Use this WH Smith promotional code to get 20% off your order when you buy from the Arts and Crafts section. The code works on items that are already discounted.

Click here to use your WH Smith promotional code

• Discount: 20%
• Applies to: arts and crafts
• Promotional code: WHSA&C20
• Expires: 5th May 2013

To use this promotional code, go to the Shopping Basket page and enter it in the Promotional Code box. It will be applied straight away to your order.

To test it out, I tried it on a pack of Magic Pens that had already been reduced from £2.59 to £1.99. The code took this down further to £1.59.

I expect you'll want to make a larger order though to get the best value out of this code. Delivery costs £3.99 but delivery to a store is free if you can get to one easily. Delivery is also free if you spend more than £15.

Thanks to Syzable at HUKD!

Get a whopping 50% off literally hundreds (115 to be precise) of kid’s acivity books at WH Smith. You won’t believe what’s on the sale. Gruffalo books, Where’s Wally? books, colouring books, sticker books and many more. I don’t know how long they’ll have this offer on for so hurry!

• Click here for the children’s book sale of the year at WH Smith*

Sure, it’s often pretty easy to find kid’s activity books and that sort of thing on sale. There are loads of sites that do them at ridiculously cheap prices but here’s a selection of all the kid’s favourite characters at a lovely 50% off. There are Hello Kitty, Griffalo, Lego and Harry Potter books all on sale, fabulous.

WH Smith’s great offer of 50% off includes most of their activity books and a few educational books that teach numbers too. They’re great to keep kids busy and get them into books and reading. From Sticker books to colouring in books you’ll find them all on sale at WH Smith.

Thanks to lilliesmummy11 at HUKD!

Save a whopping and phenomenal 87% on the super cool Griffin Slap Watch For iPod Nano 6G. The snapping strap comes in bright pink and WH Smith has reduced it from £14.99 to £2.00 so you’re saving £12.99, awesome.

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The Griffin Slap Watch for the iPod Nano 6G is available in hot pink and is perfect for conveniently taking your iPod Nano with you wherever you go. The pink slap watch is the ideal way to show off the Nano 6G and the thick silicone band is the funkiest way to protect your Nano.

The Griffin Slap Watch is packed with really cool features. The flexible spring-steel band wrapped in soft silicone snaps securely around your wrist to keep your iPod Nano close at hand. You can take your iPod running, to work, to school or anywhere else without having to worry about it falling out of your pocket or having it nicked out of your bag. The thick silicone frame protects your Multi-Touch display, volume controls and dock connector while the frame covers the volume and sleep/wake buttons with protective silicone but still allows touch-through control of your iPod Nano.

Happy slapping!

Save £42.91 (54%) when you get the 2013 Richard and Judy Spring Book Bundle from WH Smith. This bundle pack contains all ten titles in the new Richard and Judy Book Club Spring 2013 collection and should retail for £79.90 but you can get them for just £36.99, smashing.

• Click here for an awesome ten book deal from WH Smith*

Looking for some new books and trying to decide what your next read is going to be? This should keep you busy for a while. With ten great new books in the collection recommended by the Richard and Judy Book Club you shouldn’t have to go looking for a new read for a while.

The pack contains:

The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Gold by Chris Cleave
Jasmine Nights by Julia Gregson
Dark Winter by David Mark
The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
The Good Father by Noah Hawley
The Land Of Decoration by Grace McCleen
After The Fall by Charity Norman
The Fever Tree by Jennifer McVeigh

Get your teeth into a good book (or ten) this spring

Have you ever played Cranium? It’s 30 Seconds on steroids and ridiculously fun. WH Smith have got it on sale at the moment for £26.24, reduced from £37.49 so you’ll be getting £11.25 or 30% off, fabulous.

• Click here to test your cranium with WH Smith*

Cranium is the outrageously fun award-winning board game packed with something for everyone. It doesn’t matter what you’re good at there’ll be something in the rounds that you can do better than anyone else. Whether you're an aspiring actor, artist, data hound, or wordsmith, Cranium gives everyone a chance to shine. There’s even clay to make models with.

