It is Spring Break Time Across the US!

Spring Break is the time of the year when winter is almost over and summer moves ever closer.

Many of you have Spring Break from school during March. Some of you will go on vacations with your family. Some of you will stay home and have fun hanging out with your family and friends.

Diggin Active’s Black Max™ Football is great to help you get active wherever you may be. Black Max is designed to help you throw  farther and with a perfect spiral

Black Max is perfect for a game of touch football at home or on the beach. Use it in any weather to get out there and have fun!

Whether you’re just throwing it around or having a serious game, Black Max is the perfect accessory to take with you on the road.

Now get out there, get active and have an awesome Spring Break!

Wobble Your Way to Better Coordination

It’s been a tough winter for a big chunk of the US and everyone is looking forward to Spring. Diggin has a great product to get the whole family active even before the big thaw begins!

Diggin Active’s Wobble Deck Extreme™ is an electronic balance game that challenges the body and the mind! This cool game is sturdy enough for tough wear from kids and strong enough to hold mom and dad too. The whole family can compete to see who will be the Wobble Deck champion!

Games include: Copy Wobble, Memory Wobble, Wobbly Statues, and Musical Wobble.

Kids come back to this product again and again to challenge their coordination and each other.

So try out the Diggin Active Wobble Deck Extreme™ and get active!

Time for the Winter Olympics!

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The Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia have begun and night after night we see amazing athletes from all over the world competing for Gold, Silver and Bronze medals.

Now for a brief history lesson: It is the 22nd time in the history of the modern Olympics that the Winter Games have taken place. In ancient times, the Greeks held their Olympics every four years and competitors from all the kingdoms of Greece would compete in a variety of athletic and combat competitions.

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Thank goodness the modern Olympic game don’t look anything like the ancient games.  With Slopestyle and half-pipe snowboarding, dozens of ski events, ice-skating, hockey, luge, speed skating, that weird game known as curling and much more, these winter Olympics offer something to interest everyone.

Instead of just sitting there watching people be athletic, why not stage your own Olympics this winter? You can make up events that you can do around the house either inside or out. Up north you can have a snowman building contest to see who has the best looking or biggest snowman. Down south you can have a running contest to see who can run a certain distance faster. Make up any contest that gets you up and active.

You can create your own Olympics medals with cardboard, markers or crayons and some ribbon from your mom. Let you imagination run free and have a great time!

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So get out there, get active and go for the gold!

Building a Fort

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The groundhog saw his shadow and that means 6 more weeks of winter. Huge parts of the US are or were covered with snow and ice. Other parts of the US haven’t been hit by snow but the weather has been a bit nasty.

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What are kids to do when you’re stuck in the house or covered in snow? Build a fort for hours of fun and imaginary play.

If snow is what you have plenty of, dress up to stay warm and dry, borrow the snow shovel and bucket and create your best snow fort ever!  Build walls to hide behind, a door to enter and exit and even create benches to sit on. Snowball fights always happen so build your fort to protect you against those inevitable attacks. Forts are a great start to pretend play! Pretend you are explorers in the artic trekking to the North Pole! Go out and have a blast!

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Now if you live in a climate where the weather is warmer, outdoor or indoor forts can be all kinds of fun. Outdoors look for large boxes that you can build into a fort with tarps or old blankets that mom doesn’t use anymore. Indoors you can use chairs,   You can pretend you’re on safari looking for all kinds of exotic animals.

cushions and blankets to make a great fort. Be sure to ask mom for permission before you start building so you don’t get in trouble.

Wherever you build your fort, have fun, be safe and stay active!

Hit The Ice!

It doesn’t matter if you live in the North or the South. Ice-skating is a great activity to get you and your family out and active. Most places have affordable rental skates so you can try ice-skating without buying the equipment.

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If you’ve never skated the first thing to learn is standing on the ice without falling. Take a few minutes to feel comfortable standing on the blades of your skates. From there you push your foot out to the side to go forward. Push of on first one foot, then the other. You are skating! Don't be afraid or embarrassed to hold on to your parent’s or friends hand. Everyone needs a little help when they first get started.

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With enough practice and maybe a few lessons you can learn to skate backwards, do cool spins and if you practice long enough, maybe a jump or two. Or if ice hockey is more your style, learn how to skate fast and work with a hockey stick to pass to teammates and shoot a goal.

No matter what your preference of sports, ice-skating is fun with family and friends. Even the occasional fall is fun when everyone is skating together.

Enjoy this winter activity! In a few weeks the 2014 Winter Olympics begin and you will see how talented athletes compete for Olympic Medals.

Stay out there and be active!