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Paint by Sticker Kids

Move over, colouring books. Paint by Sticker Kids  includes everything you need to create 10 bright, playful, full colour illustrations. The book contains templates printed on perforated card stock, and 10 pages of stickers to fill in and create the artwork. The fun, vibrant images are rendered in "low-poly", a computer graphics style using geometric polygon shapes to create a 3-D effect. As in paint by number, each template is divided into hundreds of spaces, each with a number that corresponds to a particular sticker. Find the sticker, peel it, and place it in the right space. Add the next, and the next, and the next, and voila! Kids will love watching these pictures come to life. 

Djeco Magic Plastic 

The Djeco Magic Plastic range is an update on an old favourite "shrinkies" children's craft activity that you may remember as a child. Simply colour in the pre-cut shapes and pop them in the oven. After a couple of minutes they shrink to a seventh of their size. They will turn hard and you can then create an individual necklaces with hanging charms and a key-ring and brooch.

Stikbot Movie Sets

By now, you’ll be familiar with the joy that is the StikBot Action Figures: cute stop-motion movie stars, designed to help amateur film-makers make the perfect stop-motion adventure quickly and cheaply.  This build-your-own themed movie set is easy to construct with no glue or scissors required. It includes one StikBot and comes with a sheet of themed clothes stickers plus lots of extra accessories. Each set includes the free StikBot stop frame animation app for iPhone or Android to download and produce your own movie masterpiece.

Aquarellum

Aquarellum have unique painting sets that feature a patented invisible wax barrier which give perfectly neat results every time. The wax acts as a barrier when children are painting making their artwork neat while the vellum paper soaks up the liquid paint making the vivid colours seem to appear as if by magic. The liquid paint can be applied repeatedly to the area in question until the results are just perfect. Aquarellum painting kits are aimed at older children 8 years old upwards and adults (see Aquarellum Junior for younger children). Comes with high quality, washable watercolour paints, a dropper and palette for mixing colours and a quality paintbrush. Full instructions and a colour chart are included.

Galt Magic Puzzles

Exciting 50-piece puzzles with 15 magic patches. This is a range of puzzles featuring cross sections of a Castle, Fairy Palace, Haunted House and Pirate Ship. Children will enjoy making these fascinating scenes, then rubbing the heat sensitive ink to discover what is hidden beneath.

Rubik's Cube Animal Junior 

A new kind of challenge for the youngest Rubik's Cube fans. Twist and turn these crazy animals to create wacky mixed up characters, then keep twisting and turning until you solve the puzzle and turn them back into their original state.

Djeco Observation Puzzles

Djeco Observation Puzzles are a range of beautifully detailed jigsaws with an added twist – first make the puzzle and then find the objects around the border hidden within the puzzle itself. Even better each jigsaw comes with a free poster sized 38 by 61cms too!