The Royal Wedding is about to happen and the entire nation seems to be wearing the bunting of the flag and preparing for an all out party. So why not celebrate the Royal Wedding with a DVD that has been launched as the special Royal Edition of Cinderella?

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The Royal Edition of Cinderella has been marked down from £19.99 to only £9.99 at Play and comes with the usual free delivery. The little ones who won’t understand why they have to watch people on TV during the real Royal Wedding, will love sitting back with this classic Disney Film.

The Royal Edition of Cinderella includes extras like a pop version of A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes, deleted scenes, extra songs deleted from the final film, the Making of Cinderella, a Storyboard to Film comparison, as well as artwork and stills from the film.

What a great way to get the kids (and yourself!) in the mood for the Royal Wedding this Friday.

Thanks to cath1510 at HUKD!

This unique home décor accessory for children – the Moon in my Room – is £16.99 at Play.com, a 43% saving.

• Get up close and personal with the bright light in the (night) sky

My mother taught my little girl to look up at the moon when she was still very small, and now at 18 months there’s a full on regal announcement every time we see the moon, especially during the day.   I quite like the idea of this moon as a night light though.

The Moon in my Room features twelve illuminated lunar phases that can either display automatically or be controlled with the supplied remote.

The Moon in my Room also includes an audio CD featuring a 15 minute guided tour of the moon.

The reviews, although only two, are five star, with comments such as “you won’t be disappointed” and “worth painting a bedroom midnight blue to accomodate (sic) this on the wall fantastically life like”.

Specifically, this is a Star Wars: The Clone Wars: 3.75 Inch Count Dooku Action Figure (Wave 4). I'm sure they could have come up with a longer name for the toy if they'd really thought about it. Play has this on half price sale right now, down from £8.99 to £4.99.

• Click here for Count Dooku at Play

You can also get another baddie figure from Star Wars: The Clone Wars for £4.99. That's the Cad Bane Action Figure.

Star Wars stuff is particularly expensive I've found. Everything seems to be aimed at adults, who perhaps collect these sorts of things. Which seems to forget that there's still a huge audience of little kids out there who love this cartoon series and want to play out stories of their own.

Delivery is free on the website.

Now I'm not an expert on Star Wars: The Clone Wars. My son likes to watch the show on the Cartoon Network, and it is one of the few shows that doesn't drive me completely nuts. If you've ever seen the Cartoon Network you'll know there's some really weird stuff on there!

Being the Easter Holidays, he's been allowed to watch more TV than usual. Although there's not been any need to take up this option with the lovely weather we've had.

The Count Dooku figure comes with accessories, and a 'value added battle card', also described as a trading card.

Thanks to sheldococo at HUKD!

There are a few fab looking kids backpacks on sale at Play.com right now

• Click here for a full listing of kids backpacks from Play.com

I love that my daughter has a little backpack that she can use to carry her own toys, a nappy and some wet wipes for when I don't feel like playing the role of pack-horse. While these bags are for slightly older kids, I think that's even more reason – although I'm sure mum still ends up carrying them half the time. The point remains, however!

There are only four styles still available for £2.99, was £7.99

• Thomas The Tank Engine One
• Thomas The Tank Engine / Kids / Backpack Two
• Bakugan
• Moxie Girls was £8.99

But there are loads more for £3.99 to £10.99. There are various offers on various styles, so you need to have a good look.

For example, the Disney Pixar Cars bag is £10.99 or 2 for £20 – not a huge saving, but there none the less. The same applies to the Peppa Pig bag.

On the cheaper side of things, again, are Bob The Builder for £4.99 (was £8.99) and Star Wars for £3.99. Even the shaped backpacks like Little Miss Daredevil and Mr. Men's Mr Bump are down 54% to £4.99

As always, delivery is free and there are 87 backpack options to choose from.

Play have a Star Wars Darth Vader dressing gown on sale for £9.99 instead of £59.99 – which I initially thought was a mistake, since that's a £50 or 83% discount. This item also has free delivery.

• Get your Star Wars fan to cover up with a Darth Vader Dressing Gown

Fathers day is a little way off yet, but with a price like this, can you afford not to be prepared? Especially if your name is Luke. Or not.

But seriously, if your partner or dad (or mum, for that matter) is a Star Wars fan, this is worth buying and keeping in the cupboard.

The reviewers were happy enough with it, with one feeling it was very cheaply made, but the rest not agreeing, although all felt it was thinner than they expected.

The dressing gown is made of 100% cotton velour, is “fabulously warm and cosy”. It has a Darth Vader helmet logo embroidered on the front, a cotton belt and two large pockets.

If you are on the lookout for cheap family games to entertain everyone this holiday, then look no further than this ace LEGO Minotaurus game at Play.com. marked down from £17.99 to only £9.99 you are saving £8 off the usual price.

