12.24.07

How fun it is to rush into a pile of leaves or jump in a puddle!
And how joyful it is to build a snowman or slide down the backyard!
No doubt, outdoors is fun, even during cold days. However after an hour or two outside, once her nose and cheeks are as red as her hat, my daughter, like a famous movie character, points towards the house and says: "maison": home.

Then starts my every day challenge: keep my toddler happy and entertained (which is really a redundancy, at that age). In my search for the absolute tot indoor afternoon delight, I discovered the Carpet Bocce, by FunSlides.

After a father and son team of carpet installers created the nationally known EZ Moves Furniture Slides™, FunSlides' story started when, according to Candy Holsing, Director of Marketing and Sales at Simtec, Co., "for years, EZ Moves customers told us that we needed to find a way to strap these onto feet, and so we did!" With the Carpet Skates, Carpet Puck, or Fence-off Frenzy, the Carpet Bocce is now one of FunSlides' smart inventions to bring -real- fun into our homes.
(Imagine skating on your carpet!)

Just like the French "pétanque" or "boules" games, played with metallic bowls and a little white plastic bowl, called "cochonnet", the Carpet Bocce features eight pucks (four different colors) and a smaller white puck named pallino. Thanks to their extreme light weight and smooth surface, the pucks are perfectly designed to glide on your carpet, hard wood or tile floors. They are also bordered with foam allowing them to gently bounce off your walls. The rule is very simple: to score one or several points, your pucks have to be closer to the pallino than the other player's pucks! The result? Gua-ran-teed! Hours and hours of pure fun!

Let the fun slide into your home, visit FunSlides.com!

Joyeux Noël,