The board game features 600 all-new cards for hours of fun and a new three-in-one foldout game board lets you choose how long you want to play for. Contents of the game include 600 cards covering 14 fun activities, a ten-sided Cranium die, two tubs of Cranium Clay, a timer, Cranium pads, pencils and four Cranium play pieces.

Whether you’re 10 or 50 years old Cranium is seriously fun and entertaining.

Enid Blyton's Malory Towers box set are on sale at WHSmith for £8.99, reduced from £49.99 if the website is to be believed. A similar set with 9 books is currently £38.17 at Amazon.

• Inspire a love for adventure with Enid Blyton*

Enid Blyton wrote six books for the Malory Towers series between 1946 and 1951.

Malory Towers is a boarding school in Cornwall, where the heroine Darrell Rivers, enters the school in the first form and the stories follow her through to being headgirl in sixth form.

Malory Towers has six forms, from the first to the sixth, and four house towers—North, South, East and West. There are about forty girls in each form, divided among the four houses. Darrell and her friends are in North Tower, where most of the action takes place, and where the girls try not to run foul of strict housemistress Miss Potts, or the equally strict Matron.

St Clare's is a boarding-school for girls, and the story follows their adventures through the first - fifth forms of school.

Thanks to Kat117 at HUKD

The recommended retail price on this awesome book is £25.00 so you’re saving a lovely £20.01 (80%) when you get it from WH Smith for £4.99. LEGO Harry Potter: Building the Magical World comes with an exclusive Harry Potter mini figure and takes you on a journey through the world of Harry Potter in LEGO form.

• Click here for this super deal from WH Smith*

With this book you’ll discover everything you need to know about LEGO's best-selling toy, Harry Potter. LEGO Harry Potter Building the Magical World is a must-have for any LEGO and Harry Potter fans. The book will take you on a journey through the scenes and sets from LEGO Harry Potter through amazing photos and incredible details.

You'll see how to recreate key events from Harry Potter fighting a Hungarian Horntail dragon to studying magic at Hogwarts. You'll also discover insights into the history, manufacture and construction of LEGO Harry Potter. If you love LEGO Harry Potter, you'll love this visual dictionary. It also comes complete with an exclusive mini-figure from the LEGO Harry Potter range.

No doubt your child has already dropped plenty of hints for whatever their main present will be. In our house Lego Star Wars is a definite winner.

But what about those few smaller presents, and the stocking fillers (if you do them)? Last year we all got some great bargains through the sales. My favourite was a magic set I picked up in a flash sale for £5. Another PlayPennies parent managed to grab the entire set of Diary of a Wimpy Kid for a fraction of its normal cost.

But don't worry you haven't necessarily missed out. There are still Christmas bargains available. Unfortunately many of the bargains that people have found were sold out. But not all of them. Here we've gathered the best of what's still out there. I've looked through our posts here on the blog, and asked our PlayPennies parents. And here's our top ten.

This is a great Christmas gift for children that love to make things and figure out how things work. The Wild Science Hyperlauncher Rocket Ball factory from WH Smith is marked down from £14.99 to £10.49 saving you £4.50, that’s 30% off!

Click here for the super cool Rocket Launcher from WH Smith*

With this awesome kit your children can make their own bouncy balls. They can make them in different colours and even make glow-in-the-dark balls. They will discover how to mould the bouncy balls and how to launch them into space. They’ll discover the science of elastic collisions and so much more. They’ll really have a blast with this kit and it’ll keep them out of mischief these holidays while the miserable weather stops them playing outside. Just watch out for the windows!

This kit contains enough material for the experiments to be repeated several times. The contents include: red water-based moulding granules, glow-in-the-dark water-based moulding granules, yellow water-based moulding granules, four moulds, safety goggles, plastic tubes, wooden dowel, and a colour instruction booklet.

I love reading. I love books, I love finding new authors, I love discovering that a series I am reading has had a new release and introducing my children to the magic of reading. There are few things as rich and exciting as books and this year I’ve gone out to discover what books are being recommended for kids this Christmas and what great deals and discounts I can find for them.

Let your children make their own Christmas decorations this year with this really cool kit from WH Smith. The Mould and Paint Christmas kit is marked down from £9.99 to £4.99 saving you £5.00, ace deal this Christmas.

