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.

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!

Both games are part of the Fun Learning Games section at the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store.

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

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.

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

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).

The full Automoblox wooden car collection can be seen here.

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.

The Melissa and Doug Wooden Sushi Chopping Toy is available in the Wooden Toy section of the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store.