History Heroes – Monarchs – from Harry Hastings

When we had yet another email about a product “we just had to see!” we yawned again – we have to look at all new products because, as we become increasingly well known for quality educational toys, we receive many, many offers of “just have to see” products of which few are of any use at all.

History Heroes is different – very different – a great fun card game that you laugh and learn with.

What a brilliant name for a designer of history products – Harry Hastings – indeed Harry’s real name!

Educational Toys – Snap Card Games

This year we are adding card games to our educational toys line up. We started off looking at History Heroes – more later – then Mapominoes and BrainBox Games – and finally Snap Card Games.

Once we started looking properly at the snap cards from The Green Board Game Company we were quite taken aback both at the quality of the people we met as well as the product – a huge amount of care has gone into the design, production and presentation of these snap cards.

Educational Toys – Schleich Smurfs

The last thing we would have imagined as en educational toy would be one of the Schleich Smurfs – well the story goes like this.

Educational Toys – Finger Puppets

We found Finger Puppets when we were out looking for better quality soft toys – almost stumbled across by accident – after a few phone calls – within 24 hours – we were sitting beside the UK’s biggest fan of finger puppets as educational toys.

It wasn’t just finger puppets but also the finger puppet story sets that really caught our eye. These story sets provide a quality card with a classic children’s story – like goldilocks and the three bears – along with the finger puppets to go with them. Children just love the play acting that can be done with finger puppets like these.

Price Reductions & Favourites

Two things this month

Firstly we have made significant price reductions to all the items we stock from Gibsons – that is all their family games – all their children’s puzzles – and all their quality jigsaw puzzles

Secondly we have put together our own favourites page

All we have here is to take a representative sample of Orchard Toys children’s games and some of the Schleich models – all of them are ones that make us smile!

For the Schleich models we have taken three each of – African Wild Animal, here a group of elephants – Dinosaurs – Replica Dinosaurs – Knights on horseback.