Play.com is offering £2 off the Creations 3 In 1 Emotion Designs from Crayola, reducing it from £4.99 to £2.99. For almost a fiver, this is a little expensive, but for £3 it’s not too bad.

• Learn about emotions in a fun way

I don’t think I’ve met a little girl (especially) who didn’t love stickers. I remember as kids we used to collect and swap stickers, and every decade or so my sister and I will go through a box of old things at our parent’s house and rediscover the treasures  that have survived from those years.

These would be great for decorating a journal, or if you’re that way inclined, to help toddlers learn to understand and express emotions.

The pen includes two inks and a mechanical pencil mode, which  you change by twisting the barrel to the instrument you want to write with. The stamper is also three in one and has different patterns for decorating paper and envelopes and so on.

I can see this being loads of fun!

Thanks to wishihadadonkey at HUKD

Oh this Crayola Hippo Baby and Me is just CUTE! The Argos eBay outlet are selling this little ceramic painting kit for £3.99 - the other suspects have them priced at between £12 and £14.

• Click HERE to go over to the Argos eBay Outlet

I'd pop over there quickly if you want one of these Crayola Hippo Baby and Me sets, things like this tend to sell out pretty sharpish and once all their stock is gone, that's it.

I loved being given things like this for either my birthday or Christmas - activity/arts and craft pressies are just awesome - and I've have spent a happy Christmas day afternoon painting and decorating Mummy Hippo and her baby.

You get five little pots of paint and a brush and can create and paint whatever designs and patterns you wish for your hippos.  The Mummy Hippo also has a secret hide-inside feature for stashing away precious things, Baby Hippo can hide in there too.

The Crayola Hippo Baby and Me kit is suitable for kids aged four years and older and will be delivered to your home for a mere 99 pence; you can pay with PayPal too if you want to.

Thanks to andywedge at HUKD

This Crayola Winnie the Pooh fun roll set is just the sort of thing I would have loved as a child - in fact, it's just the sort of thing I'd still love to colour in now!

The Toy Shop have reduced its price down to £2 from £8, which makes it a rather nice little bargain.

• Click HERE to go over to The Toy Shop

Two two meter rolls and four marker pens make up this Crayola Winnie the Pooh Fun Roll set.

Both of them are feature everyone's favourite Winnie the Pooh characters who appear in fun pictures and activities that are perfect for your toddler, or you, to colour in.

You can separate each picture by tearing it off the role and hang them on the wall, or frame them, OR you can unroll the entire roll to reveal a rather fabulous height chart - I do love height charts - and let  your child colour in the pictures and mark off their height as they grow!

The Crayola Winnie the Pooh Fun Rolls are suitable for little ones aged two year or older.

Home delivery will cost you £3.95, unless you're ordering other bits and pieces which takes your total over £30, or you can collect your Crayola Winnie the Pooh fun rolls for free from your local Toy Shop.

Thanks to goonertillidie at HUKD

If you have an arty and creative type in your family, then it'll be worth popping over to Toys R Us and having a look at the 3 for 2 Crayola offer they're currently running.

• Click HERE to go over to Toys R Us

I loved drawing as a child - I still do, I just wish I had more time to do it now - and giving me anything arty for either my birthday, or Christmas, was always a winner.

Whenever I think of Crayola, I see pots of wax crayons on the table of my infant school class.  But Crayola have so much more to offer now and there are 49 Crayola things to choose from to make up your 3 for 2 at Toys R Us.

There are marker pens, the wax crayons (of course) and all sorts of fancy things to help you create some fabulous designs; there are glitter gel pens, paints and stamps too.

Everything is available for home delivery (which will cost you £4.95) or, if you're going past your local Toys R Us any time soon, you can arrange to collect your Crayola 3 for 2 order in person.

Happy drawing!

Crayola Half Length Pencils are reduced by 37% at Amazon right now, selling at 80p per pack – including postage (which must be worth almost that!) instead of £1.26.

• Colour your world with Crayola pencils from Amazon

I am soooooooo annoyed by this deal, since I went out today and bought ten packs of these a £1.15 each to pop in the party bags for my daughter’s birthday party next month, then came home to see this deal. If I can find the receipt in my wallet,  may just return them now!

The Crayola Half Length Coloured Pencils pack contains 12 pencils, which apparently have strong lead and are made from high quality smooth grained wood for easy sharpening and less breakage.

Each pack comes with colours such as red, red-orange, orange, yellow-orange, peach, yellow, golden yellow, jade, green, yellow green, aqua-green, light blue, sky blue, blue, violet, pink, magenta, mahogany, tan, light brown, brown, grey, black and white – or at least an assortment of these, making up a pack of twelve.

Thanks to tripleeclipse at HUKD

The Crayola Creations Illumination Station from The Entertainer is just £10 instead of £25 at the moment.

• Spoil  your young designer with the illumination station

The Illumination Station is a 3 in 1 light box, drawing desk and projector, perfect for drawing designs, images or plans, before unlocking the light unit, popping in an image disc and then projecting the design or character onto the wall.

