Monday, 20 June 2011

Doodle bears {are back} giveaway

Who remembers Doodle Bear® ?


Those colourful , lovable soft and stuffed cuddly bears not unlike a standard stuffed toy but with a smooth fur-free surface.
They are still just as much fun to doodle, stamp, trace, and then machine wash-to-erase, as you remember! 
Fisher-Price has brought them back due to popular demand .Each lovable Doodle Bear® is equipped with 2 dual-tipped washable markers (drawing tip at one end and a stamper at the other - 4 colours ), plus a little stencil with 3 shapes to trace. (You can buy more pens too if you want )
Kids can use the washable markers all over it to decorate and personalise their little doodle bear friend instead of themselves or the baby .
We received a purple one named "Violet" .Though Violet already had some cute doodles & decorations Sam enjoyed colouring it in and out of the lines and stamping.
 
Who knows if more white patches would interest kids more ?

I did mention it's completely machine-washable - not just the surface - the whole bear goes in the machine !
Kids can decorate their bear to their hearts content, then machine-wash it clean so they can doodle again & again on a blank canvas!
 Fisher-Price Doodle Bear is available in 3 colour /styles Rose is Pink, Sky is blue  ~

It's the best bear to foster creative play combined with the emotional value of a cuddly softy.
Personally I think it would be great for kids with allergies . 

Doodle Bears ® will feature in the Big W July (preview the catalogue online 20th June) and Toys R US toy sales from July 1st ( the same day as twins 5th birthday here - I may be going shopping 12:01am) - 
Age: 3+ though my 4 yr found the stencil tricky he was happy with it  

The good news is you could win one here for free !
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Disclosure: Fisher-Price & their agent sent me the Doodle bear for this review. No financial payment was offered nor accepted for this post. All opinions expressed are purely my own.
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Our__Adventures · 722 weeks ago

I have a Barbie tale that I now look back on and giggle, but at the time I was super pissed.
I was four, my brother was 3.
We used to play Barbies together a lot because I was the boss of him, and I wanted to play Barbies.
One day, we were sitting in the fish and chip shop and I was holding my prized possession - Hollywood Hair Barbie [or as I called her at four years old 'Long Hair Barbie']
My brother asked if he could have a look at her. I trusted him, since we always played Barbies,
But... he pulled her head off.
Clean off.
I don't know if anyone is familiar with Barbie, her head is very scientific.
The only way she could be repaired was to jam her head back on, which resulted in her having no movement what so ever, and giving her an "Uncle Fester Barbie" feel.
I can giggle now, because it was 20 years ago, but at the time, I was pissed!
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Kellie · 722 weeks ago

I have a few. Early on it was a Van Gogh on the wall, but thankfully with crayon which (eventually) came off. Next it was pen all over a ``baby'', which apparently needed ``makeup''. However, none of these compare to coming out to find a new pattern all over the cream-coloured suede couch. At least it's a conversation starter everytime someone visits! :)
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Super Sarah · 722 weeks ago

I had a special teddy that my Grandmother had given me, it was more of a display than a play teddy but that didn't stop me even though I had been told not to get it down from the shelf. Well we were playing hide and seek one day and teddy hid very effectively in the wash basket. So of course my Mum put him through a hot cycle unknowingly. I was devastated but also desperately guilty and my Mum was furious also felt terribly guilty!
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Becky · 722 weeks ago

Ohhh I had one of these and I so loved it.
My tale of woe is a Barbie tale. I (somehow) managed to upset my brother, who is two years my junior, one sunny Saturday when we were about 8 and 6 respectively. I came outside to find he had hacked off all her beautiful hair, which I loved to brush, drawn on her face and snapped her head off at the neck - not just popped it off, actually snapped.
When I had a little melt down he threw her head over the neighbours fence.
She had been my ONLY Barbie!!!
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Tara · 722 weeks ago

