toys
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Reviewed: Super Loop Bands
I hate loom bands! There’s a simple reason for this hatred which has nothing to do with finding them all over the floor, or clogging up the Hoover, or just appearing everywhere. The reason is I can’t actually make them. I tried with the loom, and failed miserably. I tried without the loom and kept snapping the band. With a five-year old boy who seemed to want a band in the colours of every premiership team, I was a total failure and a big disappointment. So thank goodness for the Super Loop bands set available from Interplay. These are bands that I can actually make. They don’t require a loom,…
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Monkey Wellbeing – A fabulous way to make hospital visits less scary
Having to go to hospital is scary at any age. The strange smell, the noise from machines and equipment and just the general unease about what is going to happen to you all go together to make hospitals something that most people are a little fearful of. A trip to hospital for a child is even more frightening especially if that trip is for surgery or involves a blood test or X-Ray. But a new resource created by a mum on a mission, is aiming to make the hospital a slightly less daunting place for infants. The Monkey Wellbeing resources have been created by Helen Saddler. She wanted to make…
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Create a World Cup Memory with Penwizard
For my football mad five year old, 2014 will forever live in the memory as the year of his first World Cup. He has already enjoyed collecting stickers for his sticker book, and has been proudly sporting a Brazil top and an England vest (hedging his bets for sure.), and now, thanks to Penwizard, he has his own personalised book, ‘Joe Luca plays for England’, to treasure forever. Penwizard are the brains behind a range of personalised books where you can put your child at the heart of the action. The range includes stories including Peppa Pig, Fifi and the Flowerbuds, Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom and books centred around…
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Bandai Toys – More from the Power Rangers
Last year I wrote a review of some of the fab toys from the Power Rangers range that were enjoying a resurgence in popularity due to a new TV series. The review proved to be very popular and showed that since the 1990s, Power Rangers had never really disappeared from the hearts and minds of kids young, and not so young. The lovely people at Bandai have recently sent Joe some more of the range for review. As a huge Power Rangers fan he was very excited to receive some of the role play items, as well as a couple of the action figures. Power Rangers Megaforce Basic Ranger Training…
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Reviewed – Power Rangers Toys from Bandai Toys
Power Rangers were a toy phenomenon of the 1990s, coming hot on the heels of the popular TV programme that enthralled a whole generation of youngsters. It was popular, bright and colourful, and sometimes controversial, but nobody would’ve believed that it would still be a massive ‘toy and TV’ story more than twenty years later. But this is most certainly the case. I have a five-year old son who has been obsessed with Power Rangers Megaforce since he met a similarly obsessed boy on his first day in nursery. It is one of their fave playground games, they chose their characters and scenarios, and use their imaginations to create their…
