Playducation - Educational Toys from kidEstore.co.uk

Wimmer Ferguson educational soft toys for Baby

2011-09-12T21:58:00.000Z

We are always on the lookout for beautiful new educational toys that stimulate a childs mind and help children learn whilst having fun. We believe that the earlier we can introduce children to educational toys the greater the benefits. We were therefore delighted to add the Wimmer-Ferguson baby toys to our range of educational toys for babies and toddlers. This range of soft toys for babies is designed to stimulate the mind of newborn or baby using primary colours, black and white images, textures and sounds.

The Wimmer Ferguson Crawl and Discover Mat is a fantastic play mat, full of fun learning! Wimmer-Ferguson baby development toys for newborn babies and infants use black and white and high contrast images to stimulate developing babies. Good educational toys can help your child with early sensory development, especially visual development. This baby play mat has lots of features, including flaps with reverse print for visual stimulation, interesting textures with crinkle paper for tactile stimulation, a removable baby-safe mirror that allows baby to explore their own reflection and star and circle teething shapes.

Wimmer-Ferguson Baby Soft Play Mat

The Wimmer-Ferguson Triangle is another member of the lovely Wimmer Ferguson range of educational toys. The Wimmer Ferguson Play Triangle is again full of great developmental features and makes a great travel toy. Lay flat as a play mat, fold into a standing triangle wedge, attach to a car seat or attach to a fridge using the inbuilt magnets.

Wimmer Ferguson Triangle Soft Baby Toy

The Wimmer-Ferguson Mind Shapes is another winner from Wimmer! Beautiful soft shapes, each with it's own distinctive noise, textures and educationally researched images. An award winner as well as a favourite with babies and parents alike.

Wimmer Ferguson Mind Shapes Baby Soft Toys

The Wimmer Ferguson Sensory Shapes Sight and Sound Travel Toy has a rattle ring, mirror, crinkle fabric, ribbons and beads. A velcro loop makes it easy to attach to most strollers or prams. Like the rest of the Wimmer Ferguson baby toy range it is packed with educational features to give your baby the best possible start in development and learning.

Wimmer Ferguson Sight and Sound Travel Toy

The Wimmer Ferguson Baby Toy range is available at kidEstore.co.uk.

New Fashion Angels Design Sets in Stock

2010-11-10T10:06:00.000Z

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 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 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.

New Magic Set from Melissa and Doug at kidEstore

2010-11-09T22:48:00.003Z

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

2010-11-09T22:06:00.003Z

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

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.

Fashion Angels Project Runway Light Box Fashion Design Set

2010-11-07T21:07:00.005Z

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.

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.

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

2010-11-02T09:06:00.002Z

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.

Arithmanix brings crazy maths fun to kidEstore.co.uk

2010-08-12T11:55:00.003Z

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.

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.

New Brainbites at kidEstore.co.uk

2010-08-11T17:36:00.007Z

We 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.
Each 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!
We 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

2010-08-11T17:03:00.004Z

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!
The 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.

New Travel Card Games

2010-06-28T21:17:00.004Z

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

2010-06-14T14:33:00.004Z

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

2010-06-11T12:29:00.004Z

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

2010-06-10T21:56:00.002Z

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.

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

2010-05-15T21:43:00.005Z

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.

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.
Also 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

2010-05-15T19:16:00.007Z

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 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 covers another favourite subject matter for girls. This set includes 5 templates for even more fantastic artistry.

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

2010-05-15T15:16:00.008Z

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.

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.

New Mini Automoblox Wooden Cars Multipack

2010-05-14T08:41:00.004Z

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.

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)

New Groovy Girl Dolls at kidEstore.co.uk

2010-05-11T22:22:00.006Z

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.

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

You can buy all of the Groovy Girls fashion rag-dolls from the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy shop.

Berg Moov Featured in the Independent 50 Best Toys

2009-11-28T11:46:00.001Z

The Berg Moov has been selected by Kate Street in the Independent 50 Best Christmas Toys for 2009.

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Blurt board game is noisy family fun with an educational twist

2009-11-27T08:51:00.001Z

Blurt is a noisy word board game where players race to move their piece all the way around the board. Each turn the actual definition of a word found in a children's dictionary is read out. The first player to blurt out the word that fits the definition gets to move forward the number of spaces rolled on a die. There is no penalty for guessing incorrectly, so things tend to get a bit raucous!

If a player lands on certain spaces or the same space as an opponent, a "one-on-one" blurt contest is held just between those two players with the victor getting to stay on the spot and the loser having to move back to where the trailing player started.

The board game Blurt is a firm favourite of all those who try it and is available from the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store in the kids games section.

Blurt board game is suitable from age 7.

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Engino Construction Set Arrives at kidEstore.co.uk

2009-11-24T21:46:00.001Z

The Engino construction sets have now arrived in the construction sets category at kidEstore.co.uk.

Engino is a cool new building system.that combines the best features of Lego and K’Nex in a single system. The pieces can be used Lego type bricks and connected together to make solid blocks. Alternatively the pieces can be joined towards the ends to build open framework constructions in the K’Nex style. The best of both worlds in a single set!

We have four different Engino sets to suit a range of budgets.

The Engino 10 Model Engineering Set the Engino 20 Model Engineering Set and the Engino 30 Model Set are priced from £24.95 to £44.95 and the Engino 5 Model Engineering Set is perfect for those that just want a taster at £12.95. All Engino engineering sets except for the 5 model set contain a 3V motor to bring those models to life.

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Ingenious, Blokus and Qwirkle named in the 50 Best Board Games by The Independent

2009-11-16T22:19:00.001Z

The Independent has a great section called ‘The 50 Best …’ and the3y recently named a few of our favourite games in the 50 Best Board Games.

Ingenious can be played by two, three or four players, with additional rules provided for solo and four-player partnership play. Each player has a rack of six randomly-chosen tiles which are concealed from the other players. The board is also made up of a number of hexagons, with the two outermost rings reserved for three- and four-player games respectively. The rules state that the youngest player takes the first turn, although where multiple games are played it is common practice for the first turn to rotate clockwise around the board in subsequent games.

Qwirkle is played by giving each player 6 tiles. On the first players turn 3 things can be done. The player can place a tile on the board and then draw again (to retain six tiles). The player can also add two or more tiles to the board, all of these tiles must share at least 1 attribute however (colour, or shape), they must be played in 1 line although they do not need to touch. After playing tiles, a player draws back up to 6 tiles. Or, a player can trade in 1 or more of his or her tiles and pass their turn.

Blokus is a great strategy game where each player takes it in turn to lay down pieces on the board connected to their existing pieces. The object is to occupy as much space as possible and lay out all of your won pieces whilst preventing your opponent from laying out all of theirs. Fiendishly simple!

You can buy these and many other board games are available at kidEstore.co.uk.

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One Banana, Two Banana featured in Independent 50 Best Board Games

2009-11-16T18:29:00.001Z

One Banana, Two Banana from Orchard Toys is a really fun game that helps children learn about numbers. Parents will love it too – after all who can resist a board game that combines bananas and monkeys?

