Wash Your Hands! (A Giveaway)
September 26, 2008 by Christine - From Dates to Diapers
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According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, washing your hands is one of the most important things kids and adults can do to keep from getting sick and spreading illness.
Did you know that mothers are the number one influencers in teaching children to wash their hands? I remember my mom always telling us to wash our hands. We sang the ABCs, while washing – just enough time to wash the dirt and germs away.
To help us in our efforts to teach our children about hand washing, Dial Complete foaming hand wash has launched the Campaign for Clean Hands, a program designed to engage and educate families about the importance of proper hand-hygiene.
Dial Complete brand’s Campaign for Clean Hands
The centerpiece of the Dial Complete brand’s Campaign for Clean Hands is an informative Web site – www.campaignforcleanhands.com – that features a Campaign for Clean Hands video contest for kids. Your kiddos can submit a 15-to-30-second video telling the world “Why Clean Hands Are Important.”
At the campaign headquarters you can also find an online “DC Germ Blaster” video game, as well as a variety of fun, educational hand washing materials that you can print and share with your children, including a home hand washing chart, coloring and activity sheets, bookmarks and a memory game.
The site also features a sweepstakes where you can enter to win a year’s supply of Dial Complete foaming hand wash. Head over and enter and then come back, because you can win a case of Dial Complete foaming hand wash right here!
Here’s how to enter:
- Leave me a comment on this post, before 9pm (pacific) on October 15th, with how you get your kiddos to wash their hands. Do you have them sing the alphabet to mark the time they spend playing in the sudsy water, like we do?
- For an extra entry in the random drawing, feel free to subscribe to my blog feed , but you must remain a subscriber at least through the duration of this contest. Make sure you leave me a separate comment saying you subscribed.
- 1 lucky commenter, chosen at random, will win a whole case of Dial Complete foaming hand wash. The winner will be notified via email, so make sure you leave a valid email address in your comment.
Good luck!
This giveaway is now closed. A winner will be notified soon.
We sing the alphabet song but make it a contest to see how slowly we can sing it
vmlay@artsci.wustl.edu
My kids are convinced that it’s absolutely and totally disgusting to not wash one’s hands after using the restroom, so there’s not a lot I have to do in that area. However, I do need to work on getting them to wash them a bit longer.
roseinthemorning[at]comcast[dot]net
I wash my hand right along with them and we try to see who can get the cleanest. So far they like the game.
i buy the pumps of soap they love to use those
we’re helping to teach our nephews by example. everyone makes a big, happy deal about washing our hands,lol.
trinitygsd at yahoo dot com
My daughter just loves playing in water! I have no problems getting her to wash her hands!
elkmeese at yahoo dot com
I guess I’ve just taught by example. They know to wash after pottying and before eating. I’m a germaphobic (?) and I think it may spread to them. lol Thank you!
I guess I am lucky, I just tell my kids to wash their hands and they do it.
My boys wash their hands better when they use the foaming style soap. The regular soaps tend to slide off their little hands before they can get it all lathered…now that we use “foamy soap” there’s no problem!
I get my kids to sing there abcs while there washing there hands
I buy cool soap and make it a competition- On your mark, get set, go!
penguinchick@comcast.net
Each kids gets to hjave their favorite toy of the moment with them and scrub up that toy…they don’t even notice they are getting clean as well!
margelina@comcast.net
Foaming always makes it feel like play.
I tell them they have a choice…I wash your mouth out with the soap or you use it on your hands…LOL..just kidding people
My 11 year old hates to wash her hands or anything else! I try to teach her about hygiene and bacteria. We wash our hands before every meal, and both of my girls have not missed a day of school in 2 years due to sickness!
We use stickers when the kids are learning something new, how to brush their teeth, wash their hands and potty training. They love stickers and making the posters to put them on so the chore behind it isn’t so bad to learn.
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I make sure the soap is awesome (cool smell, cool foaminess, etc).
Tell him its good not to Spread germs and by washing you will help not contribute to that. ahmaur(at)hotmail.com
WASH WASH WASH
WASH WASH WASH
wash your hands
wash yours handsssss
Sung to a 70s song that I can’t seem to remember the
Working at the hand wash
working at the hand was yeah
sung to working at the carwash
I never had problems getting the kids to wash their hands. My oldest liked to play in water so it was no problem. The rest learned from him. Thanks for the contest.
Kathy
kathleenyohanna@hotmail.com
I didn’t really have a certain thing to do, but I got alot of good ideas here.
donna444444@yahoo.com