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I will admit that my original intentions when I first received the Pacific Play Tent Tunnel and Parachute to review was to share some toddler and preschool games, but as we have been using it over the past few weeks EVERY time I pulled it out my older two kiddos were right there, too! And better yet, we ended up bringing the parachute to a Sunday family dinner and all the kiddos from 11-2 years of age who are normally running around like crazy, all came together to "test" the parachute and I had a lot of fun. Don't those faces say it all?!
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Here are 10 of our favorite games to play with our Pacific Play Tent Parachute and Tunnel:
10 Parachute and Tunnel Games
#1 Everyone on knees
Toddlers and preschoolers often want to be included when playing with this fun colored 10 foot "Playchute" Parachute but it can be hard because of their height. So, have everyone get on their knees and meet your young ones height a little better. This is a great way to let old and young children play together and with 12 handles there is plenty of room for everyone.
#2 Play Peek-A- Boo
This colorful 6 ft tunnel is called "Peek A Boo I See U" Tunnel and it's a perfect name for it. It is also a fun game to play with it, too! Half the tunnel is made with sturdy fabric but one side is mesh making it less threatening for young ones to move through and an easy way for us parents to see where they are in the tunnel. We have had other tunnels that young children were afraid to go into because they couldn't see out. There has been no hesitations with this one!
#3 Nuggets in the Middle
Sitting under the parachute has to be everyone's favorite spot. Raise the parachute up as high and fast as possible. Then have everyone, while still holding the edges, race to the center to sit and tuck themselves under the falling parachute. If you have any toddlers or preschoolers that are having a hard time racing in with everyone, have them sit in the middle while everyone races towards them. This game brought so many giggles!Give everyone a chance to sit underneath while all the parachute holders raise the it up and bring it in tucking everyone underneath.
#4 Tunnel Ball Toss
Have one child sit on one end of the tunnel and another sit on the other end and roll balls to each other. This one always got a lot of laughs. My toddler didn't always get the concept of tossing them back but she loved the balls being tossed to her
#5 Tunnel Entrance
Build a fort or an obstacle and use the tunnel as the path in and out. This "Peek A Boo I See U" Tunnel was used in many similar situations as pictured below over the past few weeks. The frame of the tunnel is made from sturdy, hardened spring-steel construction that's reinforced and the coils are lightly padded with foam to allow for a comfortable and safe play experience. This allowed the tunnel to be strong and withstand all of their creative builds with it.
#6 Build a Fort
Toss the Parachute over a table or a few chairs and you have an instant fort. Of course, they can always get more creative than that once they get thinking, but the table is an easy way of creating a for for the little ones. Like I said, everyone loves sitting under a parachute!
#7 Parachute Pop It
Playing with the parachute was a great way for the children to coordinate their bodies and communicate with each other while they tried to achieve an idea. They loved playing Pop It. Place a light ball in the center of the parachute. Everyone then squats low and on the count of 3 pops up and raises the parachute as fast as they can above their heads. The ball will fly! Make sure you have plenty of open space nearby when doing this so you don't loose the ball.
#8 Shadow Puppets
The the parachute and the parachute fabric on the bottom of the tunnel are great for playing shadow puppets or in my kiddos case, just making big monsters with their bodies. It's easy to do. Simple set up the parachute or solid side of the tunnel to where there is light coming from behind it. As you get closer to the fabric, your shadow will appear! Lots of laughs and giggles with this one.
#9 Tunnel Roll
This is my daughters favorite position in the tunnel. She loved to lay down and have me rock her back and forth, especially since she could still see me! She eventually learned if she turned sideways and braced her feet on one side that she could roll herself. That smile says it all!
#10 The Wave
Another great team communicating game is The Wave. The gaol is to roll the ball around the parachute without letting it fall off. I did not realize how much they would have talk to work together to be able to accomplish this, but after a handful of tries they figured out a good rhythm. This was a fun, yet satisfying challenge.
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|Nip/Tuck The Complete Third Season
Actors: Dylan Walsh, Julian McMahon
Genres: Drama, Television
2006 12hr 3min
He -- or is it she? -- slices, they stitch. He maims, they heal. Plastic surgeons Sean McNamara and Christian Troy have vowed to make whole the victims of the elusive, mysterious serial slasher called the Carver. But mendi... more »
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Adam C. (i12bnmovie) from SAINT LOUIS, MO
Reviewed on 7/13/2009...
This was the beginning of the end for this show. The Carver storyline is drug out way too long with no payoff in the end. The baby storyline kills this show. As does Matt's stort arc. The surgery cases are still great, but in the end this was it for me. I did watch the fourth season though. I am a glutton for punishment.
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This Season Needed Serious Cosmetic Work
K. Harris | Las Vegas, NV | 09/24/2006
(2 out of 5 stars)
"I realize that by saying anything negative, I will alienate fans of the show. TV fans are a notoriously fickle bunch. I defy you--go to any other TV show DVD listing on Amazon. Pick one that you think is terrible and the fan reviews there will be 5 star! I think you can be a fan, but still be objective. There are lots of shows that I have loved for various reasons--but that doesn't always make them good shows. It means that I have overlooked their flaws.
