Black Friday is just two weeks away and retailers are dropping hints of deals, discounts, and holiday sales. However, if you’re not a fan of early mornings and long lines, you might be interested in some of these finds that would make great gifts for the traveler in your life.
Apps that keep little travelers occupied and entertained would make any parent grateful. From the creative people over at Ruckus Media Group comes yet another beautiful app for the iPad or iPhone, My Little Pony. This app took me back to my days as a little girl when I used to watch My Little Pony after school. The animation is bright and crisp and the story focuses on the power of friendship.
The My Little Pony app is an interactive pre-narrated storybook that also has an option for read along and read-record. It’s a good app to help kids learn how to read. Other activities include a maze where little hands have to tilt the device to get Twilight Sparkle to the end as well as a matching activity where words are given as rewards for completion. These words are used at the end of the story to fill in the blanks of Twilight Sparkle’s diary, a great exercise in story review and comprehension.
For years, the highlight of any Delta flight I took were those delicious Biscoff gourmet cookies. I could never get enough of them and I’d often hoard them from the flight attendants. So when I learned that the company had created a spread from them, I had to try it. Talk about sin in a jar! The spread, which was invented in Belgium during a reality TV show, is just as smooth as any jar of creamy peanut butter, and made with 57% crushed up Biscoff cookies. After that first spoonful, I found myself imagining fifteen different ways to enjoy the spread with apple slices being one of my favorite. I’ve seen Biscoff spread creations ranging from icecream to cupcakes to fudge to pudding to…you name it! However, this spread is so good that, at first, you may not get any further than just eating it straight out of the jar.
The Biscoff spread comes in both smooth and crunchy and would make a great gift for any cookie-lover that you know. (I know my husband would be exceedingly grateful to receive it as a present.) The Biscoff website has a long list of recipes that you can use the spread in, just in time for those holiday potlucks and cookie exchanges. Note to reader: This is not something you want to give to anyone who’s on a diet – they will not be your friend, seriously…it’s that good. An even sweeter present would be to send them to Pier 39 in San Francisco to the Biscoff Coffee Corner where they can be surrounded by all things Biscoff and dislike you even more.
The Toweligator
The Toweligator is a bendable beach clamp in the shape of an alligator that can be used in several different ways to alleviate beach towel frustrations. You know, when your towel keeps slipping down your lounge chair or when the corners fly up from the sand? These pliable plastic tools can act like either a clamp or a stake and make your beach-going experience less annoying. I’d suggest just storing them in your beach bag because they’re not an item that you’d necessarily remember to grab when you’re packing for travel. Another option for them, when you’re not traveling, is to use them in an everyday way – as clothes clips for hand-washed or other wet items…pretty useful.
Familiar with any of the products in this review? What do you think?
Disclosure: I was provided with the products in this post to conduct my review. This is not a paid post, all opinions are my own.
The towelgator is really cool!
Do you see it in the pic hanging in my bathroom? LOL!