‘La Casa de Dora’ 10-City Mall Tour.

Nickelodeon extends its commitment to diversity with the traveling exhibit “La Casa de Dora,” a 10-city mall tour allowing kids to experience first-hand the interactive, bilingual home of Dora the Explorer, the number-one preschool show on commercial television. “La Casa de Dora” kicked off Saturday, Feb. 19 in Denver and will travel to 10 markets around the country, including Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Phoenix, San Antonio and San Francisco. “La Casa de Dora,” a free, interactive exhibit, will stop at a mall in each city on the weekends from February to May (full schedule and dates below).

“Preschoolers have embraced Dora’s adventurous, helpful spirit and pride in her Latin culture, and we are thrilled to have created a world where they can experience it firsthand,” said Cyma Zarghami, President, Nickelodeon Television. “We designed Dora’s casa with full attention to detail. Families can spend hours being explorers themselves,” she said.

Created to embrace Latin culture and allow preschoolers to experience Dora’s home, “La Casa de Dora” is a 2,000 square-foot, Latin American-inspired exhibit with a terracotta tiled roof house with several rooms and a courtyard. Each section of “La Casa de Dora” contains play and problem-solving activities with bilingual elements. Dora fans can enjoy lenticular family portraits and photo albums with bilingual elements. In the backyard, preschoolers can enjoy Latin music, computer games from NickJr.com, an interactive dance mat and the Dora costumed character.

Dora’s popularity with parents and preschoolers and the property’s commitment to the Latin community has attracted the attention of many blue-chip marketers that have chosen to partner with Nickelodeon on “La Casa de Dora,” including The Dodge Grand Caravan, General Mills’ Kix and Procter & Gamble’s Pampers and Bounty. Each “La Casa de Dora” location will have The Dodge Grand Caravan on-site.

Additionally, NickJr.com will launch a special “La Casa de Dora” website for preschoolers and parents later this month, including games with bilingual elements that reflect the cultural and educational activities of the exhibit. The site extends the experience of the exhibit for both those who toured the house and for those who could not see it in person. Nick Jr. Family Magazine will produce a custom publication titled La Casita, which will be distributed to families at each “La Casa de Dora” location.

Tour Schedule

February 19 & 20 -Denver, CO -Southwest Plaza (Littleton)
February 26 & 27 -San Francisco, CA -Southland Mall (Hayward)
March 5 & 6 -Los Angeles, CA -Galleria at Tyler (Riverside)
March 12 & 13 -Phoenix, AZ -Arrowhead Towne Center (Glendale)
March 19 & 20 -Houston, TX Willowbrook Mall (Houston)
April 2 & 3 -Dallas, TX -The Parks at Arlington (Arlington)
April 9 & 10 -New York, NY -Willowbrook Mall (Wayne, NJ)
April 16 & 17 -Albuquerque, NM -Coronado Center (Albuquerque)
April 23 & 24 -Miami, FL -Pembroke Lakes Mall (Pembroke Pines)
April 30 & May 1 -Chicago, IL -Spring Hill Mall (West Dundee)