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It's wonderful watching kids play. And our experience here at GLTC (gltc.co.uk) allows us to spot lots of brilliant toys and fun games to keep children happy: while traditional toys and games such as dressing up outfits, dolls houses, ride on toys, kids' scooters and trikes are still top of the list when it comes to entertaining children and toddlers, we always stock lots of new and innovative educational toys - but because all our toys are built for fun they still make perfect gifts for kids of all ages!

Great Little Trading Co. particularly search for kids' toys that encourage pretend play and wooden toys that will last a lifetime: our range of children's play kitchens team up beautifully with all our sets of toy food, toy tea sets and toy cooking sets - we even have a soft toy picnic set for younger kids and toddlers to enjoy. We also stock some beautiful, wooden doll's houses: there's a brand new, extra big doll's house in the range, the Tea Rose Doll's House, which is a fantastic toy for groups of children to play with, and with our beautiful Summer Hill Dolls House you can buy any or all of six, comprehensive room sets! Team any of them up with our Dolls House Playmat to encourage all sorts of stories and fun. For boys we have our brilliant Medieval Castle - this wooden fortress works fantastically well with a matching Castle Playmat and several sets of handsome toy knights. Or how about our Classic Toy Garage, the wooden Fire Station and Fire Engine Set, or our traditional wooden train set and train table? Both boys and girls seem to love our wooden farm and its matching playmat, as well as the gorgeously colourful Toy Hospital and Toy ambulance set; these are classic, imaginative toys that your children will treasure.

Other popular ideas to inspire and entertain your kids include Musical Instruments and Construction toys: playing and learning a musical instrument will encourage concentration skills and creativity, so have a look at our Electric Guitar for children, or how about the Roll Up Piano, the Band in a Box or the Hand bells? Construction toys are also a positive toy choice; help your child develop problem solving and technical awareness with our marble run games and Eitech metal construction kits. We also offer construction toys at a less complicated by equally enchanting level - younger children will not be able to resist our Wooden Workbench, the Makit Kit or our Quadrilla Marble Set!

A large part of our childrens toys and games range is unashamedly educational - but learning should be fun! We stock lots of kids' learning toys, to help your child understand all sorts of scientific and mathematical concepts; whether it's general Maths, fractions, spelling or handwriting, as parents you can be sure your children are learning as they play with all our educational games and fun learning toys! Children's educational toys, books and games are a fantastic way to introduce new concepts to kids and practise key skills, and many of them are linked to National Curriculum Literacy and Numeracy: we love our Flash Cards for teaching children the Alphabet and Counting, our Hot Dot Flash cards, and our Natural History Museum Globe. GLTC also have plenty of ideas for educational games to suit children of all ages; our range of Orchard Toys games are particularly good for toddlers and younger children, covering telling the time, fractions, matching skills and understanding money and coins.

Don't forget jigsaw puzzles either. They are marvellous for developing your child's powers of observation and concentration; we particularly love our Great Britain and Ireland jigsaw - you'll pick up a few useful facts as they puzzle it out! Our activity books are also a great way to help your children learn and have fun at the same time - science books, art books, storybooks, informative books about Ballet; Bugs and Bubbles... They're all here, specially selected by our specialist buyer at GLTC for your children.

Our enlightened range of childrens art and craft kits (they make wonderful presents for girls!) means we have everything for your child to enjoy being creative such as our popular painting easels, paint brushes and paints - and how about making your own cards and labels with our Creative Cutting Safety Scissors? We've got some super big art folders to keep all your children's artwork safe and sound, and lots of fun arts and crafts kits and a variety of Paint Your Own projects - you can even Paint Your Own Castle, Tree House or Palace!

Family games are also a wonderful way to keep children busy and happy, especially in the holidays, and they do love playing with Mum and Dad too. But playing together doesn't have to be expensive - try our Candy Memory Game for simple family fun.

Children love to be on the move from an early age - start your child off with our gorgeous wooden ride on toys and metal trikes, progressing to our pedal tractors, ride on digger, and running bikes, scooters; top favourites seem to be our Early Rider Running Bike and our brilliant Moov Go Kart. But if wheels don't tempt your kids outside into the fresh air, try the old favourites of trampolines, kites and swings - we've also got netball and basketball post sets for children which might just do the trick. We also have several gorgeous seesaws for the garden, as well as some wonderful sandpits and our junior sized garden tools for children - you really can't fail to get them bright eyed and rosy cheeked with all our outdoor activities to hand! For imaginative play in the garden, have a look at our lovely wooden playhouses and climbing centres; our new playhouses can be painted and installed ready for immediate occupation, and the climbing frames have lots of activities to keep kids busy - one of our favourites is the Climbing Centre Playhouse, complete with climbing wall and slide - it looks beautiful in any garden and it keeps kids playing happily for hours.

Last but not least we know that another special playtime for children is bath time. Bath toys for kids are always welcome presents (you need something for to keep them happy while Mummy washes behind their ears) so GLTC always have a good selection of games for the tub. So whether it's bath time, a rainy afternoon, or a sunny day in the garden you can rely on GLTC to have the perfect toys and games for kids, whatever the occasion. Hoorah!

Our six favourite products in toys, games & crafts...

1.		Medieval Castle L0375 £50.00	2.		Wooden Workbench G2587 £55.00
3.		Early Rider G0742 £110.00	4.		Electric Guitar L0455 £72.00
5.		Creative Cutting Safety Scissors L0301 £15.00	6.		Natural History Museum Globe with Explorers Map L0325 £32.00