60 SECTOR GUIDE CREATIVE PLAY GREEN BOARD GAMES
Wikki Stix, Squiggles, Robotime Robotic Dinosaurs and Solar Powered Aeroplanes are all on the Green Board Games ‘creative menu’ for ways to keep children occupied over the holiday period ahead. Craft and toy markets over the past few months have taken significant interest in Green Board Games Robotic Dinosaurs and Solar Powered Planes – so much so that CBeebies requested the toys to appear on two shows, including Friday Download. Robotime has
GREAT GIZMOS
This year Great Gizmos welcomes new additions to its 4M range. Keeping on trend with a 3D theme is
Art Dinosaur World, where children create their own optical experience by colouring dinosaur scenes and then looking at them through 3D glasses. Alternatively the Light Up Crystalite Mosaic will produce a light-up decoration that catches the suns rays in the day and becomes a night light in the dark.
The Design, Paint or Make Your Own
projects feature modern day twists on traditional crafts. The Design Your Own Jigsaw Puzzle
allows young artists to create their own individual designs or secret messages, while the Paint Your Own Mini Plates kit lets children to design, decorate and display crockery creations. Also from the 4M collection and designed to
GRIFFIN
Crayola ColorStudio HD is a digital play experience, coupling a multi- activity drawing application for iPad (Crayola ColorStudio HD App) with a custom-built digital stylus, the Crayola iMarker. Together with iMarker, the
ColorStudio HD App allows young artists to colour and interact with special ‘live’ animated colouring book pages that move and react as they colour, combining custom-produced pictures, animations, music, sound effects and special effects. For example, in one setting fish swim, doors open to reveal surprises and mermaids sing. Like a marker, crayon, pen, and paintbrush in one, iMarker digital
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proved popular with a variety of sectors, from museums and zoos to supermarkets. They are designed to appeal to both adults and children with their unique features and are set to be one of the Green Board Games most popular products this year.
PAUL LAMOND
Brain Noodles are jumbo, silky fluffy fibre noodles that bend and twist in any way desired. Boys and girls of all ages can use their imaginations to create shapes and sculptures of all kinds and once they make-up their own craft toy, they can play, use and reuse the noodle set. There are six Brain Noodle kits to select: Kittens, Bugs, Primary, Princess and Frog, Puppies and Stripes.
These sets
include 12 brightly coloured
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challenge children’s artistic skills is a range of themed mould and paint kits in a variety of styles to appeal to both boys and girls. For boys, the construction theme of Mould and Paint Trucks has six mould designs to choose from, while the Mould and Paint Cupcake set is aimed at girls who wish to create a sweet treat.
Each kit contains pins and magnets to attach to the back of the moulds so every creation can be displayed.
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stylus creates favourite Crayola colours within the ColorStudio HD App. The iMarker safely interacts with iPad's Multi-Touch display, allowing the ColorStudio HD app to differentiate between the child’s input (fingers, swipes, etc) and the iMarker automatically. The ColorStudio HD App has more than 30 animated colouring pages, pictures, sound effects and music. Young artists also have the option to design an unlimited number of their own colouring pages using ColorStudio HD’s extensive built-in library of backgrounds, music, sound effects and other elements. Artwork can be emailed, uploaded to Facebook or even printed directly from iPad to any AirPrint-enabled printer. ColorStudio HD will include free content updates at regular intervals after launch.
JULY 2012
noodles, wiggle eyes, chenille stems, pom poms, craft foam, feathers and stickers along with a full
RAINBOW DESIGNS
Children of all ages can get creative with Rainbow Designs’ craft and activity toys featuring popular characters from children’s literature and TV. The new Charlie and Lola Lola Loves
range features the Lola Loves Especially Special Wooden Doll Set featuring three wooden stacking dolls printed with outlines of Lola for pre-schoolers to paint. The collection also includes six paint tubs, a brush and a fashion colour guide book. The Gruffalo range of toys features
three craft products and brand new are The Gruffalo Make and Play Gruffalo and Mouse Masks, a complete kit which contains everything needed to bring the characters to life. The Gruffalo Paint & Play Set features the outline of characters from the story book: the Mouse, the Fox, the
LE TOY VAN
The Mixer Set from Le Toy Van is a new addition to the Honeybake range of culinary based painted wooden toys. Finished in powder blue and light pastel tones, it features a junior chef motif and is designed to appeal equally to boys and girls. Retailing at around £30, the set features a mixer with a spinning whisk dial, a mixing bowl and various ingredients; including a velro halved egg and a milk bottle with top that can be removed. Scaled for the rest of the Honeybake
range, the Mixer Set is packaged in a window box to allow easy storage and display, the Breakfast Tray joins other new Honeybake sets for 2012, such as the Cookie, Toaster and Breakfast Tray sets.
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proven to be a top seller in recent years, and Le Toy Van expects any new additions to maintain that trend. All Le Toy Van painted wooden toys
are designed in the UK and ethically manufactured in Indonesia using responsibly sourced materials.
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instruction booklet to help children create many projects. Brain Noodles are non-toxic, feature a reinforced core and have no sharp ends. Other creative products from the
Paul Lamond range include the multi- awarding winning pre-school educational Chimp and Zee craft activity sets.
The On Safari, Pretty Ponies, Makeover Friends and Fairy Cakes craft activity sets aim to help children learn through play. Each craft
activity set comes complete with colouring sheets, stickers, ribbons, beads and wool to help dress up and decorate.
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Snake, the Owl and the Gruffalo, on five wooden stacking dolls. The dolls are ready for painting and supplied with six coloured paints and a paintbrush. The Gruffalo Make & Play Kit features
green cotton printed fabric pieces with pre-punched threading holes ready for lacing. Children can stitch, stuff and stick with felt embellishments and additions to see The Gruffalo and the Mouse come to life.
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