Cuisine & Culture the Chinese Family Way
As the darkness of winter draws in, from a Wizarding World perspective, that means it is time for Dark Arts! To celebrate the darker side of the Wizarding World, we were so lucky to receive a selection of Dark Arts themed products from Warner Bros. Consumer Products, including their latest Junior Invisibility Cloak for the little ones, to get us into the dark side!
This year has been such an uneventful year! Due to the Coronavirus pandemic and many local restrictions, the way people are shopping is changing and nearly everyone is buying online these days! If you are looking at sending presents to your family this Christmas or birthday, why not check out Moonpig, who does everything for you, including printing your very own handwriting on the card!
To coincide with World Mental Health Day 2020, Wysa are currently offering their entire app free of charge for teenagers to help them cope with the stresses of the pandemic. With the current uncertainty for the future and many places imposing tougher restrictions, these young adults need a safe place they can turn to more than ever.
Good news for those who love D-Link products! You will be thrilled to know that they have revamped the mydlink app which offers modern smart home users with more functionality and customisable and intuitive controls to monitor their smart homes at any time, from anywhere.
Are you worried that your child is being bullied online? Are they struggling with harassment or having anti-social behaviour issues, Wing Care was created by parents to help other parents. They are here to help you keep your child safe when they are on social media.
If you have read my previous post, you will have seen that we had just played the Unlock! Exotic Adventures game. This is another range of Unlock! adventure cooperative card games, which is called Unlock! Heroic Adventures.
This card game follows a very similar format to those real escape rooms but here you can play in the comfort of your own home. The game requires players to cooperate to search scenes, combine objects, and solve riddles, in order to solve the puzzles before the timer runs out. There are three full one-hour scenarios in the box, as well as a 10 minute taster game to get the hang of how to play.
For our next three blog posts, you will notice that we have played not just one but three Unlock! adventure cooperative card games! This Unlock! Exotic Adventures card game follows a very similar format to those real escape rooms and requires the players to cooperate to search scenes, combine objects, and solve riddles, in order to escape before the timer runs out. There are three full one-hour scenarios in the box, as well as a 10 minute taster game to get the hang of how to play.
Now you can recreate the iconic scenes from the Harry Potter film series with this Harry Potter invisibility cloak by appearing to disappear! We must be in Santa’s good books as we were selected to trial this invisibility cloak by Ministry of Magic! We all had so much fun watching ourselves trying to disappear in the video clips and directing the whole play of our own!
As is often the case for when I go to a theme park, I forgot to pack at least one or two essential items for our trip! It is never been a spontaneous day trip and yet I am not packing the essentials to make the most of my day worry free! Hence I am writing this blog to remind myself in future and also to share my tips with my readers on what to pack for theme parks!
KidSmart is an app designed to improve a child’s English, Mathematics and 11+ skills and it caters for aged four to eleven years old. The app tailors the experience to match the child’s pace and incorporates gamification to stimulate learning.
This app will be available from the App Store with a monthly payment plan. There are three different plans to cater to your needs: Primary, 11+ and Primary & 11+. The Primary plan is aimed at reception to Year 6, whilst 11+ cover topics on CEM 11+ / GL 11+. As you may have guessed, the Primary & 11+ consists of both these plans listed above. We have been testing out their Beta app which includes topics on Primary & 11+ plan.
These days we understand that there’s much more to being healthy than how much we weigh and to help us to get on track and more detailed health statistics, the eufy BodySense Smart Scale is the way to go. I know that smart scales with Bluetooth are not a new thing in the market, but what I love about this scale is how affordable it is and how smart it looks!
MIND Designer is an innovative intelligent robot that introduces children to simple coding and design. It guides your children through the process of learning mathematics, arithmetic and geometry. This is a great first start up robot for young children aged seven onwards. What I like about this set is that the robot is ready to play straight out of the box.
Kurio Tab Connect is a premium tablet using an Android OS platform (6.0 Marshmallow) for children. It has a 16 GB internal memory with Quadcore processor for quick web-surfing, quicker photo and video processing, music streaming and faster downloads! It is expandable up to 32 GB using with a microSD card to save files, such as videos, music and photos from the device to the card or used as internal storage that allows you to install apps and save data to it.
Crayola Scoot is available to buy from today onwards in the UK on Nintendo Switch™, Xbox One™, PlayStation® 4, and Steam®. We are delighted to gain early access to play Crayola Scoot game on Nintendo Switch!
Crayola Scoot is a multi-player game to be played for up to four players at a time! From its name Crayola Scoot, you can easily guess that this game involves colours and scooters! Crayola is a big brand name specializing in artists’ supplies, especially for crayons! And now they partnered with Outright Games to create an action sports game that encourages creativity and self-expression through stunts from freestyle scooter riders!
Little Dragons Café is made by the same creator of Harvest Moon – Yasuhiro Wada, for PlayStation®4 and Nintendo Switch™. This is an adorable simulation single-player role-playing game that will be loved by many young children! In this game, you learn about harvesting crops, cooking food, raising your very own dragon and keeping your café alive!
In this game, you are pretty much doing the same routine over and over again, but Ms C loves it and hasn’t grown tired of it yet. Every day there is something new and a simple task for her to fulfil. She loves a straightforward game that does not offer too many challenging tasks.
