SpongeBob SquarePants

Popular cartoon character Sponge Bob Square Pants is a friendly but occasionally annoying yellow square sea sponge who stars in the animated Nickelodeon children's show of the same name.

The idea of the series was by the marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg. The first Sponge Bob was launched in July 1999. Sponge Bob lives under the Pacific ocean, a city called "Bikini Bottom". He lives in a pineapple. Other inhabitants of the Bikini Bottom are Gary the pet snail, Sponge Bob's best friend Patrick, his neighbor Squidward Tentacles, Sponge Bob's boss Mr.Krabs, Mr. Krabs opponent Plankton, Sandy Cheeks a squirrel. http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/how-sponge-bob-works.htm

The character's likeness appears often in children's games and on toys, and SpongeBob also starred in a feature film in 2004.SpongeBob is ten years old in 2009. Albie Hecht former Nickelodeon president is going to create an iPhone App about Bigby http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/18/albie-hecht-launches-his-latest-creation-on-iphone/

Sponge Bob Square Pants has released another set of DVD: SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS: TRUTH OR SQUARE on November 10, 2009. http://www.justpressplay.net/movie-reviews/931-tv-reviews/6155-spongebob-squarepants-truth-or-square.html

• SpongeBob SquarePants: A friendly but occasionally annoying square sea sponge who wears pants
• Patrick Star: SpongeBob's best friend, the not-so-smart starfish
• Sandy Cheeks: The squirrel scientist from Texas who wears an air helmet and space suit
• Eugene H. Krabs: A crab and owner of the Krusty Crab restaurant; also SpongeBob's boss
• Pearl Krabs: A sperm whale who is the teenage daughter of Mr. Krabs
• Squidward Tentacles: SpongeBob's cranky next-door neighbor and co-worker
• Gary the Snail: SpongeBob's pet snail
• Sheldon J. Plankton: The resident arch-villain

The sea sponge SpongeBob SquarePants lives in a pineapple under the sea in an underwater city called Bikini Bottom. Bikini Bottom is like any other city with its own airport, bus system and fair park. Bikini Bottom residents drive boats instead of cars and have all the luxuries of living above water, including swimming pools, toilets and showers.

You can easily make a SpongeBob Costume! Have yellow T shirt. Make a pair of pants using card boards. wear black shiny shoes. Then have a spatula. The simplest SpongeBob costume is ready. You can use a cardboard big enough to fit you. Then use glue the egg crates to make the indentations of the sponge. Or make small cuts and spay paint yellow on the box. Use different colors of felt to make the eyes, smile teeth etc. You can wear the black dress shoes and stripped sox. You can also use the colored electrical tape to make features and stripes on the sox. http://www.coolest-homemade-costumes.com/coolest-homemade-spongebob-squarepants-halloween-costume-32.html

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SpongeBob has some wacky party ideas. Make a theme based on their favorite cartton character and his friends. If you are thinking about a DIY SpongeBob theme party, make sure the invitations are send out two to three weeks earlier. You can cut star fish or pineapple shapes from card stock and make the invitation cards. You can create decorations with SpongeBob themes as well. Get the help of the kids to create a poster board sea creatures to hang. Give them the yellow color Tshirts with different color felt glued to create SpongeBob costumes. Have some big appliance boxes decorated like the pineapple house of SpongeBob. Make sure to cut a door so the youg party goers can get in and out of the pineapple house. Give them the bubbles to enjoy like SpongeBob. http://www.amazingmoms.com/htm/party_spongebob.htm If it is summer you can let them play with wet sponges. To add more fun, why not order a SpongeBob birthday cake!. You can buy a variety of SpongeBob thmed party supplies also. http://www.coolest-kid-birthday-parties.com/kid-party-ideas.html http://www.partyamerica.com/product/birthday%2Bparties/boys%2Bbirthday/spongebob%2Bsquarepants%2Blunch%2Bplates%2B8ct.do

Sakar International has released the SpongeBob SquarePants underwater camera. This camera is water proof. The retail price is $29.99. The camera comes with a SpongeBob branded design and case. It can take up to 150 shots. The spongeBob camera is appropriate for kids ages 5-11. The software to upload the images and the USB cable come with the camera. The SpongeBob SquarePants Underwater Camera is available at the Toys R Us http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fun-branded-cameras-based-on-kids-favorite-nickelodeon-shows-icarly-dora-the-explorer--spongebob-squarepants-80915092.html http://www.sakar.com/press.aspx#49

SpongeBob SquarePants - Season 6, Volume 1 will be released soon by Nickelodeon. and Paramount. It will have 2 discs. The pre release price at Amazon is $26.98. http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/39656/spongebob-squarepants-season-6-v1/

There are many SpongeBob Squarepants merchandise are available, like calendars,wall posters, sticker books, DVDs, Games and books. http://www.starstore.com/acatalog/Starstore_Catalogue_SPONGEBOB_SQUAREPANTS_MERCHANDISE_2534.html There are Sponge Bob characters available as fridge magnets at legos .com. http://shop.lego.com/ByTheme/Leaf.aspx?cn=355&d=70 Sponge Bob Square pants toys and party kits are available at tystoybox. You can get free shipping for orders over $49. http://spongebobsquarepants.tystoybox.com/ If you like to buy the arts and craft supplies, accessories like backpacks, then spongebob-squarepants.allaboardtoys is a good resource. http://spongebob-squarepants.allaboardtoys.com/

There are many Sponge Bob games available online for kids to play. YTV.com gives an opportunity to play the Sponge Bob games as well as watch the episodes online. http://www.ytv.com/gamepad/play/games/sb_big_one/play.asp There are free online spongeBob Square pants game on members.outpost10f.com.This site also gives coloring pages, Sponge Bob news, spongeBob theme song to download and the like. http://members.outpost10f.com/~lindax/spongebob/onlinegames.html www.nickelodeon.com.au has some interesting Sponge Bob games.http://www.nickelodeon.com.au/games/spongebob-viking-hiking-game Wish to get some flash games? Go to 2flashgames.com. http://www.2flashgames.com/f/f-544.htm

The SpongeBob Square Pants movie was released on November 19, 2004. It was directed by Stephen Hillenburg. In the movie, SpongeBob takes time off from the town of Bikini Bottom to track down King Neptune's crown which was stolen. It was animated movie with MPAA rating PG. http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0345950/

You and you kid like to have some fun with Sponge Bob Square pants coloring pages. The printable pages from the website gives tons of fun for the kids.There are websites like thebikinibottom.com,pudgybunny.com and coloringbookpages.com are some of the websites you may like to check. http://www.thebikinibottom.com/ http://www.coloring.ws/sb1.htm http://www.pudgybunny.com/colorsponge.html http://colorspongebob.blogspot.com/ http://www.spfdbus.com/coloring-pages/Sponge%20Bob/index.htm http://coloring-book-pages.com/