Category: Toys

[Ad- gifted product] When it comes to riding bikes, Amelia, Kai and Robin have all been enjoying biking around for the last two years! The girls have gone from being quite wobbly – Amelia with training wheels – to confident and flying along. Amelia’s training wheels have even come off. They love taking their bikes out and riding around parking lots or along sidewalks. We also have started going on night time walks around, bringing flash lights with us, and decked their bikes out with wheel lights, in case they want to ride in the late evenings. The Mini HORNIT seemed like a perfect addition and fit with our biking set up!

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[Ad- gifted product] Some toys I understand more than others, from the start. It’s easy to tell how to play with a doll or how to put together a puzzle, but when we saw the Pindaloo, we were curious, wondering exactly how this toy was played with. The Pindaloo is actually a really simple ball game, where you are looking to sort of throw and catch a ball in a curved pipe, building up momentum to juggle the ball in and out of this tube. It’s a simple idea, but it does take quite a bit of practice to master. Thankfully, there are tons of YouTube videos to help you get to grips with the toy.

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[Ad- gifted product] It’s no secret that we play a lot of board games at our home. Dann and I have a regular board game night, with all of our friends, every other week. The children, seeing and being surrounded by our board game collection, have taken an interest in board games, finding family favorites like the Minecraft Board Game and Flip Out, a game about flipping pancakes. So, when we went to Smyth’s to find Kid’s Against Maturity, they were delighted, and eager to point out all of the board games from Smyth’s that we have already played.

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[Ad- gifted product] When it comes to bugs, Nick Baker is the main guy making all of these amazing bug kits. We’ve previously had a look at the Ant World kit, which found a lot of love in our home, so we were pretty interesting in playing around with the Bug Safari kit, especially as Amelia and Robin had a big interest in bugs – and not just ants. The Bug Safari kit is perfect for those looking to explore a local forest or backyard, finding insects and trying to notice details about them that they may not see in general play. It often take quite a bit of effort to stop and quietly look around, so this kit provided a nice amount of change from the normal way the girls play!

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[Ad- gifted product] The sun is out, the birds are tweeting each day, and everything seems a bit warm and bright during the day. Now that the weather has gotten better, children are out playing outside, in nature. Bright Minds has tons of nature toys to help children better interact and even learn from the world around them – a much needed break from screens and always being in front of video games. Kai, actually, started playing a Roblox game all about becoming an ant and living in an ant colony. As he had this new fascination with ants, we wanted to bring that interest to the real world, so we decided to get Kai a starter ant farm. He’s quite excited about having a “proper” ant farm (IE, one with a queen ant) but those last for 30 years as an active farm, so we figured a starter farm would be better for him. To get ready to get ants, we actually picked up three items from Bright Minds.

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