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figures and animals are perfect for little hands to grip and for developing hand/eye coordination.
They can find knobs to turn or buttons to push among many other functions that help develop fine motor skills. There are many special features and details to discover; secret compartments, moving parts, removable pieces and more. Introducing themes from real life and fantasy, the toys help stimulate imaginative play. Jurassic Jimmy is a push-along Dino
Wow Toys aims to stimulate learning through long lasting creative play with many features to discover which help develop and feed young imaginations. Wow’s removable mix and match
FIESTA CRAFTS
With primary schools obliged to teach languages, what could be better for class or home than the Bi- Lingual English-French Calendar with reversible pieces. The colour-rich fabric wall hanging is ideal to grace any wall and children can change the calendar as a daily activity. To change the language, all you have to do is turn around one of the many soft embroidered pieces, providing useful vocabulary and helping understand concepts of time in two languages.
The Bilingual Calendar will help stimulate conversations in both English and French, beginning with the date and moving on to the weather and seasons. Featuring an easy to read blue centre panel, its cheery appearance will have kids practicing their French as soon as they get out of bed. The Bilingual Calendar is built to last, with soft pieces that use Velcro style fixings to attach themselves to the body of the hanging.
INTERPLAY
truck. Toddlers can travel back in time, cracking open the giant dino egg to reveal a dinosaur hiding inside. The seven-piece set comes with a friction powered truck and trailer, a removable dino egg, caveman and two dinosaurs.
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New to the Terra Kids range are four projects which foster both
technical knowledge and craftsmanship. The Assembly Kit Beetle will vibrate and fidget across the floor using a rubber band motor and six long legs, while the Assembly Kit Twirling Prawn uses motors and pulleys to spin it in circles. Add to these the Catamaran, Windmill and Musical Gears set. The Terra Kids Experimental Boxes teach kids the art of wind power with the Wind Knowledge Box, while the Knack of Knots Box hones in on how to tie knots. Together with other nature products such as Microscopes and Telescopes, the Terra Kids range encourages kids to get outside and explore.
CHARACTER OPTIONS
Raising Sea-Monkeys can be an easy science project for the home and with the Sea-Monkeys collection from Character Options children can witness both science and nature. The creatures are a great way to get
children interested in the wonders of science. They exist in suspended animation inside their tiny eggs for many years and hatch when they are placed in water.
Once water is added to the Sea- Monkeys Theatre Projector, the creatures will hatch and begin the show. Turn down the lights and they will be projected onto the wall. Already a popular brand, Sea- Monkeys will continue to be supported
What’s more whether it’s raining,
snowing or sunny, the symbols are appropriately shaped for instant word association and recognition.
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Children from five years old can build scientific equipment with the Interstar Science Optics Creator Kit, and then use the equipment to explore the world around them. The boxed set includes everything required to make three optical working instruments – a telescope, magnifying glass and binoculars – and comes with a 24-page educational booklet. The Interstar range has been extended with the recent launch of four new themed sets, each of which can be used separately or mixed and matched as all the pieces interconnect.
All the new sets are suitable from the age of three, and the colour themed packaging, with each box containing a minimum of 30 pieces, shows the choice available: Animals, Bricks, Geometric Shapes and Wheels.
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with TV advertising, marketing and PR campaigns.
The Wild Science collection offers value price points, strong TV advertising and appealing packaging. The collection has been extended with the introduction of two new lines. The Volcano Factory allows kids to construct lava bombs, mineral springs and create a volcanic island. Lip Balm Laboratory is a new kit, which allows kids to make fruity lip protectors, shimmering balms and solar lip screens to protect against UV rays. Best sellers include Bath Bomb
Factory and Perfume Laboratory, where children can create smellies, and the Weird Slime Laboratory with its rat gizzards in tadpole soup, fake fish eggs and slimy snot, plus the Hyperlauncher Rocket Ball Factory. July will see the release of the new
Technokit Rivetz collection, which uses a patented Rivetz Gun to snap and fix pieces of decorated pre-cut card together, to create giant models, while My Living World inspires a love and respect of the great outdoors.
Thames & Kosmos’ Windpower 2.0 enables users to build wind-powered generators to energise electric vehicles and charge rechargeable batteries. The wind spins the turbine, which turns an electric generator, which in turn charges rechargeable AA batteries. Children can then use the wind-charged batteries to power the model vehicles they build. The six models include a glider, sail car, jet car, tractor, race car, and tricycle. The kit includes two styles of wind
turbine blades and a gearbox with three different gear ratios for experimenting.
The kit includes a 40-page colour manual with illustrated step-by-step instructions for assembling two windmills and six model vehicles, and conducting various experiments. The 133 building pieces included in the set are compatible with those in all Thames & Kosmos Construction Series kits, Physics Series kits, Wind Power, and Hydropower kits.
JUNE 2012
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