Smelli Gelli Baff

The Blurb: Turn your bath into goo with Gelli Bath! Ideal for paddling pools and bathtime, Gelli Baff turns water into goo, and back again!

Simply run your bath, add Gelli Baff and watch in amazement as your boring bath water magically turns into a brightly coloured thick goo! When the fun's all done, simply add the sachet of dissolver powder and the goo disappears as magically as it appeared.

This was a lot of fun although we should have used less water to make a deeper colour and to make it more gooey!!  Ours was a lovely bright sunshine colour that seriously smelt like popcorn.

The crystals didn’t melt ever so well but actually this just added to the horrible stickiness of it all. Brilliant for kids to mess around in and for a fun bath time but definitely not for getting clean.....Chick had to have a shower after to clean it all off but massive amounts of fun!!

The second sachet is to melt the gunk so that you can rinse it away. It didn’t work quite as I thought it would but enough to rinse it away without any major traumas and also without any stains on child, towels, bath mat etc so that’s a bonus!!

Would make a great stocking filler or a little extra. Retails at around £4.99 available from Toys R Us online or instore. Remember to check out the Toybox for all the great reviews from the Toyologists.

Speedo Sea Squad

The first time that I took Chick swimming I think she was about 8 weeks old and just looked sooooo cute in her little tiny swimsuit. I'm not sure if it's because she started so early but she's always loved swimming even though she was never overly confident. Swimming lessons are mandatory at school and actually her confidence has grown a lot since she started with the lessons, which is fabulous.

Recently Speedo have set up a new Sea Squad learn to swim project, which is obviously aimed at getting parents and children to learn to swim. The website is full of useful bits and pieces and has a section just for kids where they can play games, print off posters and door hangers, join the Sea Squad themselves or learn all about water safety. Rebecca Adlington (Olympic gold medallist) also lends her support and gets involved with the site. Chick and I love that it's so bright and colourful.

As part of the learn to swim site Speedo can e-mail you advice about teaching your children to swim depending on what stages they may be at, from babies onwards. There are three levels starting with 'Start Splashing' and then moving onto 'Start Swimming' and finally 'Get Confident'.

To help with Chick's confidence, Speedo sent us a kick board and some cool dive sticks which we've been using at the pool. I did try and get a sneaky shot at the pool but the lifeguard saw me and told me off (whoops!!) so we had to take a picture at home instead:

More information can be found over at the Speedo website.