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Learning Through Play At Home, Brand New: Playmobil City Life Range
With schools closed, lockdown and Easter holidays coming up, Playmobil is even more relevant than ever. A timeless activity to challenge children’s imaginations, learn through play, create, role play scenarios, interact and to have fun. Playmobil have launched a brand new City Life range which will entice your littles to play for hours. We were very lucky to be asked to review the new sets, here is what we thought. I don’t know if Playmobil have had a sleek makeover but assembling the playsets has never been easier. I have mentioned in the past that I found a few sets to be a little tricky to put together, not impossible…
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An Alternative Easter Gift – Fuzzikins Bedtime Bunnies
With Easter just around the supermarket aisles are crammed with big fancy chocolate Easter eggs and other sweet treats. I’m all for Easter eggs and chocolate but if you have a large family (like me) you will probably be inundated with boxes of eggs, sweets, chocolates and other sugary goodies. My children get tons for Easter but I don’t buy them lots of eggs as they don’t need them and also we are still making our way through Halloween and Christmas treats. I like to select a few non edible Easter gifts for my children and this year I have the perfect prezzie that really sparks imagination and is reusable.…
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Bigjigs Medieval Train Set – Review
What little child doesn’t love a wooden train set? When the Bigjigs Medieval Train Set arrived for us to review both Amelie and Charlie were squealing with excitement begging me to unbox the surprise inside. The Medieval Train Set comes complete with everything you could possibly want for an adventure – 46 play pieces to be exact. Each individually wrapped in paper and packaged so well that when my children were opening it all up they said it was like Christmas. There were Knights, a King, a Queen, a Wizard, trees, flags and so many more pieces that had excellent attention to detail, I particularly liked the fact that on…
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Summer Holiday Activities for Children: DIY Stamps & Paint Station
From an early age I have always encouraged the children with messy play, not such a great idea when you have cream carpets but hey, that’s what messy mats are for. Both of my children love painting but I am not keen on tidying up their mess, so I decided to make my own paint station for them along with some DIY stampers. PAINT STATION You will need an empty egg box, some paints, brushes and newspaper for this activity. You can probably guess it isn’t rocket science, simply put your chosen paint colours into the egg pot, don’t over fill though as they will merge into one. Once you…