• Click here to make your own Christmas decorations with WH Smith*

Your children can decorate the fridge or Christmas tree with own their creations this Christmas, what fun! This crafty Christmas gift set allows you to mould and paint your own Christmas fridge magnets and tree decorations from plaster using Christmas shaped moulds. After the mould has set they can paint them with the bright coloured paints provided. This will provide hours of fun this holiday season and your kids will love showing off their creations to everyone on Christmas day.

Contents of the kit include moulds of six assorted designs, plaster powder, magnet, string, paint strip of five colours, paint brush and detailed instructions. The gift set will make six Christmas pieces.

The kit is not suitable for children under 36 months due to the small parts.

The Wild Science Lip Balm Laboratory for £8.99 will make the coolest Christmas gift for girls this year. Part of the “Up To Half Price Christmas Gift Collection” at WH Smith the Lip Balm Laboratory is reduced from £14.99, saving you £6.00.

• Click here to make your own Lip Balm with WH Smith*

This kit is so much more than just a Lip Balm craft kit. The kit uses industry standard ingredients to create an infinite variety of custom balm bases. Make your own fabulous lip balm suitable for cold or hot weather, for sun or wind and with a softer or harder feel. You can mix and match colours and flavours in your lip balm compact. Add textures with professional shimmer and SPF factor using UV detector beads. The booklet illustrates every step in colour, and features extra cosmetic science experiments.

The contents include: soy ester, baby oil, vegetable wax beads, sun stopper, fine shimmer, 2 x fruity flavours, 3 x UV beads, oil based yellow & red colours, balm compact 7 brush, spatula, big & small beaker, gloves, use by date stickers, special work bench, microwave heating tray, colour instruction book & safety sheet.

Save all those beautiful first memories with the Humphrey’s Corner Baby Record Book from WH Smith. Originally priced at £14.99 it is now 50% off, just £7.49 which is an ace saving on a really cute little memory book. I have a Winnie the Pooh one and it was worth every penny.

• Click here to save memories and pennies with WHSmith*

This record book is fantastically useful and beautifully illustrated. There is plenty of space in it to add photos, locks of hair and other special mementoes. You can even add a family tree. With 37 pages there is also loads of space write stuff. It's a great gift for anyone who is expecting a baby, and it's suitable for either a boy or a girl. It's ideal for anyone who likes to write down any little detail. An absolute must have!

What I also like about the book is that it’s divided into sections: my birth, coming home, naming baby, walking, talking, first Christmas, birthday, holiday, and my friends to name just a few. It’s perfect to record all the precious moments in your baby's life. You can record and keep everything from pregnancy to birth and the early years.

Wow, ok, this is cheap. I mean, it’s not exactly brilliant, in my view, as it isn’t a real globe, but as a swirly map of London it has its moment of cool. It was also originally on sale for £14.99 but is now on sale for only £3 and you can arrange to have it delivered to a nearby store for free.

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The London Globee features all the key sights of the great capital city of London such as Kensington Palace and Covent Garden. You’ll also discover the Museum of London, The Imperial War Museum, and plenty more.

Each Globee comes with a 16 page booklet that is packed with key facts about the historic and tourist sites depicted around the map and globe so kids can learn all about the area. It also comes on a silver coloured stand and it measures about 20cm in height including the stand.

Thanks to sparkylicious at HUKD!

Summer seems to be the time of the Mills & Boon freebie apparently as this is the second one I’ve found in less than a month. This time you don’t end up with any strange and unexpected agreements with Mills & Boon but instead you get several free eBooks with no catch at all from WH Smith.

• Click here to get free books at WH Smith

The five Mills & Boon eBooks on offer are downloadable as eBook content and they are available in the Adobe DRM format so they should be readable on almost every single device you own including the: desktop, eReaders, Smartphones and Tablets.

The titles you get are Mias Scandal, Bought: Destitute Yet Defiant, Their Newborn Gift, Emergency: Wife Lost and Found, and Wedding at King’s Convenience. They seem to run the gamut of the different Mills & Boon genres so if you are a fan of a specific type, then one should be here for you.

Thanks to andywedge at HUKD!

This is a good price for anything to do with Lego actually, especially when you consider how much these books usually go for. The Lego City All Aboard activity book is down from £5.99 to only £2.99 at WH Smith and you can arrange for free delivery instore to save on delivery charges.

