Wednesday, November 10, 2010

New Fashion Angels Design Sets in Stock

Fashion Angels produce an excellent range of fashion themed craft and design sets for children. We love them,our children love them and we know our customers love them too. We are really pleased to add two new items to the core Fashion Angels range. Perfect timing for anyone looking for a stylish present for a girl aged 8+.

The Fashion Angels Design A Heavenly Wardrobe set has always been a big hit and it is great to be able to provide some more options for your child to reflect their own unique style in their choice of kit for Rock Star or Dance Wear as the subject for their portfolio.

Both new kits come with 10 inch card dolls in a variety of images with all of the paper,pens, cloth, sequins, glitter, ribbons you could need to make loads of cool outfits.

Fashion Angels Design a Heavenly Rock Star Wardrobe
Fashion Angels Design a Heavenly Rock Star Wardrobe comes with a drum set and 2 scenes. Perfect for those that want to style an X Factor rock band.
Fashion Angels Design a Heavenly Dancewear Wardrobe

Fashion Angels Design a Heavenly Dancewear Wardrobe is perfect for the Strictly Come Dancing or X-Factor dance fan.

The entire Fashion Angels range is available at the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store.

Tuesday, November 09, 2010

New Magic Set from Melissa and Doug at kidEstore

Melissa and Doug Magic Set

The Melissa and Doug Magic Set set includes four easy-to-master tricks for beginner magicians and budding Harry Potters! "Magic Jewel Box", "Color Changing String", "Chamber of Illusion" AND "Sword in the Stone" are included and all are done with the usual Melissa and Doug flair.

This is one of the few magic sets appropriate for children aged 6 and up.

The Melissa and Doug Magic Set is available from the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store.

New QBits Maths Strategy game at www.kidestore.co.uk

Qbits is a fun, tactical and strategic maths family board game that uses the four basic mathmatical principles to develop and enhance numeracy skills.

Qbits maths game

The Qbits maths game has 50 Qubes with two random numbers on each face from 1 to 24, separated by a diagonal line.You score points by placing the Qubes on the Qbits board. Points are scored if adjoining Qubes have numbers which are either multiples or factors of one another.

Qbits can also be played without the board which might make it a bit easier for younger players to start with. A canvas bag is used to store the Qbits and can also be used to take the game out and about on your travels.

Qbits is suitable from age 7+ and is available from the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store.

Sunday, November 07, 2010

Fashion Angels Project Runway Light Box Fashion Design Set

Fashion Anges are a great introduction to the world of fashion design for children. Project Runway is the slighty older range with a TV tie in. Design your fashions and accessories with this Fashion Angels Project Runway Light Box.

Fashion Angels Project Runway Light Box Design Set

This set includes a light-box, 10 "Tree-Free" colored pencils, films (100+ fashions), 25 fashion design sketch skeets, 25 handbag & shoe design sketch sheets, pencil sharpener and design guide.

The Fashion Angels Project Runway Light Box is available from the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store.

Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Automoblox T900 Wooden Car now in stock at kidEstore.co.uk

Automoblox T900 Blue Wooden Truck
The Automoblox T900 is a souped up version of the ever popular Automoblox T9 Pickup Truck, adding a more imposing style, chrome body parts and flared wheel arches to give a premium feel to this wooden car.

It features the same educational features as the rest of the full size Automoblox range such as colour coded parts and shape matched parts to encourage matching skills and can be disassembled and rebuilt to encourage creativity. The parts are all compatible with the rest of the full sized automoblox range so you are free to create some fantastic models - the only limit is your imagination.

The Automoblox T900 is available from the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store and is suitable from age 3.

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Arithmanix brings crazy maths fun to kidEstore.co.uk

Arithmanix is a fast action maths madness game that is perfect brain building family fun.

To play Arithmanix every player is dealt a set of cards that each contain either a number or a mathematical operation such as plus, minus, divide, times. An answer card is then drawn giving a number, each player then races to find a combination of their cards to build a sum that gives the correct answer. There is no waiting around as everyone plays simultaneously against one another which is what makes Arithmanix such crazy fun.Arithmanix maths game box image

The excitment builds as you race to be the first player to crack the Arithmanix calculation and then turn the timer to put pressure on your opponents to make their calculation before times runs out. Every Arithmanix round throws up new number combinations and a new calculation to crack, in this clever game that you will want to play again and again.

Quick + Simple x Fun = Arithmanix

The Arithmanix crazy maths game can be purchased from the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy shop and is suitable from age 7.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

New Brainbites at kidEstore.co.uk

Brainbites Myths & LegendsWe love stuff in tins, stuff that builds brainpower and stuff that is fun. Imagine how happy we were to get the new Brainbites from The Green Board Game Co.. They occupy that tiny little triangle at the centre of the fun/brainy/tins Venn diagram.
Brainbites Safari tin gameEach Brainbites tin contains everything you need for a fun quiz. Choose to answer easy, medium or hard questions to earn varying numbers of braincells. The first one to fill their Brainbites Brain Card with braincells is the winner!
Brainbites TudorsWe have six sets so you can choose your favourite subject, or a subject that you need to improve. Pick one or more from BrainBites - Dinosaur , BrainBites - Landmarks , BrainBites - Myths & Legends , BrainBites - Safari , BrainBites - Shakespeare and BrainBites - The Tudors. Why not complete the whole set for a whole lot of Brainbite fun.