As with all Orchard Toys it is made from recycled cardboard to reduce the impact on the environment.

You can find the game with loads of other fun games from Orchard Toys at the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store.

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Fashion Angels Project Runway Bling By Numbers

2009-11-13T23:15:00.001Z

For girls that like their fashion with a bit of bling we have the Fashion Angels Project Runway Bling By Numbers sets. Easier than painting by number and far more glam darling.

Each pre-printed canvas comes with gems, glitter paints, sequins, glitter dust and easy to follow instructions.

Bling By Number Canvas Wall Art – Dream

Bling By Number Canvas Wall Art - Hello Beautiful

Fashion Angels Project Runway Bling By Number Canvas Wall Art – Love

Bling By Number Canvas Wall Art - Simply Fabulous

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Haynes Manual Car Jigsaws

2009-11-13T22:05:00.001Z

We have two great new jigsaws to add to the range at kidEstore.co.uk. Haynes are THE reference for car maintenance and they have added a number of toys to their range including these two jigsaws of classic car cutaway drawings.

The first is the Haynes Manual VW Transport jigsaw – the classic surfer dude transport.

The Haynes Classic British Sports Cars Jigsaw features a number of classic British sports cars including an E-Type Jaguar, Triumph TR5, MGB Roadster and Triumph Stag.

Each jigsaw comes in a great aluminium presentation tin. Puzzle size is 33x48cms.

They are suitable from age 8and cost £9.95

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Strawberry House Dolls House

2009-11-13T21:36:00.001Z

We have a new dolls house at kidEstore.co.uk. The Strawberry House Dolls House is a beautiful wooden dolls house in lovely strawberry colours. It comes with 17 pieces of furniture. The house includes working window shutters with cutaway heart styling, a velux window and a curved roof that lifts off for access to the attic space.

Suitable from age 2 it is available at the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store.

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Childrens’ Christmas Gifts - Presents for Boys UK

2009-11-13T09:57:00.001Z

In our Childrens Christmas Presents UK guide we have now added some specific pages for Christmas Presents for boys.

In order to give a good overview of our range we have designed specific pages for distinct age range to make it easier to find what you are looking for.

We have pages for UK Christmas Presents for Boys aged 3, 4 or 5 and for UK Christmas Presents for Boys aged 5 6 7 8 9 or 10.

We hope this helps make it easier for you to choose your Xmas gifts for kids.

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Haynes Internal Combustion Engine Model

2009-11-11T11:15:00.001Z

We owe a lot to the internal combustion engine and it will continue to be important for many years. Children that want to get a bit of a better understanding can now look to the same place their fathers have for many years – Haynes.

The Haynes Internal Combustion Engine Model allows kids to build a fully working model of an internal combustion engine driven by an electrical compressor with engine noise generator and illuminated spark plugs.

A great fun model to build and highly educational the kit contains over 100 pieces and all the tools required for assembly. The assembly instructions even look like a real Haynes manual. Being of a substantial size the kit is not a fiddly little thing that will be frustrating to build.

Available from the kidEstore.co.uk educational store in the Science and Discovery Toys section priced £27.95.

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Project Runway Dress Making and Draping Set

2009-11-11T10:39:00.001Z

Another item from the fantastic Project Runway range is the Fashion Angels Project Runway Dress Making & Draping Set consists of a 31cm dress form mannequin, fabric, patterns, pins & pincushion, needles, thread,tape measure, dressmaker pencil, sequins, beads, fasteners, iron on backing, sketch pad and instructions.

Available kidEstore.co.uk priced £24.95.

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Project Runway Fashion Design Drawing Mannequin

2009-11-11T10:29:00.001Z

Project Runway is huge in the states and just taking off in the UK. It extends the Fashion Angels line into an older age range by having more serious packaging and more complex contents. At kidEstore.co.uk we like the creative and artistic development their whole range encourages.

The Fashion Angels Project Runway Fashion Design & Figure Drawing Set consists of a 12” mannequin that can be posed to help draw realistic figures. Also includedare12coloured pencils, 3 drawing pencils, news print pad, sketch pad, eraser, sharpening pad, tortillon and instructions.

Available kidEstore.co.uk priced £24.95.

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Quiddler is the card game for word lovers

2009-11-10T14:52:00.001Z

There is nothing to match a card game for convenience, especially for travelling or when waiting for food in a restaurant. Quiddler squeezes all of the fun of a game like Scrabble into a simple pack of cards.

The standard game is for 2-8 players and consists of 8 quick rounds, with players being dealt 3 cards each in the first round up to 10in the last. The object is to replace cards in your hand with a view to spelling a work containing all of the letters.Other players then have one last go to try and spell as many valid words as possible with their remaining cards. The value of Any cards not used in a word are subtracted from their score, the letters are given a value similar to Scrabble values.

Simple early on but much more challenging with more cards, Quiddler will keep kids and adults alike busy for ages.

Quiddler is available from the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store in the Brain Teasers section.

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Christmas Presents For Children Guide

2009-11-06T08:11:00.001Z

Over the next few days we are putting together an easy to browse guide to Children’s Christmas Presents. We will post updated as each section is complete so keep watching!

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French Knitting and Pom-Pom maker from Djeco

2009-11-01T21:27:00.001Z

We love the cookie French style of toys from Djeco and are happy to add some new craft toys from them to our range.

The Red French Knitting Ceramic Doll and Lilac French Knitting Ceramic Doll are beautiful ceramic dolls with a fancy crown that incorporates the French Knitting pins and a golden sceptre hook. They come with instructions and a selection of wool skeins.

The Djeco Pom-Pom Maker comes with 3 balls of wool, 4 unique tool pieces and simple instructions to get you up and making pom-poms in no time.

A great range of Djeco toys are available from the kidestore.co.uk educational toy store.

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Totem from Kidsonroof at kidEstore.co.uk

2009-11-01T16:55:00.001Z

We love toys that tick lots of boxes at kidestore.co.uk and the Totem Range from Kidsonroof do just that. They are a series of beautifully decorated 3d models which are made from recycled paper and are completely biodegradable.

The Kidsonroof Totem City has 130 pieces printed with swords, dragons, sectret symbols and textures. There are instructions for 4 models included in the pack but you can make a nearly limitless set of models from the contents.

The Kidsonroof Totem Dragonfly is a beautiful dragonfly with iridescent patterns.

The Kidsonroof Totem Nature set is printed with flowers, coins, animals and other nature prints. Plans for four models included but you are free to go off-piste and create whatever you desire.

The Kidsonroof Totem Spider is a super-scary spider model for lovers of arachnids, which is most small boys!

Environmentally friendly,educational and gorgeous – everything we look for in toys at the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store .

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Funky New Fropper comes to kidEstore.co.uk

2009-11-01T00:01:00.001Z

Fropper is the cool new bouncy ride on toy for kids from 18 months to 3 years of age.

The front caster wheels make the Fropper super-manoeuvrable and great fun for kids who will love powering this around the house.

With a cool space age design the Fropper looks groovy and the special seat mechanism allows super comfortable bouncing as you cruise around.

When you are done the Fropper folds down to a fraction of its normal size for convenient storage and the seat incorporates a handle for carrying.

