Hooray for Winterfest!

Wow! And wow some more is all I can say! Ganz has really outdone themselves with this year’s Winterfest. There are prizes galore, challenges and even an awesome pet designing contest happening in January.

I even dressed up some of my pets in celebration on Winterfest:

(If you like my Blue Persian Kitten, be sure to check out my adoption video.)

So much is happening in January that I made a little list to keep track of it all:

If you’d like a copy of this list to print or to save for reference, the PDF is right here: 2017-winterfest-events.

I also made a calendar of all the events so you won’t miss a thing with all the excitement happening in Webkinz World throughout January.

If you’d like to download and print your own copy, you can find the PDF here: january-2017-webkinz-events-calendar.

Of course, all of this information is available on Webkinz Newz, but I thought it might be handy to have it all in one place. 🙂

Between now and January 10th, make sure you “max out” on snowflakes:

That means finding the floaty click snowflake on Webkinz Newz:

AND collecting 5 floating snowflakes in Webkinz World!

This year the floating snowflakes award items related to ice skating, which pairs well with the prizes you can win if you feed your pet Winterfest Cookies from the Ganz eStore.

Here’s the snowflake prize pool:

Which of these prizes are your favorite? I really like the Girl’s Figure Skates, and I’m hoping to get enough Skating Rink Floor Tiles to build an ice skating room. Do you have any plans for your snowflake prizes? (Hint: Stay tuned to crazy4webkinz.com for a room design drawing!)

Speaking of prizes, don’t forget to complete the Peek-a-Newz challenge each day on Webkinz Newz. This month you’re looking for the Zig Zag Zebra, which is January’s Pet of the Month. Here are the prizes  you can win when you find the Zig Zag Zebra five times:

Which of these prizes are you hoping to win? I really like the green couch and the red window in the “uncommon” prizes.

A few days after the floating snowflakes disappear until next year year’s Winterfest, the Winter Shopping Spree starts. I’ll talk more about the Winter Shopping Spree later this month – get ready to collect retired clothing pieces AND floating SPREE dice!

Are you excited about this year’s Winterfest? Have you been collecting your snowflakes? Let me know in the comments for a winter prize via kinzpost!

Thoughts from the Treetop: October 5th

Sometimes I have a few small things I want to blog about, but none of them are enough to make up a whole post itself. Instead of “random posts,” I thought I’d start calling these “Thoughts from the Treetop.” 🙂

First, be sure you’re visiting Sophie in the Clubhouse – it’s a Wiz Kinz themed room, and you can click on Sophie to get one of these really pretty Emerald Jawbreaker candies.(It comes from the Wiz Kinz Jawbreaker Dispenser!) I love going to see Sophie and collecting all the different special foods she gives away!

Next, keep your eyes open for floating coins! The floating coins from a few months ago are back again, and so far each coin I’ve clicked is a gold coin – making it worth 250 kinzcash!

Here’s a bit of fun news for me – I hit the highest score of the day (I’m sure it didn’t last long!) on Get Eleven Solitaire recently. Doesn’t Posh Posh (my Blue Avenue Pomeranian) look proud? 🙂

 

That’s all of my random thoughts for today! As always, thanks for visiting Crazy 4 Webkinz!

Love, TreeHuggerJess

Floaty Clicky: Rainbow Lolly

Fun and colorful lollipops have been floating around Webkinz World for the past few days. Have you seen them yet?

If you see one, be sure to click on it to get a free Rainbow Lolly for your pet!

This floaty clicky is a Ganz eStore promotion for the Rainbow Lollipop Tree Dispenser:

Floating Bake Sale Items: Everywhere!

The Bake Sale has been underway since June 1st, and I’ve discovered a couple of things that might be helpful – but maybe you’ve already discovered them, too!

According to the official Bake Sale directions and description, the best place to find the floating Bake Sale items is in the Clubhouse or the Kinzville Park. Well, I’ve discovered that these floating treats are popping all over the place!

