Calorie-free Easter treats hit the cabinets from Grumpy Chick to Disco Duck

Would it be too controversial to state that once you’ve had a chocolate treat to yourself and perhaps had a try of one or two of the others around you on offer, they all lead to the same “never again” shame as you initiate operation elastic pants. The amount of on-budget and entertaining offerings for kids of all ages is no yolk, here’s our pick to assist you in becoming a most egg-xellent gift giver.

Select your 100-piece Easter themed animal in a tube and create a pixelated bunny or chick to sit amongst your existing Easter display.

This new style of building block is from a slightly lesser-known Danish outfit but they’re making all the right moves into the UK with everything on offer from Rainbows to Rockets.

Push out the various cardboard pieces from the enclosed card and, by following simple instruction, you’ll end up with a rather shelf-worthy rabbit to display. The range of 3D animals available from EUGY is epic and, as one of the best creator kits we’ve had our hands on are sure you’ll be collecting more.

This 22cm plush toy does a grumpy face better then we’ve seen for some time. The seasonal bear looks very much in a mood of protest at having to dress for the Easter occasion and we’re calling one into our home to see if it can’t be cheered up a little bit.

This 324-pice set from the Danish brick maker is a clever piece of kit, a cute bunny for the season but, when the holiday is over it’ll convert. You will have to of course do this manually, but it can be remade into a seal or a Llama – now that is magic.

Some bathtime fun to tempt in those ankle-biters who may well have taken their testing of chocolate treats a tad too extreme and missed their mouths once or twice. Plonk the bombs in the bath and marvel as it fizzes up for fun in the tub, there is no doubt adults will “accidentally” have to just try one.

Loaded up with three different light shows this rubber duckie is a right disco dive and will illuminate your H2O instantly. Lights out, music volume up, forget dancing in the shower doing it in the bath is where it is t.

Mimic bird calls, find a match and collect eggs, the idea is to find mates of the same species in your cards, The idea is to find mates of the same species for the birds on the cards – quick, easy and fabulously frantic and rowdy at times.

Serve up this spherical surprise as a gift with a nod to nostalgia and recall all the frustration of yesteryear as you strive to bring the creatures alive. IT absolutely can be done; it is quite an eerie sight when you see them swimming around in that only see through bowl you could find from the kitchen.

This is the seasonal version of one of our favourite games, each round is 90 seconds so ideal for our attention span. Hoppy Salmon comes with a stack of cards, each with a simple action to complete with another player, do it, shout it out and chuck your cards top the ground.

As realistic to an actual Easter hoppy carrot eater as you can achieve for under twenty quid right here. For kidult amusement it produces ten sounds and the “oooh” element for the kids is that each contains a few baby bunnies to keep Mama company in her mobile home.

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