Toys, Games and Crafty Bits for Kids
For creative, imaginative & fun ideas for children look no further! We sell crafting kits & creative treasures to keep children (& their adults!) entertained.
Crafty Kits and Bits
A selection of sewing, knitting and crochet kits by Buttonbag and Djeco Design Kits which offer children a huge variety of things to do from creating collages, origami, scraper foil, sticking, colouring, stitching, stencilling, stamping and so much more. These kits are beautifully designed.
Klutz Activity Books - Books to show you how it’s done and the materials you need to do it! Learn how to make your own tissue paper creations, clay charm friends, spiral designs and friendship bracelets.
Melissa and Doug kits also provide a whole host of ideas. We have paint your own horse and dinosaur figurines, paint your own sun catchers, wooden mosaics, stamping kits and a lovely selection of sticker books and again much more besides.
The Great Gizmo kits give children the possibility to make their own kaleidoscope, to paint a plate, launch a paper plane, create a box robot, create a window mosaic…
- Googly Eyes and Acrylic Jewels
- Plain and Coloured Lolly Sticks and Dolly Clothes Pegs
- Matchsticks, Pipecleaners, Pompoms and Feathers
- Tissue Paper, Crepe Paper,
- Sequins, Spangles and Stickers
- Polystyrene and Wooden Balls
- Sculpey clay and Foam Clay
- Play Dough and Plasticine
Painting, Colouring and Drawing
Visit us in the shop to discover a world of pencils, crayons, paints and colouring books – a vast array to encourage your child’s creativity and allow their imaginations to run wild.
- Crayons
- Colouring Felt Tips (chunky and fine)
- Colouring Pencils
- Watersoluble Colouring Pencils
- Poster Paints
- Paint Sets by Djeco and Reeves
- Finger Paints
- Pads and rolls of paper
- Paint By Numbers
- Snazaroo Face Paints
- Colouring Books
- Stencil Books
Construction Kits
Teifoc - Build and play with real bricks! You can build your own house or castle or horse stable! Or Eitech - metal construction toy to build cars, trucks, planes etc.
Toys and Games
We sell more traditional toys and games too. The Djeco line includes magnetic fishing games, jigsaw puzzles and educational card games.
And from House of Marbles and Melissa and Doug we have traditional children’s card games like Snap and Happy Families and smaller gift ideas from pick up sticks to packs of marbles and other wooden toys.
We have a lovely selection of Pomegranate jigsaw puzzles too featuring wildlife, illustration and maps.
And in the Hobby and Modelling Department we have kites and Balsa Birds among the other kits (see Hobbies and Modelling)