If you’re a deluxe member, keep an eye out when you visit Vacation Island because I found one floating treat on the main page and another while spinning the Vacation Wheel:

Another surprising place I found floating Bake Sale item was at the Wish Factory when I was making my “Wish of the Day.”

You already know that you can spin the Wheel of Yum once a day to win Bake Sale items, but have you seen any Bake Sale items floating by before you spin? I’ve had them floating across the screen there a couple of times – and what’s extra cool is that two items came back-to-back…I clicked on one, and then another one came floating across!

One more place I’ve seen a floating Bake Sale item was when I was in the code shop:

And even though Webkinz has said that the Bake Sale items won’t show up in the Arcade, I’ve had at least one float by while I was at the main screen before I picked a game:

Last but not least, I’ve even seen a floating Bake Sale item when I was hunting for gems in the Curio Shop.

And don’t forget to pay close attention to the Daily Activities. You might just find a free Baked Sale item giveaway scheduled there:

So, you definitely want to be on the lookout for floating Bake Sale items just about anywhere you go on Webkinz – not just the Clubhouse or Kinzville Park.Like this morning, for instance, I’ve already found 4 floating Bake Sale items, and none of them came from the Park or Clubhouse.

For me this is great news because I get a little bored just sitting in the Clubhouse or Park waiting for some food to float by. 🙂

Have you found floating Bake Sale items in any unexpected places?

P.S. Don’t forget to visit Webkinz Newz each day to receive a free Bake Sale item (floaty clicky)!

As always, thanks for stopping by!

TreeHuggerJess

Sour Peach Floaty Clicky; Featured Room Design

Webkinz is giving us another yummy floaty clicky! This time it’s to promote the Peachy Keen Candy Tree Dispenser (available in the Ganz eStore). Be on the look out for these floating sour treats:

Click on them to receive a Sour Peach Candy that your pet can eat:

I also just wanted to take a quick minute to share my excitement – my Valentine’s Day Room was featured in the most recent Webkinz Room Designs video! I was really surprised to see this room pop up in the video because I sent in the pic waaaayyyy back before Valentine’s Day in early February.

Here’s a pic of the room:

And here’s the video:

Thanks for stopping by my blog! 🙂 Have a great day!

Tips for Flower Collection Success

The Flower Collection Challenge officially kicked off on May 1st. To complete the collection and win all 5 prizes, you need to collect a total of 50 flowers. The prizes are all different pieces of playground equipment:

One of my favorite part of these collection challenges is that you can complete the collection more than once! That means you can win each prize two or even three times if you have a flower collecting strategy.

Follow these tips to complete your collection faster!

There are 4 ways to get flowers:

1. Each day, pull up the Kinzville and click on the Flower Collection icon to automatically be awarded two flowers.

So that’s my first tip – logging on every day! It may seem simple, but just clicking on the icon will get you 62 total flowers!

2. Make sure you visit Webkinz Newz to find the “floaty clicky” flower. Click on the floating flower and one flower will automatically be added to your collection. You can do this once per account per day. That’s 31 flowers!

3. Purchase flowers using Ganz eStore points. Each flower costs 500 eStore points. Personally, I would only use eStore points if it was the very last day of collecting flowers, and I was one or two flowers away from the next prize.

4. Ask 10 friends for flowers each day. Now here is where you really need a strategy. You don’t want to just go down your friends list and click on random names. You want to select 10 friends that play daily and quickly respond to requests.

So how do you find out who those friends are? Try this little trick for cleaning up your friends list:

First, go to the WShop and purchase one of the cheapest building kits. That will either be the Ivy Brick Wall or the Wacky Clay Sculpture, which cost 100 kinzcash each.

Drag the building kit into one of your rooms and start asking for supplies. Then, grab a pen and a piece of paper and wait for the responses to come rolling in. Which of your Webkinz friends responded the quickest? Write down their names and use that list when asking for flowers!

If you’re like me, you’ve got a couple of hundred friends, but only a few dozen of them are really active. For just 100 kinzcash, you can quickly and easily find out who your active friends are!