The Fropper comes in two colour combinations. The Pink and Purple Fropper and the Red and Green Fropper. Choose your vehicle and Frop around the clock!

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Berg Moov Street 10 in 1 kit comes to kidEstore.co.uk

2009-10-28T18:34:00.001Z

The Berg Moov has been a phenomenon since their introduction and the range has now been extended to give more choice to toy buyers. The giant wooden construction set is easy to build with no spanners or screwdrivers required.

Children can build full size ride-on toys such as bikes, scooters, trikes and go-karts that can actually be ridden.

The Berg Moov Street 10in1 kit is the biggest of the new range and comes with over 175 components including 4 wheels. The kit comes with plans for 10 safety tested models but the number of possible models is nearly infinite.

By the Berg Moov is available from the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store.

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Interplay Solar Butterfly and Solar Rainbow Maker kits at kidEstore.co.uk

2009-10-25T08:42:00.001Z

The fantastic Technokit science kits from Interplay are being heavily advertised in the run up to Christmas and are great gifts for girls with a science leaning.

The Technokit Solar Butterfly kit from Interplay allows you to build a beautiful butterfly to attach to your windows that will flap its wings when the sun is shining.

Also from Interplay the Technokit Solar Rainbow Maker is a motorised set of prisms that attach to the window and spin when the sun shines filling your room with rainbow light.

Both are available from kidEstore.co.uk

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Updated Wooden Djeco My Garage

2009-10-23T21:21:00.001Z

The fab wooden garage from Djeco has been updated and is now even more cute. The garage and car park features a ramp , car lift and car repair lift along with car wash and a petrol pump. Comes complete with the red breakdown lorry in the box.

There is also a set of 4 wooden Djeco cars available to complement the garage.

The Wooden Djeco My Garage is available from kidEstore.co.uk.

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eeBoo Toys and Art Sets arrive at kidEstore.co.uk

2009-10-14T16:11:00.001Z

We have added some great new art sets, games and paper dolls from eeBoo to the range at kidEstore.co.uk.

The eeBoo Candy Matching Game and the eeBoo Robots Matching Game are beautiful memory games with fantastic illustrations. They help build memory and recognition skills and look so good you won’t mind if they forget to put them away.

eeBoo French Bingo is a picture based bingo game with all of the words in French. Great for building vocabulary, eyes down for a full Maison!

The eeBoo Make a Pie Game is a fractions based maths game that is great fun but also helps children get to grips with those pesky fractions.

In What Time Is It from eeBoo children pick cards that are marked with the time and they have to set the clock hands to match. A great way to reinforce a tricky skill to learn.

eeBoo Paper Dolls are beautiful scenes with figures and sheets of re-usable vinyl accessories that allow you to express your artistic talents by decorating the scene. We have the eeBoo Poet & Astronomer Paper Dolls, the eeBoo Explorer & Naturalist Paper Dolls and the eeBoo Musician & Artist Paper Dolls.

For children who hanker to be an artist we have a couple of fantastic oil pastel sketchbook sets. The eeBoo Oil Pastels Sketchbook – Boat Ride and the eeBoo Oil Pastels Sketchbook – Monkey and Elephant each come with a 60 blank page sketchbook and 32 high quality non-toxic oil pastels.

eeBoo toys and games can be found in the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store.

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Berg Moov Advanced 7in1 Kit new to kidEstore.co.uk

2009-10-14T13:36:00.001Z

The new Berg Moov range has 3 models and the Berg Moov Advanced 7in1 kit

is at the heart of that range.

With over 150 components, including 3 wheels, the possibilities are enormous. The Berg Moov is effectively a giant wooden Meccano set comes with instructions for 7 safety tested models but you are free to invent your own too.

A great workout for the minds and bodies of children the Berg Moov Advanced 7in1 is unlike any other toy and can be purchased now from the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store.

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Berg Moov reviewed on FiveFwd

2009-10-12T20:45:00.001Z

The Berg Moov sold by kidestore.co.uk has been reviewed by the Gadget Show on channel Five. You can see the review at http://fwd.five.tv/gadgets/toys/berg-moov

New Berg Moov Starter 3in1 Kit at kidEstore.co.uk

2009-10-08T16:18:00.001Z

The Berg Moov has been a great success and Berg Toys have now decided to expand the range into a whole family of models.

Like all families it has a baby – the Berg Moov Starter 3in1 Kit. This is a great, low priced introduction to the Berg Moov Range.

The kit comes with over 125 pieces, including two pneumatic wheels. Whilst you can make as many models as you like with the kit it comes with instructions for 3 – the rest is left to your imagination.

For those who haven’t already seen the Berg Moov concept it is basically a giant construction set from which you build full size ride-on toys and similar models. The extremely clever rubber ring and slotted beam design joints mean no fiddly nuts and bolts, screwdrivers or spanners. Just line up your pieces and roll a ring or two over the struts where they lock into pre-made grooves.

Great fun to build, even more fun to ride – you can buy the Berg Moov Starter 3in1 kit at kidEstore.co.uk.

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New Berg Moov models coming to kidEstore.co.uk

2009-10-07T12:09:00.001Z

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The Berg Moov has been a big hit. A great fun outdoor toy that was also a mega-Meccano set was always destined for greatness.

For Christmas 2009 kidEstore.co.uk will be selling 3 new Moov models from Berg Toys so stay tuned.

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Reduced Prices for Melissa andDoug at kidEstore.co.uk

2009-10-02T11:27:00.002Z

We have been reducing the prices of our Melissa and Doug wooden toys in time for our Christmas catalogue. Come and check out these great value wooden toys at kidEstore.co.uk.

New Orchard Games at kidEstore.co.uk

2009-09-26T15:03:00.001Z

Orchard Games really do pack in a lot of learning yet are great fun for kids. We also love the fact that they are also made from recycled cardboard making them environmentally friendly. We have added a number of new Orchard lines to our range.

We love map jigsaws and the latest one in our range is the Orchard Toys Great Britain and Ireland Map and Poster which has 150 pieces and a 1 metre tall poster to help children learn the geography of the UK & Ireland.

The Orchard Toys Fairy Cottage Floor Puzzle jigsaw is a 15 piece puzzle showing a toadstool cottage,fairies and their mischievous friends. The puzzle also includes a game with two play pieces and links with the national curriculum to support early learning goals in communication, language and literacy.

Budding Postman Pat’s will love Post the Most from Orchard is a fun posting game for all the family. The object is to rush around the islands delivering all of your post and getting back to the post office avoiding the rickety bridge and the flock of sheep.

Orchard Toys One Banana, Two Banana is a fun game where you collect bananas to move forwards but a banana skin can block you or even send you right back to the beginning.

Lucky Ducky by Orchard is a charming game that develops early addition and subtraction skills, pattern and colour matching plus communication skills.

Fruit Frenzy from Orchard is great for introducing kids to fruit and healthy eating. Collect 5 matching fruits to win but watch out for the ‘Fruit Frenzy’ card as then it’s everyone for themselves.

Orchard’s Tutan Loot’Em is a cool collecting game with a historic twist. Collect ancient artefacts but beware of other players looting your treasures.

