This contest is closed. Enjoy the performance, Jane Barney, Renee Spica, Noele Stith, Gina and Tiffany Wagner!
Creative Arts Repertoire Ensemble (CARE) is just about ready to share their first performance of the season, the Steadfast Tin Soldier.
Ballet Performances for All Ages!
This ballet is based on a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. The story follows a one-legged tin soldier and highlights his love for a toy ballerina along with his relationship with other toys and a little boy. You’ll follow along as he journeys in a little paper boat to an amazing conclusion.
The Steadfast Tin Soldier
CARE dancers bring their stories to life. The short ballets are perfect for little listeners, their grown ups and all ages in between. If you’re looking to expose your children to the arts, this is a great place to start. My kids have been thrilled by CARE ballet performances in the past and I’m betting this one will not disappoint.
Performances are scheduled at St. Cecilia Music Center for:
- Saturday October 1, 2011 @ 11 AM & 3 PM
- Sunday October 2, 2011 @ 3 PM
GRKIDS is delighted to offer 5 sets of four tickets (20 tickets total) for this performance! Winners may choose Saturday, Oct 1, at 11am or 3pm.
To enter to win a set of tickets leave a comment on this blog post telling us about your favorite childhood toy.
Contest ends on September 25, 2011. Winners will be notified via email.
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My Favorite toy was strawberry shortcake!!!!!!
I had a very worn out Teddy Bear when I was very young & I used to dress him in baby clothes, but my favorite toy as I got a little older was a small blue stove that you could cook real cakes or cookies in and eat them! It had a metal plate on the top that got hot, also and I burned myself
countless times on it! lol..
Lite Bright!!!! Sadly my kids are not as into it as I was
My favorite childhood toy was my collection of miniature Cabbage Patch dolls. I found some at a garage sale a few years back and I was flooded with memories of them.
My favorite toy were Ginny dolls.
I’m going to risk looking clueless- what were Ginny dolls?
Definitely Barbies!
Mine was my bike. I went everywhere on it, especially in the heat of summer. I remember the bad case of road rash on my hands when I crashed trying to ride no-handed. But it was fun!
The dollhouse my dad built for me.
Little people!
My Cabbage Patch Kid – Preston. I took him everywhere with me including dance class!
Cabbage Patch Kids and a pogo stick!
baby dolls
One of my favorite toys were Strawberry Shortcake dolls!!
Barbies, love to dress them up and play for hours.
My baby doll, Susie. Thanks!
I had a barbie dream house with no Barbies! I liked Care Bears, so they lived in the house. That Barbie Dream house was Yellow and Orange with 70′s furniture. I remember one of the couches looked like a large psychedelic jelly bean!
I would say that my favortite toy was my pink dress. I wore it forever and ever!!! I also really liked my dolls and barbies and trolls if you remeber those silly things!!
My favorite toy was Mertyl the doll. She was a puppet and I loved her. I still have her.
Barbie dolls were always my favorite. I would play with them for hours in my room, and my mom always wondered who I was talking to! My daughter now loves them as well, so we have fun playing Barbies together.
Scrap wood in the garden. My brother, neighbor kids and I would make all sorts of forts and hideouts. Plus sticks and a buckets were perfect for stirring and and making “soup” of water, dirt, weeds, flowers, bugs and whatever else we could find!
My Punky Brewster doll (am I dating myself?)
I know exactly what you are talking about, so we are both dating ourselves =)
I was tomboy so I love waterguns and my brother’s remote control bike.
My baby doll I anmed Michael.
My Mrs Beasley doll. Jane West action figure was tops too.
My Cabbage Patch Kid was definitely my favorite!
My favorite toy was my easy bake oven. I can’t wait til my daughter is old enough for one!
My Thumbelina doll was precious to me. She was smaller than most dolls, and when I pulled a string in her back, she would squirm. Sigh.
Nosy Bear. I still have it to this day, and use it as a bargaining tool for my children, but only to share for the night not forever!!
My favorite toys when I was a young girl were Barbies.
My favorite toy was a dollhouse my Grandpa built for me. It was 3 stories tall. He wallpapered it, carpet, everything, and it was as tall as I was for a 5 year old barbie playing girl. I know my siblings and I played with every doll we had in that house throughout the years. Wish I had it still for my daughter.
I spent most of my time outside playing. I spent my time playing with the animals on our farm and playing in the hay loft making forts. But my favorite thing to do was to swing on the rope in the hay loft and see who could touch the highest board on the roof with all the neighbors!
My favorite toy was defiantly my cabbage patch kids. I remember waiting at toys r us for them to unload the truck!
I had a whole collection of Care Bears. loved them.
My favorite were my barbie dolls….would dress/re-dress them all day long.
Legos! I loved building boathouses with families and then spend hours playing with them.
I absolutely loved our play doh!
Shrinky Dinks were cool and I collected Smurf figurines for awhile. But I probably played with the Little People the most – back when they were small enough to choke on…
my favorite toy was my cabbage patch doll, i had begged my mom for weeks to purchase.
