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We’re Petalina’s Official Little Doll Testers

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As you can imagine with a house of girls there is always dolls, clothes and soft teddy bears lying all over the house so when Petalina chose us to be one of its Official Little Doll Testers we jumped at the chance.

Petalina is the largest retailer of dolls and accessories in the UK, selling hundreds of high quality dolls from sixteen different brands, carefully selected from around the world.

Petalina have dolls suitable for any budget and are phthalate free, carry the CE mark and conform to European safety requirements.

Over the coming weeks we will be putting together a review of one of their brilliant dolls for please keep an eye out.

If you would like to meet the other Petalina Official Little Doll Testers please head over to the website.

Plush Wenlock Olympic Mascot Soft Toy Review

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Unless you happen to live in a cave you will know that this summer sees the Olympics being hosted in London, and you’ll also have heard of the Iconic mascots Wenlock and Mandeville.

The name Wenlock is inspired by Much Wenlock, a small town in Shropshire that is at the heart of Olympic history. Baron Pierre de Coubertin was invited to watch the Much Wenlock Games, which were inspired by the Olympic Games of ancient Greece.

As you would expect from Official Olympic products this is very well made and is part of Golden Bear’s Olympic mascot product range.

It’s a lovely soft plush material that looks like it can take a lot of loving from the girls. When it came through the post Aly wanted to know everything about the Olympics and fingers crossed will now let me watch some instead of Peppa Pig.

I have to be honest and say I’m tempted to keep this soft toy away from the children and keep it for future generations as I’m pretty sure the Olympics won’t be coming back to these shores in my lifetime.

The Wenlock 30cm Plush Olympic Mascot has an RRP of £19.99 and more Olympic Mascot products are available from Golden Bear

I was sent this item for the purpose of this review, my opinion is honest and unbiased.

Mookie Whirlee Ride On Review

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First things first if you order one of these online don’t be alarmed when the delivery person turns up with what feels like an empty box for these are so light. Don’t think that as this is light its not robust as our one has crashed and bashed into just about everything and survived.

These are aimed at pre-school children of around 12 – 24 months but our 4 year old still enjoys riding on it (normally when Mia happens to be on it)

The four wheels rotate 360 so they can move and go wherever the little ones want to. If you have more than one of these they stack on top of each other so are idea to store in a cupboard of if you want to put them in the boot of your car.

I’m sure its not meant for use in the garden but they worked fine for use across most surfaces.

At a RRP of £19.99 you can’t go wrong and certainly stand the test of time.

Lego Friends Review

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock or you have a family of boys, you’ll know about Lego Friends.

Aly who’s almost 5 is into Lego Friends in a big way. It first started when she downloaded an app on the iPad where by you have to dress various people to look like one of the Lego girls and then came the adverts and finally she bought some items with her own money.

She loves it and I can understand why, unlike all the other Lego piece this range is designed just for girls. Lego have totally tapped into the right market and its really good.

In the range you have about 12 different pieces and there is 5 different ‘Friends’ – Mia, Stephanie, Emma, Andrea and Olivia.

The range starts from around £5 and goes up to the larger pieces which are around the £40 mark. The guide age range is 5-12 as like with all Lego you have some small pieces and with younger children they will need some help with butting it all together.

If you have any daughters who are hoping for a piece of this for a birthday or even Christmas I would strongly suggest buying it now and putting it aside as it will sell out very quickly and it’ll be this Christmas’ must have toy for the girls.

 

An ever growing competition.

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Now I have moved over to WordPress and started up the new OneDad3Girls Facebook page I thought it was only right to have a competition.

The prize list will keep growing over the next few weeks so what you see at the moment won’t be the final prize list.

How to Enter

1. Like OneDad3Girls on Facebook – This must be done to qualify

2. Follow @onedad3girls on twitter

3. Tweet – I have entered @onedad3girls competition at http://wp.me/p28kpT-2i

4. Leave a comment letting me know how you have enterred – Each one is worth an extra entry.

Competition ends Sunday February 12th 2012 at 8pm

The Prize List

Moshi Mosters Gold Collection.

Orchard Toys Shopping List Game

Jamie Does…Cookbook

Melissa and Doug Deluxe Art Easel – Review

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Melissa and Doug Deluxe Art Easel

Alyssa was lucky enough to get this deluxe standing art easel for Christmas and I thought I’d write a review on it.

The easel comes flat packed but it only took 5 minutes to put together (with Aly’s help of course). It’s a very sturdy easel and it’s great feature is the fact that it folds flat for easy storage which in our house is a great need.

The art easel is two sided, one side has a chalkboard on it and the other is a white wipe board. With our two girls this is brilliant as it means that they can play together without fighting.

The Melissa and Doug easel also comes with two accessory holders to fix on to each side and the two boards are also moveable, so they can use it from and early age up to about 9-10 years old.

With our set we also bought the accessory pack which is a great addition.

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The set comes with 4 lots of liquid paint, 4 paint pots, 4 paint brushes, a pack of chalk, chalkboard wiper, a white board pen, and a roll of paper.

This complete set is great for young creative minds.

Deluxe Art Easel R.R.P £49.99

Art Accessory Set R.R.P £24.99

Both items are available from Kids Stuff Toys

Mookie Scuttlebug Flowerbug Trike – Review

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Mookie Scuttlebug Flowerbug Trike

This trike is a really great little ride-on, it is recommended for 12 month + and my 14 month old really loves it.

It’s easy to get on and off on and she loves scooting around on it. It’s very lightweight but durable. Our Scuttlebug has been dropped, crashed and it still looks as good as new.

Our 4 year old also enjoys it but I would normally buy it for a child that age as they are just too big for it.

One of its main selling points is the fact that it folds up flat and this is a great help and easy for storage on to put under the buggy or in the car boot.


I really would recommend getting a Scuttlebug for children aged 12 months + to help with their balance.

Scuttlebugs are available in pink/purple, blue/green and black/yellow.

R.R.P £26.99 and are available from Kids Stuff Toys

Flair’s Original Aqua Beads

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I thought I’d write a little review of Flair’s Original Aqua Beads just incase someone was thinking of getting it for Christmas.

On the box is says for ages 4+ and Aly who tried it is 4. On the front it says “make, spray & they stay!” Well after out attempt I’m not so sure. The beads are only about 6-8mm in size so its very tricky for small fingers to get them in the layout tray.


The templates you get to make are pretty good with a panda and flowers etc to make. Once you’ve managed to put the beads in the right order to make your pattern all you have to do is spray it with water 4-5 times and leave for an hour.

After an hour we came back to ours and took if out of the tray and…it crumbled!

To say we didn’t have much luck would be an understatement.

This product has a R.R.P £9.99