Review Prima Princessa DVD

Today the Opinionated Parent is posting a bunch of reviews on Prima Princessa, a wonderful ballet DVD for little girls. Here is mine:

When I first read the title of the DVD I didn’t have high hopes but I was very excited to review it after I saw the clip on the Prima Princessa website. I love the concept of showing the kids a real ballet and between acts showing little girls dancing around having fun. Its nice to have the story of Swan Lake narrated so that the kids (and adults) know what is going on in the ballet. When I watched it with my daughter she got excited and clapped when the little girls clapped after the acts. She is only 20 months old and definitely young for watching this but not for long. I can picture her wearing a tutu and dancing to it by the time she turns 2. In my opinion Prima Princessa will be perfect for girls 2-7 years old. A big plus is that its very educational (in a ballet kind of way), teaching several ballet terns such as pirouette. I like that the French words are put up on the screen and repeated so kids really pick them up. They show clips of real kids preforming the moves clearly as well as toys and animals preforming the moves. The quality is high and its fun to watch. It was very important to me that not every kid was blonde and blue eyed (I think there were 3 races shown and a boy was used for some of the demonstrations). This is definitely a very girly DVD and Swan Lake is just like a disney princess movie but with my older two kids being boys I am ready for a little frilly stuff. I highly recommend this for anyone who has a little girl at all interested in ballet or princesses, but I have to warn you that a tutu or some sort of dress up wear is going to be essential for most viewers!

I was lucky enough to be asked to review it and receive a free copy but you can visit the Opinionated Parent site and comment on their post to try to win your own copy (there will be 2 winners). If you aren’t a winner you can get a copy on Amazon.