After reading a review on this particular product I was transported back into my childhood, with me actually owning one of the earliest incarnations, but with my daughter (who is 9, how old do I feel!), owning her own version. The product in question is a skipping ball, and for those of you who have never heard of these they were particularly virulent in the early to mid 90's, around the same sort of time as the "lolo ball", I feel another review coming on! The set comprises of a round plastic ring that fits around the child's ankle, with best one being the matching side to your dominant hand. To the ring there is a length of ...  Read the complete review

There will always be certain television programmes and certain toys that never fail to remind me of my childhood and I had a childhood flashback this week. As I walked into the playground at school a whizzing pink object caught my eye, my first thought was how many injuries this could cause in a packed playground full of children before I realised the whizzing pink object was actually attached to a child's foot and therefore moving within a restricted area. My school recently bought some new playtime equipment and one thing they invested in was the Toyday Glitter Skip Balls which took me right back to my time at primary school! The Toyday Glitter Skip Ball is ...  Read the complete review

When I was younger I had various different types of garden toys and one of these was the Skip It as it was know as then. This is defiantly a toy designed for outside rather than inside, using it inside could get you in trouble from your parents if it was to crash into something as it spun!!!!!! It is a very basic toy but one that gave me hours of fun. The Skip It is basically a ball usually made our of some rubber type material on the end of a plastic coated rope. At the end of the rope was a loop big enough to fit over your ankle. So to use the Skip It you place your foot though the loop then begin to swing the entire thing around in circle on the end ...  Read the complete review