Galt Toys Gets In The Game

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Everyone loves traditional board games and our new range is certainly worth making a song and dance about! Each game is designed to help young children develop their counting skills, colour and shape recognition, memory, visual perception and hand-eye coordination – great learning games for any child.

Whatever Next is an all-acting, singing, laughing, hopping, crawling, jumping game! This new board game is designed to encourage children to use their imaginations, build self confidence and happy co-operative play. Players can wrestle with a crocodile, walk on the moon or pretend to be a penguin and crawl through the legs of everyone in the room! Children will enjoy hours of fun with the family with over 200 hilarious activities, as @chaoskay recently found out on their family holiday!

What’s In The Fridge? Is a super board game to help children use their memory to find all the ingredients they need for a tasty snack, but making sure they avoid any nasty ‘mould food’ cards, which is great for food education!  We’ve had this game reviewed by @multiplemummy who’s children gave it the big thumbs up as a complete bargain!

Board games have been a staple in households for centuries as they teach important social skills, such as communicating verbally, sharing, and taking turns. Now they also have an educational purpose and can increase your child’s ability to focus their attention, as well as being a great way to spend time with your children.

Did you know..? The world’s oldest board game, although sometimes it is claimed to be chess or checkers, is actually Senet – an Egyptian game found in burial sites from around 3500 BC and featured in hieroglyphs. The game board has three rows of ten squares with two sets of pawns. There is a lively debate over the official rules of the game, but one common thought is that the game involved throwing sticks or dice to see how many squares you could move. Many old games have been found in Egyptian tombs, as rich parents often buried their children with their favourite toys and games to keep them happy in the afterlife.

Happy Easter Holidays

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With the UK weather teasing you with a few warm days then April showers and in some places SNOW…You might be wondering how to keep the children entertained over the Easter holidays! Don’t worry we have masses of fun activities to share with you!

The Galt Toys art team has designed three egg-cellent Easter cards for your children to get creative with – simply download the patterns for FREE via our Activity Zone and follow the instructions. Encourage your children to get imaginative by adding extra decorations such as, foil, yellow feathers, and tissue paper.

We also designed an egg-tastistic colouring download which will keep the children amused with seven bunnies and plenty of Easter eggs waiting to be coloured in – once again, simply download the Easter colouring sheet for FREE via the Activity Zone.

If your child does make their own Easter cards or has a go at the colouring sheet, we’d love to see the end results – please upload your Easter pics to our Facebook page and we’ll give them a big shout out!

We also have some fantastic Art and Craft products on the site from finger paints to sponge painting, modeling clay and chunky crayons -something for everyone, to keep little hands and minds entertained. After all there’s more to this time of year than just eating chocolate eggs!

Get green fingered this spring time with our cool new Grow-A-Heads. Just add water and watch them grow!

After a few days, green hair will start to appear. Why not create your own fun hair styles? The Grow-A-Head is a simple yet effective first step towards gardening, allowing children to grow their own unique wild-haired creatures!

Whatever you are up to this Easter – hope you have a ‘hopping’ time!

Giddy up child development with Galt’s new Activity Pony

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Little yellow ponies needing new homes – neigh!

Galt’s new addition to the first year range has been designed especially with little ones in mind for activity and imaginative play. The Activity Pony is suitable for young babies from 3 months and will help a child’s development gallop along with features specifically designed to aid developmental progression and imaginative play.

Why is imaginative play so important? Basically it encourages creativity, which is essential in daily life from early childhood onwards. As Erik Erikson puts it: “Imaginative play is a precursor of conceptual thought – in which possibilities are explored upon the inner ‘stage’ of a child’s imagination.”

Toys that leave room for creative play are the ones that they return to over and over again.  It’s important to start children on the right road to imaginative play from their earliest months of childhood. Imaginative/pretend play will help increase a child’s self confidence and self awareness. It encourages a child to think creatively improving their memory, language and social skills.

The Activity Pony is perfect for any young baby – they will be attracted by the Activity Pony’s friendly face, bright colours, textures and sounds. With a fleece tail and mane, squeaky ear, jingle rosette and corduroy saddle, the Activity Pony will soon become a familiar friend to ride on, lean against during play, or just to cuddle and squeeze to hear its delighted neigh sound. Light and easy to transport, the Activity Pony will go anywhere with its new owners.