A lovely garden toy for the summer. Mail Order Express has reduced by half price all the new wooden Dominoes toys on its site. Including this Children's Wooden Picnic and Sand Table, down from £59.99 to £29.99.

• Click here for your Dominoes wooden picnic and sand table

Kids love to play at tables, or at least mine does. What I like about this one is that it has a top, so you can use it for eating and for playing with other toys like lego, dolls, or for creative arts like drawing. Then take the top off and they can play in the sand.

There's not much more information on the site though - I couldn't find out what size the table is although you can probably gauge this from the photo. All the details they had were:

• Manufactured by: Dominoes Of Leicester Ltd
• Easy assembly
• Naturally treated wood for added protection
• Sturdy & durable construction

If your child is like my son, then they'll probably really enjoy playing with figures and toys that are familiar to them. Especially if they have a favourite book, TV show or movie. Little figures like these Born to Play Rupert Bear & Friends also look really cute on the shelf on their room. Mail Order Express has reduced this set to £2,99, down from £13.99. That's a saving of £11 or 79%.

• Click here for your Rupert Bear figures from Mail Order Express

Delivery in the UK on this toy is £1.99, which would bring the total to £4.98, still a good price at less than a fiver. I couldn't find a free delivery code that was still current for the site, however there is free delivery on the site if you spend £20 or more using the code FREEDELI when you get to checkout.

Here's what one customer on the site's Amazon seller page had to say about this toy. "The set is fantastic, great quality, real likeness to the cartoon characters; the legs and arms move. Both my kids, 2 and 5, have had lots of fun playing with the figurines, creating their own games and plots."

Thanks to lucerysmum at HUKD!

I know that it isn't exactly gardening weather right now. Far too much rain and wind! But the weather will change, and you can prepare for some outdoor fun right now while you wait. Like stocking up on toys, such as this In the Night Garden gardening bag with tools. Mail Order Express has reduced this to £4.99 from £19.99. And if you use the promotional code DISCOUNT (enter this in the appropriate box at checkout) then you'll get another 75p off, taking the price down to £4.24. The standard delivery charge is £1.99.

• Click here for your In the Night Garden gardening bag at Mail Order Express

This set features brightly coloured tools and seeds for planting and is just the thing for little gardeners. The set is decorated with images of the garden and characters from the CBeebies TV show In the Night Garden, including Iggle Piggle, Upsy Daisy and Makka Pakka. It is recommended for children aged three years and plus.

The site doesn't say exactly what sort of seeds you get, but still it is always good to encourage little ones to learn about growing.

The set contains:

• a trowel
• rake
• gloves
• seeds
• apron
• a gardening bag

This is a handy one for the present drawer or to stock up for Christmas. The Fashion Design Drawing Set With Wooden Manikin has been reduced at Mail Order Express from £29.99 to £9.99. There's a promotional code to get a further 15% off, taking it down to £8.49. Standard delivery in the UK costs £1.99.

• Click here for your Fashion Design Drawing Set at Mail Order Express

This would be a great set for any youngsters who enjoy making up their own designs, and have a creative streak. I like the little manikin that's included, makes it seem more like a real design set.

Easier too for making your little paper creations than trying to do it on a Barbie doll. Which is what I used to do when I was about 10. Her proportions make it impossible for anything to sit right!

The set includes:

• 12 inch wooden manikin
• 12 colored pencils
• eraser
• sketchbook
• newsprint paper
• sharpening pas
• tortillon (blending stick)

The website says that colours and styles of contents may vary. The set is recommended for ages 8 years and upwards.

Use this Mail Order Express promotional code to get 15% off your order. The code works on items that are already reduced, woo hoo!

Click here to use your Mail Order Express promotional code

• Discount: 15%
• Promotional code: DISCOUNT
• Expires: 30th April 2012

There's some fabulous sales on the site at the moment, so you can make some excellent use of the code. Sylvanian families are at half price, and there's up to 75% off Fashion Angels. There's 40% off selected Carrera car sets, and you can get £35 off the price of a Mamas and Papas Excel Pram

To use the code you'll need to go through checkout, and the site will ask you to log in to your Amazon account. I tested it out on an Octonauts Gup D Barnacles and Manta Ray Playset that had been already reduced from £16.99 to £9.99. The code took £1.50 off this. And with the postage - standard shipping in the mainland UK normally costs £1.99 - the total came to £10.48 delivered.

