Initially this looks like a BOGOF offer, but it actually isn't. It's buy one of any of the toys, and get the SNAP game free. This game is worth £5.25 at Ocado, or £5.99 at Amazon. Seems like a great opportunity to stack up on some small gifts for parties, secret santas and so on, especially if you read on and see some of the ways you can benefit from it.

• Double up your snap

So you get the Snap game regardless of what you buy, so while you could get the most expensive toy, the Orchard Toys Giant Road for  £13.95 - it's £13.95 and up at Amazon - you could also buy the cheapest option, the Little Tractor Jigsaw for £4.95, and get both free. Two Orchard Toys for under £5 is not bad!

It's been so helpful to me to have a stack of toys in the cupboard, ready to go for the myriad of first birthdays we've had this year - seriously 2012 was a really high birth year in our area!

While the snap itself is probably more for older age groups, the cards are great for memory games for younger children too. My little one certainly loved play match and memory with her cards!

These will top up the cupboard nicely and should see us through the rest of the year.

Thanks to adslis at HUKD

Amazon are selling this Orchard Toys Spotty Dogs game for £4.28 instead of £7.50 - at least they are at the time of writing, but you know what they're like!

• Click HERE to take a look at the Spotty Dogs game *

SO, players have to take it in turns to spin the spinner, which will stop on a number. They then chose a card from the table that shows a dog with the same number of spots as the number on the spinner.

Turning the card over reveals how many biscuits the dog has hidden in his basket - the winner is the player whose dogs (on their cards) have collected the most number of bones.

Nice and easy to play, this Spotty Dogs game will help kids with develop their counting and number recognition skills. It also teaches patience as sometimes there are no dogs left with the right number of spots, so players have to wait for their next turn before they can collect any more bones!

This Spotty Dogs game has stonking reviews, here are just a couple of them:

I am a reception teacher (ages 4-5) and the children in my class LOVE this game! The element of surprise when they turn the cards over to reveal the bones is brilliant! I shall be buying lots more orchard toys for my class!

I bought this game for my grandchildren aged three years. It aids their counting skills and is bright enough to attract their attention and keep them amused. When the dog selected had no bones in his basket this upset one of my grandchildren until I explained the bones were so tasty the dog must have eaten them all. A good educational fun game. I have several Orchard games and puzzles and they are brilliant!

All of the usual Amazon delivery options are available to you - free or paid for, depending on how quickly you want to play your Spotty Dogs game!

Thanks to purple22 at HUKD 

Three Little Pigs, the game from Orchard Toys is currently on sale at Amazon, where it normally sells for £11.75 but is now £6.07.

• Play and learn with Orchard Toys*

Orchard Toys are such good toys, but they're often really expensive, so on the occasions where you find them at a good price, it's worth holding on to! This simple game asks the players to roll the die to try to land on a pile of straw, sticks or bricks a pile of straw, sticks or bricks.

Each time they do so, they can take a corresponding house piece from a pile on the table. The aim is to collect both the pieces needed for each type of house, until they have a house of straw, sticks and bricks in front of them.But they have to watch out for someone landing on a wolf square. If this happens, the player spins the spinner, and this gives the wolf the chance to huff and puff and blow down one of the other players' houses. Once a player has completed all three of their houses, they have to try to get to the centre of the playing board before the sneaky wolf starts huffing and puffing again.

The game is easy to play, but players have to watch out for the wolf right up to the last minute. This game is for 2 to 4 players, ideally aged between 3 and 6, and is made of sturdy, recycled board.

Orchard Toys' Tell The Time game is on sale at Amazon for £4.15 instead of £7.50, making it a lovely gift or stocking filler for under £5 - and saving you £3.35 with nothing to pay for delivery.

• Tell the Time with Orchard Toys*

Tell the time is a game based on 'lotto' which help children learn to tell the time. Suitable for 2 - 4 players and aimed at 5 - 9 year olds, this game has attractive illustrations which can be further used to encourage topics of conversation. The game helps with math and literacy skills and an educational guide on the back of the box shows how the game contributes to a child's education.

While aimed at older children, it can also be played with younger children by using just the pictures.

In the set you'll find four playing boards, 24 time and activity cards, one instruction leaflet, and one consumer leaflet.

The reviews on this are pretty good, and Orchard Toys never let you down!

Thanks to bobbyjoerules at HUKD

There’s a price reduction at VUP Baby on three Orchard Toys sets.

• Fun and games for summer days

The three games are reduced:

Shopping List (£4.99 instead of £7.25) - Be the first to fill your trolley with all of the items on your shopping list, in our best-selling memory game. For 2-4 players.

Crazy Chefs (£4.99 instead of £7.25) - Join the chefs in the crazy kitchen and collect everything they need to make a meal. Then grab your plate and wait for your dish to cook! Will you be the first to serve up a tasty treat?

Dotty Dinosaurs (£6.25  instead of £9.25) - Can you help the dotty dinosaurs to find their missing spots? Throw the dice to match shapes or colours and be the first to cover your dinosaur board,
in this fun game for young players. This game has two games in one.

Orders over £50 come with free delivery (got any birthdays coming up?) otherwise delivery costs will be calculated at checkout.  You can also add gift wrapping and send it direct for £3.50.