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The LEGO game, Minotaurus, is all about the mythical creature from Greek mythology – the Minotaur. Players have to be the first to lead their heroes into the temple where this legendary beast is protecting the treasure.

They have to place walls to block each other, clear the grid to get to the treasure, and win! The game is easy to play and enormous fun for the whole family. And it can be played with all ages (except tiny tots) as you can team up to beat each other.

Thanks to goonertillidie

Here's something fun and cute for any little one's bedroom. Their own Thomas express shaped cushion. Play.com has reduced this in price from £14.99 to £4.9.

• Click here for a Thomas express shaped plush cushion @ Play.com

That £14.99 is the RRP though, so it is probably sold much cheaper than that usually anyway. But at £4.99 this is the best price I could find.

The Thomas Express shaped printed plush cushion is 100% polyester, and can be sponge cleaned. That's what it says on the website. It doesn't say though whether it is only possible to sponge clean it. I hate that with kids stuff as at some point, you know only a full machine wash will do!

Another question that springs to mind is why the cushion is called Thomas Express, when it looks just like the usual sort of Thomas the Tank Engine to me. Has he had a name change?

In case, by some remote chance, you've not ever heard of Thomas the Tank Engine before, the books and TV show are set on the imaginary island of Sodor, a place where all vehicles have personalities. It is described as an idyllic place with a willingness to embrace good manners and hard work.

Not quite my idea of an idyll, which has a lot more in the way of sun and beaches, and a lot less in the way of work. But I guess it is all good life lessons for children to learn!

Thanks to hillsbills at HUKD!

Ohhhh, this is a totally awesome Scooby-Doo box set on sale at Play.com and I am so going to buy it. The Scooby-Doo Mystery Machine set includes 10 DVDs in a most excellent DVD case for only £15.99. Zoinks!

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The Scooby-Doo Mystery Machine DVD box set comes with 10 discs that include Chill Out, Scooby- Doo!,  Scooby-Doo & The Cyber Chase, Scooby-Doo and the Goblin King, Scooby-Doo Meets the Harlem Globetrotters, Scooby-Doo The Movie, and plenty more.

With 10 DVDs there are bound to be a ton of episodes included in the Scooby-Doo kit and they are all from the classic series with the classic car forming the DVD collector’s style box. My daughter absolutely loves Scooby-Doo so this is a definite buy for our house.

I can’t find much more information about the box set unfortunately so I really don’t know if there are only ten episodes (although one episode per disc seems a bit random) or what the layout is. However, the retail price usually sits at around £34.99 and the next cheapest on sale is £19.

Thanks to gozomark at HUKD!

Dance Juniors for the Nintendo Wii is a rather brilliant game for kids and youngsters and has been marked down from £19.99 to £12.99 at Play.com. The next cheapest price I can find is £18.99 at Amazon.

• Click here to get dancing with Play.com

Dance Juniors for the Nintendo Wii is a brilliant game for getting kids up and exercising and having fun. It is also a great way of helping them to develop co-ordination and to keep them busy on rainy days in the holidays.

Dance Juniors includes the all time biggest pop hits re-recorded by kids with classic child-friendly tunes for the littlest ones too. There are also hits from kids TV shows and you can pick between four themed playlist categories – Animal, Party, Funny and Vacation.

The game allows you to play with up to four players in co-operative teams, or head-to-head, or you can challenge people to beat your highest score. Even the littlies can pick up the wiimote and start playing with the very easy controls.

Dance Junior for this price is a good buy for the upcoming holidays!

Thanks to oxDAVIDxo at HUKD!

Play.com are selling the Toy Story 3: 3 in a box 49 piece jigsaw puzzle for £3.49, with free delivery. The RRP is usually £4.00, so it's a 30% saving – or £1.50 in cold hard cash terms.

• Build a puzzle with Toy Story 3

The three puzzles, suitable for ages 5 and over feature characters from the movie. Each puzzle is cut into 49 pieces and the reverse of each has different patterns so they can be readily sorted out before assembly.

The first puzzle has Jessie, Woody, Lotso, (who, honestly, was a very surprising character. I still don't get how he could be so mean with a name like that!) Slinky, Bullseye and Mr. Potato Head doing an excited looking little jig.

The second features Buzz, Woody, Jessie, and both Potato Heads, while the third has the boys, or rather, Buzz, Woody, Hamm and Rex and a few army men posing for their viewers.

If puzzles are, as Play claims, an “excellent way to encourage your child's observation, imagination and communication skills”, then this is a brilliantly priced way of doing so!

Thanks to lucerysmum at HUKD

The Countdown board game has been reduced to only £6.99 at Play.com and this is one of the cheapest prices around. Originally selling for £18.99, you are saving £12 and it comes, of course, with free delivery.

