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Wooden Spoons at the Ready!

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It is National Cupcake Week,  12th  to 18th September  – Yum Yum, and although this might seem like the perfect excuse to eat cake all week, there is a serious side to the campaign - to help raise money for CLIC Sergeant, who care for children and young people with cancer. There are a wide range of events and promotions taking place across the nation. To find out what’s happening near you click here.

To celebrate National Cupcake Week, Galt Toys have created a super make-and-do cupcake stand to display all your cute cakes.
All you have to do is download the FREE instruction sheet from the Activity Zone and get cutting, sticking and slotting the card together to make our very impressive three-tier cake stand. What better way to show off all those beautiful cakes to your family and friends.

Cupcakes were first mentioned as far back as 1796, when a recipe notation of ‘a cake to be baked in small cups’ was written in American Cookery by Amelia Simms. The once humble cupcake has now taken on a new popularity with an upsurge in bakeries now specialising just in cupcakes. Their rich, creamy filling and chocolate / vanilla icing makes everyone’s mouth water!

The first cupcakes did not have frosting as we know it, but instead were gilded with lard as a kind of cake-moistening gravy – yuk! Winston Churchill was the first person to suggest a kind of sweet frosting on the top of the cakes. He later blamed the frosting for his behemoth jowls. 

But the buttercream frosting now sets the cupcake apart from the rest. Our Cupcake Baking Set will help your little ones make and decorate cool mini cupcakes to delight friends and family. By following the simple recipes they’ll be able to make mini cakes and have lots of fun decorating them, using the icing set with six different nozzles

 

Cupcake Fact: The number of cupcakes eaten last year have more mass than the entire Earth!

Happy baking!

Back to School!

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It is a new school term again… and there is probably a feeling of anxiety, or excitement, in your house; your little monkeys are excited to see friends again, but also nervous, or a little scared, as it’s perhaps their first day at school and everything is going to be new - new teachers, new friends, and perhaps in some cases, a new school.

I remember my Mum clearly saying to me, ‘Don’t worry, you won’t be the only one who doesn’t know anybody, you’ll soon make friends.’ And she was completely right! Most teachers start the first day by introducing themselves and giving all students a chance to do the same and tell the rest of the class something about themselves, for example, what they did over the summer holidays.

I think the one thing that used to make my stomach turn was double Maths – yuk!  I was never very good at it and always tried to sit right at the back of the class so I wasn’t picked on by the teacher!  Perhaps if I’d had these fab Home Learning Books it would have been the perfect start to building the right foundations.

Research suggests that brain development is rapid in the first few years of life and if children lack certain skills, the further they progress through school, the more likely it is that they are going to fall behind.

Our home learning books have been written by experts to support pre-school and Key Stage 1 learning. This series features fun activities and stickers to engage little learners; we have everything from the alphabet, to the times table and writing skills, so perfect to kick the school term into touch!

To take away the school blues – don’t forget we are running the Search for the Face of Galt competition!We are looking for the next Professor Galt, Leonardo DiGaltchi, Princess Galt and Baby Galt, to create Team Galt, who will star on our website and test all our TOYS! Plus each winner will win £250 worth of Galt Toys. 

To enter, simply share a video of your child dancing, singing or telling a silly joke or funny fact. Upload your child’s funniest video to YouTube, tag it and title it, Face of Galt, with your child’s name & location. Your video should be no more than 2 minutes long and if you’re stuck for ideas check out our hints and tips.

Search for the Face of Galt

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Does your child say and do the funniest things? If so, this competition is the one for you. Over the next few months we’ll be on the search to find The Face of Galt!

We are looking for the next Professor Galt, Leonardo DiGaltchi, Princess Galt and Baby Galt, to create Team Galt, who will star on our website and test all our TOYS! Plus each winner will win £250 worth of Galt Toys. 

In our quest to find Team Galt we’re opening up our doors to children across the UK and asking parents to submit the funniest video of their child.

To enter, simply share a video of your child dancing, singing or telling a silly joke or funny fact. Upload your child’s funniest video to YouTube, tag it and title it: Face of Galt, with your child’s name & location. Your video should be no more than 2 minutes long and if you’re stuck for ideas check out our hints and tips!

We’ll then stream our favourites to the Face of Galt YouTube channel, which will appear on our Facebook page.

The competition is open to children aged between 3 months to 12 year olds and will run from 18 August 2011 until 12.00pm 18th December 2011. Unfortunately children over the age of 12 by 18th December 2011 will not be eligible for entry.

All judging will be conducted by Galt’s team of toy developers. So if you think your child has got what it takes to make the Galt team laugh, or impress them with your child’s make and do skills, then please go to www.galttoys.com/faceofgalt for full details on how to enter.

Good Luck!

For full terms and conditions please click to here: www.galttoys.com/faceofgalt