Win a Cahootie! A What? Read This!
Giveaway Closed. Congratulations to Shilo, Mariana and ValMG for winning their choice of Cahootie!
When I was in school, we called them Fortune Tellers or Cootie Catchers. A piece of paper folded so that there was spaces for your thumbs and fingers, with triangles folded over in flaps.
Under each flap you wrote something, the names of boys in your class was a popular one, and then you pushed the flaps together and back a certain number of times and then revealed the “secret” answer. Remember those?
That fun slumber party game has been reinvented as Cahootie. Toy company Green Rock Entertainment predicts that even today’s computer-using, text-sending, high-tech tweens will love this old-fashioned paper game.
Cahootie is the invention of screenwriter and entrepreneur Jeffrey Jurgensen, who wrote the screenplay for the huge hit movie “Agent Cody Banks” and the sequel “Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London”. But his passion was for creating kids toys and games, and he had come up with the Cahootie idea over 10 years earlier. So in 2005 he left Los Angeles, moved to Chicago, and started Green Rock Entertainment to market Cahootie.
Cahootie comes in six fun versions-Truth or Dare, Wishes & Dreams, Birthday Wishes, Sporty Girl, and for fans of politics, Republican and Democrat. What makes Cahootie even better than its homemade inspiration is the rip-resistant paper, 40 reusable stickers and a keepsake display case. Since each game comes with 40 peel-and-stick fortunes, the game can be constantly refreshed. This high-quality, social-interaction game allows tweens and teens to be surprised with what’s revealed at the end of each round of play. Cahootie is 100% made in the U.S. and sold at more than 600 retail outlets nationwide.
The eye-catching packaging won the American Package Design Award for its retail category. Each see-through box includes game instructions, helpful tips, peel and stick fortunes and a durable Cahootie. Priced at just $5.95, Cahootie is a perfect birthday party favor, treat to pass out at a slumber party, or a fun surprise to hand out in the car while traveling.
Directions lead players to the interactive website where everyone can join Club Cahootie. Of course, Cahootie’s designers understand that girls may still want to make a homemade game, hence they offer a free download template to design their own theme. The Cahootie website encourages young artists to photograph their creations and submit them online to be shared with other Club members. The “Cool Downloads” page has the free template, as well as a page to create stickers for two of the games, and free quotes to use.
I have three Cahooties to give away and the winners choose which version they want! For ONE entry, please do the following:
* Visit the Cahootie website and on the Cahootie Collection page, browse the six versions. Then come back here and tell me in your comment which style you will choose if you win. Only comments with that information will count.
* Leave your comment with your real name or blog alias and a valid email address.
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For Three Entries:
*visit the Cahootie site, leave your comment, AND blog about this contest on your own site including a link back to this URL.
*or, email five friends and ask them to visit this URL to check out the giveaway.
Deadline to enter is Friday, June 6th at 9:00 AM EST. Good luck everybody!
Tags: cahootie, Contests, cootie catchers, games, giveaways, toys
May 23rd, 2008 at 9:51 pm
those are great!!! we would pick the dreams and wishes!!
we are subscribers and have you button
have a super LONG weekend!!
stacey moore
moore.g at insideconnect.net
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May 24th, 2008 at 1:52 am
Hello, The packaging is really great looking! I think I would choose the “Truth or Dare” Cahootie.
It sure brings back memories of making the paper ones. Even my sons have made them. I am already a newsletter subscriber of yours. Enjoy your holiday weekend. Please enter me in your drawing. Many thanks,Cindi
May 24th, 2008 at 2:50 am
I like Wishes & Dreams
I subscribed to your feed
May 24th, 2008 at 8:13 am
Cahootie sounds cute! We are subscribed to your feed and your on my bloggy sidebar!
I think the Wishes & Dreams one would be cute!
Thanks for the great find!
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May 24th, 2008 at 11:50 am
Here well arranged and varied posts appear again and again. I look gladly here past. Many greetings from the center of Germany!
May 24th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
I love Wishes and Dreams! And I’m subscribed to your feed
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May 24th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
I would love the Wishes and Dreams Cahootie for my daughter. I also signed up for your email feed. I put the link up on my blog.
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May 24th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
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May 24th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
My son would love the Truth Or Dare Version.
I’d love to review it.
You’re already in my Technorati faves under valmg.
I’m already subscribed to your feed.
I stumbled this post as valmg.
I blogged about this giveaway on A Contest Blog at http://acontestblog.com/index.php/2008/mom-reviews-cahootie-giveaway/
Good luck.
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May 24th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
I think Wishes and Dreams looks cool. We’ve all played Truth or Dare but to know someones secret wishes and dreams is quite a good thing!
May 26th, 2008 at 2:22 am
I like wishes and dreams the most (I almost picked birthday wishes)
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May 26th, 2008 at 9:03 am
What a cool idea! I like the wishes and dreams!
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May 26th, 2008 at 9:39 am
I remember these! We used them to pick which cute boy we would marry. I would pick the Truth or Dare for my 11 year old niece. I subscribed to your reader.
May 26th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Oh, this brings back memories! We used to make them when I was young (that’s a while back). I would love to win the sporty girls for my daughter. Thanks for the great giveaway!
May 26th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
I forgot to mention, I also subscribed.
May 27th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
I would choose Wishes and Dreams.
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May 27th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
How fun! I like Wishes and Dreams
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May 30th, 2008 at 12:41 am
We would pick the dreams and wishes!!
May 31st, 2008 at 5:15 pm
I would pick wishes and dreams! Thanks!
June 1st, 2008 at 12:37 am
I would pick the Birthday Wishes because my daughter’s bday is in less than a month. Thanks so much for the opportunity.
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June 2nd, 2008 at 9:06 am
I would pick “Birthday Wishes” - looks like a great gift!
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July 10th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Shilo- Congratulations, you won a “Wishes and Dreams” Cahootie from my giveaway on MomReviews! Please email me at table4five (at) gmail (dot) com with your mailing address and home phone number (for package tracking) so that I can have Kidstuff PR mail it right out to you! Enjoy!
elizabeth
July 10th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Mariana, Congratulations, you won a “Birthday Wishes” Cahootie from my giveaway on MomReviews! Please email me at table4five (at) gmail (dot) com with your mailing address and home phone number (for package tracking) so that I can have Kidstuff PR mail it right out to you! Enjoy!
elizabeth
July 10th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Hi Val, Congratulations, you won a “Truth or Dare” Cahootie from my giveaway on MomReviews! Please email me at table4five (at) gmail (dot) com with your mailing address and home phone number (for package tracking) so that I can have Kidstuff PR mail it right out to you! Enjoy!
elizabeth
August 21st, 2008 at 6:14 pm
[...] no longer thinks of girls as something to be avoided like the plague. This week the prize I won on Mom Reviews arrived and TJ had a little fun with me. See, the giveaway was for a Cahootie, a toy that reminds [...]