Most kids don't take long to latch on to a favourite cartoon or story character, and in my daughter's case that “silly old bear” Winnie the Pooh has been number one practically since birth.

Get creative this holiday with a make your own bracelets kits from Winnie The Pooh, reduced from £7.49 to £4.99 and a perfect stocking filler.

• Bling up with Winnie the Pooh*

Have some creative fun with the Winnie the Pooh bracelet making kit. They estimate that there's enough in the kit to keep li and craft ttlies busy for around two hours of creative play. There's an 'inspirational and inspiring range of arts and crafts kits'. The colourful and fun artistic range will challenge your child to create useful and beautiful objects, all the while developing fine motor skills and co-ordination.

Children can use the shapes and character images to stick to the colourful bracelets, and glitter glue is provided for added glamour.

The kit is suitable from 3 years of age due to small parts.

This gorgeous Winnie the Pooh Nappy Pail by Rotho Babydesign  is currently on sale for £10.37 instead of £19.99 with free Amazon delivery.

• Pop away all the smelly nappies*

There are popular and common nappy pales about, but on a recent trip I found I needed a nappy pale and popped in to Toys R Us. They had something similar to this for less than half the price of the one we had at home and it works just s well.

This nappy pail has a handy and soft carry grip, making it easy and comfortable to use with one hand. It has an additional integrated ring so you can still put a hygiene sack inside if you want to.

Cheaper than the conventional types, and kind of cute too!

There's a good sale on ride ons at Asda online at the moment. They're normally £24.97, but are now reduced to £15, making a hearty saving of £9.97 - and quite frankly perfectly priced for presents for the big 'C'. There are a number of options available too:

• To take off with Buzz Lightyear clicke here for the Toy Story Ride On*
• Be the Belle of the ball with the Disney Princesses Ride On*
• Roar into town with the Cars Ride On*
• Save some space for the honey with the Winnie the Pooh Ride On*

These 7ride ons are really quite well reviewed on the Asda site, with comments that they are robust, have  plenty of activities for little ones, have good sound effects, and are sturdy.

They come with 2xAA batteries, and are suitable from about 12 months. Some people say the sound effects are a bit annoying, but that's a given with most children's toys.

One reviewer even said this is his 'go to' gift for 1 year old presents, which is a pretty good endorsement, I reckon.

Thanks to spratty at HUKD

I've got another Christmas story book for you this morning; this one features the much loved Winnie the Pooh in 'Winnie the Pooh's Christmas Adventure' - Asda are selling copies of it for just £2, making it a lovely book bargain.

• Click HERE to take a look at Winnie the Pooh's Christmas Adventure *

I adore Winnie the Pooh/Pooh Bear/Edward Bear - call him what you will!  I had a lovely collection of individual Winnie the Pooh story books when I was little, along with a compendium of stories in one big book.

I'd like a copy of Winnie the Pooh's Christmas Adventure story just for me, it sounds absolutely delightful.  Pooh Bear wakes up one morning to discover the Hundred Acre Wood covered in a thick blanket of snow; with Piglet's assistance, he helps the other residents of the Hundred Acre Wood who have been snowed in - he's such a tubby little hero!

Once everyone, who was snowed in, has been rescued Christopher Robin teaches everyone how to build a snowman.

Arranging to collect your Winnie the Pooh's Christmas Adventure book in-store is, by far, the best option as it's free, having it delivered to your home will cost you an additional £2.95.

Thanks to andywedge at HUKD

There are Winnie The Pooh themed Gift Sets available at Argos right now for £7.99 instead of £18 and £19.95.  They also both come with free delivery, which is a great added bonus.

• Give a gift of a soft toy and moneybank
• Give the gift of a soft toy and mug

My daughters have a handful of piggy banks and money boxes already, so it's something that just comes with the territory, I guess - ironic since they don't get an allowance yet!

This beautifully designed Winnie the Pooh money bank has a rubber stopper at the base and is made from hand painted ceramic. It's just under 10cm high and 16cm wide and weighs just 37g.

It comes in a gift box, ready to be given to a special little one.

The mug and cuddly soft toy is less for little little ones, really since the mug is ceramic. It weighs just 21g and is quite small at 10cm wide and 6.5cm heigh. It really is a lovely looking gift set.

This offer is only available online. You can't find it in store and you can't have it delivered to a store either.

