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Flik Flak Romantic Cat Watch
by chrisandmark My daughter received this gorgeous Flik Flak watch for Christmas, it was a present from Mark's cousin who knows nothing about children (being a lifelong bachelor) and the watch went into a drawer for 'when she's older'. She'd never shown any interest in learning the time, but after spotting the watch a few days after Christmas she ... decided to start wearing it. The clever face design meant she taught herself the basics of telling the time within a couple of weeks, and now is almost completely proficient at it. Flik Flak have created a lovely little watch here that has been designed to make it a simpler process to learn to tell the time. The numerals are well placed and a good size in relation to the face of the watch; they have shown the number for hours in a bold red, while minutes are coloured in grey and displayed in increments of five minutes. The watch hands are colour-coded to match the numerals so the child will know at a glance that the red hand is showing the hour, and the longer grey hand is pointing to the grey minutes. Unless you have a child who is learning to tell the time you probably won't be very impressed by this, but believe me when I say that this simple colour scheme is extremely helpful. The strap of the watch is fabric with a predominantly pink design. The 'Romantic Cat' name comes from the pretty rose pattern and the stylish looking cat who is strolling the length of the strap. The watch fastens with a chunky plastic buckle and the fastening holes are well spaced and tidily punched into the strap - this watch is for children aged five and above so the strap is very loose on the wrist of my skinny four year old, her dad was going to punch a new hole so that she can tighten it properly but in the end he left it as it was as he was worried about spoiling the fabric. The watch face is made of aluminium and it features a scratch resistant face, this is perfect as Hollie likes to wear hers in the garden and the fact that it still looks as good as new is quite impressive in my opinion! Flik Flak make watches that are designed to be durable even when worn by young children, so it came as no surprise that this one is even suitable to be popped in the washing machine! I've done this once (when Hollie's toddler brother was sick on the strap - long revolting story) and it was fine; to protect the face and buckle of the watch I popped it inside a zippy up pocket in a pair of trousers, set the machine to thirty degrees and when the watch came back out it was not only spotless but still working. This Romantic Cat watch keeps perfect time and has done since Hollie received it, this is important when choosing a watch for a little person as any 'offness' can easily distract them from the task in hand. I know the design is the main thing for Hollie though, the pinkness really appeals to her girly side and she seems proud to not only be telling the time alone but also to wear the watch. Read the complete review |
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Flik Flak Funny Dino FAC23
by oioiyou If it's so annoying when I come in with your nicely ironed uniform to wake you for school then get yourself up! I'm at a point where I'm thinking of just throwing his uniform at him and letting him go out like that, but I don't like him not looking nice. If he'd get himself up in the morning it would help me out and cut out some ... arguments and let me get on with other things in the mornings. My aunty gave my son this dinosaur clock 3 years ago for his birthday and it's been sitting in his closet gathering dust since then so I grabbed it, wiped it off and started setting the time. Thankfully it was very straight forward setting the time and alarm time. The clock itself is small and rounded with dinosaurs on it. Like my alarm it has a snooze function but I haven't told him about that yet as I want him to learn that when the alarm goes that means get up! My son found waking up to the alarm rather easy and spent the last month of school getting himself up and ready which gave me a chance to drink my morning coffee whilst its still hot! Hopefully he'll start doing this again in September. The only down side is that the alarm sometimes wakes my youngest a little too early for my liking but we live in a small house so it's hard at times. I'm quite surprised that the batteries last as last as they do. My son found that he could light up the clock in the dark so that was being looked at every few minutes one night. The clock face itself is rather helpful for a child learning to tell the time. The minutes are shown by dots and numbers all the way along. The hour and minute hands are represented by a girl and boy figure to ensure the reader can see the difference between the hands. Flik Flak as a company seem like they really want to help children learn to tell time. I found a part of their website that is a little game and it shows a Flik Flak clock face and you can then say what time is shown and get a green or red depending on if you get it right or not and my son had a great time playing and learning the time. As the game shows the same face as the clock in his room is makes things a bit more consistent. I've had a little look around and can only find this clock available in one or two places and both pricing this clock at £28. I think it's hard to find because it's from the 2006 collection but have a look at the newer collections. Lovely watches and clocks for various ages. http://www.flikflak.com/ © oioiyou 2011 Read the complete review |
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Flik Flak Powerpuff Girls FAC26
by chrisandmark Before I begin this review let me get one thing straight; the Flik Flak Powerpuff Girls watch is actually a clock, I know because we've had it for ten years and it's still going strong! I have just run upstairs to check the model number and it is indeed the FAC26, as far as I know Flik Flak never actually made a Powerpuff Girls watch - ... and I should know as I spent the whole of November and December 2001 searching for one for (then) five year old Charlotte who was completely obsessed with the phenomena that were Blossom, Buttercup and Bubbles. You can tell just by the look of the clock that it's made by Flik Flak; the chunky design and vibrant colours make it stand out from any other clock designed for children, it even looks the part now mixed in with the more modern gadgets the kids' own. If I mix my girls' names up in the review it's because over the years they've all owned this same clock, it currently sits next to three year old Hollie's bed and she loves it even though she's never seen the Powerpuff Girls on tele - it's just occurred to me to get it up on You Tube for her later, it's just the sort of thing she'd love! You can see part of the clock above, what you can't see is the sweet moulded 3D picture of the three Powerpuff Girls which juts out to around the same dimensions as the half which houses the clock face. The depiction of the characters is spot on, I wish the piccie showed the full clock as I can't even begin to start describing it for the average consumer who has never heard of the Powerpuff Girls. Just Google Powerpuff Girls and find an picture of the three in a kind of Red Arrows pose with the middle Girl slightly higher and in front of the other two, it's probably an image that will immediately come into the mind of Dooyoo'ers with the same age daughter as me! It looks great though, the child-orientated blue and pink colour scheme looks as great now as it did when I first bought it. The colours of the Powerpuff Girls are just right and breaks the blue up to make it a good unisex clock. The clock face itself is definitely designed with girls in mind, but the overall effect (with the part you can't see) would be fine for boys too - David will no doubt end up with it when he's bigger, but then he had a pink Moses basket and plenty of dresses to wear when he was born (it's a long story) so is probably not the best example. There's no alarm on this clock, the pink button you can see above the face is actually a switch to activate small green LED lights above each number. These still work and it can be useful (or at least fun) for children when they are old enough to be able to tell the time in the dark - or not, as bizarrely the hands of the clock don't light up so it's slightly senseless to illuminate the numbers! It's a nice effect though; Alice in particular loved the clock when it was lit up, the button has always been responsive and despite being switched on and off literally thousands of times over the years none of the lights have blown. The clock works using three AA batteries, I use cheap throwaway Poundland batteries in this and they last for months. It's usually five minutes slow, there's something about this clock and it's lost the same five minutes ever since I bought it - something that doesn't bother me as I'm not the most time-conscious person in the world, and has definitely never bothered the kids. I doubt they've noticed! I remember paying £25 for this clock in Littlewoods in Birmingham. This was ten years ago and twenty five quid was a hell of a lot of money to spend on a plastic clock. Yeah, yeah, I'm well aware I sound like my mum when I say that but it's true. Then you could get a (bang on toddler-trend) Teletubbies or Tweenies clock for about a tenner, dammit a LIVING ROOM clock wasn't as expensive (for the time, remember) as this. The bad news is I don't think they're readily available now. You know what, since I saw this empty category I've had the sneaking suspicion that I requested the product donkey's years ago and never got around to writing about it. In those days suggesting products and not writing about them was frowned upon so sorry Dooyoo, but I got here in the end! Read the complete review |
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