New Cambridge Brainbox kits

Cambridge Brainbox are a great range of easy to use electronics kitsfor children and we are pleased to add a couple of new items to our range.



The Cambridge Brainbox Walking Robot demonstrates how rotary motion from an electric motor can be turned into linear motion in the robots legs. Easy to do and great fun, the gearbox even has variable ratios to allow you to experiment and find the optimum gear ratio for a natural walking speed.



The Cambridge Brainbox Solar Racer is a great new kit to demonstrate environmentally friendly transport to children. The kit allows you to build an electric motor powered car with a photo voltaic panel to generate the required power from sunlight (or a normal light bulb).

Help Children Learn French with these Educational Games

Two new educational games from Orchard Toys will get your children learning French at an early age.

Les Courses a Faire is the popular Shopping list game in French developed with the Linguaphone Company.

Cherchon Le Mot is a cool Find the Word game where you must match the correct French and English words. The game was again developed with Linguaphone and contains a pronunciation game for you to use.

New Educational Games for Children from Orchard Toys

We love Orchard Toys - their educational kids games are always bright and colourful, easy to play and great fun. That is why we are delighted to take some of their new educational games for our 2007 range. Many of these new games have links to National Curriculum Maths and National Curriculum English.

Piggy In The Middle is an educational game about money. Players travel around the board earning and spending money - the first to fill their piggy bank is the winner.

What A Performance is a great game to build confidence in children. Can you pretend to be a monkey, make a noise like a firework or wiggle your ears? If you can’t, use the magic decoder and reveal your hidden forfeit! The game contains over 200 exciting activities.

In Pop To The Shops children go round the board from shop to shop buying various items with plastic money. Great for learning counting, handling money and giving change.

Crazy Chefs is a fun lotto game with a food theme. The object is to grab all of the items required to make a tasty meal.

Learning to tell the time has just become much more fun with Orchard Tell The Time. A great way to learn both analogue and digital clocks and the Penguin clock face extends the play value.

We think you will agree these educational games are great for toddlers, pre-school and primary school children.

UK Dominates the charts for Wooden Toy searches

It looks like the UK tops the chart for searches for wooden toys on Google. The top ten cities are as follows:


1. Thames Ditton, United Kingdom
2. Ipswich, United Kingdom
3. Auckland, New Zealand
4. Meriden, CT, USA
5. Sheffield, United Kingdom
6. Reading, United Kingdom
7. London, United Kingdom
8. Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
9. Poplar, United Kingdom
10. Brisbane, Australia

Thames Ditton (population 7500) with a larger query rate for wooden toys than London???

We can't offer an explanation - we just know we offer some of the best wooden toys around at kidEstore.co.uk

Become a fashion designer at future London, Paris and Milan Fashion Weeks

Never mind wanting to be one of those beanpole size zero models - girls really ought to be designing the fantastic fashions and make-up looks that are on display.

This is where kidEstore.co.uk and the Fashion Angels can help. Their design kits are great activities for girls and give craft activities a real direction and professional feel.

kidEstore sell a large part of the Fashion Angels range including the Fashion Angels Fashion Design Sketch Book and Fashion Angels Fashion Design Sketch Book Croquis Refills, the Fashions Angels Design Studio Set and Fashion Angels Design Studio Refill Pad and the Fashion Angels Make-up Artist Sketchbook and Fashion Angels Make-up Artist Sketchbook Croquis Refills.

New Scrunch Ball is the perfect Beach Ball

Summer is coming and children's thoughts turn to playing in the garden, or even on the beach.

What you need to practice throwing and catching skills is a soft ball, not too big or too small, which is easy to grip, bright and attractive. The Scrunch Ball is the perfect ball for the garden or beach - it can be deflated for easy storage and carriage and easily inflated again once you are ready for the fun to start.

Kids will love the Scrunch Ball's bright colours and the soft 'sticky' feel, you will love your children playing outdoors, running, catching, kicking, throwing...

The Scrunch Ball is available from the kidEstore.co.uk online educational toy store.

Learning about the Solar System in International Heliophysical Year

2007 is the International Heliophysical Year, the aim of which is to coordinate the many scientific resources available in a concerted study of our Sun and its affects on the solar system.

The project marks the 50th anniversary of International Geophysical Year and has been six years in the planning. It's three stated primary objectives are :

• Advancing our understanding of the Heliophysical Processes that Govern the Sun, Earth and Heliosphere
  
• Continuing the tradition of international research and advancing the legacy on the 50th anniversary of the International Geophysical Year


• Demonstrating the Beauty, Relevance and Significance of Space and Earth Science to the World

Children can learn more about the solar system with our Kidzlabs Solar System Mobile Making Kit and our Kidzlabs Solar System Planetarium or our fantastic Ravensburger Solar Sytem Jigsaw Puzzle.

Brand New Kid K'Nex sets just in

We have four new Kid K'Nex cased sets in for 2007. Kid K'Nex is always a popular educational toy for children aged 3+ and these brand new sets are just great.



Kid K'Nex Undersea Pals has great colours, fins/flippers and the googly eyes even have 'air bubbles' on them for that real submarine feel.



Kid K'Nex Flappin' Monsters comes with some great new special parts - bat wings and fang filled mouths to help you build the cutest little monsters.

Kid K'Nex Wigglin Monsters are really cute and have a slightly cuddlier feel to them than the Flappin Monsters.

Kid K'Nex Country Friends includes plans for some great farmyard and countryside models.


All of these sets come in a handy carry case and are available from the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store.

Scrunch Buckets - Perfect For Holidays

We have taken the new Scrunch Buckets in as part of our Summer outdoor range.



Not only are these Scrunch Buckets really pretty buckets in 6 great colours but they are made from soft silicone rubber allowing them to be scrunched up. You can scrunch them into your case, the glove compartment of your car or even a pocket when you go out for a walk on the beach or to the duck pond.
You can buy Scrunch Buckets a the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store.