There are 20 image discs and 10 backgrounds to choose from, and the lightbox has a built in drawer for storing everything.  It also comes with colouring pens so you (or they) can draw up pictures, notes or  invitations  or cards.

The light unit can also be removed, and should you need a midnight  stroll around the house, be used as a torch.

This definitely sounds like  a fun way to keep a child entertained for hours.  You can order for store collection in three days or home  delivery takes around two days and costs £3.95.

Thanks to goonertillidie at HUKD

Well this certainly IS a dealtastic deal from DealTastic - they're selling this Crayola Digital Camera Scrapbook Kit for £17.99 instead of £39.99.

• Click HERE to snap up this deal

If you've got a budding photographer or graphic designer in your household/family then you should take a look at this Crayola Digital Camera Scrapbook Kit.

It comes with an easy grip two mega pixel digital camera, USB cable, paper, stickers, marker pens and a software cd that includes fun creative things such as a jigsaw puzzle which allows you to turn your favorite pictures into computerized puzzles.

The camera has a large LCD viewing screen on the back and photos will be a standard 640px x 480px in size.

They can be printed and cut out and scrapbooked - that's not ever really something I've got into, but always thought was a pretty cool way of documenting holidays or events - or can be manipulated using the features on the CD.

The full spec' of everything is at the end of the 'click here' link above.

I think this would make a fabulous present for either birthday, Christmas OR even a 'congratulation on starting school' gift as it's suitable for young creative types aged four years or older.

Thanks to maesepp at HUKD

Home Bargains are selling this Crayola Rainbow Rake for £3.99 instead of the £12.99 rrp.

• Click HERE to go over to Home Bargains

This is the sort of thing I would have loved as a kid!

I have warm and fuzzy distant memories of drawing on our driveway with my little coloured chalks that came with my blackboard easel; I'd draw pictures, hopscotch grids, racetracks and road ways to drive cars around in - they were fun and innocent times.

Things have moved on a bit since then but I'm sure the fun of drawing outside has remained the same, there just seems to be 'something' about having a GIANT canvas, that's not paper, to draw on.

This Crayola Rainbow Rake looks rather fab' to me; it's not very technical, so it won't take me long to tell you about it.

Basically, it's a rake that will hold various different coloured outdoor chalks and crayons; when you drag it along the ground you can create colourful pictures or write giant messages.

When you're done you simply wash away your artistic creations with water or, I suppose, you could just wait for it to rain.  Judging by the weather forecast for most of the country today, you wouldn't have to wait very long.

And that's really all there is to it; good old-fashioned outdoor summer fun with no batteries required.

Thanks to klc979 at HUKD

Use this Toys R Us promotional code to get 20% off top brands both online and in store. It is just for this weekend though, so you've only got till the end of Sunday to get this discount!

Click here to use your Toys R Us promotional code

• Discount: 20%
• Applies to: selected top brands
• Promotional code: 9008089999998
• Expires: 7th August 2011

To use this code in store, click on the link above and print out the coupon that appears. To use this code online you’ll need to go through to checkout. You’ll have to either log in or register on the site. Then when you get to the Check Out page, enter it in the Coupon Details box and hit apply. You don’t need to enter any other details to see if the code works.

The brands you can use this code on are Disney Pixar Cars, Thomas and Friends, Lego, Hello Kitty, Little Tikes, Nerf, VTech, Winnie The Pooh, Smart Trike, and Crayola.

There's some popular and normally rather expensive brands in there. Particularly the Lego stuff - always nice to get a 20% discount on that!

Thanks to seafrance2 at HUKD!

Crayola Paper Fantastic for making honeycomb paper effects is on sale at Amazon for £10.50, 38% off from £16.99. These are currently £15.30 at Boots excluding postage, and £14.97 at Toys R Us, also excluding postage.

• Go arty with Crayola Paper Fantastic

You can create fun honeycomb paper effects with the Crayola Paper Fantastic. The Paper Fantastic unit makes creating these complicated effects simple. Amazon says that the unit “adjusts every time you add a new piece of tissue paper so you know exactly where to glue” thereby reducing mess too.

With the 60 sheets of paper, 10 designs and 3 PipSqeak skinnes and glue it is supplied with, you can create garlands, 3D paper decorations, cards and pretty much anything else you can image.

One of the reviewers on Amazon was really impressed at being able to make Christmas bells and garlands with ease. She did say that you had to read the instructions quite carefully, but the results are “wonderful, and with a bit of practice you can make all kinds of fun decorations.”

Two of the three reviewers loved it and would recommend it to others, although young children will need help – it's aimed at 4 years and up – but the third reviewer found the paper to be very thin and the glue to not stick.

So, I guess if you get one that doesn't stick, send it back for one that does – the others seem to love it.

.Friendship Bracelets from Crayola Project Kits are on sale at Amazon for £2.33, a healthy 52% off the usual £4.88.

• Craft a friendship bracelet together with Amazon and Crayola

I'm a sucker for anything crafty or anything that gets children creating. So this little project kit seems like a bit of fun for an hour or so, at a very good price.

The kit comes with 80 different beads so you can create a few different bracelets (there are 40 pony beads and 40 star and heart beads), foam flower shapes and over 16 meters of ribbons and braiding threads. It also includes elastic and a comprehensive instruction leaflet should imagination start to dwindle.

