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I'm Ten Years Old Again.

Advantages: Hours of fun
Disadvantages: Not cheap

Most Friday afternoons I visit a friend of mine and we usually talk about all the things one talks about and it passes the time well into the evening. Sometimes of course, the conversation dries up, (my friend has this uncanny habit of forgetting i'm there!) His pc is joined to him! It was such as this that looking around the room I noticed some beads in a bucket that quite intrigued me. My friend has a ten year old daughter and she had been playing ...
...After interacting with her, (Ten years old is just about on my level, ) I found out what they were and all about them. They are made by Hama, and are bought in several activity sets, containing a number of coloured beads, different shaped peg boards and ironing cloths to complete your patterns. The beads are about 3/8 of an inch in length, come in all the basic colours like red, pink, orange, brown, black, green, white and pastel versions of these ...

paisleyman 25.10.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Hama Beads and Pegboards in Tub

Create Your Own Night Garden

Advantages: Creative fun for young children
Disadvantages: Expensive for what it really is

...Piggle and Friends Activity Set Crayola Beginnings Create Your Own Night Garden In the Night Garden is about a magical picture-book garden that exists between waking and sleeping in a child’s imagination. Iggle Piggle brings the child to the garden to enjoy some sweet bedtime relaxation tunes, and introduces many other weird and wonderful characters which is often quite nonsense to the adult though fun for the child. Although my daughter is not as ...
...name itself, being both a Crayola product as well as a Night Garden product. It is a shame that companies make so much money out of toys for children though no amount of complaining is going to ever change that. Would I recommend this set? It is hard to say. If you can get it at a cheaper price then yes as children into Night Garden and who love being creative will enjoy this and will love, as my daughter did, working with mummy to make the items, ...

elfbwillow 20.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Crayola In the Night Garden Iggle Piggles Funtime Activity Set

Airfix Dr Who 'Welcome to the TARDIS' 1/12 scale model.

Advantages: Looks great on display when given the time.
Disadvantages: Not for beginnners. The figures' heads, hands and feet.

...no longer available direct from Airfix there are still a good number of kits to be found in the shops or on-line in the likes of ebay, and in my opinion is worth hunting down. As a model it will offer enough interest for an experienced model-maker and when finished looks good on display, so will be of interest to Dr Who fans as well. (By the way, it also comes with the TARDIS sound effect when you open the door! The batteries are NOT included.) The ...
...glue (although extra paints will be needed for the detailing). It also comes with a model Dr Who and Martha Jones. The relatively large scale means that there is a reasonable amount of fine detail on the moulding (such as surprisingly good wood-grain effect on the TARDIS), and this also means that there are few very small pieces and will therefore be a good model for older children to try, particularly with adult supervision. The kit requires the ...

IZZP39 16.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Airfix Doctor Who Welcome Aboard Model Kit

Happy ink stamping

Advantages: keeps hands fairly clean
Disadvantages: none

...long ago I used these Flair Melissa and Doug happy handle stamps and was impressed. These wooden ink stamps come in a set of 6 with an ink stamp pad which is divided into 6 and has 6 different coloured inks these are a non toxic child friendly ink. I can not comment about the ink as I used this set without the ink pad I think the ink pad was mislaid. This set comes in a good case to keep them in tidily after use. I liked these shaped wooden stampers ...
...my fingers messy with ink. This is because the chunky shaped wooden handle to the stamps is long enough so that you can keep fingers away from the stamp. The stamper is in fact a rubbery one fixed to the wooden handle. The designs on the ink stamp are a face, a flower, a paw print, a butterfly, a heart, some lips. These stamps are small about 1 ½ cm in diameter. They make pretty neat clear stamped images on paper. These ink stamps are suitable ...

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Review of Flair Toys Melissa & Doug - Happy Handle Stamps

Not your usual ELC standard. One to miss

Advantages: doesn't need batteries
Disadvantages: Doesn't work, poor value

My daughter (then 3) was given a game for christmas from the ELC which she already had. She chose to swap it for the twirl and paint, and was hugely excited. However, once out the box her excited little face became one of frustration upon trying to use the twirl and paint. What is it: It's essentially a blue plastic dome thing with a button on the side. You insert a piece of squared paper (provided) in the slots, squirt some paint (little tubes of ...
...the inserted paper spin and thus making a pretty pattern. Cost: £8 Purpose: Billed by ELC as a creative toy to allow children to "express themselves artistically" Sounds fun doesn't it, sounds like just the sort of toy a mess loving, creative 3 year old would relish in. Sadly it couldn't be further away from this if it tried. Our experience was - insert paper - ok so far. Ready with the paint squirters - ok so far Press button to start spinning - ...

Fiona2403 06.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Early Learning Centre Twirl & Paint