*AD – the item in this review was gifted to our household for this post. All opinions, as always, are our own.
Whenever I look at the magazine section at Tesco, I feel overwhelmed with toys, colors and unsure of what exactly I am looking at. Many magazines have toys attached to them, when they are aimed at children, and it’s always got me wondering if the magazines themselves are well worth it, beyond the toys? When it comes to GirlTalk, I was curious how Amelia and Robin would both react to the magazine itself, as young girls who don’t have the biggest grip on pop-culture.
GirlTalk comes with toys, of course – ours had a set of beaded bracelets with nice phrases – Kind and Brave – on them, a gold colored unicorn headband with colored pom poms which matches a few of the headbands the girls already have, and a mystery box key chain of a cute sloth in a bunny outfit. These toys are cute – the keychain found itself onto a bag, the headband is regularly used, and Robin has been enjoying her bracelets. The bracelets are a bit on the small side – Amelia couldn’t wear them comfortably, but for Robin’s little wrists they worked well. There were also codes for Roblox games inside the magazine, which Amelia benefited from.
Once we had explored our goodies, we dived into the magazine itself. There was a page full of squishy and fidget toys that the girls had not seen before – which brought a lot of joy and inspiration when it comes to gifts, that they took a look at. Another stand out page allowed us all to find our Donut Name – through putting together our firt initial and our birthday month, to make a corresponding donut-themed name.
The girls primarily took to circling anything in the magazine that they found interesting. A celebrity they aren’t aware of plays Among Us? Amelia plays Among Us! So she circled the characters. This continued through the entire magazine, with the girls filling in any questions and thought bubbles with their own thoughts. There are a spread about Disney animations, asking a bunch of questions, which the girls attempted to fill in as they had seen many of the animations. GirlTalk had a big animal theme this month, with a few questions that were asked to a vet about various animals – which Amelia found to be really interesting, as well as cut out posters of animals that you can put on your wall.
There are also coloring pages in the magazine, including one of four squishmallows, which Amelia and Robin colored in together, and resulted in Amelia asking for the unicorn plushie, which we did in fact end up getting for her. Overall, I was quite surprised at how much they both really enjoyed the magazine. It’s not like a book – there are so many more interactive elements, but despite not really knowing about the latest trends or who many of these people were, Amelia especially liked interacting with so many of the pages and ended up flipping through the magazine several times.
My daughter used to love this magazine, she is 13 now and not bought one in a while, but she used to love Girl Talk.
It’s a fun one.
This sounds like a great and really interactive magazine that Olivia may enjoy too. The donut name sounds fun!
I am sure she would.
I remember loving to get magazines like this as a kid and reading through all the stories, this one sounds like a good one x
It’s so nice.
How fun! My niece would like this 🙂
It is such a fun magazine.
That magazine is awesome!!! I’ve never heard of it, i want to get it to my kids. so cool!!!
It’s a fun one!
You know she liked it if she went through it several times. I used to love to get magazines in the mail.
Yeah! So true.
What a nice magazine for kids. I know my niece would enjoy to read it.
It is such a good magazine.
I use to love these kinds of magazines growing up , especially all the free stuff that comes in them!
There are so many toys!