With all this talk of moon landings someone had to come up with this idea. Made by Whirlpool (the same guys who make washing machines) for the Apollo Missions this authentic freeze dried ice cream can last up to 3 years unopened.

Anyone planning a Space themed Birthday party? Available in 3 flavours from Think Geek.

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To promote Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles at the San Diego Comic Con, free T-shirts were given away. Flip the shirt over your face and you’ll become a zombie. For creative Kid unfriendly use of a Tshirt we give it 10 out of 10.

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Microscooters UK now have a new range of colourful accessories for the MiniMicro scooter to help you figure out which of the 100 or so 2 wheelers in the bike shed belongs to your Kid when it comes to bell time.

You can pick and mix from red, yellow and green handle grips, decks and brakes.

Watch our video interview with the inventor of the smash hit Microscooter brand here.

Buy the Maxi Micro scooter at Blooming Marvellous

Buy the Mini Micro scooter at John Lewis

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German company Style Your Garage have come up with a novel way of making your garage door turn a few heads in your neighbourhood. We can’t quite think why you would want to draw attention to your lock up , but who cares these printed tarpaulins are so much fun they made our Kids forget we promised them a lollipop.

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We’re not old fashioned but we had no idea there were designers who specialised in maternity wear for pregnant brides. Check out the collection at Tiffany Rose.

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What do you make of the latest Ad campaign for Matchbox? Young Warriors is a new ad campaign for Mattel Asia Pacific’s Matchbox brand. Created by Ogilvy & Mather Singapore, it depicts children in warzone scenes. Hot on the heels of the launch of HM Armed Forces Action figures which caused a bit of a hoo ha this new campaign is bound to ruffle a few feathers.

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This is what happenned when I turned my back and my 6 year old decided to paint the face of my 3 year old with a highlighter! How many days left of the summer holiday?

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Ok, so there’s a credit crunch, Pound against the Euro is poor, stay at home, buy a cheap tent. We noticed Halfords are doing a 4 person Tent with 4 sleeping bags AND 2 torches for £100.

Sounds great, except this is the UK in July and the picture above I grabbed today will make you emotional if you are going camping this week. It does say ‘Light Showers’ but the picture looks more scary. Luxury hotel in the South of France anyone?

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This 3 year old Chinese girl solves the classic 3 x 3 Rubiks Cube in 114 seconds. That’s 10 years, 2 months and seven days faster than it took us to get one side right.

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Not your typical home video, take one kid and some musical talent from both Kid and videomaker, mash it up and you get something magical.

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These Japanese Kids really know how to work the decks. Good to see real decks too, no games controllers and a console.

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My daughter came back from school today and said they had been watching this clip in class and she had to watch it again, urgently. It’s a classic story of the Buddha and how the snake got its’ hiss.  

The story is told by the artful Jeeva Raghunath. Personally I would have lowered the background music (!) but it might keep your Kids quiet for a few minutes.

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