, so laminated them as soon as I took them out of the box. This way they can withstand the vigorous play that sometimes goes on!


My kids love Magformers as they are simply lots of fun!  I like them since they lead to lots of creative play and have lots of functional benefits.

The magnetic resistance when pulling apart the pieces while playing provides repeated strengthening of the hand muscles.  This helps to improve fine motor skills and endurance.  Since these have such great strong magnets children can build 3-dimensional objects, it not only works on their hands but their whole upper body strength as well.


For the kids the activity sheets only increase the fun factor, while for me they advance some fundamental skills.  Working with the shapes while following the template in the instructions works on many visual perceptual skills.
  • form constancy 
  • visual figure ground
  • visual sequencing
  • visual closure

My kids especially enjoyed the set of wheels in this set and instructions on how to make a variety of different cars and vehicles.


This toy has been a huge hit in our house and enjoyed by everyone.  If you are looking for a gift idea Magformers provide hours of play for kids of all ages.

I am always on the lookout for deals on these great toys (as they are a bit pricy - but well worth it.) So for my Canadian readers - amazon.ca has the Magformers Rainbow Solids Clear 40 Piece Set as a deal of the day for today.  The set normally $86.99 is $41.49 with free shipping for a few more hours.

I am also thrilled that I have the opportunity to give one of you this amazing set as well.  I am sure that it will make the child who receives it very happy!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Open to US and Canadian residents.  The giveaway will end on December 6th 2015 at 12:00 am.  The Winner will be chosen randomly.  Winner will be contacted by email and will have 48 hrs to respond to claim their prize.  Mommy's Multistesting has no responsibility for lost prizes.

Disclosure- I received the items reviewed as a free sample.  No monetary compensation was provided.  My participation was completely voluntary.  All opinions are completely my own.

Monday 9 November 2015

Magformers 40% off

Amazon has a number of magformers sets on sale today as the deal of the day.

The following 2 sets stand out in my mind as great value. The magformers challenger 112 piece set has dropped in price from $143.99 to 86.39.  This is a savings of 40% on this amazing toy.


The set includes:

  • 49 triangles
  • 46 squares
  • 4 hexagons
  • 12 pentagons
  • 2 wheel bases
You can get it here but hurry as there is no predicting when Amazon prices will change.

The second set is the Smart Set. It contains 144 pieces and is $119.99 from $199.99. 



This set includes:
  • 46 triangles
  • 44 squares
  • 12 pentagons
  • 6 rectangles
  • 4 hexagons
  • 6 isosceles triangles
  • 4 super triangles
  • 6 super squares
  • 16 accessories 
This set is available here

To learn more about this toy you can read my past review

Monday 12 October 2015

40 Pampers points

In honour of Canadian Thanksgiving Pampers released some new rewards codes.  They expire Oct 14 so get to them soon!

FB89ANCOLCMWN15 worth 10
FBTHANKU89LEM15 worth 10
TWIT87CNWLWFF15 worth 5
CMPLI93DYHAES15 worth 15

I am thankful for all my readers.  Thanks for following.


Thursday 8 October 2015

Pampers Code

There is a new 10 point code that is valid until 10/9

FBKID890CNAQL15

Sunday 27 September 2015

New pampers rewards codes

Pampers has released a number of new rewards codes.  I am unsure when they expire so I'd suggest inputting them as soon as possible

TWITFALLCEM1Q15 worth 5 points
TWITCNELT89CN15 worth 5 points
TWX8UZ3LW4FFD15 worth 5 points
FB789CN2ALLLL15 worth 10 points
FBX8UZ3LW4FFD15  worth 10 points