Category: A Book and a Toy

When I was a little girl my Nan taught me how to use a spool for finger-knitting. I don’t really remember creating anything of significance...

All kids need to have a supply of resources they can use to create. Pens, pencils, crayons, textas, paper, glue, scissors, and paints are open-ended...

Straddling the divide between screen and paper, these writing tablets are a not-too-digital way of helping your kids have the feel of a tablet, with...

When you start out with your first child you often don’t know what toys to ‘invest’ in. If I could go back in time to...

These types of multi-build lego sets are fantastic for keen 5-9-year-olds. This particular set can be built as a tiger, a red panda, or a...

We have had butterfly wings like this in our dress-ups for years now and they have gotten plenty of use. They are easy to put...

Charades is a time-tested game that kids still love to play. Whether a kid likes to be the centre of attention or not, a game...

Sometimes it comes around to birthday or Christmas and you find yourself thinking that your kids have everything they need. But you can’t exactly give...

Lego sets like this are great for gifting. They come with instructions for building more than one thing and the price point means they can...

This was the first Lego set that I bought for Tobin (my youngest). All the other kids were in school and he would come home...