Of course, you want to thank your best Webkinz friends by sending them a gift or a note from time to time. Always make sure your friends know that you appreciate their help!

Do you have any tips for completing your flower collection more than once? Let me know in the comments!

Random Updates: Floaty Clicky, Eager Beaver Badge and new Token Balloon Darts prize

Hello, my fellow Webkinz fans! I’ve had a few random updates I’ve been wanting to share, but none of them really seemed like the makings of an entire blog post. So, I decided to combine them all into one!

First, as you’ve probably noticed, there’s a new Floaty Clicky happening. Like the Marshmallow Bunnies, the Pink Chocolate Egg is a promo for a Ganz eStore item, the “Chocolate Egg Evergreen.”

Combine these random eStore promos and the coins I posted about the other day, and there’s a lot of floating and clicking go on in Webkinz World right now!

Next up, the new Eager Beaver badge I recently earned:

I didn’t even know that the “Skillfully Built” Badge existed, so this was a fun surprise! I was awarded the badge for the making word “squeezed” during a game of Eager Beaver:

I’ve been doing some reading and researching, and the general consensus seems to be that you earn the Skillfully Built Badge for a word that’s worth 1100 points or more. Have you won this badge yet? Do you play Eager Beaver?

Last but not least, I was excited about the new prize I got while playing Token Balloon Darts, the “Spring Has Sprung Chair”:

I’ve never come across this particular room item before – have you ever seen the Spring Has Sprung Chair? I was wondering if it was from a spring celebration prize pool from a few years ago or something like that.

It’s a cute chair, and I think it will go well in a couple of different rooms I’ve been working on, so maybe I’ll win more! Have you won any of these chairs lately?

That’s all from me for now – what’s been happening lately in Webkinz World for you?

— TreeHuggerJess 🙂

 

 

Floating Coin: New Webkinz Floaty Clicky

I noticed a new Webkinz Floaty Clicky this morning as I was playing: a floating gold coin that looks like this:

When you click on the coin, this message pops up:

BUT – there’s something you need to do first! You need to locate the stack of coins (called a “Coin Gift Box”) in your dock and then drag and drop it into your pets room to “release” the coin that can actually be sold to the W Shop:

Now that the coin and not the Gift Box is in your dock, you can sell it to the W Shop, and you’ll receive the value of the coin back in kinzcash:

One thing you might have noticed from the picture of my dock is that the Coin Gift Boxes have different values. So far I’ve received a “bronze” box (worth 50 kinzcash) and a “gold” box (worth 250 kinzcash). I haven’t received any “silver” boxes yet.

Also, you can collect at least 5 coins per day because that’s how many I’ve collected so far on just one account. But the max might be more than that – we’ll just have to figure it out together!

So what do you think of this new Floaty Clicky? Have you found any floating coins?

Floating Marshmallow Bunnies

Have you noticed the marshmallow bunnies that have been floating around Webkinz World for the past few days?

When you see this cute trio float by, click on it to get a free marshmallow bunnies treat for your pet:

As you can see from the pic above, the floating bunnies are a promo for the Marshmallow Bunny Dispenser that’s currently available at the eStore.

The bunnies only give a 5 point hunger boost, but they sure do look cute!

Have you seen any marshmallow bunnies floating around Webkinz World lately?

The Mysterious Gumdrop Clover

This morning as I was playing Webkinz a light green shamrock (or clover, if you prefer) floated by. It looked like this:

When I clicked on the clover/shamrock, this message popped up:

So, naturally, the next thing I did was click on “Learn More.” When I clicked on Learn More, a new window opened up, but all I got was this error message:

But…if you check your dock, you’ll see that you’ve been awarded a “gumdrop clover.”

I fed my pet the gumdrop clover, and nothing special happened. I guess we’ll have wait for Ganz to work out the bugs on this one before we know what these floating gumdrop clovers are all about!

Have you seen the floating clover? Did anything special happen when you fed it to your pet?