Leapfrog are pioneers in the design of childrens interactive media including tablets and much more. The tag reading system is a fresh and exciting way for children to enjoy reading, as you touch the words they come alive in the form of song, information and stories.

As children start breaking the sentences down and learning about each word their comprehension of words grows and their understanding of writing broadens. As with all LeapFrog products it does this in an extremely fun and interesting way.

The tag reader uses a library of 20 books based on popular cartoon characters and classic childrerns literature. The device can also be connected to the computer and you can see what and how your child learns so you can tailor the exercises to their strengths and weaknesses.

This is a progressive medium for keeping up with our childrens learning abilities and a great way for kids to enjoy the wonderful world of books.

5 Great Plants For Children

Children and plants can be a match made in heaven or a disaster. To prevent the little ones from destroying our orchids and roses it is a good idea to start them off with plants that can handle a little neglect and grow quickly. By introducing our children to plants we are encouraging a relationship that has been nurtured by man since we first discovered the uses of our miraculous green friends. Plants are important in every aspect of our daily lives from the furniture we sit on, the food we eat, the clothes we wear and the medicines we take. By making children aware of this they can grow and learn about plants and by welcoming them into our homes and gardens the interest grows even more. Here are some plants that are easy for children to grow we have included a flower, a vegetable, an air cleanser, a plant whose seed pod explodes and some prickly desert plants.

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Sunflowers are great they are easy to grow and once they pick up they just do not stop. Try planting sunflower seeds from March till May, buy a pack of seed and prepare a plant pot and some soil for each of the seeds. Make a hole about 2.5cm deep with a pencil in the soil and put the seed inside and cover back over with soil. Water the plant pot was the seed is sown and put in a warm and sunny spot as you wait for it to sprout. When the sunflower plants pop their heads through the soil say hello and keep on watering them. The plants may need a strong bamboo cane to support them as the giant sunflowers have very heavy flowers.
Another wonderful way for children to enjoy sunflowers is to sit and watch how they got their name, spend a day watching the flower follow the sun wherever it goes.

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Radishes are the perfect vegetable that you can grow on a windowsill and see nearly instant results. Radishes are roots that are delicious in salads and stir frys. Buy a packet seed and either prepare a patch of soil in the garden or get some plant pots and soil ready. Sow the seeds thinly on the soil and add another thin layer of compost. Keep watering and caring for the radishes and within around 4-5 weeks they will be ready to pull up out of the soil.

Spider plants are amazing they grow well in sun and a bit of shade and they make lots of babies for re-potting and giving to friends. Nasa scientists have been researching spider plants and how they clean the air around them this means that having one in your home (especially the bathroom) not only brightens the place up but cleans the air. Buy them as small young plants and pot them up into quite a big plant pot, keep on watering and taking care. As they get bigger they will throw stems where new plants start to grow, you can cut these new plants from the mother and pot them up by themselves.

Bizzy lizzy is a strange plant originally from the countries of Eastern Africa. The plant grows to just over half a metre and produces flowers that literally explode when they want to disperse the seeds. Buy a pack of the seeds in Spring and sow them in plant pots until they get big enough to pot on or plant outside. Watch them grow and flower and wait for the amazing show of exploding flowers.

Cacti are great for kids they require little care and water and create curiosity because they have no true leaves. Buy cacti as small plants and repot them in cacti soil when needed. Just because they can handle neglect it does not mean ignore as cacti love a good drink and a bit of food in the summer. Always remember that some cacti can be unsafe for children due to their spines so always wear gloves when re-potting.

Dinosaurs may have gone extinct but they have never gone out of fashion. Ever since Jurassic park young minds have been captivated by these ancient reptiles. The Cruncher prehistoric pet dinosaur is a new approach to interactive childrens toys that allows the child to command the pet to dance, run and attack.

Cruncher can remember 30 different sounds and commands from a bank of 200 different sounds. Feed Cruncher and watch him chomp down his food or play fetch and get him to catch what you throw. The reptile also reacts to music by dancing and having a good time.

Don't let his friendly side fool you though because Cruncher will drop his food if commanded to attack or protect the area.

A great interactive childrens toys that not only brings dinosaurs back to life but invigorates your childs imagination.

Growing Your Own Cacti Garden

Cacti and succulents are great for children to grow, they require minimal care and grow in strange ways that alarm the young mind to raise questions. These plants grow in dry conditions where they may not see rain and water for months at a time.

To survive in these dry conditions cacti, lithops and succulents store their water in their leaves. When you look at cacti they do not have leaves but green tissue which it uses to photosynthesise.

Succulents like the money tree has leaves like normal plants but a lot thicker and full of water. Lithops are known as living stones, these very strange plants look like a rock on the desert floor but by looking closer you can see amazing patterns and beautiful flowers. Growing your own cacti garden at home is easy just follow these steps and enjoy gardening.

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• Buy some small cacti, succulents and lithops from the garden center. This is so much quicker than starting from seed as cacti can take many years to grow from the beginning.
• Find some good cacti soil that is free draining and contains fine white sand.
• The best container for doing this is a butlers sink but any large container will do just make sure it can fit on a windowsill.