Amazon reviews for the Friendship Bracelets are mixed with some feeling that it was too fiddly for children, and others saying that it kept the children busy for hours.

Because of small parts and somewhat fiddly assembly it is not for children under 6 years, although most reviewers used it with their little ones as young as five.
Thanks to Lucerysmum at HUKD

Create amazing honeycomb paper effects, such as 3D paper decorations, beautiful garlands, cards and more with Paper Fantastic from Amazon at £12.76, a 25% discount.

• Get creative with Paper Fantastic

My 90-year old great-grandmother still had paper decorations in her house every Christmas, a remnant of the nursery school she ran for 40-something years. These reminded me a lot of the ones in her house.

Says an Amazon reviewer, “I never would have thought it possible to make the kind of honeycomb paper that's used for Christmas bells and garlands, but this is a clever device that helps you do it.”

According to the same reviewer, “You have to read the instructions quite carefully, but the results are wonderful, and with a bit of practice you can make all kinds of fun decorations.”

These aren't really for children though, or at least require a good amount of adult supervision. A mum who made decorations with her daughter, says: “We... found the mechanism brilliant. An otherwise difficult activity to do well was made incredibly easy and the finished results were colourful and professional looking. A great product and I recommend it to everyone.”

It sounds like a good afternoon's entertainment to me!

Amazon have whipped 39% off the price of this cute Crayola Bug Rocks set and are selling it for £2.99, rather than £4.88 (<--- some of their original prices are so random, why not just make it £4.99 or a straight fiver?)

• Click HERE to bug Amazon for this deal

I have a real soft spot for little projects like this Crayola Bug Rocks set.

With half-term looming already - not sure how that's possible as my little and not-so-little 'cherubs' have only just gone back to school after Christmas! - something like Crayola Bug Rocks will make for a fun and inexpensive way to kill an afternoon.

Let's face it, this half-term isn't at the best time of year for being able to throw them (the kids that is) outside in the garden to play for hours on end, so messing around with Crayola Bug Rocks, creating some cute little bug dudes, is a great indoor half-term boredom solution.

The concept is very simple -  colour in the rocks, add the body parts, stick on the finer details and then play with your new creepy crawly friends.

The Crayola Bug Rocks set also comes with a game and some groovy bug glasses to make and wear; awesome for £2.99 I reckon and if you order now with the SuperSaver delivery it should arrive in plenty of time for half-term

Thanks to goonertillidie at HUKD

When you have kids in the house you can never have too many pens, pencils or crayons - Amazon have a nice little deal on Crayola mini marker pens at the moment.

• Click HERE to make your mark on this deal with Amazon

A boy called Vincent in my junior school class borrowed my pens one day, when he gave them back he'd trashed all the nibs!!!

They'd either been pushed in OR looked like they'd exploded into a little mass of hairy fuzziness; I remember being very upset.

Little kids can be even rougher with colouring pens but fear NOT intrepid arty parents, because these Crayola Pip-Squeak  mini maker pens are built to withstand life with toddlers aged over three.

They have crush resistant nibs and, with 14 pens in a pack, come in enough colours to draw pictures in all colours of TWO rainbows.

The ink is washable so there's going to be no real damage done if your little Picasso accidentally draws on their clothes.

The Crayola Pip-Squeak mini markers are big and chunky too; ideal for little pip-squeak hands to get to drips with and small enough to keep in your bag for entertainment on the go.

Crayola Pip-Squeak mini markers normally retail for £3.49 but Amazon are letting them go just now for £1.74.

Thanks to debadwolf over at HUKD!

A drawing maestro please!

• Click HERE and groove on over to Amazon

I suppose this could be classed as a multi-tasking toy and I have to say I really quite like the look of it.

The concept is simple - your little one can be Beethoven and Picasso all rolled into one and 'compose' original music with their drawings as the music changes and reacts to the speed of their drawing and depending on the instruments they've chosen.

It plays four songs, there are different big band backing beats and four instrument buttons can be pressed to add more depth and create some funky music, and it also has a volume control buttong - great news for us parents!

It comes with eight triangular crayons - reviewers have said that this triangular shape makes the crayons super-easy for little hands to hold - and there's a built-in drawer that holds up to 16 of them.

What else does it come with?  A super price reduction from £19.99 to £7.49, 3 AA batteries, 3 sheets of paper (which is a bit stingy if you ask me, but I guess we can't have everything) and of course free delivery with the fabo Amazon supersaver deal.

Happy scribbling!

Thanks to cherish138 over at HUKD

On the Crayola colouring website, there are literally THOUSANDS of free printable sheets for colouring-in! These are great for your kids to waste away a rainy afternoon.

• Click here to browse the colouring pages @ Crayola

There are various categories of colouring activities, such as holidays, or Disney. If there is something specific you are looking for, you can even use the search box to find it. They pages are pretty varied, with everything from Albert Einstein to The Queen!

As I child, I used to love colouring-in. It was one of my favourite pastimes. I remember getting those Crayola art sets for Christmas, and spending weeks drawing and colouring. Good times!