Sunday, April 10, 2011

Review - Dinosaur Train: Hatchers


Easter is right around the corner and Dinosaur Train has come up with the perfect Easter product!  I got so excited when I found out about Hatchers because I would have went nuts for them as a kid.  You start out with an egg and then you put it in a glass of water.that is room temperature.  After a day or two, a Dinosaur Train character will hatch and grow.  When it stops growing, you can take him out of the glass and throw the shell pieces away.  The hatcher will go back to it's original size when it is not in water, but if your child would like to see it big again, all they have to do is put it back in some water.  Pretty cool, huh?  This is the perfect addition for your child's Easter basket.

About Dinosaur Train:

In DINOSAUR TRAIN, 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.

DINOSAUR TRAIN is a Parents’ Choice Recommended TV series, and the DINOSAUR TRAIN website received a Parents’ Choice Silver Award and was the recipient of a prestigious 2010 Prix Jeunesse Award.

DINOSAUR TRAIN, created by Craig Bartlett (
Hey Arnold!), embraces and celebrates the fascination that preschoolers have with both dinosaurs and trains while encouraging basic scientific thinking and skills. Each episode includes animated segments with live-action sequences featuring a paleontologist who brings to life the show's natural science and natural history curriculum for preschoolers, giving specific facts about dinosaurs and comparing their features to animals of today.

In addition to the television series, there is also a DINOSAUR TRAIN interactive website at PBSKIDS.org/dinosaurtrain. Buddy, Tiny and Mr. Conductor guide children as they discover natural history and the science of paleontology through fun games and activities.  For information on the DINOSAUR TRAIN geocache program—a fast growing adventure game that inspires families to get out and discover treasures together go to www.geocaching.com/dinosaurtrain.

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Disclosure: I received this product for free.

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