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The Bigjigs Toys Blog

With over 35 years experience in making award-winning toys, we know quite a bit about what children (and parents) love.

Explore our collection of toy and parenting blogs, written by our toy experts for you and your family.

Day 9 of the Bigjigs Xmas Competition!

Day 9 of the Bigjigs Xmas Competition!

"Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding!" That sounds like Day 9 of the Bigjigs Toys Xmas Giveaway! We are offering you the chance to win this fantastic wooden Fire Station Play Set worth £79.99. This gorgeous red-brick Fire Station and Engine is perfect for 'igniting' the imagination of youngsters. This beautifully crafted station opens out to reveal the firemen's sleeping quarters, pole and somewhere to store the fire engine. Children will love using the fire tower for fire training, whilst using the fire engine with rotating ladder and removable hose to help save the day! XMAS-day-9 1. LIKE & COMMENT on Facebook 2. RT & Follow on Twitter 3. PIN & Follow on Pinterest 4. Sign up to our Newsletter Competition will end at midnight tonight with the winner being announced tomorrow at 9am! Each entry will be counted as separate. For all T&C's visit our Competitions page. Winner: Emma - @4MunchkinsAndMe
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Day 8 of the Bigjigs Xmas Giveaway!

Day 8 of the Bigjigs Xmas Giveaway!

"A paaaaaand of Bananas for a paaaaaaand!" Day 8 of the Bigjigs Giveaway and we are giving you the chance to win this wonderfully wooden Village Shop worth £119.99! For your chance to play shopkeeper enter via one of the four following ways. XMAS-day-8 1. LIKE & COMMENT on Facebook 2. RT & Follow on Twitter 3. PIN & Follow on Pinterest 4. Sign up to our Newsletter Competition will end at midnight tonight with the winner being announced tomorrow at 9am! Each entry will be counted as separate. For all T&C's visit our blog: http://blog.bigjigstoys.co.uk/competitions/ Winner: Amy Tidd
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Day 7 of the Bigjigs Xmas Giveaway!

Day 7 of the Bigjigs Xmas Giveaway!

Today we are giving away one of our award winning playsets! The wooden Blossom Cottage not only features a lift-down patio and garden but also comes with a built in carrying handle for easy portability. With 18 pieces of furniture plus a charming four person doll family, every space inside and out of Blossom Cottage will inspire young imaginations to create unique, interactive role play scenarios. XMAS-day-7 Enter via our Facebook page or sign up to our Newsletter. For full T&C's please visit our competitions page. Competition will run until midnight and a winner will be announced at 9 am tomorrow morning. Winner: Lisa Sargent
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Day 6 of the Bigjigs Xmas Giveaway

Day 6 of the Bigjigs Xmas Giveaway

What little handyman (or handygirl) could fail to be delighted by this complete wooden tool bench? It's clamps, nuts and bolts, wrench and screwdriver are all made of wood so are completely safe, allowing your child to spend hours discovering how to make models (or even fix the kitchen sink!) Worth £97.39.

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Enter via our Facebook page. For full T&C's please visit our competitions page. Competition will run until midnight and a winner will be announced at 9 am tomorrow morning. WINNER: Dawn Louise Clarke
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Day 5 of the Bigjigs Xmas Giveaway

Day 5 of the Bigjigs Xmas Giveaway

Speed away on this gorgeous wooden Balance Bike worth £54.99. This bright red and orange bike is perfect for little riders aged 3 years+ to develop their skills on. The high quality, sturdy design ensures it is built to last and it comes complete with a comfortable padded seat, easy to grip handlebars and padded wheels! The ideal gift for any adventurous youngster. Also available in pink and blue! XMAS-day-5 Enter via Twitter or sign up for our Newsletter on our website. One entry on each portal only. For full T&C's please visit our competitions page. Competition will run until midnight and a winner will be announced at 9 am tomorrow morning. WINNER: Laura Double
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Day 4 of the Bigjigs Xmas Giveaway

Day 4 of the Bigjigs Xmas Giveaway

Have another cake...go on...its Christmas! Fancy getting your hands on this delicious Candy Floss Patisserie Stand?

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We are running today's competition over on our Bigjigs Toys Facebook Page - so head over to find out how you can WIN this gorgeous stand complete with delicious cupcakes, biscuits and party cake! Terms & Conditions can be found over on our competitions page. Competition has now closed! WINNER: Sarah Ottley
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Day 3 of the Bigjigs Giveaway

Day 3 of the Bigjigs Giveaway

Arrrrgghhh me hearties! Its Day 3 of the Bigjigs Xmas Giveaway and we are giving you the chance to win a set of Pirate Skittles! These brightly coloured wooden Skittles love nothing more than being toppled over, straightened up and then knocked over again! Crafted from wood, this classic game is ideal for extended play sessions between family or friends. Helps to develop dexterity and co-ordination - but be careful you are not forced to walk the plank! XMAS-day-3 a Rafflecopter giveaway Good Luck Bigjiggers! For T&C's please visit our competitions page.
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Day 2 of the Bigjigs Xmas Giveaway

Day 2 of the Bigjigs Xmas Giveaway

Get saddled up!