Now let's talk realistically about "NIp/Tuck". I have seen every episode and continue to watch Season 4. FX created a whole roster of "adult" programs designed to provoke the viewers--to "push the envelope". Trust me, I respect that and I watch them all. "Nip/Tuck" started out a bit erratically--the first season, for me, was about 3 1/2 stars. I saw the promise, yet the episodes lacked a certain cohesion and the characters didn't seem fully flushed out yet. Season 2, however, really hit the stride. It became a gloriously over-the-top soap opera that was good, nasty fun! I LOVED it, especially the deliriously campy Famke Janssen storyline. Still didn't make it a "great" TV show, but it made for "great" TV. I'd have given it 5 stars on entertainment value.
Then there's Season 3. People who object to this season often site the "Carver" storyline as being problematic. I couldn't care less, the "Carver" plot was just as valid as any other (killing mobsters and feeding them to alligators from Season 1, anyone?). The problem for me was a lot more serious.
The show began to sell out it's core characters. Now I have never been a big fan of the McNamara clan. Strangely enough, they are the least compelling part of this show. But I accepted the characters-- and as long as they made sense and the writers understood who they were--then I was fine. The problem with Season 3 was that they no longer made sense. The plots and outrageousness came first! The writers made up the situations that "pushed the envelope" and then just plugged the characters into those scenarios however conveniently. So we had characters doing or believing things every week that were not consistent with the "people" that we knew. And if they needed to flip flop back for another storyline, that's what they did. Don't ask me to care about your characters if you don't! (Another FX show, the sometimes brilliant "Rescue Me" went through the same crisis).
I wish "Nip/Tuck" well, it seems to be starting season 4 in good, fun shape. No matter what, Christian will remain one hell of a great TV character. KGHarris, 9/06.
Another superb season of surgery and sex
N. Durham | Philadelphia, PA | 06/21/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"As the third season of Nip/Tuck begins, Sean (Dylan Walsh) comes to the aide of Christian (Julian McMahon) after barely surviving an assault by the masked Carver. From that point on, the season kicks into high gear as Sean and Christian take on a new partner (Bruno Campos), Julia (Joely Richardson) teams up with Liz (Rhoma Maffia) and Gina (Jessalyn Gilsig) as they go into business for themselves, Matt (John Hensley) questions his sexual identity and ends up falling in with a girl and her uber-racist father, and Christian's relationship with Kimber (Kelly Carlson) takes a serious turn, even when they are joined by a kinky cop (Rhona Mitra) assigned to the Carver cases. There's so much going on throughout this season that it's amazing the way Nip/Tuck manages to weave everything together without getting too redundant. The surgical cases that Sean and Christian end up getting involved in, including a gigantic woman literally stuck to her sofa, nearly reach unfeasable heights, yet manage to stay compelling. The only low point of the season comes when Sean considers leaving his old life behind when he begins doing solo work for the Witness Protection Program on an ex-mob wife (Anne Heche) and her son, but thankfully that passes quickly. When the season comes to a close and the Carver returns and his identity revealed, along with a few other plot points that will be touched on again in the upcoming season, you'll be left wanting more; something which Nip/Tuck has successfully managed to accomplish during it's entire run. All in all, the third season of Nip/Tuck is yet another superb season of surgery and sex, and this DVD set should whet your appetite until the upcoming new season premieres."
This show can't be missed!
J. J Woehr | Lindenhurst, NY United States | 06/07/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Nip/Tuck took awhile to come back and when it did it didn't disapoint at all. It almost even convinces you that Christian was killed by the carver and it turns out that it's just a dream he tells Sean about. While Matt becomes more of a problem especially after he's told that Ava (Famke Janssen) used to be a man. So he sets out to find her or someone like her. Instead he gets mad and beats up a tranny when he sees that he/she has male parts. Matt later on gets chased down by he/shes that beat him up and pee on him.
Also Christian hires a new partner named Quentin while Christian thinks about his future as a plastic surgeon. Neither of them like him much and it doesn't help things when he trys to get with both of them on seperate occasions. Also of course it doesn't make Sean feel any better for him when he starts showing an interest in Julia.
Julia opens up a beauty spa and doesn't get the support from her mother that she wishes she'd get. Which leads to an excellent episode where Julia thinks her mom might've been on a plane that crashed. That's probably the most gripping episode next to the season finale. Things also get serious between Christian and Kimber and the season offers a lot of brilliant moments between the two.
The show can have it's gross-out moments since they are plastic surgeons but if you get into the story and the characters, the show is hard to resist. The season finale is just brilliant and has two edge of your seat moments actually occuring at the same time, now that's good tv! It also manages to make you feel for Matt after making him easy to dislike earlier in the season. He gets stuck in a very bad situation with a girl's father who has to be the most hateful guy on the planet. While Christian and Sean also are in a life threatening situation after it's reveiled who the carver is. This is just a brilliant season that deserves as many nominations as possible."

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