All of these Orchard Games can be found in the Fun Games section of the kidEstore educational toy store.

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New Automoblox Wooden Car Hotness at kidEstore.co.uk

2009-09-24T07:47:00.001Z

Automoblox are the coolest wooden cars with added educational goodness. We have got our hands on the latest cool new Automoblox Mini models.

The new Automoblox Mini S9R is a muscular saloon car with front and side spoilers, low profile tyres, a rear fin and other styling details.

The Automoblox Mini C9R is an out and out sports coupe with full body kits and low profile tyres.

The pink Automoblox Mini C9R brings the fantastic girly pink version of the C9 Coupe to the Automoblox Mini range.

All of the Automoblox Minis come in a compact package so all of that hotness fits in the palm of your hand. All of the cars can be split down and the connectors are compatible with other Automoblox Minis so you can build you own creations.

All Automoblox Minis are priced £8.95 at the kidEstore educational toy shop where you can see the whole Automoblox Wooden Car range.

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New Cambridge Brainbox electronics kits at kidEstore.co.uk

2009-09-17T12:05:00.001Z

Cambridge Brainbox manufacture a great range of electronic kits with a cool easy to use press-stud system for making the contacts. Kind of like the kits around when I was a kid but much easier to use and no pesky wire to lose or stab yourself with.

The range has recently been refreshed and we now have a full range including the Cambridge Brainbox Cars and Boats kit, the Cambridge Brainbox Primary electronics kit, the Cambridge Brainbox Primary Plus kit, and the Cambridge Brainbox Sensors and Alarms.

We have also added two new kits to the range. The Cambridge Brainbox Secondary Electronics Kit covers the unit 7J (Electrical Circuits) of Key Stage 3 of the national curriculum with over 500 experiments. Key experiments include building an AM radio, switching on lights when darkness falls and building a rain sensor. The kit also includes a digital multimeter for measuring resistance, current and voltage.

The Cambridge Brainbox Explorer Electronics Kit super sizes the Cambridge Brainbox range with over 60 components supporting over 1200 experiments that enhance the understanding of Key Stages 3 and 4. Highlights include build your own FM and AM radio, find out how to control lamps, use switches, use light emitting diodes, series and parallel circuits, find out about AND, OR, NAND and NOR gates, build a flying fan, produce electronic sirens, music, space war sounds, build a vibration sensor, rain detector, light operated circuits, burglar alarm circuits, build a voice recorder, learn about transistors, resistance,capacitors, conductors and insulators…

All Cambridge Brainbox electronic kits can be purchased in the technology toys section of the kidEstore educational toy store.

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Groovy Girls Collection at kidEstore.co.uk

2009-09-17T11:32:00.001Z

Groovy Girls are a great doll for girls that have a more wholesome feel than other ranges such as Barbie or Bratz. At kidEstore.co.uk we love the soft huggable feel to them and the very different feel of all of the dolls in the range – each one is beautiful and very individual. No matter what your tastes you are bound to find one to love.

The range is very collectable and we have placed our entire range on this Groovy Girls collection page.

You can buy your Groovy Girl Now at the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store.

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Supermag Tryron in stock at kidEstore.co.uk

2009-09-15T22:28:00.001Z

The new Tryron range from Supermag is now in stock at kidEstore.co.uk. The new magnetic construction set is a great alternative to Geomag which is no longer manufactured.

The Tryron Supermag Green range includes Tryron Supermag 35 pieces, Tryron Supermag 46 pieces, and Tryron Supermag 72 pieces.

Primarily aimed at girls are the Tryron Supermag Pastel (or Pink) range includes Tryron Supermag 35 Piece Pastel, Tryron Supermag 46 Piece Pastel, and Tryron Supermag 72 Piece Pastel.

Tryron Supermag Wheels and Pieces adds wheels and other pieces to the basic Tryron Supermag pieces to extend the kind of models that can be built. The range includes Tryron Supermag Wheels and Pieces 35 pieces, Tryron Supermag Wheels and Pieces 46 pieces, and Tryron Supermag Wheels and Pieces 72 pieces.

The entire Supermag Tryron range is available from kidEstore.co.uk.

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Can Project Runway get you to the next New York Fashion Week

2009-09-15T11:44:00.001Z

At kidEstore.co.uk we can tell when the catwalk season is in full flow when all eyes are on New York for their Fashion Week. All the glitz and glamour of the catwalk shows are going to inspire more youngsters to aim for a career in fashion design. But how can you get started on the fashion career path? There is no doubt it takes a lot of hard work to get to the top but a good dose of talent is required. There are a number of fashion design creative toys that help children to practice their art in a fashion design oriented environment.

Fashion Angels have always had a great range of fashion design kits and their new Fashion Angels Project Runway range ties in to the hit TV series in the states, now also showing in the UK.

The Project Runway Design Runway Collection includes 4 12 inch paper dolls plus fabric, patterns,sequins, ribbon, glitter and more to get you creating hundreds of great looks. Suitable from age 8 and priced £19.95.

The Project Runway Design Sketch Book is pre-printed with models and includes a design guide so you can create fabulous your own fashion range.

Project Runway Make Up Artist Set contains everything you need to create great make up looks. 21 colour make up artist palette, 4 make up applicators, sketch sheets, 8 coloured pencils and a design guide. Great for aspiring make up artists.

Project Runway Postcard Design Set – Hollywood and http://www.kidestore.co.uk/project-runway-postcard-design-set-hollywood-p-761.html are sets of 24 pre-printed postcards and 12 coloured pencils for you to create your own styles before posting the cards back to your friends whilst on your travels. Suitable from age 8 priced £7.95.

The Fashion Angels Project Runway range is available from the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store. We can’t promise you will get a career as a top fashion designer but you will have fun trying!

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New Wammy construction toy sets in stock at kidEstore.co.uk

2009-08-26T07:32:00.001Z

The new hot craze from Japan has now reached our shores and we have 3 sets of the fantastic Wammy in stock.

The Wammy 100 Piece Set is priced at just £9.95, the Wammy 200 Piece Set is great value at £14.95 and the Wammy 18 Piece Set for just £3.95 – great as a taster or party bag filler.

Each set comes with a construction ideas leaflet to teach some basic techniques and kick start imaginations,

All available now at the creative construction toy section of the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store.

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Manchester United BrainBox Quiz game arrives at kidEstore.co.uk

2009-08-25T11:49:00.001Z

We love the BrainBox quiz games from Green Board Games and the range has recently been expanded to include the Manchester United BrainBox game.

The ultimate test of a fans knowledge of the team and players there are 55 picture cards with additional facts added and 8 questions on the reverse. Basic game play is to study the cards for 10 seconds and then answer questions. The game can be competitively between two or more players where the object is to win as many cards as possible by answering. For the super fan the game can be played alone where you need to be able to recall the answers to all 8 questions on the reverse of the card in order to ‘win’ the card.

In addition to factual questions (when was Berbatov born?) there are test of observation too (how many colours are on the ball?). The game helps develop memory, observational skills plus the obvious ManU fact fest.

