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Advantages: Wooden, durable, no batteries, educational
Disadvantages: None (apart from the tidying-up!!)

...our girls. It's an Early Learning Centre toy. Now I am big fan of wooden toys, of toys that don't need batteries and of toys that do not make too much noise (there's enough noise in our house at the best of times…) - if they have an educational element then that is an added bonus. This toy ticked all the boxes. The Toy It's an all wooden toy consisting of a stand with five poles and fifty coloured sorting pieces. The sorting pieces come ...
...are learning simple arithmetic. Availability & Cost From the Early Learning Centre - £8 http://www.elc.co.uk/toy-42815 I couldn't find this for sale second hand on either Ebay or Amazon Summary It's a good quality, wooden toy, with educational benefits. Recommended. ... Read review

Advantages: Look fun, enviromentally friendly, easy to use
Disadvantages: none!

...cubes ever! I really like Lego and the idea of having Lego shaped ice cubes seemed wonderful. I bought this from the Lego website for £3.99. I am not sure whether it is available in Lego shops in the high street, but I imagine it would be. If not it is available on the website, but you do have to remember that p&p costs are added on! The tray comes in yellow and is made out of a rubbery material and each ice cube comes out shaped like a lego building ...
...the mold. The ice cube tray makes 10 ice cubes (it has two rows of five blocks) These ice cubes are quite large, I would say they are about 5 cm long and 2 cm wide. The ice cubes are really easy to get out of the mold. Since it is made of a rubbery material, the ice cube tray bends so you can almost turn each individual ice cube section inside out to remove the cube. I remember when we used to have the solid plastic ice cube trays that you had ... Read review

Advantages: Good play value
Disadvantages: None

Lego in and around the stables is a good addition to the Lego collection for a horse mad child. This Lego build is a Duplo Lego toy so it's suitable for a child aged 2 to 6 years old. This of course depends on your child maturity and often a younger and older child will enjoy this toy. Duplo Lego bricks are larger than a standard Lego they are compatible two 8 stud Lego bricks fit on a 4 stud Duplo brick. This Duplo collection has a horse stable ...
...are some green basic duplo Lego bricks and a brown brick, the brown brick has a picture of apples on it I guess it's really a box containing apples for the horses. A water trough for the horses to drink from too. The prize cup for the winning horse is silver colored. Then there is the farm cat too a duple cat to watch the actions. There are enough bricks here to make a good home stable for the horses your child practicing their fine and gross motor ... Read review

Advantages: Great for Lego fans, looks good
Disadvantages: Just going to get ripped off! Could do with a few more tags

...this wrapping paper on the Lego website and couldn't resist getting it so I would definitely have some to wrap my Christmas presents in this year so that they look super cool! I am usually quite good with recycling, I keep wrapping paper from presents I have received so I can reuse it, but I saw this wrapping paper and thought it was so cute. The wrapping paper costs £1.99. The wrapping paper comes in a plastic shrink-wrap and inside you get two ...
...The design is of a Lego Santa. This is a Lego Man with a red suit on with a red hat and a long white beard - basically Santa in Lego form! The Santa is printed on the paper in different sizes, and overlapping each other so that none of the wrapping paper is left without a Santa on it. I think this is a really fun design. The wrapping paper comes folded in the packet but these open up into really large sheets measuring 27.5 inches x 39 inches each. ... Read review

Advantages: educational & fun
Disadvantages: very small parts, could be easily lost.

...much smaller than the duplo lego he is used to. However, he is digger mad so we decided to build it and see how difficult it is. The grey box is sturdy plastic, covered in a green sticker with a clear picture of the digger on the front. The back has smaller pictures of the other two vehicles which can be constructed. The lid is green plastic and not very easy for kids to open, but nice and secure so your child can take it out with them. The age ...
...was dissapointed with. The Lego pieces do fit together very securely so the parts don't break apart too easily, good for playing with, but not so good when taking apart! Finger nails are very useful for this task, but this can be very fiddley on the tiny bits. (Not to mention annoying!) My son can dismantle about 60% before needing help. I do think my son is a little too young for this. Although he loves to play with it he definitely couldn't make ... Read review