I have fond memories of skating as a kid - this In the Night Garden 'Iggle Piggle' skate set is bound to create some great ones for you and your child.

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Last night I was in my bedroom sorting through various things when my teenage daughter came and sprawled over my bed, what followed was one of those trips down memory lane that managed to vanish two hours in a what felt like a couple of minutes.

It was lovely! "Do you remember when I drew kisses for you with permanent marker on the wallpaper all the way from the front door to your bedroom?" I do.

"Do you remember when I first rode my bike without stabilisers?" I have very fond memories of that and photographs too!

Learning to skate is great for kids, they just see the HUGE amount of fun it brings but it teaches balance and coordination and, pretty quickly, whats needed so you can spend more time skating than falling over.

Falling over is inevitable so this In the Night Garden Iggle Piggle skate set comes with a vented safety helmet  and high impact knee and elbow pads which fasten with velcro (or a velcroesque alternative; I don't want to infringe trademark malarky!). The skates are worn over shoes and will fit little feet between size five and 11.

The Hut have slashed the price of these from £26.99 down to £8.93 and there's no postage to pay as all UK orders are delivered for freeee!

Thanks to amibees over at HUKD

Lazytown - you're either a lover or a hater!

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It's been the hot topic of discussion here at PlayPennies for the last 10 minutes - Tamsin wants to eat chocolate in front of Sporticus and I'm not ashamed to admit I'm a hater; I dislike this show almost as much as I loathe Marmite!

But it's not about me it's about the kids and my youngest son and my 15-year-old daugther love it! The eldest son is only interested in World of Warcraft so he doesn't count and I'm outnumbered, hence I know far too much about Lazytown for my own sanity.

All of that said, Robbie Rotten mildly amuses me! He's such a stereotypical baddy and reminds me of the villanous Hooded Claw from Wacky Races.  But even he's not enough to neutralise the sickly-sweet saccharine Stephanie and goody-goody-big-biceps Sporticus!

However, if you and/or your kids are fans of Lazytown then this CD and DVD deal is going to have you jumping for joy and reaching for your sports candy with glee!

There are 45 tracks on the CD (heaven help us!) - 25 of them are singalong karaoke versions and the DVD features 12 episodes and 1 interactive game.

The Hut have reduced this from £13.79 to JUST £1.93!!!  And that's all you'll pay as there's no delivery to pay when you order from them - a bargain, whether you're a Lazytown fan or not!

Thanks to humphmeister over at HUKD

*Manamanah...do dooo do-do-do...manamanah...do do-do doo...manamanah....do doo do-do-do do-do-do do-do-do do-do-do do.do...* ok that last bit's too difficult to write out but now that's in your head for the rest of the day, let's crack on with the deal *grin*

• Don't be a Muppet, click HERE for this deal

The Muppets are a timeless bunch and for us grown-ups will bring back warm and fuzzy memories of childhood days. For our kids, who haven't already been exposed to the comedy genius of the Muppets, The Muppet Show series 2 on DVD will be a whole new world of non-computer generated entertainment for them to enjoy.

Everyone has a favourite Muppet and episodes that they remember clear as day; my favourite was always Kermit THE Frog and I couldn't abide Miss Piggy, she just irritated me!

One of the episodes I remember most, however, featured the Swedish Chef - he was chopping vegetables in the kitchen by throwing them up in the air along with a big knife, and when they all fell down, into the bowl of course, they were all nicely chopped.

The funny part came when he threw a cabbage into the air and sprouts came down...as a kid I thought this was utterly hilarious (maybe I was just weird).

As a grown-up, my favourites have to be Statler and Waldorf and their heckling from the balcony, I really didn't get their humour as a child but now....comedy genius!

There's no delivery to pay for series 2 of The Muppet Show from The Hut - just £5.85 instead of the enormous rrp of £34.29.

Thanks to dvdvicar over at HUKD!

Today’s weather is hopefully a sign that summer is on its way at long last so what better way to celebrate than with an inflatable airplane for the pool. This lovely chap has been marked down from £17.99 to only £8.59 with an additional discount using the code below.