Who is the biggest Manchester United BrainBox in your family?

BrainBox Manchester United is available from the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store priced £9.95.

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Tryron Supermag to replace Geomag at kidEstore.co.uk

2009-08-25T11:28:00.001Z

Geomag closed down operations recently having been impacted by competition from far eat based manufacturers. We have always been fans of magnetic construction sets and were eager for something new to fill the gap. The new Tryron Supermag is the perfect replacement.

Tryron Supermag is made with newly designed triangular magnetic pieces they address health concerns whilst retaining the flexible modelling capabilities critical to this type of construction toy.

Tryron Supermag will be in stock at kidEstore.co.uk very soon.

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Wammy Construction Toy coming to kidEstore.co.uk

2009-08-25T11:11:00.001Z

Wammy is the new wacky, wobbly, wonderful construction kit aimed specifically at girls. Soft and flexible it allows amazing creations limited only by your imagination.

Each piece is reusable and can be connected, twisted and bent into thousands of shapes then pulled apart and used again for your next creation. The pastel colour scheme invites you to make the most beautiful creations from flowers, hats and bags to tiaras and bangles.

This is a really hot craze in Japan and will be hitting our shelves very soon. Suitable from age 6.

Wammy will be found in the creative construction section of the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store.

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Project Runway Fashion Design at kidEstore.co.uk

2009-08-24T08:24:00.001Z

Fashion Angels has always provided a great taste of fashion and design and is always popular with our customers. Never content to rest on their laurels they are constantly bringing out new products. The latest ‘Project Runway’ range is aimed more at the teenage market and has a contemporary feel.

The Project Runway Design Sketch Book is pre-printed with models and includes a design guide so you can create fabulous your own fashion range.

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

New Puzzleballs at kidEstore.co.uk

2009-07-24T22:13:00.004Z

Puzzleballs have been a huge success since they were launched by Ravensburger. Kids love the cool globe that they end up with after all their effort and like to display the cubes for their friends. We have now added two new puzzles to our range.

The puzzle pieces are in strong plastic and the cube is very strong once assembled and will take a fair amount of handling without falling apart.
The Puzzleball 96 piece Junior World Map puzzle is a colourful way to learn about the world. It is suitable from age 6 and priced £11.95
The Puzzleball 540 - World on a V Stand is a much more detailed globe and comes with a great V-Stand that allows it to be used as a proper globe. Age 8+ and priced at £24.95

Both available from the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store.

New Bling By Numbers at kidEstore.co.uk

2009-07-02T22:36:00.001Z

We love Fashion Angels at kidEstore, their goods are not only great craft kits but they are incredibly fashionable and very desirable to young girls and boys.

Bling By Numbers is a new range of kits that allow children to customise pictures with gems, glitter, paint and sequins. Children get to spend loads of time on engrossing crafts plus they get a great piece of art to keep and display.

We have the Bling By Numbers Canvas Wall Art – Simply Fabulous, the Bling By Numbers Wall Art – Hello Beautiful, Bling By Numbers Canvas Wall Art – Dream and the Bling By Numbers Canvas Wall Art – Love all £12.95 and suitable from age 8.

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New Circus Skills Kit at kidEstore.co.uk

2009-07-02T21:13:00.001Z

I’ve always wanted to run away and join the circus so I was really pleased when we added the Circus Skills kit to our range of toys. We have spoken to our supplier and got them to assemble a kit with two of their best items, the Diablo and Spinning plate, into a Circus Skills kit toy to make it easier for you to build some serious entertainment skills.

The kits encourage manual dexterity, concentration and confidence.

Get the kits at the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store priced £13.95 and suitable from age 3. Just don’t blame us when they run off and join the Circus.

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Sticky Mosaics creative craft sets at kidEstore.co.uk

2009-04-01T19:05:00.003Z

The chief kidEstore girl's toy tester (our daughter Charlotte) LOVES Sticky Mosaics. Each set comes with some picture cards with the shapes in the pictures filled in with little numbered squares. On a similar basis to painting by numbers each square filled with a number corresponds to a colour of sticky pads that are to be stuck over the square. The final result is a beatiful soft mosaic but the making of the mosaic encourages concentration and creativity.

With Sticky Mosaics Fairy Tales, Sticky Mosaics Fantastic Fish, Sticky Mosaics Jungle Adventure, Sticky Mosaics Sweet Dreams, Sticky Mosaics Unicorns and Ponies and Sticky Mosaics Wild Safari there is a themed set of Sticky Mosaics for everyone.

All priced £13.50 at the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store.

The Perfect Bucket and Spade at kidEstore.co.uk

2009-03-31T22:49:00.005Z

With the holiday season fast approaching thoughts turn to fun on the beach and THE essential equipment - a bucket and spade. You need a good looking bucket, preferably in your favourite colour, and a shiny spade that is great for scooping out large castles.

The Scrunch Bucket is the ideal bucket for travel as not only does it come in a range of great colours but it is made from a light and flexible silicone rubber and can be squished into the corner of a case.
The Scrunch Digger has a unique claw design, similar to a JCB scoop and this makes it ideal for large scale sand scooping. It also comes in a range of bright colours but is not squishable for obvious reasons.
The Scrunch Bucket is priced £5.95, the Scrunch Digger is just £3.95 and the accompanying Scrunch Ball is £5.95 all from the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store.

Dangerous Book for Boys Science Kits at kidEstore.co.uk

2009-03-31T21:55:00.005Z

We bought the original Dangerous Book for Boys for our son and were pleased when they brought out a new range of Dangerous Book for Boys Science Kits. The kits cost just £5.95 each and are cleverly packaged to look like books.

The Dangerous Book for Boys Anti Gravity Kit includes a parachutist, magnets, a bouncy ball and a popper.

The Dangerous Book for Boys Electricity Lab has coins, salt, vinegar, paper and foil for you to construct a battery.

With The Dangerous Book for Boys Pocket Science Lab you get to make a volcano, change the colour of flowers, copper plate metal and more.

Make super bouncy balls with The Dangerous Book for Boys Rocket Balls Kit.

Have some fun with The Dangerous Book for Boys Science Tricks Kit and the 8 science based tricks it contains.

Get the whole range in the Science and Discovery section of the kidEstore educational toy store.

Qb word game is great for travel

2009-03-19T11:56:00.004Z

Qb is a great new word game which can be learned in minutes and enjoyed for years.

Qb uses 48 colour coded dice that have vowels, consonants and combination letters (e.g ch, st, in ) on each face. The object of the game is to form words that can be linked in a crossword grid formation. Think of it like Scrabble without the board. The unique 2-letter combination cubes in Qb are phonic sounds and with the single letters it is easy to form words.

Qb is a stimulating game for players of all ages and abilities to enjoy at their level of skill. Qb can be played in several ways, both multiplayer and solo. There are even competition rules for enthusiasts! With experience, players will be able to increase their score by forming several words on the word-grid, both horizontally and vertically.

The game comes with a cloth bag making it ideal as a travel game.

Qb costs £12.95 from the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store.

New Automoblox R Line Wooden Cars at kidEstore.co.uk

2009-03-17T22:40:00.005Z

The cool Automoblox wooden car range has been extended to include two new muscle versions of old favourites.

