Bestest Christmas Gift Guide – Lottie Doll
My daughter loves imaginary play with her soft toys and animals, and this year 9she’s almost 6) she’s been yearning for a doll. But… I hate them. I do. I don’t mind the baby type dolls – but we simply have no room for the baby paraphernalia which will naturally grow with it. And the alternative? A whole array of adult-shaped dolls which cater to a hideous gender stereotype I don not want to plant in my...
Bestest Christmas Gift Guide – LEGO Lord of the Rings
Hooray hurrah hooroo! I cannot tell you just how long we waited for this little plastic square of happy to land on the doormat. We are HUGE fans of the LEGO computer games franchise, but combining that with lord pf the rings has simply leaped the excitement into overdrive. Could it possibly deliver when we expected so much? Why yes. Yes, it could. And some. Lord Of The Rings just works when it’s in the LEGO format –...
Bestest Christmas Gift Guide – Finger Printing Art Set
Brilliant gift idea – this tin would keep my daughter busy all afternoon! Inside the tin are three coloured ink pads, 12 rubber stamps and 10 colouring pencils – make your finger prints and then make them into creatures, flowers and characters!. Hours of fun to be had with this creative gift – and perfect as a stocking filler. Spotted in All Things Brighton Beautiful shop over on Not On The High Street, the kit is...
Bestest Christmas Gift Guide – Skylanders Giants. You know you want to.
Oh, we do LOVE Skylanders. I admit – I was wary at first, thinking this was a ploy by yet another toy manufacturer to suck you in to spending more and more and more… but actually? not so. Of course you can go ahead and collect all the figures if you want to – but you don’t HAVE to. And this new game, Skylanders Giants? It works with the old figures too. HURRAH for Skylanders! So – first up, what do you...
Bestest Christmas Gift Guide – LEGO The Hobbit 79000: Riddles for the Ring
Well, there’s not much to go wrong with this set, is there? It’s LEGO, it’s The Hobbit… you get Gollum… ergo, your recipient will love it! If (along with the rest of the parenting world) you missed out on the LEGO Minecraft set – *shakes fist at LEGO Minecraft Gods* – then your next best bet has got to be a Hobbit set, surely? This one, The Riddle for the Ring, is a pretty neat set, and has...
Bestest Christmas Gift Guide – The LeapPad 2
Aah, the Leap Pad. There’s no escaping it – todays children are Digital Natives. They want the tech, and they know how to use it FAR faster than you. It’s true. But really – do you WANT your 6yr old let loose on your iPad? No, me either. (I liked a recent comment I saw on PC Advisor about this; “the iPad is too big for smaller hands; the iPad links to the bad, mad world of the Internet; kids on iPads keep...