Showing posts with label Angry Birds Playground. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Angry Birds Playground. Show all posts

Tuesday, 13 August 2013

Angry Birds Playground - Fun Things to Make and Do by Nat Lambert (Top That! Publishing)














Last week we dipped into the creative world of Angry Birds, making masks with the fabulous "Angry Birds Playground" mask making book!

If you've still got a recycle bin full of interesting bits and bobs to make things out of, it's time to revisit those temper-tantrum feathered fiends once again for another activity book.

"Fun Things to Make and Do" will keep your tiddly little Angry Birds fanatics even busier than ever, with a selection of fantastic Angry Birds-themed 'makes'. Everything from bird catapults, to cool moneyboxes, to our personal favourite - fuzzy green bad piggies - is here, and there's sure to be a favourite make for everyone.

We had a fantastic time making King Pig's crown, and also making Red's fantastic flying paper aeroplane. The book comes with a ton of traceable templates (so you don't have to hack the book to bits and ruin it). Crack out the greaseproof paper, trace the templates onto card, and you're off and running.

The Angry Birds Playground range from Top That! contains a great selection of books for children of all ages, from activity books like this to story based books, even books about counting. Lure your kids away from the tablet for a while and get their busy little hands working on some great activities as the summer holidays continue.

Charlotte's best bit: Making Red's fantastic plane (with a little help from Daddy).

Daddy's favourite bit: King Pig's Crown is JUST the thing to wear while answering the door!

(Kindly sent to us for review by Top That! Publishing)
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Thursday, 8 August 2013

Angry Birds Playground - Ca-Cool Masks (Top That Publishing)














The Angry Birds phenomenon shows no signs of slowing down, does it? Everywhere you look this summer you'll see kids enjoying the sunshine usually clad in a T Shirt or baseball cap emblazoned with their favourite Angry Bird character (though, kids, come on, there aren't nearly enough of you Bad Piggies out there!)

So if wearing Angry Birds on your clothes is an awesome idea, how about making your own Angry Birds character masks with this brilliant Angry Birds Playground book from Top That and Rovio.

8 masks are included, with absolutely everything you'll need to make these included in the book (yep, even the elastic and some handy sticky tabs for keeping everything in place).

Charlotte and I enjoyed making the masks, it's very easy to detach the masks from their backing cardboard - though you may need to help younger children with some of the slightly more complex mask outlines.

The only real grumble we had was that it's not always easy to judge how much elastic you need (it's provided as one long strand y'see), and the holes for the elastic to go through are a little on the large side, so if you're relying on the sticky tabs to keep the elastic in place, you might also need to knot the elastic a good few times to make sure the masks don't ping off.

So who did we choose? You're dying to know, right? Charlotte chose to wear Little Blue most of the time - and I had to be King Piggy of course!

Charlotte's best bit: Frightening the heck out of mummy by appearing behind her and shouting BOO!

Daddy's favourite bit: Trying to walk around the house in my King Pig mask without falling over furniture and things.

(Kindly sent to us for review by Top That!)
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