Congratulations to the fifty contestants who won a free copy of JumpStart Escape from Adventure Island!
Alecia R. – Secan, Pennsylvania
Alexa C. – Vestal, New York
Amanda H. – Circleville, Ohio
Amy N. – Victorville, California
Amy W. – Madison, Wisconsin
Andrea H. – Owensboro, Kentucky
Angela P. – Appleton, Wisconsin
Ashley S. – Cove, Arkansas
Barbara F. – Oakboro, North Carolina
Betty R. – Florala, Alabama
Christine W. – Wauwatosa, Wisconsin
Deanna K. – Dallas, Texas
Desiree K. – Hurst, Texas
Dezi A. – Layton, Utah
Erin D. – North Logan, Utah
Eve D. – Centreville, Virginia
Hallie G. – St. George, Utah
Hollie D. – Ammon, Idaho
Jason W. – Elkton, South Dakota
Jeffrey W. – Milpitas, California
Jennifer C. – Hallock, Minnesota
Jennifer P. – New Albany, Ohio
Jessica C. – Burlington, Iowa
Jill L. – Shippensburg, Pennsylvania
Julie H. – Chandler, Arizona
Karri M. – Eaton Rapids, Michigan
Katherine M. – Cary, North Carolina
Kendra F. – Bainbridge Island, Washington
Kimberly O. – Olympia, Washington
Kimberly W. – Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Lara D. – Severn, Maryland
Marybeth I. – Raleigh, North Carolina
Michelle H. – Noblesville, Indiana
Pamela L. – Genoa, Illinois
Patricia S. – Alto, Michigan
Rachel O. – St. Paul, Minnesota
Renee T. – Shelby Township, Michigan
Sarah G. – Purcellville, Virginia
Shonda B. – Littleton, Colorado
Stephanie R. – Ennis, Texas
Susan S. – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Tammy L. – Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Tricia F. – Oak Lawn, Illinois
Trina W. – Grand Haven, Michigan
Bernadette
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Leah D. – Lincoln, Nebraska
Lisa (samasam)
Mat S.
Megan B.
And another congratulations to the three contestants who won the Ultimate Escape Prize Packs!
Beth B. – Milfay, Oklahoma
Dixie C. – Lincoln, Nebraska
Nicole M. – Bellevue, Nebraska
Thank you all for participating! We loved reading all of your entries, learning how delightfully imaginative everyone is, and seeing the tweets fill the air! Read about the fantastic escapes of our entrants here.
We at JumpStart are very excited to tell you about something we have been working on for the past few months! We will be partnering with the fabulous all-girl rock band, The Raymies.
The Raymies are five girls from Southern California, ranging in age from 14 to 16-years-old. These girls write their own songs and play their own instruments.
Have you met The Raymies? Let us introduce you to the sisters, Kiana and Kalina, who are the lead vocalists. Kalina plays on the keyboard and sings, while Kiana is the frontgirl of the group, who sometimes plays rhythm guitar. Rachel is the lead guitarist and helps out with the backing vocals. Madi is an expert on the drums, and Justine is their awesome bass player.
The Raymies, from Left to Right: Justine, Madi, Kiana, Kalina, and Rachel
You and your kids will be able to check out The Raymies at JumpStart.com tomorrow when their catchy music will be featured in the JumpStart Jukebox and in the Movie House. In the future, The Raymies will be holding virtual concerts in JumpStart.com! Your toes will be tapping in no time!
While the family is busy cooking in the kitchen this Thanksgiving, keep the kids entertained and in the spirit of the holiday by having them play with their very own pumpkin pie play dough!
Pumpkin Pie Play Dough
You will need a few household ingredients to make this wonderful concoction:
5 1/2 cups flour
2 cups salt
8 teaspoons cream of tartar
3/4 cup oil
1 (1 1/12 ounces) container pumpkin pie spice
Orange food coloring (2 parts yellow, 1 part red)
4 cups water
Instructions:
Mix all of the ingredients together in a bowl.
Cook and stir over medium heat until all lumps disappear.
Knead the dough on a floured surface until it is smooth.
Store in an airtight container or a plastic bag.
Now you are ready to play! Remember, while this play dough might smell as good as a real pumpkin pie, it is not meant to be eaten!
We have received so many comments from fans about how much they love the fall theme at JumpStart.com that we thought it was only appropriate to make a variety of fabulous winter environments for your child to enjoy during the holiday season!
Your child will have the option of choosing from Christmas, Hanukkah or generic winter themes to use in their neighborhood during the months of December and January.
For you loyal blog followers, here is a sneak peek of what we are considering for winter decor:
We love it when people get a kick out of our crafts, and a number of you viewers took note of The Giving Thanks Tree. A couple of those who commented on the post requested a template for the tree’s outline, so we had the JumpStart team member who made our Giving Thanks Tree recreate the outline for you to print out. It’s been a long time coming, but it’s here now, just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday!
When you print out the two-page template, we suggest you orient it horizontally (Landscape setting) and reduce the top and bottom margins. When we scanned the tree in, a few gaps were created in the outline where the trunk and the branches meet, so connect those according to what looks natural to your eye.
Click the image to print.
If you have no idea what we’re talking about, you can find the thoughtful Giving Thanks Tree post here. We hope that works for everybody. We’re thankful for your comments; keep’em coming! Hmm… looks like we need to cut and fill out another leaf!
