We have been sent a selection of Foodie Roos from John Adams to play with and review.  Our first impressions are really good, the packaging and presentation is great, like actual little pots of snacks with cute little eyes popping out.  



We were sent 6 different Foodie Roos each of a different flavour so Ethan and Ivy were able to choose three each.  There are 20 Foodie Roos to collect in this series, 2 of each of the 9 flavours plus 2 rare ones!




We got one each of cookies, juice, pretzels, gummies, soda and fruit cup.  The other flavours that are available are chips (crisps), popcorn and cereal.




The Foodie Roos are special because they look, smell and feel like the food that they represent.  The scents are so good, the kids can't stop smelling them!  They've got the food printed all over them, and they either feel like they've got pieces of that food inside of them or in the case of the liquid ones they actually feel like liquid and sound like it when you shake them!




The collection looks great just sitting there in the little pots, so colourful and inviting, but the kids couldn't wait to get started on opening them all up.




Ivy chose a gummies one first and couldn't wait to play with her adorable little gummy toy, this one is called Bouncy Bear and smells delicious!  Inside the snack pot you will find your toy as well as a set of stickers.  




The pot itself can then be turned into his home by using the little clips and the stickers to attach the sides to the top of the pot (which is now the base) and then decorating it with the stickers.




Ethan chose to open the cookies one first!




He got Choco Pup who really does smell like chocolate and feels like he has chocolate chips inside of him.




You can watch us opening up all of our Foodie Roos and putting their houses together:




The whole collection looks really lovely all set up, you can see that each Foodie Roo has it's own little home nicely decorated with stickers.  Then you can leave the homes open to play with them, or take them apart to store it all back in the pot when you're finished playing.


We had a lot of fun opening up our Foodie Roos and the kids are loving the smells that they've got in their rooms now from them.  They're fun to open, I love that the containers aren't just rubbish that gets thrown away but area actually part of the activity and the children have a whole little town of Foodie Roos and their homes to play with now!
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We have been sent these super cool Zuru Smashers Dino Eggs to play with and we are absolutely loving them!  We were sent one huge Epic Dino Egg and 2 packs of the mini Smashers Eggs.




Inside of this packet we found so many fantastic things, there was a scratch map, glowing slime, ice age putty, a fossil rock, fizzy lava, dino dirt, some tools and six of the mini dino smashers eggs.


Here is the whole process of opening up and playing with the Zuru Smashers Epic Dino Egg:




Then Ethan and Ivy each had a pack of the smaller Smashers Dino Eggs to open.  These packs have two dinosaurs that you can see as well as 6 eggs to smash open.  Five of the smash eggs contain dinosaur toys and one of the eggs will have a fossil rock to dig open.




Ivy actually managed to smash just the back of hers and the whole front of the rock came off in one piece which had an imprint of the fossil, which was very cool.



Ivy was very happy with her collection at the end of the process.


Overall we really liked the Smashers Dino Eggs, I was extremely impressed with the contents of the Epic Dino Egg and of course the children love all of the collectables.  I think that it would make a great gift or a fun play date activity if you have a couple of children coming over to play.

We are also giving away a £25 voucher for Smyths Toys, so please head over to our Play & Learn Every Day Facebook Page to enter to win!

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We are part of the Blogger Board Game Club with Asmodee over the summer, we have already played with and reviewed Who Did It? and Exploding Kittens, both of which we loved!  And our last game to play with and review is Cortex Challenge!




The game begins by turning over a test card from the top of the pile.  Before turning it over you are able to tell which type of card it is from the symbol on the back of the card.  There are 8 different types of challenges each with a different symbol.  There are mazes, memory games, duplicates, colours, shapes, logic and reasoning, coordination and of course touch.  



With all of the different test cards (except touch) a card it turned over and all of the players look at the card together, the first person who thinks that they know the answer then places their hand over the card.  They then say their answer, remove their hand and everyone checks if they are correct.  If they are they then keep the card (if they are not correct the other players have a chance to guess).


If a touch card comes up, then the last person who has earned a card is put to the test!  The other players choose a touch card for them to feel, without looking, and guess what is on the card.  If they guess correctly they can then earn the touch test card as well.



The maze cards were one of the children's favourites, they would eagerly bend over the cards each trying to figure out the correct route as quickly as possible.  Once a player collects 2 of the same challenge cards they can then trade this in for a brain piece.  The first player to collect four brain pieces is the winner.


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We have been playing the Okido Which Way Game which was sent to us to review.  It is a STEM game aimed at young children to teach them the basic principles of coding.


The game includes a board, magnetic tiles, the car, the spinner as well as spare batteries and a screwdriver to open up the car to replace the batteries (these I really appreciate as they're the sort of thing that slows down play and they're great to have at hand!)


And finally you put the car on the track and watch it drive along your path to test it out.


Some of the routes can be really tricky to make and definitely require a bit of help from an adult.  There aren't really enough road tiles, so that can make things more difficult at times, a few extra roads would be really helpful, so that there is more than one method to get to different routes.  The car is also not very sturdy, so you do have to be quite gentle with it so that it doesn't break of come off of it's track.


The game comes with a scoreboard to record which destinations each player has reached.  You take turns spinning the mission wheel and creating your routes, then the first player to reach all of the places wins.  Or of course you can just play for fun, like we did, helping each other out as we went along.


We think that the Okido Which Way Game is a really great idea, a simple way for young children to learn the basics of coding.  I do wish that it had a few more pieces and was a bit more robust, but then it also isn't too expensive at £30 so that makes it an affordable way to try out coding for your kids and see if they enjoy it.

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