With everything coming in a neat tin they are perfect as a travel game, for use in restaurants or just for keeping in the car in case of sudden boredom attacks.

Brainbites are suitable from Age 8, are priced at just £7.95 and are available at the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store.

Brainbox Maths at kidEstore.co.uk

The Brainbox games from Green Boardgames are great fun quiz games. You get to study a card with a number of printed facts for just 10 seconds followed by your opponent rolling the dice to pick random questions to be answered from memory. It's a bit like flash cards only much more fun!
Brainbox Maths from Green BoardgamesThe Brainbox Maths cards are full of maths fact taught in years 3 & 4 of primary school and is a great fun way of learning new maths or revising for exams or maths SATS. Perfect for home or as a teaching aid in the classroom.

You can find the simple but addictive Brainbox Maths in the Brain Teasers section of the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store.

Monday, June 28, 2010

New Travel Card Games



Card games are great fun, take up next to no room and can be played anywhere from the beach to the departure lounge.
Backpacker the card game allows you to enjoy all the fun and unpredictability of world travel and try to return home with the most photos. As you visit different countries you get the chance to experience a number of aspects from beaches to wildlife.
The Maponimoes card game is a great fun way of learning about geography. Each card features a single country and names the other countries it shares a border with. You play the game in a similar way to dominoes but join cards based on shared borders.
Each game is great fun and can be found in the Card Games section of the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store.

Monday, June 14, 2010

Eeboo Matching games help with memory and concentration development

Eeboo design beautiful games for kids. Some of our favourites are there matching games such as the Eeboo Candy Matching game and the Eeboo Matching Game Robots.

Both games are classic memory games where cards are laid out face down and players take it in turn to reveal a pair of cards. If they match you 'win' that pair and get to go again. If they don't match they are both turned face down once more. The idea being to remember where you previously saw matching cards so you can return an match a pair.
The Eeboo Candy Matching game has 48 cards of traditional sweets (or Candy) gorgeously illustrated whereas the Eeboo Matching Game Robots has delightful illustrations of 'soft' robots and their friends for a more technology based game!

Friday, June 11, 2010

New American Hotrod Automoblox Mini Wooden Cars are the new Bad Boys of the Toy Box

red Automoblox Mini Hot Rod HR1
Automoblox Minis are half the size but all the fun of the original Automoblox Wooden Cars. Made to the same high design standards as the originals they use the same high quality European Birch wood with polycarbonate trimmings. Each car can be split down into pieces and the body sections from different models can be combined to make your own personal designs.

The red Automoblox Mini Hot Rod HR1 is a classic American cruiser with a red painted frame, painted grill and fat white-walled tyres.

Yellow Automoblox Mini Hot Rod HR2

The Yellow Automoblox Mini Hot Rod HR2 is a hot California ‘Rod with chrome headers and chrome stacks for maximum output.

blue Automoblox Mini Hot Rod HR3

The blue Automoblox Mini Hot Rod HR3 is the bad boy of the bunch with white walled tyres, lowered suspension and a translucent hood (bonnet) it really looks the part.

Priced at £11.95 and suitable from age 3 these wooden cars are available at the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store (online or telephone 01727 841400).

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Wooden Sushi Slicing Toy Set at kidEstore.co.uk Educational Toy Store

Wooden toys are perennial favourites and wooden food play sets are amongst the most popular wooden toys. This new Sushi Slicing set from Melissa and Doug is a nice new twist on the food chopping theme and should appeal to anyone looking for something a bit different for their play kitchens.
With more than 20 pieces including cleaver, chopsticks, sushi rolls, tuna, and prawns. Velcro is used to join the pieces of wooden food and add a realistic sound your sushi chopping.

As an educational toy the Wooden Sushi Chopping Set encourages manual dexterity and imaginative play and is a great way to spark conversations about healthy eating for kids.

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Wooden Shape Sorters are a favourite educational toy for babies and toddlers

Shape sorters are very popular wooden toys as they are one of the first educational toys you can give to a baby or toddler. At the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store we have a number of shape sorter toys or toys with shape sorting features.

Shape sorters are very strong educational toys as they are aimed at developing a some very specific skills. As the name implies Shape Sorters are aimed at teaching shape recognition. The shapes are carefully chosen so that no shape will fit in any other hole and children are then challenged to either pick a shape that matches the hole or try all shapes against a hole to learn the match.

Manual dexterity is also a very important skill to develop at this age and handling all of those shapes and moving them into the correct orientation to fit really reinforce this skill.

