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WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO DO TO HELP THE PLANET?

ITÒ€ℒS TIME FOR FUN & GAMES WITH POCOYO IN SUPPORT OF EARTH HOUR 2012 ON MARCH 31, 2012! Giveaway!

By POCOYO sponsored Feature March 21, 2012

 Torrance Macaroni Kid readers can show how much they love the earth and POCOYO by hosting a special POCOYO FUN & GAMES Earth Hour Party on Saturday March 31 from 8.30p.m. to 9:30p.m. local time.  To get started on hosting your own POCOYO FUN & GAMES Earth Hour Party, here are some easy tips for planning the perfect Earth-friendly party: 

  • Make invitations out of recycled paper or send an email invite. 
  • Use organic and locally sustained food. 
  • Serve finger foods to skip using plates and utensils, and use cloth napkins that can be washed and used again.  
  • Make dishes that don’t require the oven or electricity to prepare.
  • Be creative with food, ie, licorice ends can be cut off to make edible straws for the kids.
  • Family craft project – try making the special Keepsake holder out of an old cereal box (see instructions below).
  • Have a nighttime, outdoor, eco-friendly scavenger hunt by flashlight - hunt for recyclable items like milk cartons, egg cartons, etc.  Once the items are found, explain how they are used for recycling and to save our environment.
  • Have a recycled book exchange for the kids and adults, instead of favors.
  • Have fun and remember to have enough candles and flashlights for everyone to see! 

As part of the new 2012 Earth Hour campaign, Zinkia Entertainment introduced POCOYO’s Recycling Game, available through www.pocoyo.com, Earth Hour’s website (www.earthhour.org) and the Official POCOYO Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/pocoyo).  POCOYO pledged to plant one tree, up to 10,000 trees, for everyone who played the new POCOYO Recycling Game.  The goal was reached in record time so Zinkia’s Chairman pledged to plant more trees, up to 10,000, for each person who played the recycle game. And, that goal was reached too in just a few days! The game has been so popular that Pocoyo has brought his challenge to entirely new level! NOW, if 100,000 people play Pocoyo's Recycle Game, Pocoyo will plant a total of 50,000 trees! The trees will be planted by Trees for the Future, Zinkia’s charity partner whose mission for 2012 is to plant 17 million trees!  You can also plant trees (.10 cents/tree) for Earth Hour by visiting http://www.plant-trees.org.

 

What would you be willing to do to help save the planet?  Visit the YouTube Earth Hour Challenge and see what you can do to help save the planet.  One brave person is willing to shave their head if 5000 people sign on to Earth Hour.  Another says she’ll wear whatever her daughter tells her to if 5000 commit to recycling in 2012. “Take up the challenge” at http://www.youtube.com/earthhour and post their own challenge.

 

POCOYO will be also be featuredin a new Public Service Announcement which will air on TV and online, and there are special POCOYO Earth Hour activity booklets available for downloading, as well as POCOYO Earth Hour screensavers and wallpapers for FREE at http://www.POCOYO.com/earth_hour_2012.html!

 

Earth Hour 2012 takes place Saturday March 31 from 8.30p.m. to 9:30p.m. local time as individuals, businesses, governments and communities are invited to turn out their lights for one hour to show their support for environmentally sustainable action. This single moment of contemplation for the planet unites hundreds of millions of people each year in celebration of their year-round commitment to protect and preserve the planet.


  To promote POCOYO’s Earth Hour initiatives, POCOYO has teamed up with us to offer a giveaway copy of the new POCOYO DVD, FUN & GAMES, from NCircle Entertainment (http://www.ncircleentertainment.com/Content/NCpocoyo).  The DVD, which will be released on April 3 SRP: $12.99, features POCOYO, the fun-loving, curious little boy with a big personality.  Watch as he explores, plays games and has fun with his friends Pato, Elly, Loula and Sleepy Bird. Viewers can join them as they stage their own version of the Olympics, create a magic show and ride the new, big, scary slide in the playground.  We also received one of these DVDS and just loved it! Do you want to win one of your own? You must be a subscriber to enter! Next, LIKE POCOYO on Facebook 

Don't forget to tell them we sent you! Next,  Watch POCOYO’s Earth Hour and leave us a comment below! Deadline to enter is March 21st at 12 PM. One winner will be selected form all entries. (U.S. Residents only)