The Automoblox C9R is an extreme version of the Automoblox C9 sports coupe. The C9R gets a lower ride height, larger more aggresive wheels, smoked glass windows, front splitter, rear diffuser and side skirts.

The Automoblox S9R applies similar modifications to the Automoblox S9 giving a more edgey feel to this family saloon.

All of the new Automoblox cars are fully compatible with the existing Automoblox range. All cars can be dismantled and re-assembled and feature colour coded and shape matching connectors and passengers. Parts from all of the cars can be exchanged allowing kids imaginations to run wild creating completely new models.

The full Automoblox wooden car range is available at the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy shop.

Educational Toys from kidEstore.co.uk featured in Sunday Times Christmas Gift Guide

2008-11-29T17:37:00.005Z

We are very pleased that the Sunday Times Christmast Gift Toy Guide has chosen a number of items from the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store.

You can read the full article here.

The Berg Moov wooden ride on toy, Horrible Histories Beastly Body Kit and the Fashion Angels Make-up Sketch Book were all featured in the article.

Educational Toys from kidEstore.co.uk featured in the Independent 50Best Toys feature

2008-11-22T12:53:00.007Z

We are delighted to have been included in the Independents 50 Best Christmas Toys feature. In all 7 of the top fifty are available from kidEstore.

We have the Beastly Body Bits Kit, Logimen and Logiblocs, the Green Science Dynamo Torch, Wild Science Big Strange Nasty Plants, the Junior Puzzleball, and Serpentiles from Thinkfun.

You can read the 50 Best Christmas Toys for Children here

Environmentally Friendly Puppet Craft Kits at kidEstore.co.uk

2008-10-19T21:45:00.005Z

We have a new range of make your own puppet kits by Crafty Kids that are made from 100% post consumer waste recycled cardboard with a little added wood and string. Simple to make with a little gluing and some threading but no complex knotting is required.We have four Crafty Kids Puppet Kits, the Bear Puppet Kit, the Horse Puppet Kit, the Dinosaur Puppet kit and the Spider Puppet Kit. Each has it's own appeal and of course with the included paints you can create your own look for the puppets - Fancy a pink spider or a vampire bear for Halloween - no problem.

The kits come with everything including paints and paintbrush for you to do the creative stuff. We can also supply 'dry kits' for schools that come without glue and paints as every school has a ready supply of these items.

The kits are priced £11.95 and are suitable from age 4.

You will find these make your own Puppet Kits from Crafty Kids in the Make-It sub category of the creative section at the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store.

Play Chocolate Fix from kidEstore.co.uk this Chocolate Week

2008-10-16T13:23:00.004Z

Apparently it is Chocolate Week this week (and I thought it was every week).

What better way to celebrate than by playing Chocolate Fix fromThinkFun. A great fun game where you must run a chocolate factory whilst the boss is away assembling orders for a number of awkward customers.

Chocolate Fix is part of the Thinfun games range at kidEstore.co.uk.

New Groovy Girls home page at kidEstore.co.uk

2008-10-14T20:17:00.004Z

We have put together a page for all of our Groovy Girls at kidEstore to make it easier for you to find your favourites.

Groovy Girls are a range of delightful soft dolls that are a great alternative to Barbie or Bratz that have a less pushy feel and encourage more imaginative play.

You can find the Groovy Girls dolls in the Roleplay toy section at kidEstore.co.uk

Daisy's Tea Party wooden tea set from Djeco at kidEstore.co.uk

2008-10-13T21:37:00.006Z

Djeco toys are always beautiful and this wooden tea set is no exception. Beatiful detailing and a lovely green and yellow colour scheme the set somes with two cups and saucers, a tea pot, sugar bowl and cake. It even includes two teaspoons, sugar cubes, candles and tag tea.

What else could be needed for a perfect tea party.

Djeco Daisy's Tea Party is available in the roleplay toy section of kidEstore.co.uk.

TV Advertised Puzzleballs available at kidEstore.co.uk

2008-10-13T20:49:00.003Z

Puzzleball jigsaws from Ravensburger are being advertised on the Tellybox again and as with all of the best educational toys and puzzles you can get them at kidEstore.co.uk

We have the Puzzleball Illustrated World Map, the Puzzleball Junior World Map, the Puzzleball National Geographic World Map, the Puzzleball World and even the Puzzleball Penguins edition.

You can find Puzzleball in the Jigsaw section of the kidEstore website.

Timetracker in The Independent's 50 Best Back to School Toys

2008-10-08T19:50:00.002Z

The Independent newspaper published the '50 Best Back to School Toys' recently and made our Time Tracker by Learning Resources their number 10 choice.

Their article read:

A good idea if you want them to do reading for 20 minutes or a timed homework task. Some like to see if they can beat the clock, others just like the reassurance of being in control of their own time. You can choose your warning sound between the colours so there's no excuse for not being clear about how much time is left. And when the homework is done, it's a handy way of regulating how long they can spend on the Xbox or Nintendo. For some reason, they are less likely to argue with this than repeated shouts of "Turn it off" from parents.Where 0870 8745 437; www.kidestore.co.uk How much 24.95

New card games from Djeco at kidEstore.co.uk

2008-09-30T22:00:00.004Z

We always expect great fun and stylish toys from French toy company Djeco. This is certainly true for their new range of games that we now stock at kidEstore.co.uk.

Djeco Happy Family is a cool version of the classic Happy Families game with quirky illustrations and animal families representing each of the trades. Fun and simple Happy Family is suitable from age 5 and costs just £4.95.
Naviplouf from Djeco is a magnetic version of the classic 'battleships' game that is a perfect travel game. Toe make things simple for younger players the rows and columns are named after colours and sea creatures - so 'Red Starfish' is used instead of 'A9'. Great for concentration and learning strategy. Sutable from age 5 and costs £9.95 .

Djeco Katuvu is a version of the classic i-spy game where players each get a card with a number of objects depicted and the first player to spot all of their objects wins. Great fun for travel and suitable from age 4. Priced £6.95

All of these items can be found in the Djeco range at kidEstore.co.uk

New Superstructs page

2008-09-29T12:48:00.001Z

We have now created an page to bring together all of the excellent Superstructs construction sets at kidEstore.co.uk.

See all of the construction toys from Superstructs here http://www.kidestore.co.uk/superstructs-m-35.html

New Automoblox Minis at kidEstore.co.uk

2008-08-04T20:44:00.003Z

Everyone loves Automoblox cars - the combination of exceptional style and educational features make them a double winner. Now the Automoblox style is available in a smaller package - the new Automoblox Minis.

Priced at just £8.95 the Automoblox S9 Mini, Automoblox C9 Mini and Automoblox T9 Mini are all 12cms long and pieces of the cars can be mix and matched. There is also a three pack of the Automoblox Minis available at £24.95.

Wild Science at kidEstore.co.uk

2008-07-02T22:05:00.004Z

We have a great range of Wild Science kits at kidEstore.co.uk that will suit both girls and boys.

