Quiddler is the card game for word lovers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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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