This week’s Roundup of Mom’s Choice Award winners features tons educational games, toys and interactive learning tools plus nursing bras, baby monitors + more! Be sure to scroll through the entire list so you don’t miss any of our new award-winners! All the items you see below won a Mom’s Choice Award during September 22, 2019 to September 28, 2019.
Every week companies, inventors, and publishers from around the world send us their products for evaluation. Only the best earn our designation.
When Tonya Grows Up
Written by Iztok Melansek; Illustrated by Gregor Gorsic; Edited by Mic Melansek, Rado Daradan, Ryan Quinn, Katja Culiberg
“When (Tonya) Grows Up” is a personalized book from Hooray Heroes in which the child is the hero. But not just any child – your child. Use their name and choose the gender of the main character while designing their overall appearance. Choose their hair color and style, skin tone, eye color and shape, and even add freckles or glasses. There are as many possibilities as there are children in the whole world.
There are 27 stories to choose from and 10 of them are included in the book, the ones that suit your family best. Little ones can imagine themselves as police officers, TV stars, doctors, chefs, pilots and many more. Stories are brought to life with beautiful illustrations and heartwarming texts from incredible authors and illustrators.
Available at www.hoorayheroes.com.
Children’s Picture Books:
Growing Up / Personal Growth
Tumzee Tummy Time Tool
Tumzee turns tummy time into play time and is designed for strengthening neck, back, and arm muscles for your little one’s development of motor skills. The unique ‘T’ support and contoured walls help keep your baby from sliding down and holds them in place. Tumzee’s incline is designed so your little one is able to see the surrounding environment to play with loved ones and toys.
Personal Use Products (Skin Care, Health Care, etc.):
Babies
Smart Beat Video Monitor with Breath Detection
Smart Beat is a video baby monitor with breath detection that gives parents peace of mind by reporting their baby’s breathing status to their smartphones. Smart Beat uses its patented BioVision technology to detect breathing without using wearables, mats, or clips. BioVision analyzes the video feed, looking at every pixel of every frame to detect the changes in color that occur with movement. These advanced algorithms allow Smart Beat to detect even the smallest breathing motions using just a video camera.
Most importantly, Smart Beat sends an alert directly to parents’ phones if it detects that breathing becomes irregular.
Gear & Accessories:
Media, Electronics & Accessories
RockIt Twist
Game and learn with a TWIST! Four sides of buttons, spinners, sliders and switches provide a unique play experience that’s perfectly paired with exciting video games. Preloaded games teach a variety of core skills including literacy, math, problem solving, science and creativity. Play with three adorable digital pets and nurture them to grow. Game packs (sold separately) include more games, plus a new digital pet and a RockIt Pet figure to match. Twist, turn, play and learn!
Toys, Games & Puzzles:
Toddlers
Learn & Groove Shakin’ Colors Maracas
Shake up learning with the Learn & Groove® Shakin’ Colors Maracas™! One maraca includes colorful shaker beads and the other features a light-up dome that changes colors and plays maraca sound effects. This musical toy includes three play modes that introduce colors, numbers and music. Little ones can add rattling sounds to the songs that play, count from 1-10 with every shake and press the six light-up buttons to hear color and instrument names. Switching between English and Spanish mode lets kids explore all of the content in both languages.
Toys, Games & Puzzles:
Preschoolers
LeapStart Go
Go beyond the basics with the new LeapStart® Go interactive learning system. This sleek, easy-to-carry stylus brings compatible books and activity sets to life and uses video to provide a deeper learning experience with select LeapStart® books and activity sets. Video makes complex content easy to understand and helps kids extend their learning beyond basic skills such as letters and numbers.
LeapStart® Go also works with the full LeapStart® library of 25+ books (sold separately) that cover a variety of preschool through first grade subjects, plus new activity sets designed specifically for LeapStart® Go. These new sets teach more advanced, multi-curricular subjects, and use extra learning tools such as interactive charts and stickers to supplement the material in the books.
Toys, Games & Puzzles:
Ages 5 to 8
LeapBuilders ABC Smart House
Welcome home to the LeapBuilders® ABC Smart House™! Build, create and learn with this interactive 61-piece house-themed block set. Kids can use the easy-to-hold blocks to build a house and learn about the alphabet, objects around the house, colors and shapes as they build with the electronic Smart Star™ cube. Insert the 20 double-sided learning blocks into the interactive Smart Star and it will respond with fun sounds, educational songs and phrases that enhance building play with learning content. For even more fun, try using learning blocks from other LeapBuilders sets in the interactive cube to unlock additional content responses. Get building with smart blocks for smart kids!
