Toys for 8 Year Olds

Build a wooden insect hotel for the garden and watch how the insects inhabit it!

Our personalised holdall is perfect for sports kits, travels and everyday use.
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Live Butterfly Hatching Kit enables you to see caterpillars mysteriously transform into chrysalises then hatch into beautiful butterflies.

BUTTERFLIES ARE NOT SENT OUT BETWEEN MID-SEPTEMBER AND MARCH AS IT IS TOO COLD FOR THEM.

 The Live Insect Box shown is not sent with this Kit, there is a voucher, worth £11.99, inside the box, to order the caterpillars separately, extra postage charge £2.99 for this service.

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

Domino Rally. Addictive fun - knock the first one down and watch the chain reaction!

There’s so much to do with this 32 piece set of colourful people, you can build, stack, colour or shape match and count and they all stack neatly away in big lidded pot!

Build the tower of coloured wooden blocks, roll the dice and remove the coloured block matching the colour on the dice, if the tower topples over you lose!  A game for 2-6 Players.

A game of patience, consideration & fun! Can you fit all the pieces into the grid?

A wooden pizza oven with logs, pizza slider, pepper pot, 2 pizza bases, sauce and toppings to place on a red felt tomato sauce base.  Fantastico!

Painted wooden playfood pizza, with removeable toppings, that separates into 6 pieces.

A quality umbrella for children in pink with rainbows and unicorns that change colour when it rains.

Magic colour changing umbrella, decorated with fairies, rainbows and unicorns.

Pretty colour changing umbrella with fairies, swans, flowers and palaces.

Compact, cleverly jointed Zoobookoo cube book, full of facts and pictures on our incredible human bodies is a fun educational gift for compulsive fiddling and learning!

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.

A brilliant way to learn about our incredible bodies with this set of engaging learning activities.  Make a wooden model, complete the jigsaw, work through the trivia questions and study the detailed poster.

Large floor jigsaw puzzle to build a different road layout every time with 20 interchangeable pieces

Assemble this 25 piece, chunky card puzzle and answer questions about the picture, using the learning guide to promote discussion and develop knowledge of the world. 

This engaging wooden roadway set is perfect for children who love to vroom their cars!  35-piece wooden set with track pieces, cars, people, road signs, trees and buildings.  Drive over the bridge into town or under the bridge to the country, you decide.

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.

A quality book and 7 colour finger stamp pad, bursting with ideas for fingerprinting art with lots of ideas to replicate and space to fill!

Is it a book? Is it a playmat? Is it a 3D police car?  Brilliant - it's all three!  A sturdy book that converts into a police car and a playmat for hours of play.

Is it a book?  Is it a 3D racing car?  Is it a playmat?  Brilliant – it’s all three!  A sturdy book that easily converts into a racing car or a playmat for hours of play.

Sturdy plastic ferry boat with two cars and ramp, perfect for water play or dry land!  Environmentally friendly, BPA, PVC and phthalate free durable, dish washer safe plastic.

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.

An ingenious mini game to test your brain, in a case so perfect for travel.  Create your own challenge by adding blockers and fill the remaining spaces, there’s always a solution!  Single player game.

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.

Solid wood rubber band gun with rubber bands!

One for the "footie" fans! A board game from Orchard, be the first to score a goal to win in this exciting Football Game.

Build your own pinball machine from card,  with moving flippers and pull-back launcher!  Awesome kit with 68 card pieces to press out, build and play and marbles to play!

Timeless Fuzzy Felt Dinosaur set with over 200 felt pieces, 2 boards and storage box.

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

Fantastic glowing and flashing light device that easily fits to bike spokes, making your bike more colourful and safer too.  Water resistant.  This is not a toy.  Batteries included.

The naturally powered rocket that you launch with a jump.  Launch it during the day or turn on the light and fire it at night – creating a stunning firework effect, just tap the rocket on a surface before you fire it.  Contains 3 rockets, stand and pump.

Stunningly beautiful and detailed craft set for an older child to glitter by numbers.

Create bewitchingly beautiful mermaids with this detailed, glitter by numbers craft set.

A great combination of craft and art, using colour by numbers with sand and glitter to create stunning pictures of fish.

Create 8 sparkly pictures in a variety of styles.

Super mouldable putty that bounces. In a lidded plastic pot.  Assorted colours?

Mesmerising bouncy ball full of glittery water.

First woodwork set for budding carpenters, create and make vehicles, furniture, complete with safe nails and rubber handled hammer!

Little builders will have great constructive fun with a super 24 piece wooden toolbox set.

Personalise this item with any name or message up to 25 characters for an additional £8.00.

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Perfect for trainee DIY enthusiasts! Scaled down versions of real tools, packed in a sturdy pouch that attaches to any belt.

A fun carpentry playset.  Assemble pre-drilled wooden components with plastic pegs, knocked in with a hammer, to create wooden models.  Approx 45 wooden components, 30 plastic pegs and a wooden hammer.

Traditional woodwork set with functional tools with sharp edges and points.  Use under adult supervision.  Set includes wood, hacksaw, hammer, glue, pencil, nails, safety hand to hold nails, mitre box and safety wedges.

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Glasses with quick change colour and "bug-eye" lenses, mix colours before your very eyes!

A voice changer that changes from robot to male and female, with added laughter button and press & hold record button, shaped as a large mouth and has an optional, detachable neck cord.