**Head back here on Wednesday when I will share photos of Savannah in her Tiny costume from California Costume Collections. She looks so gosh darn cute. :-)**
THE JIM HENSON COMPANY AND DINOSAUR TRAIN WANT TO SHARE A SPOOKTACULAR HALLOWEEN WITH YOU!
Halloween is right around the corner, and
The Jim Henson Company and Dinosaur Train have all the right ingredients for
some spooky fun holiday:
·
Buddy
and Tiny costumes are available for kids from California Costume Collections
·
The
world famous Jim Henson Creature Shop
has provided patterns to make your own costumes at home!
·
Penguin Young Readers Group has published a spooktacular reading adventure, with
The Spooky Scavenger Hunt.
·
And,
special Halloween themed episodes will air on PBS Kids.
Buddy and Tiny are the main characters on the hit Emmy-nominated and Parents’
Choice Silver Honor animated television series, Dinosaur Train, airing on PBS KIDS.
Each Dinosaur Train costume is made up of soft fabric to enhance comfort while wearing them,
and created in vibrant colors and realistic design patterns to make toddlers
look and feel like a dinosaur train character! The colorful Buddy
costume includes the orange colored T-Rex jumpsuit, Buddy the dinosaur hood,
and the shoe covers. The colorful Tiny costume includes the green colored
Pteranodon jumpsuit, Tiny the dinosaur hood, and green shoe covers. Both
costumes are available for toddlers ages 3-4, and children ages 4-6. SRP:
$34.99 – $39.99. Costumes are available at various retail locations and online
stores across the U.S. A list of online stores can be found here: http://californiacostumes.com/
More “spooktacular” fun with The
Spooky Scavenger Hunt from Penguin Young Readers Group
For a little scary Dinosaur Train Halloween fun –
enjoy reading The Spooky Scavenger Hunt from Penguin Young
Readers Group in which Mr. Pteranodon takes Buddy and Tiny on a nighttime
trip to the Big Pond for a spooky nature walk! Mr. Pteranodon and the conductor
insist they can't be scared, but when the conductor's mom jumps out at them,
everyone gets a good scare! This simple storybook is perfect for read-aloud
fun! Ages 4 - 8; SRP $3.99.
Halloween
Costumes to Make at Home!
Additionally,
for those who are feeling a little adventurous, Jim Henson's Creature Shop
— the folks who brought you
Elmo and Miss Piggy, among many others — have created a Buddy costume that can
be made at home!
Photo:
Child in make-at-home costume.
For
sew and no-sew options, visit this link: http://www.pbs.org/parents/
And
to see a video of the sew version, click this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
And don’t forget to watch Halloween themed episodes from Dinosaur Train to air on PBS Kids®
Haunted Roundhouse and Big Pond Pumpkin Patch to air during the week of October 15,
October 22 and on October 31 – check local listings.
In Haunted Roundhouse, dad
takes the kids on a special Night Train to Troodon Town, where the Troodons
have decorated their Roundhouse into a “haunted house” for a spooky party. The
kids end up meeting a strange new nocturnal creature – a mammal named Vlad
Volaticotherium, who was hiding in the roundhouse trying to get some
sleep. And in Big Pond Pumpkin Patch, the Pteranodon family
learns more about the customs of their neighbors, the Lambeosaurus family, when
they are invited for the first time to accompany them to the Big Pond to
celebrate “Gourd Day” – a kind of Mesozoic Halloween. The kids see their first
pumpkins, and Larry Lambeosaurus even shows our family how to hollow them out
and carve faces into them.
Dinosaur Train™
is an Emmy-nominated and Parents’ Choice Silver Honor TV series, and is one of
the top ten shows for kids ages 2 to 5.* Young viewers join Buddy and his adoptive
family of Pteranodons on whimsical adventures through prehistoric jungles,
swamps, volcanoes and oceans as they unearth basic concepts in natural science,
natural history and paleontology. The Dinosaur Train is a colorful locomotive,
customized to accommodate all kinds of dinosaurs, and it has the ability to
visit the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous worlds, while the Train’s
conductor, a knowledgeable Troodon, provides passengers with fascinating facts
along the way.
(Source: Nielsen NPower Live+7 AAs, August
2011-March 2012)
Don't forget to follow Dinosaur Train, The Jim Henson Company, PBS Kids, California Costumes and Penguin Young Readers for news and special promotions:
Follow Dinosaur Train:
Follow The Jim Henson
Company:
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Costumes:
www.penguin.com/youngreaders
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www.youtube.com/
About the
Jim Henson Creature Shop:
A recipient of more than nine Emmy Awards and an Academy Award for
its visual effects work, JIM HENSON’S CREATURE SHOP™ provides digital visual
effects, animatronic creatures, animation and soft puppets to the international
film, television, online and advertising industries. Based in Los Angeles and
New York with satellite shop capabilities internationally, the Shop is known
for designing and building some of the world’s best known characters including
Elmo from “Sesame Street,” Miss Piggy from “The Muppet Show,” the Baby from
“Dinosaurs,” Rygel from “Farscape,” and the Skeksis from “The Dark Crystal.”
Other credits include “Five Children and It,” the critically acclaimed
television series “Farscape,” “George Of The Jungle,” “101 Dalmatians,” “Cats
and Dogs, and most recently, “Sid the Science Kid,” currently airing on PBS
Kids.
Disclosure: I was sent a costume to review and as a thank you from the vendor for sharing information about this Halloween campaign. The views above are mine and mine alone.
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