• Click here to get counting with Play.com

The Countdown board game includes a Countdown timer, a playing board, 100 letter cards, 14 number cards, 30 Conundrum cards, two pencils, a scorepad, instructins and a red filter sheet.

This is the brilliant boardgame version of the hit TV game show but it offers all new conundrums and a new number system, so lovers of the show will get as much satisfaction from playing the board game as they did watching Countdown on TV.

This looks to be an excellent deal for a game that offers hours of addictive gameplay. And it is out in perfect time for the Easter holidays. After all, what else are you going to do outside on the verandah as the summer sun starts to shine and life gets warm and toasty?

Thanks to simplex at HUKD!

The Brainbox Discover Dinosaurs game at Play.com is now just over half price at £4.99 instead of £10, and includes free delivery.

• Play a dinosaur card game at half price

Brainbox Discover Dinosaurs is a game with 54 illustrated cards about, you guessed it: dinosaurs. The cards feature images and information about all the prehistoric dinos, including their diet, size, weight, location and so on.

The object of the game is to win as many cards as possible in ten minutes. Each player has 10 seconds on a sand timer to read as much information on the cards as possible. They then roll an 8 sided die to determine which question they are to answer. If they answer correctly, they keep the card and the player with the most cards after ten minutes is the winner.

Amazon reviewers mostly liked it – they found it easy to play and good for all age groups. The range includes a few others too (such as maths, history, etc. and reviewers would even buy other boxes in the range.)

In the box you'll find the 54 cards, a rules card, timer and and eight sided die.

The game is suitable for children aged 8 and over.

Play is selling the Dressy Upsy Daisy doll for £8.99 instead of the usual £19.99 which is a hefty saving of £11 off the original price. In fact, that is over half price in savings. What a fabulous bargain for a very popular range of toys.

• Click here to get Upsy Daisy with Play.com

The Dressy Upsy Daisy doll is a soft plush toy that has bendable hair for fun and easy styling by kids over the age of two. Her skirt is inflated, just like it does in In The Night Garden, and she comes with a bunch of accessories to dress her up.

You can use the included necklace, bracelet, hair flowers, removable shoes, shoebox and mirror accessories to make Upsy Daisy presentable for her nightly performances on the show. I have to admit that I think the original price of £19.99 is way too steep for this product.

I would never have paid that much for a doll that comes with so few accessories and bendy hair. However, £8.99 plus free delivery means that this is a very good price for an In The Night Garden accessory.

I have to confess that I've never actually seen this version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Not out of any sense of loyalty to the original, which I never really liked to be honest. That was a disappointment for me as a kid, being not a patch on the book, so I've never had a desire to see any other movies. However, even if I only saw it once I'd be getting my money's worth out of this DVD. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory DVD is available at Play.com for £2.39 including delivery. It was at £3.99.

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This is the 2005 Tim Burton version, starring Johnny Depp. There are only two reviews on the site, and neither are that good. However, you can't really judge a lot by two reviews!

The story, if you're not familiar with it, goes like this. At least in this movie version according to the blurb on the website. Charlie is a kid who lives in poverty in a tiny tumbledown cottage with his parents and all four grandparents.

Willy Wonka is the eccentric owner of the Chocolate Factory, located in Charlie's town. He announces a competition to reveal all the secrets and magic of his factory to five lucky children, who find a golden ticket hidden in one of the chocolate bars.

After some good fortune finding some money, Charlie buys a chocolate bar containing the last gold ticket. He and his grandad get to go on this special tour.

Thanks to Lucerysmum at HUKD!

Play.com has a Finger Printing Art Kit on offer for £5, a £3 saving - although it's only £5.69 at Amazon, but still cheaper at Play.com

• Arty and creative fun for just £5 at Play.com

The Finger Printing Art Kit at Play.com turns your fingerprints into unique pieces of art. According to the blurb, you can turn your child's finger art into flowers and characters by adding faces and features by using the rubber stamps.

You can make greeting cards and wrapping paper – check out our Workshop Wednesdays for more craft ideas.

The pack comes with four coloured ink pads, 12 rubber stamps with plastic finger grips and 12 colouring pencils. It doesn't come with any paper, which is a bit silly, but really you can use any paper!

The reviewers have rated it highly and the kids all seem to love it – one mum keeps wet wipes handy to clean it off, which she says is easy. The other problem that is mentioned is that the colours can be mixed and you need to clean the ink pads, which uses up some of the ink.

It looks like a really fun set - I'd never have thought to use fingerprints for art.

Have finger printing fun!

An Idiot Abroad is possibly one of the funniest shows to come out of 2010. Whether you are a fan of The Office or not, the dry humour and agonising wit of the Ricky Gervais mind and Stephen Merchant brain are everywhere in this series. And HMV are selling An Idiot Abroad for only £6.99. Bargain.