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The Lego City All Aboard activity book is perfect for kids aged 5 to 7 years old and lets them create their own action packed adventures on the railway. You can build your very own Lego city train driver minifigure while you go too.

The book has stories and puzzles for kids to complete as they go and is great for keeping them busy on these cold and wet winter afternoons. I know I was wishing for something a bit more activity related the other day when we hit our third day of rain and no sign of it stopping!

Thanks to andywedge at HUKD!

I love the Gruffalo's child. It has a nice pace, and a lovely setting. You can almost hear the shush of the snow in the woods. And also I like that it is a cautionary tale without being preachy. Always best to stay at home with mum and dad kids! If you're looking for a Christmas gift to give to a young child then this could help. It is the Gruffalo's Child and Monkey Puzzle board books in a boxed set that includes a free height chart. If you can collect instore it will only cost £5 at WH Smith. It normally costs £11.98.

• Click here for your Gruffalo's Child and Monkey Puzzle boxset at WH Smith

The two books come in a slip-cover style box. They're hard books, so more suited to younger children who are a bit rough with paper pages. Slightly older pre-schoolers may find it babyish though.

I'm not so familiar with the Monkey Puzzle book, also written by Julia Donaldson with the same fabulous illustrations from artist Axel Scheffler. The story follows Monkey as, with the (not so) helpful blue butterfly tries to find his mum.

I think that it also contains the words and the music for the Monkey Puzzle song, although I'm not 100% sure that's in all versions of the book.

Thanks to goonertillidie at HUKD!

Oooh, now this is a fab deal! What you get from WH Smith for your precious £9.99 is a ten book bundle of Terry Pratchett books that will be perfect for any fan, or for someone who has never read his work and you just know will love it. A stunning Christmas gift!

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The Terry Pratchett 10 book bundle is packed with ten titles from his huge collection and the fun part is that you have absolutely no idea which books you are going to get. Anything from Jingo to Witches Abroad to the Light Fantastic – your guess is as good as mine.

The approximate retail price of the entire set sits between £70 and £90, depending, I assume, on which books you will get and what their retail value is. They are delivered free to a local WH Smith or you can buy two and get it delivered to your home for free as they offer free delivery on orders over £15.

Thanks to macdoona at HUKD!

Wow, ok, this is a pretty hot deal that is still going on over at WH Smith and is totally brilliant for Christmas gifts. WH Smith is selling a bunch of Lego City packs at 50% off their usual price, making these a whoppingly good buy for any Lego fan.

• Click here to get some Lego at WH Smith

There are quite a few Lego City sets included in the 50% off sale at WH Smith making this a whoppingly good deal for those of you with Lego fans to shop for. There is the Lego City Police Helicopter, Camper, 4x4 and Horsebox, Off Road Fire & Rescue, Fire Rescue!, Tractor, Front Loader, Police bike…

…Let’s Build, Car and Seaplane. So there you have it, a whopping list of Lego City kits marked down by 50% and selling for as low as £3.59 for an entire set. You can now nab three or four sets for under £20 (depending on the sets) and really knock them over with joy this Christmas.

Thanks to StoneyOne at HUKD!

Unlike my apparently catastrophic Tesco Clearance Sale deal post yesterday which yabbered on about instore bargains, this WH Smith clearance sale is totally, utterly and completely online. It is packed with bargains and discounts on toys and stationery with savings up to 72% off.

• Click here to get started with the clearance sale at WH Smith

I really like how WH Smith has structured their site and the sale. If you go to the landing page and click on Clearance Items, you can then select your category and then do your shopping. The link above takes you to Gifts, Games and Toys so if you fancy anything else just follow that route and you’ll see what else is on offer.

You’ll find personalised story CDs, Toy Story 3 Lego games and activities, Ben and Holly toys, Barbie doodads and even FurReal Friends on sale. The latter are down from £20.99 to only £10.49 which is a rather good saving of half price.

There are loads of items in the sale and many of them reduced to excellently low prices. I’m already using this to nab all the Christmas presents for little nieces and nephews and friends.

Thanks to glass_half_full at HUKD!