Toys, Games & Puzzles:
Toddlers
KidiGo Walkie Talkies
Add excitement to any adventure with the KidiGo™ Walkie Talkies. Keep in touch anywhere with these kid-safe, two-way radios featuring a digital connection that’s clear and keeps kids’ conversations secure, preventing other walkie-talkie users from listening in or chatting with them. Children can also send messages back and forth by choosing from preset animated messages using the large, backlit LCD screen. The walkie talkies also include four two-player games for real-time gaming between devices.
Toys, Games & Puzzles:
Toddlers
KidiBuzz G2
Kids can have a smart device of their very own with KidiBuzz™ G2. Send texts, voice messages, photos, drawings and animated stickers over Wi-Fi to a parent-approved contact list using the KidiConnect™ app. Check out pre-approved websites through the kid-safe web browser or download popular Android™ apps (sold separately). Kids can explore silly stamps, frames, photo effects and live photo filters and use them to capture fun pictures and selfies or make their own videos with the 180 degree rotating camera.
KidiBuzz™ G2 is preloaded with more than 40 exciting learning games and awesome apps including a new augmented reality game. This durable device with bumpers and a shatter-safe screen can be taken anywhere, so it’s perfect for on-the-go play. The KidiBuzz™ G2 smart device is made for fun, and made for kids!
Toys, Games & Puzzles:
Toddlers
Mix & Match-a-Saurus
Roar, dance and laugh with the innovative Mix & Match-a-Saurus™! This Dino comes with three emotion tiles (happy, angry, sleepy), three music tiles (hip-hop, marching, ballet) and three character tiles (dinosaur, robot, monster). Children can create 27 different combinations of emotions, music styles and characters such as happy hip-hop dino or angry marching monster. Placing the colorful tiles on Dino’s back allows kids to customize how they want to play with him. Every time a tile is inserted, the dinosaur moves, sings, dances, talks or encourages children to follow along for gross-motor play.
Experimenting with the emotion tiles helps kids build social and emotional skills. Angry Dino may stomp around or say, “Let’s practice calming down,” helping kids learn that there are many ways to express feelings. When playtime is done, store the tiles in the dinosaur egg.
Toys, Games & Puzzles:
Toddlers
Friends from Lollia: Book III of the Eedoo Trilogy
Written by W.W. Rowe; Illustrated by Benjamin Slatoff-Burke
The final episode in the award-winning Eedoo adventures, heroine Sharoo, now thirteen, is suddenly empowered with even more autonomy and responsibility. With Eedoo’s help, she learns to hold her own against unscrupulous and greedy competition and how to discern what is beneath appearances
Juvenile Books (Level 2 – Ages 9 to 12):
Fantasy, Myths & Legends
Fossil Wars
Fossil Wars is a fast-paced card game where player’s turn into paleontologists on a mission to gather the most valuable collection of dinosaur fossils.
Here’s how the game works: There’s a central deck of cards from which players dig fossils. Most of these cards are dinosaur fossils. Some of these are too big and hence broken into 2 or 3 parts. On each fossil card, you’d find three main attributes of that dinosaur – it’s type, time period and region. It also has a face value assigned on the top right corner. Players dig fossils from the central deck and exhibit their finds in different sections as per their type, time period or region. A section with at least 2 dinosaurs is considered complete.
Toys, Games & Puzzles:
Ages 9 to 12
Classic Nursing Cami
Long enough to cover a growing belly and coupled with our easy-to-use nursing B-clips, the Classic Nursing Cami easily transitions with mom from pregnancy through to breastfeeding. A versatile cami with a smooth exterior and clean lines makes it a classic layering piece. And, beneath it all is a supportive built-in shelf bra, which is one less thing to think about. Don’t worry, we’ve got her covered.
Gear & Accessories:
Feeding
Body Silk Seamless Rhythm Nursing Bra
The Body Silk Seamless Rhythm Nursing Bra is a beautiful and modern athleisure bra, featuring 4-way stretch and molded cups to hug moms changing body and adapt to her changing schedule. Now, she can experience pregnancy and motherhood by engaging in the activities that make her feel like herself again, while looking and feeling fresh.
Gear & Accessories:
Feeding