Thanks to goonertillidie at HUKD!

This is a great price on the Tomy Scrolly Winnie the Pooh game that has been reduced from £19.99 to only £2.99. It’s a great saving on an excellent toy that will be appreciated by any tots over the age of one.

• Click here to get Winnie the Pooh at Mail Order Express

Scroll your favourite characters into view with Scrolly, an innovative preschool puzzle that always stays together. All the fun and hand-eye co-ordination of a traditional puzzle or puzzle block but with no pieces to lose and no mess left behind.

The Tomy Scrolly Winnie the Pooh toy is designed for little hands and is easy to use on most surfaces, including the floor, a table, your lap or on the move. Ideal for keeping little hands and minds busy while you try to get things done. And if you spend over £30 at Mail Order Express you will get a Jumbo Big and Small plush for free. Nice.

Thanks to lucerysmum at HUKD!

This adorable, and huge, bear is available in both pink and blue and has been reduced from £19.99 to only £5.99 at Mail Order Express. You can also get your scrummy bear delivered to your front door for free if you use the code SHIP2012.

• Click here to get your teddy at Mail Order Express

The CuddlesTime 18” soft toy is 48cm tall and apparently comes with a hologram and a seal of quality. Not sure what that means exactly but hey, it’s cheap and really big and very cute. It would make an ace pressie for someone with a newborn actually.

The bear is available in two colours – pink and blue – but the link takes you to the blue dude so make sure you click on the pink bear if that’s the colour you want. You are saving £14 on the original price which is quite brilliant and it is made even better by the fact that you are getting free delivery.

Thanks to missgem at HUKD!

There’s a really sweet Fairy Pop Up Tent available at Mail Order Express for £16.99 instead of £39.99. You save £23.00 in the offer.  Delivery is an added £3.99, making your total £21.98, and with the code below,  you’ll take off another £1.70, bringing your total to £18.28.

Play Fairies in the Pop Up Tent

• Discount: 10% off
• Expires: Unknown
• Promotion Code: MOE10OFF

This is a really pretty and admittedly girly tent, that comes with minimal effort on the setting up front and I could just picture my girls having hours of fun with this Foxglove Fairy Tent from The Pop Up Co.

The tent is ideal as a base for imaginative play according to the blurb, and is ideal for indoor and outdoor use. There’s also a flower style flag that can be popped on the top to complete the look, and it all comes with a carry bag for easy storage and transport.

There aren’t any reviews, and I’ve never used Mail Order Express before, but this is very sweet and the picture makes me look forward to seeing my girls playing together like that in a few years!

Thanks to SeeBell at HUKD

Use this Mail Order Express promotional code to get free delivery. Standard shipping in the mainland UK normally costs £1.99. I love free delivery codes, I think I may have mentioned it before! It means that you can buy even just one tiny item without feeling like you have to make the delivery worthwhile. Be quick though, the code expires at midnight on Thursday. That's tomorrow!

Click here to use your Mail Order Express promotional code

• Discount: free delivery
• Promotional code: FREE2011
• Expires: 21st July 2011

There's some fabulous sales on the site at the moment, so you can make some excellent use of the code. There's up to 54% off Playmobil, expensive at the best of times so that's always great news. Plus 43% off Lego Atlantis Treasure.

There's also savings on Hedstrom outdoor toys as well.

To use the code you'll need to go through checkout. I tested it out on a Ghost Pirate reduced to £1.88 from £2.50. Delivery would normally have doubled that, but not with this code. Although I do feel rather guilty about the environmental impact of having just one, small, item with attendant packaging delivered to my door!

Thanks to lucerysmum at HUKD!

The Waybuloo Peeka Jigsaw Puzzle normally costs £13.99. Mail Order Express has it on sale for £1.99; that's a saving of 86%. You can also, according to the site, get another 10% off the price using the code JUNE2011, taking the price down to £1.79. Take into account that standard delivery is £1.99.

• Click here for Wabuloo Peeka Jigsaw Puzzle at Mail Order Express

The website says that with this puzzle you get to "play Peeka and find where the Piplings and Nara bugs are hiding". I am not sure here what this means as my son has gone past the Waybuloo stage, so it is a programme I am totally unfamiliar with.