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1. Fill the container with the cacti soil, now you can see it full you can make a plan as where each plant will go. Some cacti may grow tall others wide and the lithops will not grow very high. You need to consider this as in two years you may find that the small lithops are being shaded by the tall cacti.
2. Now we have a plan put on some gardening gloves and start removing the plants carefully from their pots. Put each plant on the soil and space them well and arrange them as you wish.
3. Now it is time to plant the cacti, be careful as they can be spiky.
4. Water the cacti in and put them in a warm windowsill

The Oregon Scientific globe is an interactive approach to learning about geography and different cultures. By inserting a usb stick you can upload and download the information you want about certain places in the world, for example the national anthems, currency, cuisine and population.

Definitely a great way for children to explore from their bedrooms and learn more about the world. The globe has three settings for learning level- 5-8, 9-14 and 15 and up. As you insert your usb stick you can tune into news from around the world and updates or get the globe to test your knowledge on the history and facts about different countries.

The games can be played with by up to four players and the globe has bilingual as well and English and Spanish activities.

Seeds are amazing to say the least all of that information in one little package that just sits there until you add water. When the water comes it tells the seed to get ready to put all of its effort and food supplies into helping the young plant survive the most vital time of its life.

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• Why not try collecting seeds from the vegetables and fruits that you eat, dry them between paper towel and then put them in soil to see what happens. Try this in the garden too find your favorite flowers and wait for them to develop dry seed pods, these will rattle when flicked. Collect these and store them away after drying to start your own collection. Some of our favorite plants like the poppy, sunflower, pumpkin and squashes have edible seeds, collect these by opening up the vegetable, with the pumpkin and squash put the gooey mess into a jug of water and the seeds will separate.

• Why not try collecting lots of different seeds and putting them onto a piece of paper with glue on it making your own seed collage where you can use the different colours and sizes to make a picture.

Welcome to the ultimate children's play experience the Little Tikes jump n slide dry bouncer. Its versatile uses include a bouncy house, slide and gymnasium for multiple children to play at the same time.

The unit inflates and deflates with no problems, it can hold up to 250 pounds so many can play at once. The walls are high enough for little ones to jump around crazily inside whilst remaining safe.

The appliances are put through Little Tikes stringent standards test to test performance and safety.

Perfect for kids parties and a great way to watch your children play in a safe and fun environment.

Gardening is a great way to spend time with your children. This can range from growing fruits, flowers and vegetables but here we are thinking of long term investments for years of enjoyment. By planting fruit trees with your children they can watch them grow through their childhood and fruit when they are teenagers.

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This can provide a valuable lesson in investing time and effort into something for the future. Apple, pear, cherry trees are perfect, buy them as young grafted trees as seeds are unreliable and you could wait ten years after planting a seed to find the apple is not very nice. Plant the trees in the ground as soon as possible to allow them to accustomed to the local soil. Take care in choosing your spot fruit trees can grow quite large so be aware of the house and power cables. Make sure that every winter you prune back the tree, do this with the family and teach them the ways of caring for your trees.

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Include your children in every step, picking the fruit type, location for planting and more. As the fruit trees grow they begin to flower welcoming insects to their blooms, this can be a lesson to show the wonders of pollination, When the trees finally set fruit the good years begin as the harvests get bigger and tastier as the tree becomes a member of the family. Every year the tree will fruit and your children will remember it as a sapling as they pick buckets full of fruit for jams, jellies and pies. Why not grow nut trees as a great alternative for lovely fresh and healthy snacks as well as a bumper crop of one of the most expensive foods.

The time is now to plant trees they sure do take their time so think ahead. It does not just stop there why not collect acorns and other tree seeds and plant them with your children and watch them grow into giants.

Thomas the Tank engine has travelled through the generations of children and delighted all of them. this beautiful set is crafted from wood and allows young ones to recreate scenes from Thomas and friends.

The set includes Thomas and Mavis, the wooden track, a crane at the wharf and the cargo. Travel with Thomas and his cargo on an adventure to deliver it to the docks and then pick up another load to take back.

A lovely toy that is well made, durable and fun to play with.

The set has a lot of additional features and is sure to engage any Thomas the Tank Engine fans for a good while.

Sunflowers are fantastic their huge blooms smile happily as they follow the sun through the sky.
They are also very easy to grow from seeds, grow large very quickly and provide a whole spring and summer’s worth of fun. Growing plants with children is an amazing way to open their eyes to the beauty of plants and how they work, each step of growth from germination to collecting the seeds is a valuable lesson. Sunflowers are a crop grown widely for their edible seeds and the oil that can be collected from them.

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Here is what you will need to grow your sunflowers

• A pack of seeds, giant sunflowers are the best, buy as many packs as you have space
• Plant pots or a place in the garden, you may also need bigger plant pots when they out grow the first ones
• Some potting soil
• A big smile and some positive energy to help the plants grow

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1. First of all fill your plant pots with soil, fill as many pots as you have seeds
2. Use a pen to make a hole for the seed in the soil
3. Use one seed for each pot and push it into the soil
4. Cover the seed with a thin layer of soil, remember which ones you have already put a seed in by using labels
5. Water the plant pots
6. Keep an eye out for the young seedlings to germinate and leave them in a sunny spot
7. When they sprout say hello and watch them grow
8. As they get bigger you may need to put them in bigger pots, just key an eye out for roots growing through the bottom of the pots
9. Keep on chatting and watering to your friends and wait for them to reveal their huge flowers
10. Watch the flowers follow the sun throughout the day and then in the autumn collect the seeds.