My favorite toys were always puzzles.
My favorite toy was my Lite Brite.
My favorite childhood toy was a set of building blocks.
My favorite toy was my My Friend Mandy doll. (I loved my Ginny doll, too!)
My favorite toy was my Cabbage Patch Doll. The neighborhood girls would all get together with their Cabbage Patch dolls and sit out on the front lawn and play with them, and all the baby equipment and blankets we had, playing house.
My favorite toy was a stuffed Winnie the Pooh. I still have him!
My favorite toy was my cabbage patch kid. My mom was able to get one of the first edition ones, when they were super hard to get, through a friend and I felt so special to have one.
My favorite toy was my record player and my Babes in Toyland record that my mom played with when she was little.
My bike….I would ride that thing for hours every day!
I would have to say Barbies.
I had the most awesome Punky Brewster Doll. I loved that doll. My daughter says her favorite toy is the Trampoline she got for Christmas last year.
It was my tenth birthday, and my mama gave me a “Ginny” doll. She had dark brown hair worn in a “flip” and blue eyes, and I loved her immediately. About a month later in January, a package came in the mail addressed to me. It was the first time that I remember receiving mail so I was very excited. When I opened it, there was a beautiful, little turquoise velvet coat and hat trimmed in white rabbit fur with a fur muff and tiny white velvet boots with metal runners. Ginny could go ice skating! Every month, thereafter, I received a package in the mail with a new outfit for my beloved Ginny. In February, it was a white organza dress with red polka dots for Valentine’s Day, and, in June, a beautiful wedding gown with a veil and bouquet. For 12 months, I received a new outfit, but I never knew where they came from. I didn’t find out who had sent the new dresses for Ginny until I was an adult when I gave Ginny to my niece. My sister told me that she had been the one who joined the “Dress a Month” club, and how much she enjoyed seeing me receive and open the packages every month. I will cherish my “Ginny” memories always. Ginny is now 54 years old carefully packed away in a doll trunk with all of her clothes waiting to be handed down to a granddaughter, if I ever have one. Right now, I have three adorable grandsons who love Matchbox cars!
Does anyone remember the plastic loom with the elastic loopers? I made soo many potholders!!!!!
My favorite Toy was My Ms. Beasley doll; believe it or not, I still have her and she works. Her Blue with white polka dot body and crazy orangish/blondish hair color.
My favorite toy that I can remember now is my cabbage patch dolls!
My favorite toy was my barbie doll and barbie house!
One day, a friend of my mom’s came to visit us from another state, and brought bean-stuffed animals – a tiger for my brother, and two dogs for my sister and I. The dogs had floppy ears, floppy legs, and were long with big heads and black cotton-ball noses. One was caramel with brown ears, the other chocolate with white ears. Oddly, I don’t remember the visitor, but that was probably because we were all caught up in the excitement of *presents*.
There was a problem, however. Both my sister and I wanted the caramel colored dog, and it looked as though there might be an argument, at the least a few hurt feelings. My mother came over and crouched beside me and said, “You know, that other dog feels really badly, right now. It knows it’s a good dog, but nobody wants it. How sad.” And my heart melted for that dog. There was no question – the chocolate one with the white ears was mine.
I slept with Puppy from the time I was six up until I was seventeen years old – he laid right flat against my chest with his legs laid out just so and his head tucked under my chin every night. It far outlived any other toys. I still have him – he’s a little worse for wear, with a loose nose, old fur, and not-so-white ears, anymore, but he’s still the most special… and the most loved of all my childhood toys. I don’t let the kids play with him – he’s too old and fragile for that.
But it’s okay. My daughter has her own special bean-stuffed animal… she’s eleven, and has had ‘Snowbear’ since she was four. My six year old has ‘George’ and my eight-year old has ‘Cow-abunga’.
I guess we’re all just too sentimental for our own good.
Nothing could be better than my barbies. Some are still kicking around for my kids and nieces and nephews now:). I had thousands and lots of clothes and a huge house taller than myself alon with a large fleet of cars.
Barbie! I loved playing Barbie dolls.
My favorite toy was my sticker book. I loved collecting, trading, organizing, and rearranging all my stickers–especially the gel stickers and scratch and sniff!
My favorite teddy bear that went with me to sleepovers til I was in my teens…I am a married women now and he is still on my bed…
My favorite was my baby rose doll
My Alphie robot!
My Cabbage Patch dolls!
My favorite toy was a doll, but I did not have any left as I matured.MY sister was developmentally delayed and she destroyed all my toys. I also played Monopoly games that lasted for days.
A giant teddy bear.
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Definitely my Cabbage Patch Kid! I remember my dad working so hard to find one for me.
I love cats. So I loved Catra from shera. I had her castle and made a halloween costume like her one year!
My favorite toy was the outdoors … I don’t really remember a specific toy that I liked – but I remember being outside making “forts” in the woods – riding my bike – swimming at the lake … those were my favorite things to do : )