My kids dread when the teachers say ¨Ask your mummy to make an outfit¨ and now we can cheat and still have our kids looking good in their school plays…. The company try and help the environment in differing ways if when your child has grown out of its costume you can send it back to them and they will distribute it to a charity and will send you a 10% discount voucher off a future order.

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The City in a bag at £5.95 each provides some variety to your collection of wooden blocks…. Made from wood with only minimal decoration where necessary I think these are a massive success.

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They’re made from recycled corrugated cardboard and arrive flatpacked and are easy to set up and just as easy to dismantle and put away making them great, little space-savers. Like all cardboard toys and furniture you can stamp your own style on them with paints, pens, crayons, or covering them with funky wrapping paper or wallpaper.

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It’s an award winning toy which is basically a very robust shell that doesn’t impose a specific play pattern and instead, your child might rock, spin, sit, step in it, be indoors or outdoors with it, play solo or in a group with it…. It’s all about the imagination and considering that the bambino can be entertained by her dads lunch box for 45 minutes as she bounced it all over the room, I can imagine that kids could be quite enchanted by something that allows them to be silly and imaginative.

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At £105, this is one of the pricier cookers that I’ve looked at. Tell a lie, it IS the priciest cooker I’ve looked at…so far…
Designed by a small family toymakers (it’s nice to know that we still have ‘toymakers’ and not just factories…), this is a pine cooker which has an enamel sink, mixer taps, [...]

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Accessories for pretend play cookers have really gone up in the world since I was a kid!
Gluckskafer are German toymakers of mini kitchenware. If you’ve got a little one that takes their culinary skills very seriously, check out the range at Cotton Tails Baby. Prices start from £7
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Last week I posted about the cooker at Lula Sapphire and this weeks one is a foxy red number from Pintoy.
It doesn’t come with the bells and whistles of others where it includes accessories like food and pots but it does look like a miniature Ikea kitchen. Details about this kitchen seem to be rather [...]

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I’m fast becoming a fan of Moulin Roty toys. This fab pram is from the Louna range and features a pretty pink and green solid wood frame with a a gorgeous fabric body. It will fit most sizes of dolls and teddy and your little one will look super stylish pushing [...]

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I’ve been checking out lots of pretend play cookers so look out for them over the next few weeks. The bambino isn’t old enough for one yet but that hasn’t stopped me looking.
Pretend or imaginative play toys encourage your little one’s life skills. Cookers are for both girls and boys and they’re a great way [...]

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