We hold the key to unlock all those Thanksgiving myths…the turKEY that is! We’ve done our research, we’ve examined the bird, and we’ve collected some gobblin’ good data! From the turkey gobble to turkey speeds, we’ve covered it all! Now ask yourself… how much do you really know about our favorite Thanksgiving bird?
Could you imagine pledging allegiance to our proud national bird, the turkey? Our good old friend Benjamin Franklin actually wanted the turkey to be the national bird.
A turkey’s field of vision is 270 degrees – one of the main reasons they’re able to elude some hunters.
Wild turkeys can fly up to 55 miles per hour over short distances, but their domesticated cousins cannot fly at all.
Gobble, Gobble, Gobble! Everyone knows that turkeys gobble, but did you know that only male turkeys gobble to woo their mates. Female turkeys actually make a clicking noise.
A turkey’s head changes color when it becomes excited.
The red fleshy growth under a turkey’s throat is called a wattle. Turkeys also have a long, red, fleshy area that grows out of the forehead over the beak, called a snood.
Turkeys can actually have heart attacks. When the U.S. Air Force was conducting test flights to break the sound barrier, fields of turkeys would drop dead.
The heaviest turkey ever recorded came from our British friends across the Atlantic. This gobbler weighed in at a massive 86 pounds and looked about the size of a large German Shepherd!
Turkeys aren’t always turkeys. In fact, a turkey under 16 weeks of age is called a fryer. A five to seven month old turkey is called a roaster.
The Turkey Trot, a ballroom dance in the 1900s, was named for the short, jerky steps of the turkey. It became popular mainly because it was denounced by the Vatican as suggestive.
Turkeys can actually drown if they look up when it’s raining!
Turkeys are known to spend the night in trees! (Maybe to escape the Thanksgiving table?)
Thanksgiving is soon approaching, and with the Thanksgiving holiday comes the remembrance of the shared feast between Plymouth Pilgrims and a group of Native Americans. Native Americans played a key role in the Pilgrims’ survival! It’s no surprise that children enjoy recreating the feast scene, playing as Pilgrims and Native Americans sharing together. To help their imaginations flow, we have a craft in the image of a Native American vest to help them feel more the part.
We made our Native American vest JumpStart-themed! From left to right: Kisha, Hopps.
November has really been a busy month for us here at JumpStart, and we’re only halfway in! Yesterday concluded our Time to Escape! Sweepstakes. Between the Tweets and the story responses on the contest’s page, we received nearly 600 entries, and many of those were simply amazing stories of family adventure and imagination. If you entered, be sure to check your email inbox and/or Twitter account to find out if you are a winner. All winners will be receiving a notification by tomorrow! Thank you, entrants!
In other news, we’re releasing some new rides, including the popular magic carpets!
These well sought-after vehicles will be available for purchase tomorrow for 125 JS coins. You’ll really be soaring along in style on these mobile home furnishings.
Given their powers, magic carpets come pretty cheap at 125 JS coins.
Hovering is always a thrilling way to be.
Also coming to the JumpStart online world will be new pets! Some old favorites, such as the Robot Cyclops, will become available in new colors, and some pets will be appearing in the Petz Store for the very first time!
Look who's up to bat!
As always, pets and rides do not come cheap, and JS coins aren’t super easy to collect. Those learning games still are the ticket to bags of coins, so have your kids stay active in their learning through JumpStart, and they’ll be soaring along on their magic carpet in no time.
Click here and here for other road trip games that we have recommended in the past!
While the entire family looks forward to celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday and eating delicious food, there is one thing that most people do not look forward to: the long car drive to and from a relative’s home! Boredom is really almost a guarantee. However, with a few fun car game suggestions, you and your family can enjoy the hours of driving together.
Alphabet Race. The goal of this game is to find each letter of the alphabet, in alphabetical order, on the road signs you see throughout your journey. This game may seem easy, but just wait till you get to letters such as “Q” or “X”! See how fast you can accomplish this feat.
Hug Bug. You might have played this game a little differently when you were growing up, but we are making it much less…painful. If you see a Volkswagen Beetle or “Bug” you get to give one other person in the car a hug or blow them a kiss!
The Frankie Game. In this game, the word “Frankie”, as in our lovable mascot, is substituted for a verb. To play, one person picks a secret verb like “swim”. Then everyone else asks questions using “Frankie” in place of the verb. “Can you Frankie in the ocean?” “Can you Frankie in the house?” The person who correctly guesses the secret verb gets to choose the next one.
If so, Free Fall Mountain might be his or her new favorite feature at JumpStart.com! In just a few weeks, this sky diving arena will be added to the Speed Drome off of MainStreet. After suiting up in flight gear, Jumpeez will be teleported to the bottom of Free Fall Mountain. There they will find a series of launch pads and portals to send them rocketing skyward. But these aren’t just ordinary JumpStart launch pads – these will take Jumpeez higher than any launch pad anywhere else in the world!
Launch in 3, 2, 1...
Whoohoo!
Once airborne, Jumpeez will be able to soar through targets, past waterfalls and over cliffs. The most skilled flyers may even be able to land on the moving platforms!
Can you swoop down onto that platform?
Just missed it!
Free Fall Mountain will take your kids soaring to new heights – stay tuned for news about its release!
Get Your Friends Excited about Free Fall Mountain Too!
