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Children can create a tasty, healthy lunch or side dish with Educo’s new Healthy Salad set. Felt lettuce leaves, wooden vegetables and salad utensils are all included to help develop imaginative role-play, fine motor skills and a healthy lifestyle. Meanwhile, Brio’s pull along Dachshund dog has been around since 1953, although the Large Dachshund is actually 50 per cent bigger than the original. Finally, Plan Toys’ Build-A-Robot
features four interchangeable heads with different moods. The toy helps to
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teach children to express their emotions, with the arms and legs being movable for more free expression to develop hand-eye coordination.
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The Big Adventures range comprises of four robust play-sets which encourage kids to ‘think big’ with creative play. The Big Adventures Fire Station includes a fire engine which can be taken up in the lift to the top floor, before speeding through the flip doors and own the spiral ramps, while Big Adventures Side by Side Racing offers classic ramp and vehicle play with
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three levels of stunt racing, car launch levers and flip down chequered flags. Also in the range are the Big
Adventures Mega Crane – a 360 degree spinning crane, wrecking ball, barrels and boulders – and the Big Adventures Construction Peak Road and Rail, which allows kids to load rocks into trucks and trains with a three-way boulder auto loader. It has a working lift bridge and railroad crossing gates.
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My First Garage is the entry-level model in Le Toy Van’s garage and vehicle line. It features two floors, a revolving car wash, petrol pump, a curved wooden car ramp and car lift with a spring loaded mechanism. It also comes with one car. Existing Le Toy Van play-sets include the London Car Set and the Car Playmat. Play features include a working lift, removable signs and a tactile rubber car wash mechanism that can be rotated. My First Garage retails for around £39.99.
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My First Scooter is aimed at toddlers from the age of two and promises to grow with them. They start on four sturdy wheels and, once they have gained confidence, one of the front wheels can be removed to create a three-wheel scooter. After this, one of the rear wheels comes off to create a more grown up scooter. Available in pink or blue, My First Scooter also has coordinating soft grab hand grips. It can also be folded down when not in use for easy storage.
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Rainbow has a number of character backpacks in its portfolio. The latest addition is the Wibbly Pig Plush backpack, which features the character’s face and wiggly ears, as well as strong red adjustable straps. There is also a lightweight backpack which features Wibbly’s peach coloured ears and nose made from PVC, a peach plush face and ears which flap as the child runs along.
A backpack has also been added to The
Very Hungry Caterpillar collection with expanding caterpillar face, while patchwork elephant Elmer is also new to Rainbow’s backpack range.
The Build it with Bob range currently includes three different sized sets, all of which enable children to build structures with real mini clay bricks and cement. Each set contains 30, 50 or 70 mini clay bricks and easy to follow instructions to help children build structures, such as Bob’s house or a clock tower. All sets in the range feature bricks, cement, trowel, building board, mixing bowl, building plans and a large
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wipe clean playmat, plus a poseable Bob figure. Additional packs containing extra Dizzy’s cement and Scoop’s extra bricks are also available.
Maps also has soft construction toy Squashblox in its pre-school line-up. The construction panels can be used to build various structures, while they can also be used as a playmat for babies, tumble floor mat and a storyboard that can hold felt figures.
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Schleich’s Farm Life collection of figures and play-sets remains a popular theme with pre- schoolers. It includes animals, accessories and large farm buildings to recreate a complete farm experience. Children are able to learn about favourite animals found on the farm such as pigs, cows and sheep, while there are also baby animals to complete the family.
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