Strollerderby : contests

How to Alienate Your Offspring – Enter a Hannah Montana Lookalike Contest

SunnyChanel — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:17:00 GMT

Are you a Dad looking for a way to embarrass, alienate, and be officially disowned by your offspring? Well, I have found the perfect way to do just that. By entering a Hannah Montana Lookalike Contest. Nothing makes a tween scream “you are no longer my dad!” louder than having him dressed in gold lame and belting out a Miley Cyrus ballad.

At the Mall of America in Minnesota, more than a dozen blonde wig donning dads participated in a Hannah Montana karaoke contest. Besides winning disapproving looks from their children, the dads’ quest was to be crowned “Mr. Montana” and to win two roundtrip airline tickets, which doesn’t seem to be reward enough for such a feat. Throw in a million dollars and we’ll talk.

If you want proof of such Hannah Montana dad hotness, check out the video of the contest here.

What’s the most embarrassing thing you’ve done to try to win something?

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Because We're Givers. That's Why.

editors — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:40:00 GMT

How much free stuff do you think Babble can give out in one month? A zillion dollars worth, that’s how much. If you haven’t seen our Holiday Gift Guide yet, you’ll be thrilled when you find over 30 Babble-approved products that can also be yours – for free! Including, but certainly not limited to, an Xbox 360 holiday bundle, a Nokia Smart Phone, handmade items to die for, fab baby gifts and many, many more. Other major freebies we’re throwing at you include:

Quinny Buzz 4 Stroller with Dreami Bassinet, Quinny Box and Maxi-Cosi Mico Car Seat

Jeep Trek Easy-Travel Playard

Sony Cyber Shot package including digital camera, GPS unit, underwater attachment for said camera and carrying case.

Maternity wear from Boob and Childish, a super cool Pluto baby tee and more! Just search for ‘giveaway’ in Droolicious and see what you can win. Hooray for prizes!!! - April Peveteaux

Whip It! Kids Turn to 80s Music For Classroom Makeover

Kate Tuttle — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:58:00 GMT

Today's adorable kid-vid: first-graders in the Woodrow Cummins Elementary School in Conway, Arkansas, entered a contest to win a high-tech upgrade for their classroom, and they chose the best possible soundtrack: Devo's "Whip It," re-mastered as "Click It," now a schoolkid's exhortation to go forward, move ahead, and finish that damn long division lesson already.

While other classrooms used music to sell themselve, including a cover of The Romantics' "What I Like About You," the Devo-loving kids were the most inventive, joyful, and irreverent. And their teacher looks like the kind of teacher we all wish we'd had at least once. Voting ends today!

What Would You Do for $5000?

Adrienne Martini — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:00:00 GMT

Just one little favor can earn you an extra $5000. You don't even have to have sex with the former governor of New York. But what you do have to do may be even more repellent.

In honor of National Pickle Month, which is May, in case you didn't already know, Vlasic is sponsoring a contest. Given how much pregnant ladies crave pickles -- I didn't but there might be a few out there -- Vlasic will award a $20,000 savings bond to a baby born in May. Which is dang nice of them.

If you'd like Vlasic to kick in another $5K, all you have to do is give the tot the middle name "Crunch." It's up to you to decide if your kid's dignity is worth it.

Photo credit: www.competitiveeaters.com

Vote for Thaddeus Rex in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest

Brett Singer — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:30:00 GMT

Thaddeus Rex, who has been compared to David Bowie, Monty Python and Dr. Seuss – all in the same review – is a Grand Prize Winner in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest. What does this mean? It means that he has a chance to win the Children's Song category, which gives him a shot at $20,000 and a really sweet Apple Computer setup. But to win, he needs your votes.

Here's the deal: go to this page. Click in the "Children's" box, and vote for Thaddeus' song, "I Will Always Follow You." You can vote every day from now until April 26th. To hear T-Rex's tune, click here. Remember, he's a Grand Prize Winner, but he still needs your votes to make it to the next round.

T-Rex also has a new album out called Shakin' In Chicago. For the unitiated, there are two free tunes from his first two CDs that you can download here.

Greenhouse: Breastfeeding is Green

Amy Kuras — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:13:00 GMT

We've all heard again and again and yet again about all the reasons breastfeeding is good for babies. But it's good for the environment as well.

Cows, which make the milk that's used to make formula, are great big mooing polluters, is why. Plus there is the issue of all the formula cans or bottles – they aren’t always recyclable – as well as water used to wash a day's worth of bottles, and fossil fuels used to truck formula from factory to store.

All this to bring your attention to the fact a web store called NursingMotherSupplies.com is running a contest called "Nursing is Green." They are looking for the perfect slogan to fit on a t-shirt touting the environmentaly friendly nature of breastfeeding. The prize is a $300 breastfeeding gift basket.

I take issue with the fact they call formula "artificial baby milk" which I find a little judgy. They do sell a nice selection of products at decent prices, which I like since it can be hard know where to look to find useful products, and hey, you could win free swag.

None of these will fit on a t-shirt, but as a nursing mother who's just survived the first month, let me add these tongue-in-cheek reasons breastfeeding is green:

•    Being tied to the couch with a cluster-feeding baby means you're not driving anywhere, so no carbon emissions.

•    Have no time to pee or shower? Saves water!

•    Falling asleep at 9 p.m. out of the sheer exhaustion of being the sole source of nutrition for a growing human being saves tons of electricity.

Got a better idea (and yeah, that's not a high bar to clear)? Get your submissions in to NursingMotherSupplies.com by April 30.

Could Your Kid Invent the Next Frisbee?

Karen Murphy — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:11:00 GMT

Shut up. It could happen, you know. Kids as a breed are creative, and, really, are yours any different? Kids come wired knowing ten things to do with an airplane barf bag, that underwear are for wearing on heads, that fairies leave you fairy dust in the night for their own magical purposes, and that cardboard and tape can make anything.

So why wouldn't your kid win the first-ever WHAM-O Kid Inventor Contest?

It's not like WHAM-O is mining kid's ideas to find the next Frisbee, Super Ball, Hula Hoop, or Slip 'n Slide. Oh, no. But even so, what kid wouldn't want their toy idea marketed to millions? And winning a $2000 prize isn't such a bad thing.

Here's what you need to know:

The contest is open from, like, now, until March 31, 2008. Finalists will be announced in April and the winner will be determined by summer. Kids who enter ust be between the ages of 6 and 17 and live in the U.S. or Canada. Toy inventions must be submitted along with a description of how the toy works. (Feel free to edit your long-winded elementary-schooler's description.)

Full details of the contest can be found here.

Oh, and the whole thing is associated with Nick Mag, which I presume has something to do with Nickelodeon. I'm sooo in touch with these things.

But seriously. Your kid has some fabulous ideas about this sort of stuff.

Photo: bubbleinc.co.uk