My heart always jumps for joy when I come across a great jigsaw puzzle deal; if I were to write a Top 10 kid's toys list, jigsaw puzzles would be right up there  near the top.

This Where In The Wood puzzle has SO many benefits, aside from just puzzle-putting-togethering - in fact, I'm going to buy it for my youngest son so that we can do it together.

• Click HERE to take a look at the Where in the Wood puzzle

SO, 150 pieces make up a detailed woodland scene and there are a whole host of animal images in the jigsaw border - your task, once you've put the puzzle together, is to FIND those animals in the picture.

There is so much else you can talk about too - how many toadstools are there? Is it summer or winter in the wood? What colours are the flowers?  I mean, really, the list goes on and on and will very neatly shoehorn plenty of learning, observation and literacy skills into something that's fun.

Can you tell I'm a fan? The usual price for this Where in the Wood puzzle is £9.75; if you're quick, and Amazon leave the price alone for more than five minutes, then you can pick one up for £5.32 instead; marvellous.

Thanks to wishihadadonkey at HUKD

Pick and Mix People from Orchard Toys are currently £5 at Play.com, which is a £2.50 saving on the £7.50 RRP.

• Pick and Mix with pick and mix people

I’ve been searching high and low for activities to have lined up to keep my two year old busy during the labour and birth of our new baby, and the days that follow. I’m pretty sure we’ll get in the swing of things quickly, and life will soon adjust to the ‘new’ normal, but in the meantime I need to make sure there are plenty stationary and sedentary things I can do to help her stay occupied.

I thought these Pick and Mix People from Orchard Toys could be loads of fun and a good laugh, and because of the wide age range, something she could really grow into!

The set comes with 12 characters split into three parts each – head, body and feet. So that gives you 36 cards to play with and talk about. You can match up the people with the right parts, or have a good laugh with your mix and match characters. There’s also an educational guide on the reverse if you want to make it more than a game!

Amazon are currently selling this box of four Orchard Toys farm puzzles for £3.40 instead of £7.00.

• Click HERE to go over to Amazon

I love puzzles; they don’t have flashing lights, they don't eat batteries at an alarming rate, they don't have bells and whistles or crinkle, rattle or 'sing' nursery rhymes.

They’re just good old fashioned toys that have a huge range of benefits when your child puts the pieces together.

Four Orchard Toys farm puzzles come in this box and are made from 4, 6, 8 and 12 pieces.  This is perfect for really young kiddies to take their first steps into the puzzle world, as the puzzles will grow as their confidence and puzzle-piecing-together skills improve.

Puzzles encourage the development of pattern recognition, patience, organisation (if you sort out the corners from the edges and the middle pieces) and also fine motor skills which are required to fit all the pieces together.

The reviews are good; almost five stars from everybody…

"We bought this for my son when he was about 20 months and he got on really well with it. He still struggles with the chicken one but still loves it."

"Great set of jigsaws! My son is nearly 2 and LOVES doing them. He can do the easier ones himself and needs help with the hardest."

Each puzzle measures 18cm x 18cms and the pieces can be wiped clean.

Thanks to shadow1 at HUKD

The Crazy Chefs game from Orchard Toys is currently on sale at Amazon for £5.64 instead of £7.25 – a lovely 22% saving. Amazon says this offer is valid until midnight tomorrow (Sunday).

• Imaginative cooking at its best with Crazy Chefs

If you’ve never heard of Orchard Toys, I strongly suggest you head over to their website and have a browse around. I’ll even make it easy for you and give you their link: Orchard Toys. They are a really interesting company with fantastic games for your little people.

You just have to read some of the reviews on this game at Amazon to know I’m not the only one that thinks so.

“I think I may be developing an undying gratitude to the people at Orchard Toys” says one parent.  “This is the fourth Orchard Toys game I have purchased and they have all been durable and enjoyable”, says another.

The game is a game of memory, where you have to collect all the ingredients you need to ‘make a meal’.

According to the parents, again, the game has taught their children about recipes and ingredients, of matching pictures, and most importantly – and mentioned by a few reviewers – taking turns.

If you don’t know Orchard Toys, do check them out, and this game does sound like a winner too.

Amazon are selling this Orchard Toys 'Tell the Time' game for £3.50 instead of their listed rrp of £7.00 - Play are selling it for £10.99.

• Click HERE to go to Amazon

I remember being obsessed with the time when I was small; I wanted so desperately to be able to tell the time so I could legitimately wear a watch, I used to get worried that someone would ask me the time and I wouldn't be able to give them an answer *sigh*

Like learning to read, learning to tell the time is a huge step into another world, one where the grown-up kids live.

With this Orchard Toys 'Tell the Time' game your child(ren) will learn and develop numerical skills with analogue and digital times - I'm glad about that, few things infuriate me more than someone who can't tell the time on a watch, or clock, that has hands.

On the whole, reviews are good too...

"This game is fun for learning to tell the time. Each player has a lotto type board with funny time related activities to collect. Quite simple to play and because there are pictures you don't have to be able to tell the time to play it."

"I got this to help my 6 year old learn to tell the time. She loves it and so does her 4 year old sister - it is easy to make it accessible to everyone. A really good introduction to learning to tell the time - I wouldn't get it for a child who already can, but it's ideal for one who hasn't learnt yet. Highly recommended."

Thanks to grumpyat3 at HUKD