Push Pull Toys

Here is the latest collection of Wooden Push Pull toys from Janoschik, these are so quirky and fun looking animals.

These pulling animals are lovingly hand-crafted from beech and pine wood, stained and varnished to finish.

These toys are made to an extremely high standard; the photo’s does not do them justice. You will be amazed at how well they are put together; they look amazing in a playroom or nursery.

Which one is your favourite…….Pelican, Fish, Mouse, Kangaroo or Sausage dog?

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Wooden Pull along Fish

Janoschik wooden pull along Kangaroo

Pull along Kangaroo

Janoschik Wooden Pull along mouse

Pull along Mouse

Janoschik Wooden Pull along Pelican

Wooden Pull along Pelican

Janoschik Wooden pull along sausage dog

Wooden pull along sausage dog

Mad About Toys Logo

Every wonder where my amazing logo came from or who did the design? The illustration was completed by Tris at Dot2uk.

“It was really nice to get back to traditional roots on this project. Once I’d sourced my reference images it was back to pen and paper to draft out a traditional looking logo for a very traditional toy shop.

The final image was huge! Allowing for large prints as well as it’s main use which was for the Mad About Toys website. Great fun and a great client.”

More of Tris’s artwork can be seen on Dot2uk website

 

Kiddimoto – Wooden Balance Bikes

As seen on Dragons Den, Kiddimoto secured investment from two dragons Duncan Bannatyne and Hilary Devey for their award winning designed balance bikes.

Kiddimoto make wooden balance bikes for 2 years to 6 years old boys or girls and all of the Kiddimoto wooden bikes are made from birch plywood making them extremely strong and durable.

The range of balance bikes available are vast with something for every toddler and available in every colour of the rainbow.

Balance bikes are designed to be used by young children in order to build their confidence of riding a bike and steering and teaching them to gain their balance before progressing onto the traditional bike with pedals, it’s the new way to learn to ride a bike without having to go through the stage of learning with stabilisers.

The award winning range of wooden balance bikes are available in lots of different models including:- Scooter, Scrambler, Chopper, Super bike, Hero collection & the new Kurve bike these are amazing ride on toys all available on our website.

Kiddimoto wooden balance bike "Brit Pop"

Brit Pop Scooter

Barry Sheen Kiddimoto balance bike

Barry Sheen Wooden Balance Bike

Union Jack styled Kiddimoto Wooden balance bike

Kurve Union Jack styled Balance Bike

Kiddimoto balance are designed to the highest standards being designed in the UK, come and have a look and find the balance bike for your little ones perfect first wooden ride on toy.

 

Wall Murals

Walltastic are the market leaders in children’s wall mural, with 32 highly detailed, unique computer generated murals to choose from.  Ranging from tots to teens,  learning to read and colouring in your own football team,  there is absolutely something for everyone.

 

As for putting up the murals it could be any easier or simple Walltastic have even put together an “Easy to put up in 12 simple steps” guide for you to follow.

 

There is defiantly now a reason not to send your children to their bedroom when they have been naughty with the murals on the wall!

 

This range of murals will create a bedroom for your children that is fun, impressive and which will enhance their bedroom, nursery, playroom or games room? The other good thing about these murals are that as and when the child grows up and moves on from “In the Night Garden” to “Chuggington” you can easily remove the old mural and replace it with another one.

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Wooden Rocking Toys

We have just added an amazing range of “Wooden Rocking Toys” these are different to your run of the mill rocking toys available on the market due to the fact that these can be used as “Ride on Toys” or rocking toys. The motorbike is a 3 in 1 toy, use this as a rocker, ride on bike with stabilisers and when the child is ready just take off the stabilisers and use it as a 2 wheeler trainer bike (balance bike). What a great innovative design and guaranteed to be a favourite with toddlers and parents alike.

Wooden ride on or Rocker

The Turtle also comes with a rocking frame so this can be a rocking toy or a wooden ride on toy.

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Crafted solely by hand by our master craftsman, this rocking wooden toys have been finished to an exceedingly high quality and specification. The wood used is a combination of alder, beech and birch, and is from sustainable resources.

These rocking toys are individually made with attention to detail and quality, which makes this a special and distinctive gift. We are therefore confident that this will be a lifetime investment and a family heirloom for years to come.

The wheels are fitted with hard wearing rubber – like tyres, which are natural coloured not to leave skid marks on the floors. When it’s fitted to the rocker the front wheel is held firm not to move, however when it’s off on its own the steering adds realism. It is fitted with stabiliser/trainer wheels, to help give them support, however as soon as they have mastered their balance you can take them off. The bike comes with a fitted bike stand so it can be stood on 2 wheels to make it as close to a real bike!!

The pictures are not enough to show the true quality of this bike.

Red Toys – Balance Bikes

These cool balance bikes are now available from Mad About Toys. They are made in Germany to an extremely high specification. The bikes are lightweight, fibreglass-reinforced plastic and incredibly strong and robust.

Choose from 5 different colours including a colour for the girls.

Air Tyres

Brakes not included on this model

Wheels have a ball bearing at the front and back

Over steer protected – to reduce the risk of falling.

