We love cooking together, my 2 year old and I. She does loads of mixing and stirring and pouring and it’s normally great fun and generally not too messy. When Little Cooks Collection brought out the Dora the Explorer set, it was something we just had to have. The magazines are £4.99 per fortnightly issue (issue 1 special price £0.99 and issue 2 special price £2.99)

The Little Cooks Collection is a fortnightly magazine subscription which is delivered to your door. When you subscribe you receive a magazine tidy box – a godsend in your kitchen – a cooking timer, an ‘on the go’ lunch bag, and a hat and apron decorated with Dora (these come along with your first five shipments). You also receive cooking equipment with each magazine, and the list of what you’ll get is way too long for me to share here.

In fact, that’s been one of the bonuses of this set – you could kit out your kitchen with the sheer quantity of baking equipment you get with all this. Also, you’d expect it to be pretty mediocre quality, being for kids, and while the rolling pin is quite small and the cooking timer doesn’t always buzz when it stops, the rest of the goodies we’ve received in our first seven magazines have been really, really good. I even use them in my baking sometimes!

The magazines are great – they have a main recipe, a few smaller recipes, a story, a craft activity and so on, so you can bake or cook together, then have a read and an activity, or spread it over a few days. I find the activities a little ‘old’ for my two year old, but she enjoys all the rest.

We really love this collection and look forward to it arriving in the mail. Now, it’s supposed to be fortnightly, and it isn’t. I’m not actually sure, now I think about it, but I know it’s pretty sporadic and we normally get two or three issues at the same time. It hasn’t bothered me, and it hasn’t been a problem for my little girl either. We certainly haven’t gotten to the point of waiting by the post box.

The recipes are easily adaptable, and really simple. They’re basic and easy for children to follow.

The only negative we have for the Dora the Explorer Little Cooks Collection is that it can be quite packaging heavy, with things wrapped in heavy plastic and over packaged.

Apart from that though, we love cooking with Dora the Explorer.

I owned my first camera when I was seven years old; it was a little Kodak thing that took 110mm film and was nowhere near as 'cool' as the kids character cameras that Jessops have on sale at the moment.

If you have a Dora the Explorer or Spongebob Square Pants fan in your house and they're a bit of a budding David Bailey or Mario Testino, then they're in LUCK!

• Click HERE for Spongebob
• Click HERE for Dora

These are the two character cameras that Jessops are selling for £9.99 instead of £39.99; that £39.99 sounds a bit steep to me, £9.99 is much better.

The cameras have an Auto Flash, a status LCD Screen and can shoot up to 300 images on its 8MB internal memory.

There are Auto Shut-off and Self Timer features and they come with a USB cable and Picture Plus Software.

The Picture Plus software opens up a whole creative world of opportunity; you can make calendars, play games, create an album or Photo Cube, puzzle or postcard.

There are 22 photo editing tools and also a webcam function.

Can't be bad for 5 pence under a tenner.

Thanks to lucerysmum at HUKD

Kids headphones featuring various favourite characters are on sale at Game for £5.98 – a £7.01 saving, and delivery is included in the price.

• Click for fun kids headphones from Game

I'm not really sure how good headphones are for children, or whether they should be having noise that close to developing ear drums, but these caught my eye specifically because they sit on the ear, rather than in it.

While I prefer in ear headphones for sound quality and noise reduction, I'm not sure that's great for little ones!

Apparently these were “designed with kids in mind” by “helping protect your children’s hearing whilst providing excellent value for money.”

There are only two reviews, with very differing opinions – a five star and a one star, so no real help there.

Options available are Ben 10, Dora the Explorer and Spongebob Squarepants.

Thanks to goonertillidie at HUKD

The Dora the Explorer Padded Jacket for little girls is currently £9.99 at Sports Direct, a fabulous £17.00 off.

• Click here to Explore (next) winter with Dora

It might be getting slightly warm for such a thick jacket now, but barring any relapses in the weather, it'll be a nice headstart to next winter if you have a little girl between the age of one and five (the jacket comes in four size options).

The padded jacket has a cute look with a stitched Dora the Explorer badge to the chest and a 'Dora' print across the lower back.

This girls jacket has a snug all over padding, fleece lined hood and full front zip, perfect for keeping warm in the colder weather. It is 100% Polyester which could make it a little sweaty, but then, as a winter jacket, that's not likely.

A great advantage to this particular jacket is also the fact that it is machine washable, which is really useful when it comes to little children.

Add £3.99 for delivery and it's still a pretty good deal. There are also a few other Dora the Explorer outfits in the range, also on sale.

Thanks to jenine01 at HUKD

"A book and a music player....so it's like a cross between an iPod and an Amazon Kindle for little kids then...?" the  modern teenage perspective on this Dora music book for you!

• Click HERE to explore this a-DORA-ble deal with The Book People

Kids love Dora the Explorer, kids love books and kids love music - so what a genius idea to put all three of them together!

In this book Dora and Boots go off on a magical musical adventure, hunting high and low looking for lost invitations.  The pictures are bright and colourful with plenty of action going on in them to capture young imaginations

Each disk has a selection of songs and music and on each page there are prompts to let your child know when they should play each song - although if they are anything like mine they will want to play the songs as and when they like 'thank you very much!'

I like the fact that the book actually has a CD player'esque 'thing' to put the CDs into - this is much more fun  for kids than just pressing a button on the page.

Use these codes to get 10% off the published price and free delivery too: IS001 for 10% off and BE2006 for free delivery.

Thanks to andywedge over at HUKD!