Thanks to wishihadadonkey @ HUKD

If you're a Winnie the Pooh fan (like me ex mother-in-law) or have a young Pooh Bear fan in your family then you might want to pay a quick visit to Home Bargains - you can pick up a Pooh, Tigger, Eeyore or Piglet for £3.99.

• Click HERE for Winnie the Pooh
• Click HERE for Piglet
• Click HERE for Eeyore
• Click HERE for Tigger

I loved everything Pooh Bear when I was little; I had a Pooh Bear book collection (I wish I still had it today) and I loved going to the cinema, back in the day when they had a little Disney feature before the main movie event, and watching, what was often, Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day.

The usual price for these plush Pooh Bear toys is £19.99 - although it only lists a full retail price for Tigger and Piglet, I can't believe that the plush Pooh and Eeyore have a full rrp of just £3.99, that would be a bit bonkers - which makes them rather a nice little soft toy deal, I think.

If you live near a Home Bargains you can arrange to collect your plush Pooh Bear toys in-store for free, otherwise you'll have to pay a little bit for home delivery.

Thanks to Wadjet at HUKD

There’s a fab discount on the Disney Music Player: Winnie The Pooh / Animal Stories  which is currently selling at £9.99 instead of £33.99. This isn’t the cheapest we’ve ever seen it – I bought it last summer for £3.99, but still, it’s a pretty good price none the less.

• Sing and read with Winnie the Pooh and the other Disney Characters

I reviewed the Disney Music Player last year, and had good things to say about it. A year down the line we still have it, and it’s still in working condition – although it does need batteries – and it’s still a firm favourite in these parts.

Each of these unique Disney Music Player sets combines a sturdy child’s CD player with a full colour 40-page storybook and four singalong CDs of the songs that kids know and love from playgroup, school and parties.

The themes included in the Disney Music Player range are Winnie the Pooh with a feast of stories about the Hundred Acre Wood and 28 favourite songs including Rumbly in my Tumbly and Hickory Dickory Dock. In the other book you’ll find 101 Dalmations, Finding Nemo, The Lion King and The Jungle Book.

Thanks to missgem at HUKD

There’s a gorgeous Winnie the Pooh Snack Plate and Egg Cup available at House of Fraser for £8.50 instead of £17.

• A friend forever snack plate and egg cup for you

I must admit that at £17 I would probably just gloss over this set, but at £8.50 it’s much more appealing.  The snack plate and egg cup are lovely keepsakes, but also practical and useable.

‘A Friend Forever’ is the theme of this set, which is fine china – so not really suitable for toddlers, I don’t think! – and is quite limited in it’s ease of use: it’s not microwave safe, not oven safe and needs to be handwashed… so perhaps more keepsake and dinner plate, but still.

You can buy and collect from House of Fraser for free, seven days a week, or you can have it delivered Monday to Friday for £3 – not too bad really.

All in all a lovely set for a collector or fan.

Thanks to missgem at HUKD

One of the multitude of savings on at Tesco Direct at the moment is the Winnie the Pooh Crawling Mat which normally sells at £25.95, but has £13.45 slashed off to be just £12.50.

• Crawl around with Pooh and Friends

I’m quite intrigued by this Crawling Mat. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything quite like it. We bought a large quilted mat for my daughter when she started moving around, but it didn’t have any toys or activities on it. This seems to basically be a large play mat, but for when baby moves about more.

It’s 75 x 142 cm, and doesn’t require any batteries. It is a wipe only surface for cleaning, so you can’t pop it in the washing machine and is made of material.

While the reviewers seem to like it, there are a few issues with it – like the fact that it slips about on wooden surfaces, or tiles, and doesn’t seem to give a crawler much traction on a carpeted floor. One reviewer even suggested using tape to stick it down – so it seems it would do well on a rubber mat, which at least provides additional padding.

I’d love to see one in action. I think it’s a really cute idea, if it works well.

Thanks to goonertillidie at HUKD

I don’t really ‘get’ this, if I’m honest. It’s a bath time teddy bear. Which is great for the kids, but I’m worried about the stuffing going all rotten. It hasn’t but the concept perplexes me.

Never the less, the Winnie the Pooh Splash Mates, Winnie the Pooh and Piglet set has proven to be a great bath time companion. This particular set seems to be quite hard to find at the moment, but none the less, it features Winnie the Pooh wearing a red lifejacket,  and Piglet all decked out for a swim in his life raft.

