Games and Puzzles

Six colouring crayons to get arty in the bath and a star-shaped sponge to wipe it off again.

Age suitability: 3 years plus.

Although there's no warning on the packet, it might be wise to avoid colouring the grout between tiles.

Six brightly-coloured ducks and one wooden fishing rod.

Each duck is about 8 x 6 x 7cm.

Age suitability: 2+ years old

Watch your savings grow with this sweet little piggy bank and, if you feel you need to raid it, the back comes off easily, being held on with magnets.

Age suitability: 3-6 years old. 

Two garden tools, sized for small hands, for budding gardeners.

A trowel and a rake, with wooden handles and metal heads.

Age suitability: 3-8 years.

From Janod's Quiet Time range, this set consists of 3 pirate-themed boards to fill in with 660 foam pieces.

Each picture measures about 26 x 22 cm.

Age suitability: 5-8 years old.

The Djeco Silhouette Puzzle range is a collection of thick cardboard jigsaw puzzles for children.  They vary in complexity with 24 piece ones for 3 year oldsà to 54 piece ones for 5+ years old.  They have beautiful child-friendly illustratations, often with a fairytale theme.  The pieces are large, two to three inches across, and so easy for children to grasp but not so easy to lose. The puzzles come in gorgeous distinctively shaped packaging but the puzzles themselves are rectangular.

This one is a 36 piece puzzle for 4 year olds and features a knight setting out by moonlight from his castle, sword drawn and accompanied by his trusty hound.

42 x 30cm - 16" x 12"

Age suitability - 4+

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Four rather worried-looking wooden eggs and matching wooden spoons for a cleaner, safer egg-and-spoon race.

Eggs are 6 x 4.5cm and painted with water-based paint.

FSC® wood.

Age suitability: 3+years.

Children can play darts without damaging themselves or the plasterwork with this magnetic darts set.

Two levels of difficulty: on one side is a large conventional target with smaller targets on the rear.

Comes with six darts which you lob gently at the board.

Board measures 65 x 44 cm but rolls up for easy storage.

Age suitability: 4-8 years.