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The plane is 157x132cm and has three air chambers to support up to two children simultaneously. It’s suitable for ages three and over and is a completely brilliant pool toy for kids of all ages (yes, that includes you parents).

If you want to get a further discount on the marked price at The Hut use the code POOL15 to reduce it to the lovely £7.59 advertised above. I absolutely loved playing on inflatable toys in the pool when I was a kid so this is a charming and brilliant idea for anyone that’s lucky enough to live near (or own) a pool.

Thanks to andywedge at HUKD!

HA!  I'm totally in love with this sea turtle boat!

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Until recently I've always lived on the coast and during the summer, weekends and school holidays were always spent on the beach.  I've got many fond memories of waiting impatiently for my mum to blow up all of the various inflatable things we'd dutifully carried along with our buckets and spades, the feeling of warm sand between your toes and that wonderful smell of salty water filling the air.

Back in the day we just had a normal rubber dinghy and, without wanting to sound ungrateful, this sea turtle boat would have been MUCH cooler - just look at him, he's a groovy looking dude!

He's got two air chambers and when he's fully inflate he measures a whopping 203cm x 150cm.  The oar locks are 'welded' on but the oars aren't included so if you're intending to row anywhere you'll have to buy some.

The blurb says he's suitable for ages six and over but let's get real here, I wouldn't let a six year old loose on the high seas in, or on, anything inflatable on their own and if I'm right there then my four-year-old is going to be perfectly safe in this too.

The published price on The Hut website is £9.33; use this code - POOL15 - to drop that down to £8.44.

Happy 'sailing'!

Thanks to andywedge over at HUKD!

I was in a total panic last month when I realised I had no suitable music for my son’s birthday party. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. All I had were a few CDs from when he was much younger; and Old MacDonald, Three Blind Mice, and The Wheels on the Bus were not going to cut it for this crowd of four and five year olds. Yet they’re still a little bit too young to really get excited about the latest pop tunes (although a few Abba songs had many of the boys up and dancing).

• Dance your way here for music fun

I’d be tempted to invest in something like this CD and DVD collection from The Hut for future use – using the code MM10 it costs £3.93. It comprises four CDs with tracks from nearly every pre-school programme shown on CBeebies, Channel 5 and Channel 4, such as the theme from Go Diego Go and Boogie Beebies, the reggae mix. Also my personal favourite, The Beeps doing the Beep Beep Tree Song.

There’s also a DVD with tracks like Hey Baby, Barbie Girl and I want to be like you. It doesn’t say if, being a DVD, this means that you get the video as well as the music.

This is the sequel to the original Peppa Pig game and is perfect for Nintendo DS owners that have bored little ones lying around. The game lets the player explore Peppa’s world and interact with many of the cool things from the show. Down to only £14.93 at The Hut, this is a bargain price.

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There are ten replayable games and activities plus one bonus activity included in the game. The minigames are simple and easy to use so that young gamers can enjoy them without too much moaning and whining. Well, that’s my experience anyway...

Games included are Daddy Pig’s Bubbles where they have to pop as many as they can, George’s Rocket where he steers his rocket through space using the stylus and many more. Definitely well worth a purchase if you’re looking at a long and tedious road trip sometime soon.

Thanks to leeds_united_afc at HUKD!

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A baby monitor is definitely one of the essentials when you have a little one and there is a huge variety on offer. If you’re planning on getting an all singing, all dancing model then this one should be right up your alley and at a nice discount from the original £99.99.

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The baby safe monitor from CnM Lifestyle lets you both see and hear your baby while you leave them to snooze and you potter around the house. There is even a voice function that lets you offer soothing words if you’re stuck in the middle of something and baby is crying.

While it doesn’t say whether or not the monitor comes with a clip for your belt but it does have rechargeable batteries and a range of 100m. The screen is 2.4in with a voice activated LED and you also get two power supplies, so if the battery is charging you can still stay in touch with baby.

