Toys for 8 Year Olds

Much loved hatching egg toy with a green egg and triceratops toy.

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

Make beautiful chains and accessories with 10 silk poppies in 5 different colours each with looped yarn stem.

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.

Create a marvellous marble run using this comprehensive kit with over 90 pieces.  Build fantastic marble suspension tracks over 4m long to race marbles of different dimensions and materials.

Have you ever wondered how bridges span huge distances and how skyscrapers stay standing? Structural engineers use physics and their knowledge of building materials and geometric shapes to design structures with sufficient strength and stability.  Explore structural elements and the forces acting on them with this awesome engineering experiment kit.  Build and conduct experiments on 20 models using the manual and a whopping 323 pieces.

Personalised Junior Dance Bag a choice of 4 colours. Personalise it with a name or initials and text of your choice.
Allow 10 days for delivery
See our Terms & Conditions for personalised items.

Allow 10 days for delivery
See our Terms & Conditions for personalised items.

A wooden tray full of cubes with times tables from 1 to 12 in a rainbow of colours, sums on one side and answers on the reverse!

Astound your friends and family with your math knowledge, using this inventive math magic set to perform tricks, puzzle and games!

Master times tables from 2 to 12 with these exciting games.  Practice 2, 5 & 10 times tables with Multiplication Bingo, or flip of the board and save the city with the Times Tables Heroes!  The perfect balance between education and fun.

Create your own beautiful string of working lights with this imaginitive origami set.

Creative folding fun with spectacular results!  Set of 6 pre-printed large sheets of paper and easy to follow instructions, to fold into giant origami sea creatures and proudly display in your room.  Plastic free packaging.

Craft beautiful origami butterflies from a choice of gorgeous papers using, finish with colourful pipe-cleaners and display by hanging from a mobile ring.   An enchanting craft project with a decorative end result!  Set includes all materials, full instructions and a pretty keepsake box to store your treasures.

A thrilling strategy card game with novel "glow in the dark" cards.

What's Up? Is a children's version of the timeless guessing game. Pop an unseen card in the headband and ask questions to guess who or what you are.

Snap! Traditional card game.

Family fun game with two levels of questions for adults and children, spin the spinner to decide if you get a question or physical challenge, with added challenges along the way!  A game for 2 or more players or teams.

Is it a book? Is it a 3D pirate ship? Is it a playmat? Fantastic - it's all three! This sturdy book easily converts into a pirate ship and a playmat for hours of play.

A book that converts into a 3D fire engine and a road layout playmat for endless fun!

Is it a book? Is it a train? Is it a playmat? Fantastic - it's all three! This sturdy book easily converts into a train and a playmat for hours of play.

Is it a book? Is it a 3D space ship? Is it a playmat? Fantastic - it's all three! This sturdy book easily converts into a space ship or a playmat for hours of play.

Sturdy wooden pirate ship, accessories and characters, ready for fun and pirate adventures!

A 12 piece wooden playset for pirates and landlubbers!  Assemble the chunky wooden pirate ship and use the 10 play pieces to inspire imaginative play. 

Follow the random sequence of flashing lights for a brain workout challenge.  Requires 3 x AG12 batteries, included.

Bright red wooden first guitar, with 6 metal tuneable strings. An ideal first guitar!

10 piece set of easy to play wood and metal musical instruments for an introduction to music, stored in a wooden crate. Contains 2 x maracas, tambourine, triangle, tone block, clacker and 2 x cymbals.

A remote-control buggy with flashing lights.

The classic wooden board game that’s fun for all the family as players race each other to the top of the board.

Classic Card Games for Kids is a fantastic set containing playing cards and timeless favourite cards with a book of over 20 games to play.

Wooden Shut the Box is a challenging traditional mathematical game of skill and chance.

A traditional wooden toy with a modern twist!  Race your opponent to spin and land on each animal character with this modern version of Shut the Box.

Sudoku game with wooden board and coloured, numbered pegs.

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

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

Guide your frogs across the pond and block other players from doing the same.  The first player to get their frog family to the other side wins the game, but beware – the fish can scare the frogs back to the start.  An exciting game of strategy for 2 or more players with 2 levels of play.

Set of two dice poppers, one red with 1 numeral die, one blue with two dot dice, you’ll never lose the dice again! Great with board games, activity sets and maths workbooks.

Personalise our named wash bag with a name or initials, up to 8 characters.
Allow 10 days for delivery
See our Terms & Conditions for personalised items.

A traditional wooden table top bowling game.

A set of Tiddlywinks, a traditional family game of skill.

Name just three things in a category – i.e. 3 animals found in a zoo, sounds easy but under the time pressure of the 5 second rule could you?

Colourful wooden clock helps teach colours, shapes and concepts of time.

A knobbly, bouncing meteor ball that flashes on impact!  Assorted colours.

Enjoy some wet fun with a beastly water shooter!

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

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

A family card game with a festive twist, all families are Christmas related, with full instructions on the pack.  A game for two or more players.

Hatch your own live Aqua Dragons from hibernated eggs and watch them grow in their specially designed underwater world

Create 6 under water plaster fridge magnets and badges and paint them.