Our little man had a comforter being a giraffe so we brought him a special one and you got your own star with it! Well we took it to nana n poppas one day and he dropped it outside... needless tosay their dog yogi thought it was a fabulous toy and proceded to destory it :( Master J was devasted to make matter worse the next time we were there a few days later Yogi came out with it in her mouth and teasted my boy with it he was hysterical
Still ti this day it breaks my heart but i cant blame the dog entirely she didnt know any better nor did Master J i just think it was nasty she rubbed it in his face ;)
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peskypixies 46p · 722 weeks ago

Many moons ago we had a lttle black dog called Monty.
monty was part terrier
He liked to shake things and give them heaps.
We came home one day to find the back yard COVERED in white foofy stuff.
It looked like it had snowed.
Mr monty had found some stuffed toys that had been left outside and proceeded to *kill* them all as terriers do.
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river · 722 weeks ago

Doodle Bear is totally new to me! I've never seen one before! This is probably because my kids are grown so I haven't been in a toy store for years and years. I love the washability factor! I may have to buy one or two in case any of my younger work colleagues have babies.
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Sarah · 722 weeks ago

My sister had a knack of cutting everything's hair, Barbies were the worst until one day she all but shaved my very fluffy toy cat. I'm still cranky with her 20 yrs later LOL
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Tiff · 722 weeks ago

Our biggest doodle blunder was when ivy and Noah drew on each other with red permanent marker and called themselves tigers. I can laugh now but I was not laughing at the time, while I was trying to scrub that marker off.
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Jess Newman · 722 weeks ago

When I was fourteen (yes that old) I had a stuffed dog called Doopa. So seven of us won a competition and traveled to Brisbane from Darwin to compete in the national titles.
The day of the competition was stressful. Not helped by the fact that my best friend had asked out the guy if my dreams (and he said yes), and they were both on the trip. Also I was premenstrual.
So I was sitting on the bed of a friend in one room, while the others were in the next room, and flying through the window comes Doopa's leg. It was like a scene from a horror movie; Doopa lying frail and dismembered, while his leg lay before me on the doona cover.
Well I just lost it. I burst into tears and burst into the room screaming (and I'm embarrassed to admit this), 'that dog was my best friend!' considering what my actual best friend had just done to me, that was not a stretch.
Needless to say they never let me forget it, and poor Doopa remained legless for the rest of his life.
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posiepatchwork 26p · 722 weeks ago

Oh how cute, nothing funnier than children covered in texta!! Make up is evil if the children get hold of it, or zinc cream, been there!! Love Posie
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superrelish 23p · 721 weeks ago

Hmmm, where to start. I was an angel child and was too responsible to do anything totally destructive to my own toys. I did however play hairdresser with my sisters barbies but that doesn't count!

My guys seem to have much more artistic ambition than I did.

My favourite was this one when the boy was about 2 and he couldn't sleep. He sat quietly in bed and decorated himself, the cupboard doors and the hallway with texta. http://www.flickr.com/photos/82706753@N00/1832086...

He had a repeat performance a few years later and decorated his face and body again. He really was too old for this an ended up going to school with a blue face and hasn't done it again. http://www.flickr.com/photos/82706753@N00/2839681...

There was also the time he painted his sister because he thought she would be a good bear. http://www.flickr.com/photos/82706753@N00/1832087...
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Tat · 721 weeks ago

Oh, how I'd love one of those! My son was in a cutting mode and cut a whole in a toy and of course, my daughter couldn't think of anything better to do than to eat the stuffing. I was changing the scissors hiding place for months after that.
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Me 'N my Monkeys · 721 weeks ago

My daughter, when she was around 2 or 3, took to herself and the Cow in the paddock behind our house with a thick black permanent marker.
(when i say took to her self, i mean she stripped off naked and drew all over her body including her face)
It took a few days to get it all off in the meantime we had some wonderful 'onlookers' who would pass us giggling in the streets! Slightly embarrassing.
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Mandy · 721 weeks ago

A couple of years back when hubby was away for the week for work, I tried to keep busy by visiting friends. Day one Lulu got a texta at a friends house and literally drew over evey part of her body. Face, arms, legs, soles of her feet everywhere. Then the next day we went to a friends house and she dunked the teddy in the toilet.

