Games and Puzzles

Use the fishing rod to hook the two little plastic fish and the two boats.

The boats and fish are about 9 x4 x 5cm

Promotes dexterity and concentration. 

Age suitability: 2+ years.

Sixteen large coloured counters to sort into the correct tubes. Once the child has mastered that, there are six double-sided cards to challenge them.  These show different combinations of counters in the tubes and the child has to reproduce them by putting the correct counters in the appropriate tubes in the right order.

31 x 8 x 8 cm

Age suitability: Two years plus.

Shape sorter with 6 blocks made from FSC™-certified wood with water-based paints.

To retrieve the blocks, the lid, normally held on by magnets, lifts off.

18 x 18 x 15cm

Age suitability: 18 months plus.

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. 

Seven zoo animals, chunky enough to stand up on their own, on a wooden board.

30 x 21 x 2.1 cm with the pieces being 1.5 cm wide.

Age suitability: 18 months plus.

Complete three beautiful butterfly pictures by carefully applying the coloured sand to the adhesive patches on the pictures.

Each picture should take about half an hour to complete.

Pictures measure about 22 x 12 cm.

Age suitability: 6-10 years old.

Gild these pretty Bollywood pictures by carefully applying the metallic sheets to the adhesive patches on the boards.

Age suitability: 7+ years.

Make these pretty unicorn pictures by sprinkling glitter over the adhesive patches on the picture boards. Each adhesive patch is numbered so you know which of the four tubes of glitter to use.

Age suitability: 7-12 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.

Layer up each picture by sticking on the cut-outs.

Age suitability: 7+ years.

Creative activities for dinosaur lovers.

• Wooden stegosaurus model to construct and paint.
• Excavation kit to chip away at in order to find the dinosaur tooth and claw.
• Dinosaur poster to scratch.
• Two dinosaur painting by numbers.
• One 3D dinosaur to scratch.

Age suitability: 7 plus 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.

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Make a fish, a dolphin, a shell and a seahorse.

24 sheets of 20 x 20 cm shiny, metallic paper. 8 different prints so, for example, you can make 3 fish using one type of paper, 3 with the other.

Clear instructions!

Age suitability: 7 

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