I rather like the fact that this is two-way audio and the video. I know it’s a luxury but how lovely to be able to watch them sleep while you wash the dishes. Aaah.

Thanks to chun_li at HUKD!

How do you like the sound of everything for a fiver at The Hut?

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There are bajillions of bargains to be had in this deal, on everything from CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays to clothing, books and games, and loads more besides. It's worth having a good rummage around the site because there are so many bargains to be bagged that we couldn't possibly do them justice here.

How about the DVD of Twilight for a fiver, down from  £19.99? Although frankly you'd have to pay me a fiver to make me watch that film again but never mind, I digress.

If that doesn't float your boat how about your very own Wii lightsabre, down from £19.59 to... yep, you've guessed it, a fiver! Just plug in your Wii remote and The Force will be with you. Never has it been so easy to get it on your side. Ooh but it does need batteries and they're not supplied so don't forget to pick them up, or not even The Force will be able to help you.

At this rate I'm going to have my Christmas shopping all sewn up before April is over.

Happy shopping!

Eeks! Here's a great deal but you need to act sharpish. Today is Magic Monday at The Hut which means you can save up to 80% off all manner of fun and goodies until midnight tonight.

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This giant Gruffalo game of Snakes and Ladders is just £7.93, down from the recommended retail price of £19.99. That's a rather delicious saving of 60%.

From the popular and well-loved story of The Gruffalo, this giant snakes & ladders will provide lots of active fun for children & their friends.

The giant washable play mat is easy to clean so it can be played indoors or outdoors. It also comes with jumbo dice and extra large playing pieces.

The game is big enough for little ones to share with their friends and encourages social interaction as well as taking turns and co-operation, all great skills which are developed whilst having fun!

There are loads of other items in the Magic Monday sale, from CDs, clothing, games and gifts to technology and DVD and Blu-Ray items. Phew!

Don't hang around though - remember you only have a few hours to avail yourself of the madness of Magic Monday!

Calling all Geeks! Ahem, sorry, I mean Level 9 Warlords...

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If you're in love with a geek what better way to spoil him than with this 'tastic tee?

Usually £19.99 at The Hut it's now just £2, an unbelievable saving of 90%. Now maybe that's because there isn't huge demand for these tees and I concede that it's quite a daring pressie to buy - but come oooon, it's funny, and quite frankly anyone who can't see the funny side of such a gift is probably pretty much deserving of the geek moniker, I reckon.

It's available and in stock in sizes S, M, L and XL and qualifies for free delivery. Hurrah! It's practically national love-a-geek day!

If you think that's a step too far there are loads of other tees at reasonable prices at The Hut. I love this 'You Complete Me' one and think it's a pretty cool but quirky way to tell someone how you feel - and it's only £3.93, down from £19.99.

But go on, I dare you, make a Level 9 Warlord smile...!

This has to be the coolest parent present ever. A pair of lightsaber chopsticks are a gift that will keep on giving, no matter how you look at it. Down to £16.93 at The Hut, these are a fabulous present idea for either you or your partner.

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Yes, I know that paying upwards of £15 for a pair of novelty chopsticks may not be the best use of our hard earned cash, but how can you not want a pair? There is something extremely funny about the merging of Yoda and Mr Miyagi. Yes?

Use the force to catch those flies with your chopsticks. Snort. These Chop Sabers are suitable for eating anything that demands a chopstick, and you can use them to save the galaxy. Luke Skywalker wishes he was this cool.

The Luke Skywalker ones are about 9 inches long while the Yoda ones are more for kids at approximately 8 inches long. Although if you have lovely, delicate girl hands then the Yoda sticks will work perfectly for you. May the sushi be with you.

Thanks to hurdy at HUKD!

"What's the T I M E Peppa Pig?!" that's my new take on the old classic playground game!  I wonder if it will catch on....?

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Kids love to know what the time is, as is routinely evidenced on most trips with the utterance of those ohhh so familiar words, "How much longer?" and, "Are we there yet?!"

