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TSM Holiday Gift Guide: TEENS & TWEENS

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Personalized iPod ($49 and up)– Who wouldn’t want an iPod? Order one from the Apple store and get free laser engraving on any new iPod. Select an iPod Touch, super compact Shuffle, or iPod Nano in new brilliant colors. Then wrap it up in a protective case and you have a hit of a gift! Get free shipping on orders of $50 or more.

GIVEAWAY: iDog Dance ($42.99)– Sometimes you need speakers for you MP3 player and iDog Dance is the perfect companion. Plug iDog into your music player using the headphone jack with the included cable and watch it rock out to your tunes while music fills the air. iDog also dances independently from your music player and can change its moves, wiggle his ears, and flash the LED lights on its face on the music. For added entertainment without the commitment of your own real dog, iDog can be “trained” to obey 8 commands like dance and stay. While iDog won’t snuggle up to you on the couch, it is compact enough to occupy a small space and never leaves a mess.
Enter to win an iDog Dance by leaving a comment with your e-mail address below!

AudibleKids Audio Books (free downloads available, audio downloads are 99 cents and up)– Audible Kids is a site that provides digital audio editions of books. Their library has a dizzying array of audio books for books for all ages. Teens and tweens will delight in listening to books from the Gossip Girl series (yes it was a book before it was a show!), Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, The Golden Compass, and books by Roald Dahl, Louis Sachar, and Lemony Snicket. Create an account, browse the easy to navigate site, listen to audio previews, save titles to the Wish List to download in the future, and download your purchases into iTunes or the free PC software. With so many titles to choose from, you can always make sure you’re the iPod is getting a break from playing music and is being used as a learning tool! For my full review, click here.

Crammer ($59.99)– Designed for kids 8-14 years, Crammer is a portable study system that helps kids learn on the go and also functions as a digital music player. Crammer users go online to create digital flash cards that are downloaded to the device. It can access over 16,000 quiz questions and going online provides access to thousands more math, science, social studies, and language arts quizzes. There’s also Spanish translator which will help with vocabulary development and pronunciation. Another bonus is that parents can connect Crammer to Leapfrog’s Learning Path to determine how Crammer is being used as a study tool.

BrainPop ($7.95/month and up)– Let’s face it, not everyone learns best through the traditional methods of books, paper, and pencil. Subscription service BrainPop provides animated, curriculum based content that engages the teen set through short clips where characters Tim and Moby illustrate the laws of probability, discuss complexities of the human body, and features biographies of famous historical figures like Anne Frank, Charles Darwin, and Jackie Robinson. I love that the site plays easily on both Macs and PCs and does not require additional plug-ins. While you can access many of the BrainPop clips for free, the subscription site features tons more content, including content in Spanish. Visit the site for a free trial.

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  3. graceunderautism says

    You are now officially the coolest blogger I know with giveaways.
    I just hope there isn’t a comment flurry on Friday and I lose my great odds. 😉

    Karameiaks[at]netscape[dot]net

  5. Ginny says

    Brainpop is really cool. Our school has subscribed in the past & the girls can use it for a year.

    My daughter has been wanting an i-dog, such a cute product!!!

    I love that the ipod’s can be engraved, I wish I had that done with mine 🙂

  12. grace h says

    I would love to win the idog for my kids. We are going to have a very meek christmas this year. Although, we usually don’t go overboard for Christmas. This year will be alot less. -grace

  13. Bonggamom says

    We already have an i-Dog (and my kids love it), but I’d love to give one to my nephew (he’s my godson too) for Christmas. Thanks!

    bonggamom (at) yahoo (dot) com

  14. windycindy says

    My two sons would be entertained by the “IDog Dance” prize. I would love to be added to your giveaway contest drawing. Thank you…..Cindi
    jchoppes[at]hotmail[dot]com

  18. Navi says

    Yes, I’d like the idog. It dances and responds to commands! I posted my email on the adults but it should show with my blogger acct….

  24. Palymama says

    Thanks for considering the tweens/teens. I didn’t do a gift reference on my blog this year so I will add your list! I would add concert tickets to this list because they are expensive and my teens always seem to want them!

  27. Naomi says

    Oh these giveaways are ROCKIN’ !!!

    We would love any of these items … but the iPod is grabbing my fancy fo sure !!!