She doesn't usually do stuff like this so I was having a melt down that week.
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mamagrace71 77p · 721 weeks ago

The twinlets are still getting the hang of stuffed toys but I had my first permanent marker incident just yesterday !
We were at our weekly playgroup and they have a corner specifically for drawing. Little K - forever the explorer - had wandered over there and picked up a red marker. Unbeknownst to me, of course, I picked him up to go home and of course, found red squiggles all over my lovely white/cream "Abercrombie & Fitch" hoodie *sigh*
Slowly but surely, a lot of stuff that I've purchased in my pre-children days are all getting demolished by the beloved twinlets...:)
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melanie w · 721 weeks ago

once i bought hubby some novelty boxers that came with a pull string monster plush that laughed no scary but our daughter was petrified of it every time anyone would pull the string his laughter would make her scream pretty funny she was so scared of it but not to her poor little darling it was soon hidden away.
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Jammie · 721 weeks ago

My husband and I went on a date, and left his niece here to watch our daughter. She was about 3 at the time, we came home to not only pencil all over the bedroom wall but marker. When I asked her what she had been doing she informed me she was making the wall pretty. Well it is 7 years later and I still have all her art work on the bedroom wall. sweepmorey@gmail.com
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Eleanor · 721 weeks ago

My 3yo son has defaced every wall with pencil, markers, he's tried it. I figure that's easily fixed but one thing is hiding in the cupboard(literally). He borrowed a Dora toy from a girlfriend's daughter and one afternoon I found some dark hair on the floor, I followed the trail and found an almost bald Dora doll. The Dora doll is hiding ever since so that he doesn't remember to show off his handiwork when my girlfriend's daughter visits.
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nellbe 24p · 721 weeks ago

My toddler is obsessed with pens, textas, crayons, pencils. He grabs them and runs away giggling and draws over anything. Try to take them off him and he cries and cries and cries. He does draw on the walls...those magic erasers are fantastic for getting texta off walls.
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Mumma's Mini Mes · 721 weeks ago

My disaster story is a favourite stuffed doll needed a wash and so I just put it in the washing machine assuming it would be okay but when I opened the lid all that remained was lots of filling and some bits of fabric! So I had to quickly go buy a new one so my tot wouldn't know the difference. Our washing machine has eaten a few things! Handwash from now on!
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Amanda Elizabeth · 721 weeks ago

We used to own a bunny rabbit (a real one, a pet) she had her own facebook page and was our daughter before we had kids.
Her name was Bun-Bun and everyone knew her, she had her own facebook page.
When she was quite old, we had our first child- a real girl called Charlotte!
Someone gave Charlotte a rabbit teddy bear, but instead of a body and feet, it had a blanket.
Charlotte and this teddy were inseperable!
Charlotte got confused and called the teddy "Bun-Bun" -only people outside our immediate family didn't know this.
One day Charlotte decided to bite Bun-Bun's eyes off (the teddy's don't worry!) and as Charlotte's Mummy I was given the task of searching through her poo for the eyes to show up!
So I went to work and said "Oh My God Charlotte ate BOTH Bun-Bun's eyes over the weekend!!!"
I copped horrified stares before I quickly explained that she also had a toy with the same name!
One lady explained she had a ghastly vision of my vampire daughter feasting on the eyes of the sacrificial rabbit!

Thanks for the opportunity- Charlotte loves to draw!
Amanda from Amanda's Mummy Jeans
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Jasmine · 721 weeks ago

My nephew loves to draw. I didn't realise he had put ink on my face. I went shopping that afternoon and everyone was staring at me. It seems he really left 'his mark' on my face
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Barbara · 721 weeks ago

We always had heaps of stuffed animals when we came back from the show. Anyway we left some outside and the next day when I woke up, I saw bits and pieces all over the front yard. Our next door neighbours dog had bitten through all the animals and distributed them all over the grass
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Claireyhewitt · 721 weeks ago

Rented house.

Cheap wall stickers.

Fresh painted walls. The house was brand new.

Pull off the cheap stickers.

All 50 of them, flowers and little butterflies and spots and bugs. Every single one removed the paint, on walls, cupboards and doors.

We had to repaint the room. The whole thing!

Magic eraser fixes everything else!

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