Our small ones also like to feel like us and as our lives, as adults, are so intrinsicly ruled by the time it makes sense that our kids want to wear watches too - it always used to make me feel very grown-up when I wore a watch.

This Peppa Pig watch is just cute - it's cheap, it's plastic, it'll withstand hard knocks and won't be devestate the economy if it gets lost and you choose to replace it (I was a childhood master at making watches 'disappear'!).

It has interchangeable heads to lose - NO! I mean, it hasinterchangeable heads so you could say you have several different watches here for the price of one and it also comes with a clip on badge and a battery included, and delivery from The Hut is free.

Thanks to edi over at HUKD!

Transformers - robots in disguise!

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If you're of a certain age you'll now be singing "Transformers - robots in disguise!" and hearing that sound the robots make when they transform.  If you're not of  a certain age...you won't have been enthralled by the original cartoon series that used to be on TV.

"Transformers used to be a cartoon on TV when you were young mum?  Really?  WOW!  We didn't realise they were that old...." yeah, thanks for that then kids.

I was never a Barbie person which is why I tend to leave those deals to the others - I had the ambulance transformer when I was about 10 and I LOVED playing with him; he was just far too cool and I even used to try and make the noise when I was transforming him from vehicle to robot form.

So, happy days upon discovering these Transformers at The Hut whose prices have been transformed from £15.99 down to just £4.93!

With a mix of Autobots and Decepticons to choose from, at these prices you could buy enough to be able to stage your own Transformer battle reinactments...you could even let the kids play with them too!

Thanks to TDALAKIS over at HUKD!

Mother's Day is on the way, as the girls have been mentioning here on PlayPennies! I thought you might be interested in this discount code from The Hut's online store, which will get you an extra 10% off their Mother's Day gift ideas.

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• Discount Code: MD10
• Discount: Extra 10% Off Mother's Day gifts

They have some cute gifts there. Here are a few that catch my eye:

Snug Rug Lite Adult Pink for £12.93 (or £11.64) - It's one of those "snuggie" all-in-one rugs! I personally am not interested in this kind of thing at all, but I've got a clear mental picture of my mum curled up on the sofa in this, with Coronation Street blasting away on the boob tube.

Lacoste Pink EDT 15ML Spray for £9.93 (or £8.94) - A decent price for a little bottle of eau de toilette. The bottle is pretty cute too.

Large Sweet Bomb for £12.93 (or £11.64) - If your mum likes "sweets" rather than chocolate, this would be a great present. I'm a huge fan of "candy" type sweets, and much prefer them than getting choccies.

*singing* "It doesn't matter if you're tiny or taaaalllll....it doesn't matter if you're big or smaaaaalllll"

• Click HERE to for this BIG deal at a small price

Big is....BIG and purple and Small is....small and orange and they are best pals who live together in a house in the country.  If you've never seen Big and Small then might I humbly suggest you do...?

It's charming and funny and features the unmistakeable voices of Lenny Henry (Big AND Small) and Imelda Staunton - she voices the other characters in the show: Ruby the mouse and Twiba the worm who lives in an apple on  Big's apple tree.

The concept is great - looking at things from different perspectives and finding out that sometimes being big is better than being small, whilst on other occasions being small is definitely the better option!

Big is soft and cuddly whereas Small is frantic and sometimes a little crazy - the house they live in has two front doors, one big for Big and one small for Small...but Small ALWAYS refuses to use the small one because he wants to be B I G!!!!!!!

The Hut are offering this DVD with a whopping 81% off the £12.99 rrp and, as always, delivery is freeeee.

Thanks to Okebird over at HUKD!

Thomas the Tank Engine again yes....but this time NO track, NO engines and NO tunnels or bridges!

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I know the other day I said you can never have too much Thomas stuff (and you can't) BUT, sometimes it's nice to have some different Thomas items so you can do something other than play trains.

Well here it is ladies and gentleman, I give you.....*drum roll please*  the Thomas the Tank Engine 'Action Gift Set'!

