Article by Beth Hodge – agent for Tish Tash Toys

My daughter, 18 months old and I were over at friends for a play date last week with her two boys aged 3 and 18 months also. Daisy has recently taken a shine to frogs, and likes trying to jump like one – so she was in ore of the Bigjigs frog skittles my friend’s children had.

It was lovely watching both the younger children interacting with the game – they helped pick up the green wooden skittles for William. He then decided to show them how to count the frogs, which he lined up ready for a special edition of ‘6 little green speckled frogs’.

Daisy was particularly interested in practicing rolling the brightly coloured wooden balls to try to knock the frogs down after watching William do it; they are the ideal size for little hands to practice rolling and control. As she rolled the ball she then hurried behind them to see what they would hit, occasionally helping knock down the skittles with her hands and then applauding herself!

From this one first skittles game only costing £12.99 three children of different ages were able to engage with a fun activity suitable for the whole family to play together and utilise the toy in different ways to learn and play more! What looks like a simple game that could be finished in ten minutes can be so much more to feed their little imaginations and even more fun to use again and again.

Also in this range are the yellow wooden Duck skittles for kids, had Daisy seen these then I don’t think there would have been a moment without quacking noises for the rest of the day, they are on her Christmas list!

Click here to see the skittles and other children’s games on Tish Tash Toys