Day 2 of the Bigjigs Toys Xmas Giveaway.

Today we are giving you the chance to win one of our fantastic Cord Rocking Horses worth £49.99!

Saddled up and ready for action, this carefully crafted wooden rocking horse is softly upholstered in tough corduroy. With two handles that are ideally sized for little hands, no youngster will be able to resist hopping on for a ride! A great way for children to enjoy creative role play sessions. Made from high quality, responsibly sourced materials. Suitable for children aged 1 years+.

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Day 1 of the Bigjigs Xmas Giveaway

Day 1 of the Bigjigs Xmas Giveaway

Happy Holidays little sailors! XMAS-day-1 To kick start our ten days of giveaway's we are offering you the chance to win a Marine Baby Walker worth £54.99! Youngsters aged 1 years+ will enjoy learning to walk with this colourful, fun packed marine baby walker. Move the colourful beads from one end of the frame to the other, turn the wheel and see how many different coloured fishes you can see or post the shapes through their holes on the side. Enter below - this competition ends at midnight tonight! a Rafflecopter giveaway Good Luck Bigjiggers! For T&C's please visit our competitions page.
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Travel in Style!

Travel in Style!

Travel in style this Christmas! After our bid for the West Coast Main Line, we have been working in partnership with Virgin Trains to create a replica wooden Pendolino! Pendolino-2 We are giving away 5 Pendolino's to celebrate this wonderful locomotive - enter for your chance to win here: a Rafflecopter giveaway These fantastic wooden Pendolino's are only £12.99 each and available on our SHOP.
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Get Creative This Xmas

Get Creative This Xmas

With days getting shorter, the weather getting colder, and the big day looming - this is the perfect time to get the kids involved in some Christmas crafts! There are tonnes of websites with Christmas craft idea's but we are focussing on what can be made using our Christmas Decorations ... much more than just decorating!

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These wooden templates are perfect for getting youngsters creative juices flowing! Here are just a few idea's that you can use them for: - Paint them, colour them, draw on them, glue stuff on them - simply use them as tree decorations! - Or draw around them on to paper, card, felt or other materials to help create some unique Christmas decorations for the tree - Go the extra mile and make some wonderful home-made Christmas cards - You could even make some wrapping paper! - These templates can also be used as cutter guides for baking i.e. cookies (but please do not bake the templates...they wouldnt taste very nice!) - Paint them and use them to make a 'Winter Wonderland Scene' craft_foam_christmas_ornaments These festive wooden shapes will allow children the starting block from where their creativity can run wild! This pack of 28 Christmas Decorations includes shapes such as Santa Claus, holly leaves, Christmas trees, a Christmas Angel and more - only £7.99 . The Bigjigs Christmas Pencils are just £3.99 for a pack of 4. Alternatively we are giving 5 packs of each away - enter below: a Rafflecopter giveaway For T&C's please visit our competitions page.
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GUEST POST: In praise of the wooden train set!

GUEST POST: In praise of the wooden train set!

If there's been one toy that has truly stood the test of time in our house, it would undoubtedly be our wooden train set. When I say set, it's turned into rather more than that since we first hit the toy shop for a starter pack of train and track, back when my son was about two. In the intervening six years, it's been much-loved and added to at Christmas and birthdays. We now have two large-ish storage tubs full of bits and pieces from tunnels to stations. Yet it's all been worth every penny - even though my son and his friends are pushing nine, it's STILL getting played with...something which perhaps surprises in this age of gadgetry and gaming and children growing up too fast. How it's played with has evolved though. Whereas once, way back when he was a train-crazed toddler, I had to make the track layout and then he would zoom locomotives and carriages around (with the occasional derailment), for the last couple of years, it all revolves around my son creating the most elaborate layout he can come up with. Much pondering and thinking goes on about each design. Other toys and items get dragged into the scene too “ for example, LEGO bricks are built into platforms or stations, or made into signposts for a station name, with a bit of paper stuck on and scrawled upon and placed alongside the level crossings, tunnels, points and more. IMG_00000917 For me, both as a parent and parenting writer, a toy's worth is all about what I call its play value “ how much use kids can get, how many ways they can play with it, how long it will last, how much it fuels their imagination. There's absolutely no shortage of this with a wooden train set and when my son (now quite a medium sized kid who's hurtling towards the tween and teen years) does eventually stop playing with it, I'll be packing it up and putting it in the loft in the hope that, maybe one day, the grandchildren might get just as much joy out of it as he has. Liat Hughes Joshi This guest post was written by Liat Hughes Joshi. Liat Hughes Joshi is a parenting journalist and is the author of Raising Children: The Primary Years (Pearson/Prentice Hall Life) and What to Buy for Your Baby (Carroll & Brown). She's written for a range of national newspapers and leading magazines and is a features writer for AOL Parentdish. Lia was a judge in the 2013 Slow Toy Awards.
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