Toys for 8 Year Olds

A brilliant concept and fascinating STEM kit.  Inside each bloc is a printed circuit board and each block is colour coded for the function it performs.  Plug the blocs together in different sequences to create 10 different projects, including a Rain Detector and a Chocolate Guard.  Mix and match with other sets to build more complex projects.  

Learn the art of quilling and use it to decorate cards with pre-printed with cute bugs.  Includes 8 cards, quilling tools and instructions, 180 pieces of quilling paper and googly eyes.

Over 40 fascinating, environmental STEAM experiments to perform and learn about climate, weather changes, the greenhouse effect and much more!  Over 50 pieces and 42 project cards with lots of fun facts to stimulate your child’s natural curiosity, including creating a water tornado, constructing a plant maze and learn to be a little meteorologist.  With clear project instructions for parents to teach complex and thought-provoking ideas.

Create awesome 3D models using flexible plastic tubes, connectors, wheels and more!  This STEAM set encourages critical thinking and dexterity to assemble over 200 pieces by following the templates or inventing your own designs.

Bumper 32-piece pretty stencil set with over 150 stencilling shapes in plastic stencils, colouring pencils, paper and pencil sharpener in a useful storage box.

Bumper 32-piece stencil set with over 150 stencilling shapes in plastic stencils, colouring pencils, paper and pencil sharpener in a useful storage box.

Discover different scientific principles by performing over 40 fun STEM projects, including tabletop volcanic eruptions, build a clock powered by lemon, make a square bubble and other fascinating activities. The set has over 50 pieces and includes an 18page booklet and 42 project cards.

Inspiring activities, games and art projects for dinosaur mad children, you even make the dinosaur playing pieces to play the game!  The five STEAM based activities and a game will engage your child and encourage an interest in the prehistoric world.

A STEAM science kit for budding young astronomers to make a Solar System planetarium model and 2-way space slide projector.  Engaging projects that are useful when you complete them and the set includes a large, informative poster and set of glow in the dark stars. 

Amaze your friends with these six fun electric circuit science projects.  Activities and games include Anatomy Buzzer game, a Morse Code machine, Solar System Electro Quiz and more! Engaging and electrifying for younger children.  

Magnetic board, word magnet and pen set with Reception Year words

Create a 3-D card dressing up mask by bending and slotting together pre-cut card pieces to make a shark mask. 

Create a 3-D card dressing up mask by bending and slotting together pre-cut card pieces to make a T-Rex mask. 

Attract, feed and observe birds with this easy to fix bird feeder.  The large portal with one-way mirror allows you to observe the birds without disturbing them. Supplied with Garden Bird Guide.  Bird food not included.

Build an ant habitat and observe their fascinating life.

It’s spelling but not as we know it!  A magnificent mound of fun spelling games with 100 cards covering Key Stages 1 & 2.  The cards have characters recognisable from the David Walliams children’s books, beautifully illustrated by Tony Ross. 

Make multiplication enjoyable with this collection of fun number games.  52 cards and instructions featuring the illustrations from the world of David Walliams by Tony Ross

"All aboard!" Race your bus to the depot with this fun addition and subtraction game.

A teacher tested, fun first reading game with two ways to play!

A sturdy jigsaw with 50 pieces, a giant poster and a learning guide to get the very best educational value from the image.

Race to collect your eggs, but don’t wake the T-Rex in this Orchard Toys game.

Traditional Fuzzy Felt Farm Animal Set with over 200 assorted felt pieces!

Bring your drawing to life with the clever Glowpad!  Draw, switch on the LED lights to brilliantly display your artwork then wipe it clean and start again!  

A bumper compendium of games bursting with over 100 traditional games.

Learn how to sew with an easy- to-follow beginners' kit from Galt.

Classic building toy, consisting of 48 translucent pieces that interlock.

A multi-activity game that can be played 3 different ways!  Bursting with fun and physical activity, turn any floor into a gameboard by laying our coloured discs and spinning the spinner.  A game for 2 to 4 players,  indoors or outside with 16 double sided foam discs, spinner and play guide.

Make seven fluffy animals with this brilliant introduction to felting set.  Using warm soapy water and a special felting tool, follow the instructions to create adorable, fluffy animals.  Contains felting wool, felt features, felting tool, push-in eyes and glue.

Create 5 colourful scrunchies, make the tubes and decorate with pompoms and sequins to make them unique.

A superb quality dot to dot book, with 24 pictures to complete and colour.

Eco friendly bamboo and plant-based plastic, hand-powered flashlight that requires no batteries!  Pull the cord to generate the power, simple, effective and provided with a protective pouch.

Complete the 60-piece puzzle with 10 wooden body parts to learn about our fascinating bodies!  This educational puzzle features bones, muscles, heart and other organs, contained in a robust case with a fun, fact filled poster included.

Make A Silk Daisy Chain, there are endless uses for these gorgeous silk petal daisies with soft yarn stems.

Pop, pop, pop a unicorn popper!

Flip a letter card and race to be the first to find something beginning with that letter from the playing board. 

Enjoy a game of Happy Families with these beautifully illustrated cards with characters created by Racey Helps from the Pepys Woodland series.

Time for a game of football with this brilliant value table football set.

Create an impression with Rainbow Pin Art.  Simply press any object into the back of the rainbow pins and make an interesting shape in the front.

Everything you need for a game of finger footie!

The perfect gadget to spark children’s curiosity for what treasure might be hiding just a couple inches away.  Small and lightweight, adjustable sensitivity guide for detecting ferrous metals.  Requires 2 x AAA batteries, not included.

Can you see what I see?  Super pen set for super sleuths, write an invisible note with the pen and shine the mini torch to reveal the message.  Set of 2 pens.

Choose 1 of the 32 different characters in one tiny console to keep well fed and happy.  What will you choose?  Assorted colours, one supplied.

Nine wooden dinosaur themed stampers art set in a wooden box from Melissa & Doug.

Super box of animal image stampers and ink pad, contained in a wooden box.

A traditional wooden puzzle that's educational and fun too!

Create a masterpiece that looks like leaded glass by pressing the textured stickers into the butterfly in a heart shaped frame.

Set of twenty 2-piece number puzzles, numbered 1-20 in a wooden storage box.

A set of wooden 2-piece puzzles, a puzzle for each letter of the alphabet and a picture of something beginning with that letter, in a wooden box to keep them tidy.

For more toys and gifts, explore our main collection and discover a large variety of educational toys. With so much to choose from, you’re sure to find something perfect!

Assemble and paint a wooden bird house with your child.  Pre-cut and pre-drilled pieces of wood to screw together and decorate with the paint and brush supplied.  Simple assembly but younger children will benefit from adult help.  Requires a cross head screwdriver for assembly.

An easy introduction to the game of catch using Velcro pads to catch with. Catch ball set for two players with two catching pads and 1 ball.

Traditional wooden game with 9 little naughts and crosses cubes, played in the traditional way and stored in a wooden tray.

Hands free LED torch, attached to adjustable elasticated head straps for exploring in the dark (or night time reading!).

Classic toy soldiers – 32 soldiers in various poses.

Wicked gadget with 10 different voice changing effects that amplifies and distorts your voice as you laugh, sing, talk or shout!

A clear box full of plastic insects, including butterflies, spiders and beetles.  Approx 18.

The Cottage Garden Den Kit is the gift of adventure!  Everything you need to create a den in the great outdoors, including a purple tarpaulin, packed into a sturdy haversack.