I've really enjoyed being part of the jury panel for the LEGO DUPLO How Do You Play competition. Next week I'll be helping to judge all of the finalists in the last round, which will decide who will win a holiday to Billund in Denmark to the original LEGOLAND.
If you haven't yet entered, you only have 2 more days to do so! It's incredibly easy, you just film your children playing with their DUPLO. We want to see imagination and creativity in action. Submit your video of no more than 30 seconds to the app. on the LEGO DUPLO Facebook page.
My first DUPLO Giveaway to win the Creative Picnic set still has 2 weeks to run (you can enter here), and my second DUPLO giveaway is the Creative Cakes set 6785. Suitable for children from age 2, it has 55 chunky pieces which are too big to swallow, and includes everything you need to enjoy an afternoon tea party or recreate a birthday.
Birthdays are very important to children, and they learn a lot from them. It teaches about passage of time and celebration, it allows the child to feel very special and valued. Birthdays will form some of your child's earliest permanent memories. Being able to 'play' birthdays is huge fun for children and gives them a real starting point for some fantastic imaginative play and story-telling.
The Creative Cakes set has a recommended retail price of £19.99 and is an ideal starter set for a child new to LEGO DUPLO, or a brilliant addition to bricks you already have.
As I have to pay postage the giveaway is UK only, my apologies to everyone else. Entry to the giveaway is by rafflecopter form below. The first question is mandatory and must be answered as a comment to this post. Extra entries can be gained by completing additional tasks within the rafflecopter form. Please read the additional terms and conditions at the bottom of the rafflecopter form. This giveaway will end at midnight Friday 6th June when the timer will end and no more entries will be allowed.
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I was sent the Creative Cakes set by LEGO DUPLO to do with as I wished. I believe it will not get full use here for much longer as my youngest child is now 4 and already quite competent with little LEGO, so I'm passing it on.
I prefer a day or night out more than a present, eg getting a baby sitter and go out for dinner with my husband, but as a kid my fave present was probably my barbie camper van
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sylvanian families house - it was the best!
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ReplyDeleteI remember getting a typewriter one year that I absolutely adored!
ReplyDeleteA couple of years ago my in-laws got me a Macro lens for my camera and it has been my favourite toy since!
ReplyDeleteAn h&m gift voucher when I was 18 :)
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ReplyDeleteFashion Wheel! I loved that and had wanted it for ages :)
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ReplyDeleteMy favourite birthday present was a day as a zookeeper experience - it was awesome!
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ReplyDeleteM husband made a swinging bench appear from nowhere. :) x
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ReplyDeleteAs a child I have no idea. Went to Paris for my 30th which was fab x
ReplyDeleteAs a kid it had to be my toy dog when really little or blue bike when a little older.
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ReplyDeleteI got the Barbie Chocolate Factory one year - it was amazing! x
ReplyDeleteas a child a doll that I got for my 1st birthday called rapunzel which i still have
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ReplyDeleteA red shiny new bicycle. Was lucky enough to live somewhere where I could be out on it most of the time.
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ReplyDeleteMy leopard gecko!
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DeleteI didn't get birthday presents, as my birthday is very close to Christmas!
DeleteMy roller boots - we didn't have a lot of money and mum had said she'd never be able to afford those..... bless her
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ReplyDeleteMy Purple Ukulele I was given for my birthday last year (hannah Bee)
ReplyDeleteMy boyfriend taking me new york and the proposing. We have been married 2 years now :-)
ReplyDeleteMy cat Lacey :)
ReplyDeleteI remember getting this huge Lego? dolls house, it took my dad ages to put it together and i loved it, until it fell off the cupboard onto my head one day lol x
ReplyDeleteI know I had a dolls house with doors and windows that opened I think I was about 3, and my brother came along and wrecked it! Other than that I know I loved my stickle bricks when I was very small.
ReplyDeleteI got a mylittle pony one year and I was over the moon.
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ReplyDeleteSkeletor's Castle! I used to tell my friends it was my sister's when they came round though ;)
ReplyDeleteI was obsessed with a little toy food mixer that my sister bought me for my 4th birthday, it was battery operated I think, I used to "whip up" milk to make deserts all the time.. at some point i lost the mixer blades though..!
ReplyDeleteA Hummingbird cookbook from my daughter - it meant everything was ok.
ReplyDeleteA trip to Tokyo Disneyland!
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ReplyDeleteEvel Knievel stunt set. That thing was awesome.
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ReplyDeleteI had an early 50 th birthday present my daughter gave birth to my granddaughter and she and her husband had arranged for me to be there.I had never experienced that before as all 4 of my children were ceasereans. My daughter was amazing and that experience will always be with me
ReplyDeletethe best present i ever had was a trip to south africa for my 50th birthday
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ReplyDeleteAn Olympus camera when I was about 10. I still have the first pic I took with it using the timer, A pic of myself posing with the empty box!
ReplyDeleteMy GHD's on my 30th!
ReplyDeletei got a laptop when i was about 11 so i could play on paint haha
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ReplyDeleteas a child it was my plastic picnic set, as an adult it was my car :)
ReplyDeleteThe Girls World Styling Head when I was about 8, so much fun until you cut the hair too short and ruin it
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ReplyDeleteI had a wishing troll when I was little and I wished for a very specific troll for my collection and I got it. It was a very magcial time :)
ReplyDeleteWhen I turned 31 we got married on my Birthday so that was a pretty awesome Birthday and ever since that day it has had a double meaning, my Birthday as well as our wedding anniversary <3
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a cry baby :)
ReplyDeletea teddy that sucked its thumb - I was 5
ReplyDeleteWe went to London for my birthday last year, I had never been before and I loved it so that was my fave present.
ReplyDeleteMy 1st bike, pink, called Blossom with a bell and basket
ReplyDeleteMy sindy house with a lift on the side
ReplyDeleteI had a gorgeous doll with long blonde hair that I used to brush and style for hours
ReplyDeleteA weekend away.
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ReplyDeleteMine was a trip to the Harry Potter studio in Watford. Twas like a dream come true. Now I just need to go to Florida to the theme park!
ReplyDeleteA silver bracelet my mum and dad got me for my 18th birthday
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ReplyDeleteI had a pretty ballerina doll which danced & I called her Margot & she went everywhere with me
ReplyDeleteAs a child a record player and as an adult airline tickets to Australia
ReplyDeleteTickets to see Ronan Keating - he was awesome :) x
ReplyDeletemy lo would adore this xx
ReplyDeleteI remember receiving my first bike as a birthday gift when I was 8. I loved that bike!
ReplyDeleteI loved my double dolls pram so much I wouldn't take it out in case it got the wheels dirty!
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a child, I adored my Gameboy from my grandparents!
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ReplyDeleteSuch a difficult question to answer! Probably my first brand new mountain bike when I was 11. I remember going to the shop to choose it. All me previous bikes has been 'inherited'!
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ReplyDeleteMy lego, I used to spend hours playing with it.
ReplyDeleteMy bright red 1st 2 wheeler bike!
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ReplyDeleteI LOVE this! My youngest daughter would be over the moon with this, going ot have to hunt it down for her birthday on Sunday! xxx
ReplyDeleteIt is a great set - really lovely for children for imaginative play :)
DeleteWhat a sweet set. I may have to keep an eye out for it for my little girl.
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ReplyDeleteOoh this looks fab!! My two would love this. They always pretend to make cakes with lego.. Buying it now :D
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