Quiet to ride

Easy to ride on grass, paths and even hard sandy beaches

Wheels have hollow spokes

Glitter flitter effect on wheels

Fully adjustable seat

These bikes also if left out in the rain will not rust

For little ones 2 years +

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Red Toys - Metal Balance bike without brakes

Balance Bike without brakes

Radio Flyer

Radio Flyer was started way back in 1917 in Chicago by the founder Antonio Pasin who started building wooden toy wagons in 1923 Antonio formed the “Liberty Coaster Company” named after the statue of liberty. The company was renamed in 1930 and called “Radio Steel & Manufacturing” and the first steel wagon was produced and was called the name we have all become familiar with “Radio Flyer” the name was thought of from Antonio’s interest and love for radio and flight.
To celebrate Radio Flyer’s 80th Birthday they created the worlds largest wagon which is 27ft long, 13 feet wide and the diameter of the wheels 8 feet. This massive wagon now has pride and place outside Radio Flyer’s HQ in Chicago you can see the wagon on Google Street map view.

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Worlds largest Radio Flyer wagon outside their HQ in Chicago

The Radio Flyer range is massive from Wagons, Trikes, Scooters and Ride on toys there is something for every child.
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Radio Flyer #93b Wagon

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Radio Flyer #RF33 Trike

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Radio Flyer Scooter #RF555

The Radio Flyer brand is recognised all over the world and loved by you and old, some parents still have their wagon that they were given as a present by their parents.

Ride on Toys

Ride on toys are not toys for your little ones to play on and get from A to B but they also play a huge part in the child’s development. You can see many comments and findings from experts that place strong emphasis on the importance of outdoor play but also to the overall of learning and development.

We all know the added benefits of outdoor play as such activities outdoors can improve the child’s sleep patterns, behaviour and creating and appetite and a desire to eat dinner. They are all so much happier charging around the garden or in the park enjoying the space and freedom and letting off steam

Ride on toys promote a healthy and active lifestyle and an opportunity for freedom and movement that allow them not only to keep up with other members of the family either by means of a trike or scooter when they are not so quick on their feet just yet but also help them develop their imaginative play pretending to be a racing car driver about to win Le Mans race or driving a forklift truck in a warehouse which involves moving and stacking pallets of important boxes.

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Ride on Pedal forklift truck

Let me introduce you to the The Little Play Train & Coal Truck this is unique and totally different, this ride on pedal toy train has been designed to be both FUN and SAFE, while encouraging children of different ages, abilities and disabilities to engage in play together. Each Little Play Train ride on pedal train Engine and Coal Truck can be joined together any way around in any combination and they can be ridden on their own. All the Little Play Train ride on pedal toy products come with their own sticker to personalise your train, so when playtime is over, you know which ones to take home!

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Ride on Pedal train and Coal truck

Magic Fish

What are all these Magic Fish all about? They are not fish that do magic tricks nor are they fish that disappear they are tropical fish eggs that you can hatch, and the box contains everything you need to care for them. The only additional item you require is a tank to keep them in once they have hatched something the size of a 1 gallon bowl and change the water regularly ideally a fish tank with a filter is a better option to keep the water clean and filtered.

Where do these fish originate from? They are called “Killi Fish” Killifish and are found mainly in fresh or brackish waters in the Americas, as far south as Argentina and as far north as southern Ontario. There are also species in southern Europe, in much of Africa as far south as KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, in the Middle East and Asia (as far east as Vietnam), and on several Indian Ocean islands. Killifish are not found in Australia, Antarctica, or northern Europe.

These “Magic Fish” are the perfect gift for little ones to enjoy as a pet and also the educational value of getting them to hatch.

The “Magic Fish are easy to care for they should be fed on baby brine shrimp (also known as Sea Monkeys) which are included in the box which you also hatch at the same time and once the fish get larger roughly an inch you can feed them brine shrimp and blood worms.

These magic fish will live for approximately 1 year but I know some people that have hatched these and they have lived to 2 plus years and grow to about 2 to 2.5 inches.

These are available from Mad About Toys with Free delivery, come and have a look here

Fisher Price to launch Octonaut Toys

The Octonauts are a team of undersea explorers in search of adventure and fun! From their base “the Octopod”, the crew are always ready to embark on new exciting voyages!

This is my LO’s favourite CBeebies children’s show ever since he saw the first episode he was hooked. I then decided to start looking for some Octonaut merchandise but failed miserable there was nothing out there for sale apart from the books that we already had purchased I really wanted the toy characters.

Fisher Price have now been given the rights to start producing a range of Octonaut toys that feature Captain Barnacles and his loyal crew including Kwazii Kitten, Peso Penguin and Shellington Sea Otter to name a few. The range is going to also include the action figure character, play sets and the GUP vehicles that will work in the water (I can see now more items being added to the nightly bath ritual) or dry land.

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Captian Barnacles

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Kwazii Kitten

The highlight of the play set has to be the Octopod Play set that contains over 10 play pieces that include Captain Barnacles and Kwazii Kitten, the entire play set rotates 360 degrees and GUP-A launches from the base of the Octopod to top all this off it also has sounds and phrases.

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Octonauts Octopod Play Set

This play set will allow the children’s imagination run wild as they start re in acting and rescuing the injured sea creatures and returning them to the Octopod ensuring their safe return they will never have a duly time exploring the undersea world of the Octonauts.

It seems the range of Octonaut products have gone from 0 to 100 as Ravensburger have also been granted the rights to produce a range of jigsaw puzzles to be released around the end of 2011 capturing the scenes from the popular TV show.