There are also other educational features to wooden shape sorter toys with differently coloured shapes teaching colours, numbers, and the addition of letters or pictures helping to add little pieces of additional learning to the toy often taking the interest of these toys on for a number of years.

Melissa and Doug Wooden Shape Sorter Cube
We have a classic Shape Sorter Cube from Melissa and Doug. 12 nice solid colourful shapes that make a good solid clunk as they drop through the right hole. Melissa and Doug wooden toys are always stylish and great value and this one is no exception - lovely bright colours and clean shapes make this a very attractive toy.
Melissa and Doug Wooden Shape Sorter ClockAlso from Melissa and Doug we have a Shape Sorting Clock which makes an interesting alternative shape sorter toy. Not only are the shapes pretty and colourful but each of them has a number on and the holes make up the face of a clock. The Wooden Shape Sorter Clock then adds early number learning and continues into learning how to tell the time.

Options for teaching children to recognise shapes include the Melissa and Doug Wooden Shape Stacking Train, the Melissa and Doug Wooden Geometric Stacker and Automoblox Wooden Cars.

All of these educational toys can be bought from the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store.

New Sticky Mosaics from Orb Factory at kidEstore.co.uk

Sticky Mosaics from Orb Factory are great fun and allow kids to produce some lovely artwork without getting full-on messy. They are always popular and we are really happy to add two new sets to our range.

Orb Factory Sticky Mosaics Fairies
Orb Factory Sticky Mosaics Fairies are perfect for girls who love Faeries, and lets face it most of them do. This set includes 4 templates and over 3000 sticky foam and jewel pieces.

Orb Factory Sticky Mosaics Ballerinas
Orb Factory Sticky Mosaics Ballerinas covers another favourite subject matter for girls. This set includes 5 templates for even more fantastic artistry.

Orb Factory Sticky Mosaics Riding School
Horse obsessed girls are going to love Orb Factory Sticky Mosaics Riding School which comes with 4 horse themed art works for you to complete.

These Orb Factory Sticky Mosaics sets are suitable from age 6 and are priced £13.95 at the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store.


PairsInPears and AppLetters word games join the range at kidEstore.co.uk

Bananagrams has been a great success both with our children and our customers. The fun word game based on letter tiles in a soft banana shaped bag is easy to transport and has rules for many different game variants.


PairsInPears word game by Bananagrams
With PairsInPears the idea is to form pairs of word from the tiles you have available. Not only is the game great fun it teaches children about vowels, consonants, alphabetic order, word construction and pattern recognition.




AppLetters is a dominoes style game where tiles are connected by letters rather than dots. As with many Bananagrams games there are a number of sets of rules including some for adult players so there is plenty to keep the whole family involved.

All of the Bananagrams games can be bought at the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store where you will find them in the Literacy Games section.

Friday, May 14, 2010

New Mini Automoblox Wooden Cars Multipack


Educational toy store kidEstore.co.uk have added a new Automoblox multi-pack to their extensive range of the popular Mini Automoblox wooden car range. The new Automoblox Mini C9R S9R C9S three pack contains the Red C9R, Blue S9R and Orange C9S.


Automoblox Mini Three Pack C9R S9R C9S
The Automoblox Mini line is a scaled down version of the tradional Automoblox car (dimensions 12cm long and 5cm wide) and features future-retro styling!

Mini cars have a new universal connector system that enables the rapid interchange of parts, further accentuating the fun factor of creating different car styles.

The Automoblox Mini's certainly have all the style and feel of their big brother in a package that fits in the palm of your hand. A highly designed, great quality car that no play garage or car park should be without.

At £24.95 the three pack is great value and like all of the Automoblox Range can be purchased from www.kidEstore.co.uk (01727 841400)

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

New Groovy Girl Dolls at kidEstore.co.uk

Groovy Girls are the adorable soft fashion rag-dolls that provide a nicer alternative to Bratz. We have three new dolls in stock - Groovy Girls Maddie Mermaid, Groovy Girls Princess Isabella and Groovy Girls Princess Seraphina.

Groovy Girls Maddie Mermaid , satiny blue and lavender fabrics with exceptional detailing make this mermaid shine. Exquisite design includes a shell inspired handbag, polka dotted tail and long, lavender hair. An easily removable tail reveals a playful skirt and legs to take Maddie from sea to shore in no time! Maddie has won the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Seal Award for clever design that has captured the hearts of young girls everywhere.

Groovy Girl Maddie Mermaid


Meet Groovy Girls Princess Isabella , one of our beautiful princesses. Princess Isabella is pretty in pink, red and orange and toped off with a shiny silver necklace and tiara. She has long, gorgeous hair that is perfect to play with.

Groovy Girls Princess Isabella

Groovy Girls Princess Seraphina is Pretty as a Princess! Seraphina is ready for the ball and comes complete with a beautiful double-layered gown and bejeweled crown.

Groovy Girls Princess Seraphina