Enter below for a chance to win a full six-volume set of the K-5 Home Art Studio Program DVDs!
About The K-5 Home Art Studio Program
The Home Art Studio program was created for homeschooling parents and as a supplemental afterschool/summer program for children aged preschool through fifth grade. For those who don't homeschool full time it can also be used afterschool or in summer to supplement your child's in-school art education. It was one of the winners of the Mom's Best Award for outstanding new products of 2012.
This program is designed to increase students' love and appreciation of the visual arts while enhancing a child's ability to problem solve, think creatively, and truly see the world around them.
Watch the informational video below to learn more! You can also find several sample lessons at Home Art Studio web site.
Open to residents of the U.S. and Canada. Event Dates: February 7 - 28, 2013. The winner will be contacted within two days of the end of the contest, via email and will have two days to claim the prize. If unclaimed, a new winner will be drawn. The winner's entries will be verified. Please enter the contest using the Rafflecopter form below. All entries are optional. Thank you for visiting this blog!
Disclosure: This blog is not responsible for prize delivery. I was not compensated by the compnay for this post, but I was given an entry on the rafflecopter form. I have not used this product personally, so the information is simply what I received about it. Lindsey Volin of Home Art Studio is sponsoring this event.
Would you like to win this beautiful bracelet from Tiggy's House? It's one I bought that was a little loose (but then I have small hands, so it should fit most people). This giveaway is part of the Hearts Should Be Free Giveaway event to raise awareness of the up to 27 million people currently enslaved.
ABOUT TIGGY'S HOUSE
At Tiggy's House Etsy Shop you'll find beautiful handmade jewelery. You'll also find a vision....a vision to help children who have been abused in the child sex trafficking industry; to give them a home and a place to heal.
Tiggy's House is named after Dana Harvey's young son, who died at 21 months of age. It is also the name that will be given to the children's home she is raising funds to build through Tiny Hands International, an organization which helps child victims of sex trafficking. 100% of the profits from her shop go to support this project.
Here's a picture I took of this bracelet on my arm:
Pretty, isn't it? Just perfect for St. Patrick's Day with that cool Celtic Kotwork (a Josephine knot to be specific).
TO ENTER THIS GIVEAWAY
First read this CNN article on human trafficking (you don't have to watch the videos that are interspersed), then enter the Rafflecopter form below. There are more things you can do for extra entries, but they're not required.
I won the 3G iPhone cell phone case from CafePress pictures above in a giveaway last year. Never used it and thought it would be a great item to give away for the Hearts Should Be Free event.
Hearts Should Be Free is a giveaway event to spread awareness of modern slavery. Many people don't realize that slavery still exists today, yet there are as many as 27 million people enslaved today around the world.
Today I want to talk about how slave labor contributes to many of the products we find on our store shelves. Sadly, forced labor contributes to many of the products we use and much of the produce that we buy. In recent years slave labor has been used for making clothes, for mining diamonds, mining gold and other minerals (including those used in our electronics), farming coffee beans and cocoa, harvesting tomatoes (right here in America), and many, many other areas of farming and manufacturing.
I want to be clear...it isn't that companies go out and seek out slave labor. But poor monitoring of a company's supply chain can allow forced labor to"sneak in" to the supply chain unnoticed. However, when large companies put in mechanisms to monitor and improve the working conditions throughout their supply chain, it can have a huge impact.
Since this giveaway is for an iPhone case (and I'll assume if you're entering you have an iphone), I'd like to share a couple related aps you can download to your phone.
The Fair Trade App
When you buy Fair Trade you know that you are buying a product that provides a living wage to workers all down the supply chain and that monitors it's working conditions. This also helps guarantee that these products are not made with the work of slaves. The Fair Trade App helps you find Fair Trade items near you, and allows you to help build their database by adding fair trade items you find for sale in your area.
The Free2Work App
This app allows you to look up products to see how they rate on to trafficking and other labor abuses. Though it only has a few hundred products listed so far, and though the bar code scanning is a little buggy, I still like this app as it allows you to browse companies by category to see their rating, and so is a great way to find some of the companies who are already doing things to help rid their supply chain of slavery.
I'd also encourage you to visit Chain Store Reaction, a website where you can write letters to companies urging them to take a stand against slavery, and can see their responses.
I'd also like to point you towards a couple articles related to Apple and it's labor policies....
Should Apple Make a Conflict Free Minerals iPhone
Slavery is rampant in the Congo, where revenue from the mines funds the militias which are a war there. This Forbes article questions whether abstaining from buying conflict minerals is the best course of action, and highlights the complexities of this issue well.
Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory
While this program by This American Life (through NPR) is NOT about slavery, I felt it was relavant and wanted to include it. This three act look at labor policies in China is EXCELLENT and, yes, even entertaining. This program is in three section, or "acts, " which can be listened to together or separately. While it doesn't deal with slavery directly (all the workers in the factory Mr. Daisey visited were payed a salary and could quit any time they wanted) it does highlight the importance of workplace monitoring, and the third act contains insightful commentary on workers rights and labor conditions around the world.
Now, on to the giveaway...
HOW TO ENTER
Just fill out the entry form below. Giveaway ends February 29. Open worldwide, 18+ only. Form may take a minute or two to load.
At Tiggy's House Etsy Shop you'll find beautiful handmade jewelery. You'll also find a vision....a vision to help children who have been abused in the child sex trafficking industry; to give them a home and a place to heal.
Tiggy's House is named after Dana Harvey's young son, who died at 21 months of age. It is also the name that will be given to the children's home she is raising funds to build through Tiny Hands International, an organization which helps child victims of sex trafficking. 100% of the profits from her shop go to support this project.
The prices at Tiggy's House shop are really reasonable too. I was surprised to find many items for under $5, like the bracelet above.
You will have a chance to win an item of your choice from Tiggy's House. To enter, watch the short video below about Child Trafficking, and then fill out the Rafflecopter form below (sometimes the form takes a few minutes to load).
This is just ONE of the items I'm giving away to spread awareness about modern slavery. I have more giveaways going RIGHT NOW, and later this month will have a multi-item giveaway which will include a bracelet from Tiggy's House.
Win an overstuffed backpack full of back to school goodies from Fill the Backpack and Splash Creative Media & Tech Savvy Mama(valued at over $750)! But the best part is that The Splash Media Team are donating 10% of their net profits to charity! ALL the giveaways are listed in a linky at the bottom of the Fill the Backpack post at Guessing All the Way. Giveaways end today - September 14th!
I've been trying to teach my kids Spanish and improve my own. It's been slow going. That's why I'm trying to win some of these language learning tools!
