Here are some other ideas that we at Families like! Award winning Kiddimoto help children develop their skills of balance and coordination and make a seamless transition to a pedal bike without the use of stabilisers. Wide variety of designs and can be personalised! For 2-6yrs. From www.kiddimoto.co.uk £59.99
Toddlers will love to play, stack, tower and build with the Alphabet Zoo ABC House Blocks. They develop their motor skills while creating buildings complete with roofs, windows and doors. Made of high quality wood and non toxic paint. For age 12 months + RRP £28 from www.bibsandstuff.com
Wobble Deck is an exciting electronic, balance board featuring four games. Test skill, memory and agility with hilarious challenges. www. worldsapart.com for stockists. RRP £24.99
Personal gifts are unique and always a hit with relatives. Maisie Moo Fingerprint Jewellery offer beautiful handmade silver jewellery, keepsakes and gifts using fingerprints, handprints and footprints of babies, children and adults. All the pieces are made to order and Maisie Moo Jewellery are completely unique just like a fingerprint. (www.maisiemoojewellery.co.uk). Tiny Touches Jewellery create beautiful jewellery that captures your child’s fingerprint in fine silver. Handcrafted products include charms, pendants, keyrings, cufflinks and more. Prices from £25. Tiny Touches Jewellery (www.tinytouchesjewellery.co.uk).
Makedo Every parent knows that feeling, when you’ve spent a fortune on the latest high-tech toy only to find your children much more engrossed playing with the packaging! Makedo’s brilliant idea is to help those kids make better use of the packaging! It supplies a Safe-saw for cutting and punching through materials safely, Re-clips and Lock-hinges for connecting – the child’s creativity and instinct for building things from boxes, cardboard boxes and wrappings then takes over from there. From £7.99 SRP from www.marbeltoys.co.uk Give a garden! Just £12 will provide training in how to build a Keyhole Garden for one African family, so they can grow 3 meals a day. www.sendacow.org.uk Carddies have launched two new sets for Christmas - Carddies Nativity and Carddies Farm. Each set contains 12 double-sided, hand-drawn characters made of card with stands, 12 colouring pencils and a hand-drawn card scene as a backdrop, all packaged in a sturdy box so they can be "taken with you wherever you go". There are lots of other themes. £8.99 www.carddies.com
Christmas Gifts Local Surrey mum of two, Lesley Hill, hopes that her new product will help take the headache out of travelling and eating out with young children. The Roll-Up Chalk Mat is a blackboard on one side, a wipeclean placemat on the other and it rolls up to tuck into your bag neatly, ready to take everywhere with you. This clever new product for the UK is the design of Lesley and her friend Louise who have teamed up to form Les & Lou. Lesley is no stranger to business, having been a partner at a Big 4 firm in London before becoming a full-time Mum, but she admits that it’s completely different taking an idea from scratch and getting it off the ground. “It’s so exciting though, and the reward will be seeing other parents and their children getting enjoyment out of our product” sums up Lesley. There’s a special introductory offer of a chalk mat, plus chalk and free delivery for just £9.99 – perfect for Christmas! See www.lesandlou.co.uk
The Little Letter Bird delivers brightly coloured packs to children each week, containing everything they need to create a craft. Aimed at 3-6 year olds, there are two Christmas packs: Pack 1 is £15 and includes a Christmas card, craft and six weekly crafts commencing in the New Year. Pack 2 is £20 and includes a Christmas card, craft, gift and six weekly crafts commencing in the New Year. Pre-order deadline Dec 14. www.littlelettercompany.co.uk
Clothes full of Character for Tots & Toddlers full of Fun! Check out the Monkey + bob website for a collection of colourful, characterful clothing for boys and girls from 3 months up to 5 years. Monkey + bob offers a range of easywear/easycare clothing designed to be comfortable, practical and adorable. The designs are kept purposefully simple allowing maximum freedom of movement, and they have the minimum number of fastenings to make dressing easy. All the garments are machine washable and made from organic cotton, so they’re ethically sound and beautifully soft against delicate young skin. They also have a special secret Monkey + bob pocket great for hiding secret stashes of hidden toddler treasure! Clothes are available online at www.monkeyandbob.co.uk and at www.notonthehighstreet.com
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