They seem to have gone vintage mad over at dotcomgiftshop! This delightfully retro set of dominoes is a bargain at just £3.95.

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This looks like a really beautiful set of dominoes with vintage-style pictures on each domino card. The game comes in a retro box containing 28 dominoes plus an easy-to-follow instruction booklet and rules-of -the-game guide.

This item is suitable for  children between the ages of 4 and 8 years and I can definitely vouch for dominoes as an inspired way of entertaining little people. My lads adore dominoes and are building up quite a repertoire of different games that they know how to play, and they absolutely love explaining the rules and counting the cards out among players. It's great for everything from helping them learn how to co-operate to building numeracy skills.

What I love about this item is the classic, nostalgic design. Often these days the most affordable toys and games for children are also the most tacky but dotcomgiftshop certainly seem to have a knack for tracking down items that are both easy on your pocket and lovely to look at too.

This cute school colouring set consists of a ruler, 12 coloured pencils and a wooden pencil sharpener, and it's just £3.95 at Dotcom Gift Shop.

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The site does warn of a choking hazard associated with this toy and stresses that it is not suitable for children under the age of 3 years and should not be used without  adult supervision so do bear that in mind.

It's a cute little item for a budding artist, and strikes me as ideal for slipping in your bag to ensure that you've always got a means of keeping your little people entertained. I think kids will adore the wooden box with its sliding lid - it's just the sort of thing my 5 year old would get very attached to. I love that it comes with a pencil sharpener, too, because there are few things more irritating to a child than a box full of blunt and unusable coloured pencils.

I'm always amazed at the fact that some paper and coloured pencils can actually buy me a fairly civilised cuppa with my kids in tow. You just might need to pack a notebook to make sure you're never caught short or your budding Picassos might be tempted to start scribbling on the walls.

Be prepared to be presented with endless masterpieces, too!

Remember these? Magic drawing slates! I haven't seen once since I was about six years old.

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These magic drawing slates are just £1 over at www.dotcomgiftshop and would make a cute little retro pressie for someone special, or a fun item for popping in a Christmas stocking or a party bag.

We used to lose hours drawing masterpieces on these as kids, and the magic lay in the fact that you could rub out your picture and start all over again endlessly. I think kids would love them as a toy to keep them entertained on long journeys and I bet they'd have real novelty value as a radical alternative to all our modern gadgetry!

Delivery is £3.95 so you will need to purchase several, or other items as well, to make it worth your while but I'm tempted to snap these up as party bag goodies for later in the year... that is, if you don't beat me to it!

There are HEAPS of other slate designs so do have a good look around the site!

Now here's a cunning way to keep your littlies entertainted over the Easter holidays. Put them to work in the garden! To help with your master plan, Dotcomgiftshop have a range of gardening tools especially for kids, at really brilliant prices.

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These super cute gardening gloves are just £2.95 while the colour co-ordinating garden fork is just £1.95. The items also come in blue, and you get co-ordinating trowels, spades and even a garden rake, a wheelbarrow and a garden brush for cleaning up when the hard work is done!

Dotcomgiftshop are currently offering free delivery on all orders placed over the Easter weekend. The offer applies to UK mainland deliveries only and ends at midnight on Monday April 5th.