For scientists that love to explore nature we have Wild Science Ant World and Wild Science Worm World allow children to study these fascinating creatures up close and understand the vital role they play in the natural workd. For children with a horticultural bent Wild Science Grow a Bug, Bee and Butterfly Garden and Wild Science Grow Big Strange Nasty Plants do pretty much what they say on the tin.

For budding archaeologists Wild Science Dig and Discover Egyptian Treasures and Wild Science Dig and Discover Viking Bounty allow kids to dig their own artifacts, use real chemicals to clean them, learn about their discoveries and then use the information they have gained to solve a mystery.

Wild Science Heavenly Incence and Wild Science Luxury Soap, Wild Science Perfume Lab are aimed more at getting girls to participate in science, which can only be a good thing.

All of the kits are great fun as well as building brains and available in the Wild Science section of the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store.

New Kid K'Nex construction sets at kidEstore.co.uk

2008-06-20T20:36:00.005Z

Kid K'Nex is a great fun construction set for smaller hands. Bigger chunky pieces are easier for little fingers and the cool extra special pieces make the models great fun. KidK'Nex Puppy Pets come with eyes, ears and paws so you can make your own faithful friends.

Kid K'Nex Penguin Pals includes webbed feat, wings and eyes for really 'cool' creations.

View more K'Nex construction sets at the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store.

Wooden crossbow from kidEstore.co.uk featured in The Telegraph

2008-06-17T17:54:00.003Z

Our wooden crossbow, complete with arrows and target was featured in the Retail Therapy pages of the Telegraph magazine on Saturday 14th June 2008.

A perfect present for kids looking to recapture outdoor pursuits from yesteryear.

The Independent features Moov Construction set from kidEstore.co.uk

2008-06-14T13:27:00.004Z

The Moov Go Kart, Scooter, Trike, Carver construction set was featured in the Insider section of the Independent newspaper on the 14th June.

Guardian features Automoblox A9 Wooden Cars from kidEstore.co.uk

2008-06-14T13:24:00.003Z

The Guardian featured the Automoblox A9 from kidEstore.co.uk in Annalisa Barbieri's artice on 'retro' toys on Saturday 7th June.

You can see the full Automoblox wooden car range here.

Vespa style Skipper Scooter in The Independent

2008-06-12T09:09:00.004Z

The Skipper Scooter is beautiful and now comes with the sheepskin seat cover as standard rather than as an optional extra. The Independent featured the Skipper Scooter from kidEtore.co.uk in the Insider shopping pages.

We believe that as the Skipper Scooter is a balance scooter it provides children wit a better introduction to riding than they get from a normal bike with pedals. On a balance bike or scooter they get to learn how a bike moves without the pedals which are much simpler to learn at a later date.

New Alex Cafe Set at kidEstore.co.uk

2008-06-06T09:03:00.004Z

We love Alex Toys for their excellent styling and the new Alex Cafe Set of childrens table and chairs is a perfect exmple.

The table top and chair seats are wooden with beautiful scren printing whilst the legs and frames are metal for durability. The perfect set up for tea with a friend.

Suitable from age 3 the Alex Cafe Set is £99.95 from kidEstore.co.uk

More Wedgits goodness at kidEstore.co.uk

2008-06-06T08:52:00.005Z

Wedgits are a great construction toy for younger children andare proving very popular.

We have added a number of items to our range includingthe Wedgits Deluxe set which includes double the number of pieces inthe Junior set at just £34.95.

For those that like more inspiration for their constructions we have the Wedgits Junior Design Cards and the Wedgits Starter Design Cards which are designed to work with the Wedgits Junior/Deluxe sets or the Wedgits Starter Set respectively.

Everything you need to turn your child into full fledged Wedgiteer!

See our full Wedgits range at kidEstore.co.uk

Moov to be featured on Paul O'Grady show?

2008-05-16T07:24:00.003Z

We are reliably informed that the Moov may well be featured on an upcoming edition of the Paul O'Grady show.

You can see more details and a video of the Moov here.

The Moov can of course be purchased at the kidEstore.co.uk educational oy store.

Moov at kidEstore.co.uk featured on Pocket-Lint

2008-05-16T05:43:00.000Z

The Gadget blog Pocket-Lint has just featured the Moov in their Dad section.

The Pocket Lint team has an eye for the latest and greatest gadgets and we are really pleased they have picked up on the Moov which will be available in June priced £189 from kidEstore.co.uk.

Build your own Go Kart with the Berg Toys Moov at kidEstore.co.uk

2008-05-15T12:51:00.007Z

The new Moov from Berg Toys is a fantastic new full size construction set that allows you to build real ride on vehicles suitable for ages 5-12 to ride. Made from durable plywood sections and clever plastic bars and ring joints the kit is simple to build yet very tough.

We think building the Moov will be a great fun father-son project for a rainy afternoon. As soon as the sun comes out Moov becomes a superb way for kids to burn off energy and have fun outdoors.

As soon as you have had enough of one Moov model simply dismantle it an build something else. The Moov comes with clear instructions for four different modes - or you can simply create your own. The four models included in the plans are the Moov Go-Kart, the Moov Scooter, the Moov Trike and Moov Carver.

The Berg Toys Moov will be available in June from kidEstore.co.uk edutcational toy store.

You can see more images of the Moov and a promotional video at http://www.makeitmoovit.com/

Skipper Scooter featured on bambingoodies blog

2008-05-14T15:27:00.004Z

We love the feel of the bambingoodies shopping guide for hot mother and baby products so we were very pleased to have our Wooden balance Scooter from Skipper featured there today!

Natalie has an eye for good quality products that are both high quality and come with a bit more style than your run of the mill mother and baby products. You can read her blog here http://www.bambinogoodies.co.uk/

Wheelybugs now at kidEstore.co.uk

2008-04-25T15:11:00.004Z

Wheelybugs are wheely great so we have added them to the kidEstore.co.uk toy range.

We have the Large Mouse Wheelybug, the Large Bee Wheelybug, the Small Bee Wheelybug, the Small Ladybird Wheelybug and the Large Ladybird Wheelybug.

New ride on Kiddimoto motorbikes for toddlers at kidEstore.co.uk

2008-04-24T22:21:00.006Z

At kidEstore we have taken on some great new lines for the summer from Kiddimoto. These ride on bikes for 2-5 years old have great motorbike styling and real pneumatic tyres. The lack of pedals and only two wheels actually helps children learn to balance and move on two wheels without the complication of trying to pedal - this can be added later. Many people believe this is a much better way to learn to ride than using stabilisers on a pedal bike.

The Kiddimoto Scrambler comes in a natural finish with Motocross styling and takes me back to the days of 'Kick Start' on the telly with Dougie Lampkin.

For fans of James Toseland the Kiddimoto Superbike will be just the ticket for your little champ!

Groovy Girls come to kidEstore.co.uk

2008-04-23T21:42:00.004Z

We love the range of soft fabric dolls from Groovy Girls and have added them to our Role Play toys section.

We have Groovy Girl Belissima Ballerina, Groovy Girl Zadie, Groovy Girl Raelyn, Groovy Girl Princess Bubblegum Bella and Groovy Girl Lycia.