I'm very excited about this for a whole host of reasons, the main one being the 35mm camera.  Yes I KNOW it's not digital but you can't have that for just £4.93.

One of my other guises is that of a photographer and the thought of being able to teach my youngest the ways of photography with FILM has got me VERY excited - not just because I don't want to see film die BUT so he can experience the THRILL and anticipation of dropping his photos off to be developed and then picking them up to see how they turned out.

The set also comes with a pair of binoculars and an LCD watch, all of which presents great learning opportunities but also opens up a whole host of role play games like SPIES, they use cameras and binoculars!  What FUN and all with Thomas too!

Thanks to amibees over at HUKD!

I'm so sorry for this post but sometimes you just have to 'do it for the kids'...

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I almost feel like I'm betraying you my fellow parents, but your kids are going to LOVE this - all their favourite Boogie Beebies songs remixed in three stylees - Dance, Motown and Reggae.

My youngest loved watching Boogie Beebies and would join in with the actions; I watched it with that sort of morbid fascination where you feel sure you should have looked away long ago but can't quite bring yourself to stop.

I have to wonder if the presenters are living their dream or whether, behind their saccharine smiles, they're thinking 'years and years of training at drama school for THIS!'.

If you are one of those brave souls who has kiddie-song CDs in the car then this could be another to add to your collection (you mad fools!) but it could also really be the icing on the cake at your little one's birthday party - their very own mix of party 'choons' to get down and groove along to with all their little friends.

Happy days for them, potential torture for you - again, I apologise - hopefully the £1.93 price tag (delivery is free by the way) will dull the pain a bit.

'Thanks' to lucerysmum over at HUKD!

Who doesn't love Pingu?  He's a firm favourite among young and old alike and The Hut are practically GIVING AWAY collections of his greatest episodes on DVD.

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I've lost track of how many times I've watched these DVDs and I have to say they're as amusing now as they were the first time I watched them.  The cheeky little penguin gets up to all sorts of mischief and mayhem with his good pals Pingo and Robbie the seal  - their 'arguement' over fish and who has cetain fishing rights is pure comedy genius, not to mention the other trials and tribulations of childhood such as the perils of potty training, the torment of tidying up and the agony of sibling rivalry.

Much is made of kids tv programmes where the characters don't actually use proper spoken language, however there is good reason for this - it makes it extremely easy for young children, or for those whose first language isn't English, to understand and follow the stories. There are 24 episodes on the Pingu Forever! (The Ultimate Pingu Collection) DVD and 9 on Pingu The Snowboarder and both are now priced at £1.93 each (they were £12.79)

BUT WAIT! Before you go rushing off to The Hut!  If you are the patient type, and can wait up to a couple of days, then you could drop this price to 93 pence! Sign up to The Hut's newsletter and, by way of thanks, they'll email you a voucher giving you £1 off a purchase, MEEP MEEP!  Ok so that sounds more like Road Runner when you say it, but how many ways ARE there to spell celebrity TV bird speak?!

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Thanks to andywedge over at HUKD!

It’s a dark night, you need to fetch a glass of water and the floor is a minefield of foot hurting toys. What do you do? You whip out your Star Wars Lightsaber torch of course! Down to £6.93 at The Hut, this is an accessory for all space faring parents. 

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It’s been over thirty years since Star Wars first exploded onto the scene, capturing the hearts and minds of parents and kids across the planet. Now those kids have all grown up and many are sharing the fun with their own offspring. Few will be able to resist this extremely amusing torch. 

Even my daughter is a fan of lightsabers (thanks to my Star Wars Wii games) so this torch will definitely amuse her when we need to whip it out in an emergency. Or to look into the bowels of the attic (or my PC). 

The torch has realistic sound effects and LEDs on the head illuminate the way with the power of Star Wars blue. It’s a full size replica of Anakin’s lightsaber (try not to think about the prequels when you use it) and is delivered free. May the torch be with you... 

Thanks to andywedge at HUKD!