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Let’s Grow! With Great Little Trading Company | AD

Tuesday, June 1, 2021 Permalink
Review of Great Little Trading Company's Wooden Garden Toy

Disclosure: We were sent the Wooden Garden Toy by Great Little Trading Company, in exchange for this blog post. All words and opinions are my own. As a family, we love to grow things. We've always grown a few bits here and there, but over the past couple of years our efforts have expanded massively, to a home veg plot, and more recently an allotment too. Gardening is definitely a family affair for us, and I think it's so important for children to discover the joy of nature and of growing. When I saw Great Little Trading Company's newest addition to their role play toy range, I couldn't have been more excited - the wooden Growing Garden toy, perfect for the ...

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Encouraging creativity and play with BRIO | AD

Tuesday, November 26, 2019 Permalink
An aerial shot of a little boy playing with a figure of 8 train track. Including BRIO Smart Tech Lift and Load Crane and Smart Tech Lifting Bridge

We've been huge fans of BRIO for a long time now and when we tested their new BRIO Smart Tech range last year I thought it was a fantastic addition to their range which transforms the BRIO world into a truly interactive play experience. Smart Tech adds a whole new dimension to Brio. It’s fully compatible with the rest of the Brio World railway system and uses RFID technology to bring it to life, allowing your child to play with it in a new and exciting way; creating, experimenting, and customising their imaginative world. The Smart Tech Engine is the key to the interactive world. It's battery powered and propels itself around the track, interacting with a series of tunnels and other ...

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Maximising Toy Storage Space in an awkwardly shaped Playroom | AD

Sunday, October 13, 2019 Permalink
Alba Stackable Playroom toy storage from Great Little Trading Company, using corner shelves to create best use of space

Disclosure: This is advertisement feature in collaboration with Great Little Trading Company, who kindly provided us with the Alba toy storage One of the things we were most excited about with the new layout of our house was the addition of a dedicated playroom for the boys. I'm not sure who was the most excited, me or them! Although we've made good use of toy storage solutions in the past, we've never had a room which was solely for the purpose of play, so it feels like a huge luxury to have that space now. Being clever with storage Despite our joy at having a playroom, we do have a few issues with the room that mean clever toy storage is absolutely key. ...

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar is Turning 50! {Ad}

Friday, May 17, 2019 Permalink
Little boy dressed in Very Hungry Caterpillar costume, holding up the book of The Very Hungry Caterpillar

We're big fans of The Very Hungry Caterpillar in this house and this week has been his 50th birthday! He features very regularly in our bedtime story rotation, and I'm always using the phrase "And he was STILL hungry" about my two boys, who have insatiable appetites! To celebrate the 50th anniversary, there are a whole host of Very Hungry Caterpillar products available to buy. We were lucky enough to be sent some of them to try out, so if you're a fan too, here are some of our favourites... For Bug Hunters... Max is learning all about bugs, minibeasts, and butterflies at school at the moment, so this Bug Catcher and Viewer has been a huge hit. We've been out in ...

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Transforming Your Child’s Play with Brio Smart Tech | AD

Monday, November 5, 2018 Permalink
Brio Smart Tech railway system, set up in living room, with little boy playing with it

This is a sponsored review post in collaboration with Brio and Mumsnet For a long time now we've been huge fans of Brio in our house. It's one of those classic childhood toys that appeal perfectly to children and adults alike. I know there's nothing my husband loves more than creating a hugely complex train track around the ground floor of our whole house, and my son, Max, loves nothing better than playing with it all once it's built. My youngest, Ben, also likes to get in on the action, destroying the train track, much to his brother's disgust! But I'm sure in no time he'll be joining in properly with it all and we'll have a whole family of Brio ...

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Make Space For Play {With The Great Little Trading Company} | AD

Thursday, October 18, 2018 Permalink
The Gulliver toy storage unit from the Great Little Trading Company

When Max was little, I remember saying that we wouldn't let toys overtake our living room. Sadly we don't have a spare room in our house to turn into a playroom, and I was determined that our living room would stay an adult space, with toys tidied away in the evening. But, as I'm sure happens to us all, slowly the toys started to invade our house. First there was the jumperoo, then the toy cars, then the collection of Toy Story toys. And then Ben, our second child, came along and somewhere along the line we lost all sight of our adult space, just sweeping all the toys to one side once bedtime came along. The Great Little Trading Company ...

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A Super Start To School With PJ Masks | AD

Friday, August 31, 2018 Permalink
A super start to school with PJ Masks. A young boy is jumping in the air, wearing a green PJ Masks mask and cape

I still can't get over the fact that soon I'll have a little boy in school. I keep getting asked if we're both ready, and I'm so conscious that I want to make sure that Max is as ready as he can be (even if I'll never be ready!). He's a child who often finds it difficult to adjust to change, and it's clear that school has been on his mind a lot lately. Despite the fact that outwardly he seems really excited about it all, there are lots of signs that he's more anxious about it than he's letting on. One of the things I've worried about most is the fact that he's really not interested in reading, writing, or ...

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