Category: Toys

[Ad – Gifted Products] I feel like everyone has heard of and has played Pac Man. It’s one of those retro games that have been around for what feels like a lifetime! Pac Man is a simple game – there are a bunch of dots on the screen, inside a sort of maze. There are ghosts stuck in the middle, that make their way out and move around, sometimes chasing you, so that they can eat you! As Pac Man, you need to eat up all of the dots around the screen, including blinking dots that allow you to eat the ghosts for a few moments after you’ve eaten one, before they go back to normal ghosts or, in the case of being eaten, respawn. Sometimes fruit appears that you can eat for extra points. The Pac Man Plug and Play allows you to play this simple game on your TV, just by plugging in a HDMI-drive stick and a cable.

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[Ad – Gifted Products] Robin is a big fan of her travel Yoto, which often finds it’s way into her travel bag and along to any sort of sleepover that she’s attending. As it’s a primarily screen-free toy, we let her have free range of it in her room and in her bag, since it’s not got connection to the internet or the like in a way that she can play it when she’s not meant to be on screens. Recently, after the new Moana movie which we saw in cinema, Yoto have released 5 Minute Moana Stories!

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[Ad – Gifted Products] Donut Dunk is a light up, fast paced card game where you have a giant talking donut doing all of the moderating of the game itself! It’s a simple game to learn, a quick game to play, and it’s super engaging. Setting up for Donut Dunk is as easy as counting out some cards, putting the remaining face down, and then just keeping track of your own turn so that you don’t mess it up.

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[Ad – Gifted Products] Every other Monday we have a board game afternoon at our local Geek Retreat, and this time, we played Snackaroo – which has really fantastic characters! I absolutely love claymation and clay art, I collect clay Pokemon Cards, so when I saw the box of Snackaroo, I really wanted to play the game itself. Robin and Amelia both agreed these were fantastic cards as well, so we were excited to play.

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[Ad – Gifted Products] Robin very much enjoys her Travel Yoto which goes along to all of her sleepovers with her and is often found charging in the front room after a week of listening to stories and music while winding down for bedtime. There are a bunch of different types of Yoto cards, including interactive ones, making this sort of screen-free device perfect for keeping children occupied during more quiet times! One of the newer Yoto cards is the PAW Patrol: Let’s Dino Do This! story card.

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