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An Idiot Abroad is, essentially, a mockumentary created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant as they send their long suffering whipping boy, Karl Pilkington, on a quest to discover the Seven Wonders of the World.

Packed with humour, cringe-worthy moments that will make you laugh, and genuinely bizarre occurrences, An Idiot Abroad is fabulous fun for parents. I have not watched the entire series so I am not entirely sure if it is suitable for kids, my gut says NO.

But why can’t parents get something for themselves to enjoy after the kids have gone to bed. A glass of wine, a good meal and An Idiot Abroad, and you have the makings of a fabulous evening at home. Romantic, no. Fun, yes.

Thanks to joeeeallover at HUKD!

Boogie Beebies has been marked down from the usual price of £4.99 to only £2.49 including free delivery from Play.com. Although if you dislike Play you can nab the DVD of Boogie Beebies from Amazon for the same price right now.

• Click here to boogie your beebie on over to Play.com

The Boogie Beebies DVD includes animated menus, selected scenes, highlights from other programmes on CBeebies and a weblink to more content. You also get seven different Boogie Beebie dances – one for every day of the week.

Parents may find Boogie Beebies to be a bit, well, weird. I know I find it strangely compelling and my kids love it. This is the first ever Boogie Beebies DVD apparently and so if your kids love it, it is a good time to get it when the price is this low and both stores offer free delivery.

You can enjoy songs like Dig It, Ocean Motion, Go Go Mango, Space Walking and more. Go on, get your Boogie Beebies fix today. Hahah!

Thanks to lucerysmum at HUKD!

Fancy snuggling up with Timmy from Timmy Time or Mickey Mouse in the last cold days of winter? Play.com is selling a bunch of character fleece blankets for £5 each including free delivery. They’re cute, they’re snuggly, and they are cheap.

• Click here to get fleecy with Play.com

The character fleece blankets on offer include: Disney’s Club Penguin, My First JCB Dig blanket, Star Wars: Clone Wars, Peppa Pig: George the Pirate, Mickey Mouse Rainbow, Me to You, Toy Story 3, Ben and Holly Elves, Minnie Mouse Spots, and Handy Manny.

I’ve barely touched sides of this list actually. There is also Fireman Sam, different versions of Toy Story 3, the Hungry Caterpillar, Arsenal, Disney Tangled, Glee, Disney Fairies, Disney Wizards and Magic, Disney Princesses and more.

Plus, the sleeved fleece blankets that kids can wear – the junior slankets I suppose – have also been marked down to £5 and come in a variety of flavours including Daisy, Peppa Pig and the Disney Princesses.

This is an ace time to nab a bunch of fleece blankies as pressies and to supplement your linen cupboard for next year.

Thanks to goonertillidie at HUKD!

Play.com have tons of hooded ponchos, perfect for swimming or bath time on sale for £5, with free delivery. These are normally around £9.99, so this is a nifty little half price sale, just in time for spring and holiday planning.

• Cover up with a hooded poncho from Play.com

The hooded poncho towels are 115x50cm, machine washable at 40C and can be tumble dried.

The designs available for £5 are:

• Peppa Pig
• Disney Pixar: Cars: Cruise
• Thomas Spots
• Fireman Sam Splash
• Disney Princess Chandelier
• Chuggington: Traintastic
• Ben And Holly Elves
• Disney Winnie The Pooh Playground
• Peppa Pig: Pig Polka Dot
• Thomas The Tank Engine: Steam
• Me To You
• WWE: Superstars
• Peppa Pig: George Pirate
• Disney Mickey Mouse Rainbow
• Disney Fairies: Tinkerbell
• Handy Manny Repair Shop
• Disney Minnie Mouse Spots

And there's also Spongebob Grin which for some reason is only £4.99, making this one an even 50% saving.

As I said, these all have free delivery and should usually be dispatched within 24 hours to 2 weeks, depending on which one you choose.

Big Trak was the biggest thing ever in the 80s, back then he epitomised the ultimate in tech toys for kids, and now he is back. This awesome slice of nostalgic toy history is also down in price from the usual £39.99 to only £15.99 at Play.com. Big Trak for the win!

• Click here to trak on over to Play.com

Big Trak is awesome. He is. While nowhere near as sophisticated as some of the toys around today, he is still cool. If you were not lucky enough to get your paws on one of these back in the day, then now is your chance to get a Big Trak into your house.

Big Trak is easy enough for kids to learn and even adults will have fun getting him to do what they want him to. It boasts all the features of the original model, including 23 button keypad, front-mounted blue photon beam headlamp, and the ability to store up to 16 preset programmes.

You can programme Big Trak to do things like move forward, turn, then go back, then turn – and you get the general idea. Big Trak is your programmable robot toy of nostalgic brilliance and his now only £15.99.

Thanks to barijohn at HUKD!