I imagine that they're very popular with preschoolers being in the In the Night Garden/TellyTubbies type of programme. The puzzle is described as reversable, and according to the description you get four puzzles in one with a total of 13 pieces.

Waybuloo takes place in the world of Nara; a land of happiness, laughter and friendship that’s home to the Piplings. Together the Piplings and the audience learn how to relate to friends and the world around them.

Thanks to wishihadadonkey at HUKD!

Still need to start your Christmas shopping? This huge toy sale at Mail Order Express should cover at least most of your list without even leaving the house.

• Click here for huge savings

Mail Order Express have some really good savings on a number of top toy brands.

Brands include:

• Thomas and Friends
• Zapf
• In the Night Garden
• Playskool
• Waybuloo
• Playmobil
• Knex
• Leapfrog
• Peppa Pig
• And Lego, but there are over 140 others.

Not everything is discounted, and some of those that are are still a bit pricey, but there are still good deals to be had among the 700-odd items.

Some great finds include the Playmobil Horse Farm Mega Set half price at £39.99, the Thomas Desk and Stool set for £19.99 down from £69.99 – a 70% saving – and the Sylvanian Families Field View Mill, at £68.99.

You can sort all items – I've sorted from low to high on price, and in stock items only – making it a really simple way to find some low cost filler gifts, starting with Crayola crayons for 45p and ending with a girls' hippy van bed for £412.49.

Postage takes 2 – 4 days and is on a sliding scale of cost, with totals of £50.00 or more being free of charge.

It's a great site to get lost in for a while, that's for sure!

Thanks to hsg at HUKD

Carrying on the summer garden theme here at PlayPennies, here's another outdoor deal for you...

• Click HERE and paddle on over to Mail Order Express

I wonder if your childhood memories of paddling pools are the same as mine?

A few of your little friends have come round to play, its hot and playing in the paddling pool is the order of the day! You're all very excited as your mum or dad blow up the little paddling pool and the anticipation builds as you impatiently wait and watch the water level rise.

You know the water's going to be freeeeezing but you don't care - it's PADDLING POOL TIME!!

The next few hours are spent hop, skipping and jumping in and out of the pool and before long the water has lots of little bits of grass in it and the odd fly and little bug thing trying unsuccessfully to go for a bit of a swim.

Your little friends eventually go home, you're wrapped up in a towel and you have THE coldest and most wrinkled feet in the world; all in all a most successful childhood summer Sunday spent in the garden!

So which paddling pool are you going to choose for your little one?  You can have an In The Night Garden one or Little Princess and they both have a super cool (I think) feature where you can attach the hose pipe and spray water out of the little charactre bit on the side - the kids will LOVE that.

They've both been reduced from £12.99 down to £6.49 - I love that! - and there are various delivery charges which you can look at HERE, but if you're spending under a tenner then postage is only £1.99.

Happy grassy feet paddling!

Thanks to amibees over at HUKD!

"Peep peeeep! Time to tidy up now," said Thomas.

• Click HERE and steam over to Mail Order Express

Ok, so Thomas doesn't really say that but my four-year-old believes he does and quite enjoys tidying up as a result and a tidy toddler IS a result!

These shelves and big drawers are just fab - lots of storage for all the bits and pieces that toddlers accumulate and being free-standing they can be moved around easily.

I have to be very careful when I write about Thomas things that they don't get spotted by the aforementioned tidy toddler otherwise I never hear the end of it and this paticular item is just his cup of tea.

I can't find any dimensions for you but I did come across a glowing review on Amazon - here's what it said...

"This storage unit was purchased for my son's 2nd birthday. He has a Thomas themed bedroom. He loved it from the moment he saw it on the box. I loved it too beacause as someone who does NO DIY it was SO easy to put together using the clip mechanisim with no screws...the drawers are material so I know my son won't pull them out and hurt himself, the shelves are fixed really well and hold a good number of books and everything is at an accessable height for my 2year old. Im really pleased with this purchase and would reccomend it to anyone who was thinking about buying its much better than the Thomas toy storage boxes out there. Thanks!

So there you go!  Delivery is free (we always like that) and if you use this 10% discount code  - spring10 - at the checkout the published price of £39.99 reduces down to £36.

"Peep peep! What a bargain!!" said Thomas (yeah, ok I made that one up too but I bet he WOULD say it!)

Thanks to amibees over at HUKD!