Get Kids Excited About Washing Their Hands with SoapTime! #GIVEAWAY

Getting kids to wash their hands with soap isn’t always easy. But what if hand-washing time were fun? Your children may even ask to wash their hands if it becomes an enjoyable experience. That’s the idea behind SoapTime products! SoapTime consists of a colorful bottle of soap that sits on a special SmartBase. When your child presses on the soap dispenser, the bottle lights up and plays a song or says something educational! It does this for 20 seconds, the length of time that kids should spend washing their hands.

SoapTime’s three fun bottles come in the shape of ABC blocks, the Earth, and an Elephant! Each has its own theme: language (ABC blocks), nature (Earth), and wild kingdom (Elephant). We’re currently using the Elephant soap in our bathroom, and my son Austen goes in to wash his hands as much as possible because he likes to hear it talk! There are many different messages so it doesn’t play the same one repeatedly. For instance, a perky British voice (“Professor Goodhabits”) tells kids that tiger stripes are skin deep. If you shave a tiger, its skin is striped, too! There are also several fun, original songs. And the elephant flashes in different colors while the message is being delivered. There’s also a switch on the bottom that allows you to turn off the sound so that the colors just flash when soap is dispensed. This is great for bedtime when you’re trying to settle kids down or if you’re just tired of hearing the voice because your kids keep pressing on the soap!

SoapTime products are available at select Bed, Bath and Beyond stores. Learn more about these fun and educational products at www.mysoaptime.com. You can even listen to the songs online!

GIVEAWAY

One lucky winner will receive a SoapTime set, which includes the 3 themed bottles (ABC, Earth, and Elephant), and a SmartBase! To enter, visit www.mysoaptime.com and look around. Then leave a comment on this post about something you learned on the site. You must do this to enter the giveaway.

After fulfilling the mandatory entry above, you can earn optional, additional entries if you:

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One winner will be randomly selected from the qualified comments received by Tuesday, September 27, 2011, at 11:59 PM ET. Please leave an email address on one of your comments if it’s not available on your Blogger profile. Winner must respond within 72 hours or another winner will be drawn. Contest is open to US residents only.

CONTEST CLOSED. Congratulations to the winner: Sarah!



DISCLOSURE: Product samples were provided for this review, but no financial compensation was received.