Suitable from age 3 Groovy Girls are available from £9.95 at kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store.

New Soft Toy Play Sets at kidEstore.co.uk

2008-04-23T21:16:00.005Z

We have three new soft toy play sets in our Role Play toy section.

The fabric Doctors Bag comes with blood pressure pump, stethoscope, medicine jar, thermometer, hypodermic needle, bandage and medical arm band.

For children with more of a hankering to be a nurse we have the fabric Nurse's Bag comes with apron, blood pressure pump, stethoscope, cough syrup, thermometer, syringe(or hyperdemic needle) and medical arm band.

For budding Bob The Builders we have a fabric Tool Box tht includes a screwdrive, hammer, saw, spanner and electric drill.

New Puzzibits artistic construction kit at kidEstore.co.uk

2008-04-23T16:54:00.007Z

We have a great new construction set in stock - Puzzibits! Made from small hexagonal mats with a linking structure on the underneath Puzzibits can be used to make an enormous range of pictures and three dimensional shapes.

We have four cool Puzzibit Sets in our educational toy range. Each set comes with instruction for some pre-designed constructions to get you started, the real brain building fun starts when children start to create their own designs.

Puzzibits Garden Delight is a set for nature lovers that includes instructions for a flower, butterfly or three dimensional butterfly.

Puzzibits Monster Madness allows monster mad kids to build a mnster, alien or 3d dragon.

Puzzibits Captains Crew is a set for lovers of Pirates! Intructions included allow a skull and cross bones, cutlass or parrot to be made.

Puzzibits Lovely Princess is a set for girls that just love princesses. They can build a princess, a castle or a three dimensional tiara they can wear themselves.
Puzzibits Prehistoric Predators is for kids that love scary beast from ancient times. Instructions included allow you to make an alligator, 3d shark or puppet dinosaur.

Suitable from age 6 Puzzibits cost from £5.95 at kidEstore.co.uk.

Great new Jigsaw Puzzles at kidEstore.co.uk

2008-04-15T20:39:00.003Z

We have added some great new jigsaw puzzles to our range of educational toys at kidEstore.co.uk.

We have Horrible Histories Putrid Pirates, Horrible Science Angry Animals, Journey to the Earths Core and Journey to the Deep Ocean.

Make your child brilliant at spelling

2008-01-14T20:56:00.000Z

I was watching the Channel 5 show 'Make Your Child Brilliant' which is presented by Bernadette Tynan and it was reasonably interesting. If focused around recognising childrens hidden talents and taking time to nurture those talents with various brain training techniques.

Whilst I question the concept behind the show there was some interesting points included. One of them included kinisthetic learning which focuses on learning by physical activity. We will be trying out learning to spell with physical letters using our Banagrams kit and seeing how we get on.

The show seemed to be making the point that all children have hidden talents, and many of them are not recognised by the education system. The show then went on to identify several 'gifted' children and then selected just one for special attention.

New Superstructs construction set at kidEstore.co.uk

2007-12-21T12:24:00.000Z

The Superstructs construction sets are proving popular at kidEstore.co.uk.

Superstructs are an award winning rod and connector type construction set that come with some great characters and safe EVA foam panels that pop in between the rods. Each kit comes in a cool drum (made from cardboard) for easy, neat storage.

Superstructs Big Builder is a 126 piece set with everything for building construction vehicles such as fork lift, a dump truck, crane or utility truck. Suitable from age 4, priced £29.99.

If you are more into planes than trucks then the Superstructs Flight Set is what you need. 134 pieces can be used to build a rocket, a biplane, a helicopter or a spaceship. Suitabel from age 3, priced £39.95

Superstructs Makin' Tracks is a 160 piece set with everything to build a train, an outback explorer, tow truck and much more.

A smaller set, suitable as a tester, is the 70 piece Superstructs Rolling Fun set. This comes with everything for cool cars, trucks and even motor cycles.

New Crocodile Creek Jigsaw Puzzles at kidEstore.co.uk

2007-11-15T22:45:00.000Z

We have some brilliant new jigsaw puzzles from Crocodile Creek in our Christmas 2007 toy range.

Each comes packaged in its own little suitcase for neat storage.

We have the Go Puzzle Horses, Go Puzzle Natural World, Go Puzzle Vehicles and the Go Puzzle World Map all proced £14.95 suitable from age 4.

Buy them at the kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store now!

Logiblocs come to kidEstore.co.uk

2007-10-26T21:56:00.000Z

Logiblocs are a great electronic kits that look cool, are easy to use and tesch children about the principles of electronic circuits in a simple, fun way.

The main Logibloc kits contain a series of modules in an attractive translucent plastic that easily slot together in various combinations to form useful circuits. For instance, link a battery, a pressure sensor and a sound module and you have a simple alarm.

We carry the Logiblocs Alarm Tech, Logiblocs Spy Tec, Logiblocs Logirobot and the Logiblocs Super Inventor kits which range from £14.95 to £54.95.

Logimen are a bit more fun yet still keep keep kids learning! LogiMan Criminal, LogiMan Agent, LogiMan Civilian and LogiMan Policeman range from £4.95 to £9.95.

You can find them all in the Technology toy section at kidEstore.co.uk.

Great new wooden pirate ship

2007-10-26T20:58:00.000Z

We have just taken delivery of a great new wooden pirate ship - the Paragon Pirate Ship.

It comes complete with captain & crew of five, canons, wooden steps, anchor, wooden barrels and of course a treasure chest! At 59cms long (that's 2 feet in old money matey) it is the perfect size for big adventures.

The Paragon Pirate Ship is £34.95 at kidEstore.co.uk.

Great Wooden Shape Sortin Cube from Melissa and Doug

2007-10-06T20:53:00.000Z

Wooden toys are always popular and wooden shape sorters are one of the most popular wooden toys. This fantastic wooden shape sorting cube from Melissa and Doug is just great. At £11.95 it also represents great value.

Time Tracker helps kids manage time at kidEstore.co.uk

2007-09-20T22:41:00.000Z

Our kids love the new Time Tracker and use it to time everything from brushing teeth to turns at batting in cricket!

The time tracker has three coloured lights on its' lighthouse shaped body - green, amber and red. You can configure the countdown to move the light from colour to colour after set times. For instance you could set it for 7 minutes on green, 2 minutes on amber and then just 1 final minute on red - a total of 10 minutes. As the light moves from section to section you can configure it to play one of a library of noises.

You can program it quite complicatedly or just use a default setting and enter your own total time for a simple countdown.

All of this helps children focus on the amount of time available for a task (homework anyone) and better plan their time to finish on the deadline. They actually enjoy working against this timer instead of having a parent telling them 'just one minute left'.

Great fun and a really good homework aid - also widely used in classrooms.

Time Tracker is just £24.95 at kidEstore.co.uk

New Shiny Pink Car at kidEstore.co.uk

2007-09-17T20:31:00.000Z

Lady Penelope from the Thunderbirds drove one of these great pink cars when she was little (probably)

The Pink Speedster is a cool pink car in the old skool style. Suitable from age 1 it is available from kidEstore.co.uk priced just £59.95