National Bike Safety Month Tips With Chuggington

It’s National Bike Safety Month, and Chuggington has partnered with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for a child-friendly traffic safety campaign, Think Safe, Ride Safe, Be Safe!. This campaign provide safety guidelines to children and families across the nation, and since spring is a time when trainees are back on their bikes, practicing bicycle safety to prevent injuries is very important. Here are some basic bicycle safety tips for kids to get you started:

· Always wear a helmet, buckled under your chin, and the correct size
· Ride with adult supervision
· Never ride your bicycle in the street

Up to now, the ‘Think Safe, Ride Safe, Be Safe’ campaign has received over 460,000 pledges from children nationwide to be safe when it comes to traffic safety, so head over and help them reach 500,000 by pledging along with your own trainees. For more bicycle safety tips from the ‘Think Safe, Ride Safe, Be Safe!’ campaign, visit http://www.chuggington.com/safety/tips/.

Keep an eye out for the Chuggington Trainees starring in a fun-filled dvd, Wilson and the Ice Cream Fair, available this week! Six ice cream adventures teach your own little chuggers great lessons like hard work, courage, and cooperation (and of course, if your son or grandson is like my son, the trains “choo choo”-ing alone will be thrilling- he makes his own sound effects complete with pulling an imaginary break). There are six train-rific episodes for your little trainess to enjoy, including Wilson and the Ice Cream, Bang Klang Wilson, Frostini’s Fruit Fandango, Frostini’s Meltdown, Koko’s Puppy Training, and Brewster and the Dragon.

To enjoy the warm weather and spring even more, Chuggington-themed bubble blowing train whistles and vinyl playballs are now available and sure to be a hit with train-loving tots everywhere. The Little Kids, Inc train whistle sounds like a real train whistle and blow bubbles at the same time, and my son’s favorite new toys is the Light Up Bubble Chuggers, which (as you might have guessed) lights up as it blows out streams of bubbles when you push the button. The playballs are available in two sizes, for smaller and bigger conductors, and feature popular Trainees such as Wilson, Brewster, and Koko.

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