Winnie the Pooh is made out of some sort of quick drying, water safe material – a little bit like an umbrella in texture – and without ripping him open to check, I think he’s stuffed with Styrofoam or something similar. Although he lives in the bath, he’s seemed to handle being wet most days like a trooper.

The real talking point for this set, for me, is Piglet and his raft. The raft is a sprinkler – you scoop water in and it comes out the bottom like an upturned watering can with a sprinkler nozzle. That’s fine, but what’s super, duper, ultra – cool is that despite the holes in the bottom it actually floats. Its survives bubbles and waves and knocks and floats, and I was seriously impressed with not having to fish it and Piglet – who, by the way, is a squirting toy himself – out of the bottom of the bath every five minutes.

It’s bath time fun, and it’s different and unusual, I guess, and my toddler enjoys her bath time Pooh bear. (This is also available, and more commonly found it seems, as a Tigger and Roo combo, or a Darby and Buster combo.)

The whole collection of Winnie The Pooh stories is reduced to £20 and with the code below, you’ll have free delivery too. The RRP is apparently £149.99, to this is an insane £129.99 saving (although, fortunately it’s reduced to around this price often enough!)

Get your fill of Winnie the Pooh using two codes

• Free Delivery Code: 241PLUS
• Expires: Unknown

There are 30 books in the collection of tales from the Hundred Acre Wood. The box set is presented in a gift box, and the books themselves are hardbacks.

Books in this collection are:

• Winnie-the-Pooh and some Bees
• Owl becomes an author
• Kanga and Baby Roo come to the Forest
• Piglet is entirely surrounded by water
• Eeyore loses a tail
• Tigger comes to the Forest
• Tiggers don't climb trees
• Pooh invents a new game
• Piglet does a very grand thing
• Christopher Robin and Pooh come to an enchanted place
• Christopher Robin returns to the Forest
• The Spelling Bee
• It Stops raining for ever
• Everybody learns something
• Tigger Dreams of Africa
• Pooh Goes Visiting & Pooh and Piglet nearly catch a Woozle
• Eeyore has a birthday
• An Expedition to the North Pole
• Christopher Robin gives a Party
• A House is Built at Pooh Corner
• A Search is organized
• Rabbit has a busy day
• Tigger is unbounced
• Eeyore finds the Wolery
• Pooh's Poems
• Rabbit organises almost everything
• Piglet meets a Heffalump
• Pooh goes in search of honey
• The Game of Cricket
• The Harvest Festival

This Crayola Winnie the Pooh fun roll set is just the sort of thing I would have loved as a child - in fact, it's just the sort of thing I'd still love to colour in now!

The Toy Shop have reduced its price down to £2 from £8, which makes it a rather nice little bargain.

• Click HERE to go over to The Toy Shop

Two two meter rolls and four marker pens make up this Crayola Winnie the Pooh Fun Roll set.

Both of them are feature everyone's favourite Winnie the Pooh characters who appear in fun pictures and activities that are perfect for your toddler, or you, to colour in.

You can separate each picture by tearing it off the role and hang them on the wall, or frame them, OR you can unroll the entire roll to reveal a rather fabulous height chart - I do love height charts - and let  your child colour in the pictures and mark off their height as they grow!

The Crayola Winnie the Pooh Fun Rolls are suitable for little ones aged two year or older.

Home delivery will cost you £3.95, unless you're ordering other bits and pieces which takes your total over £30, or you can collect your Crayola Winnie the Pooh fun rolls for free from your local Toy Shop.

Thanks to goonertillidie at HUKD

This Winnie the Pooh Complete Book Collection is a favourite of ours, here at PlayPennies.  It varies in price through the course of the year and this time it's yours for £2o, plus £1.95 for delivery.

• Click HERE to go over to The Book People

The list price for this Winnie the Pooh book collection is £149.99. I'm really not sure about that, you know; I adore books and I've been known to pay a fair bit of money for them, when they're worth it.

But £149.99?  That just seems a little overpriced to me, even if it is a price that we'll never have to pay.

Anyway, I had a Winnie the Pooh book collection when I was little and to say I loved them would be something of an understatement.

Just in case you're wondering whether or not Winnie the Pooh is still in vogue, what with all his modern competition, he's 85 years old now and still has a ton of merchandise, from wallpaper, to clothes, to toys and games, bearing his name and image.

I think it's safe to say he's going to be popular with all ages for many, many years to come.

Thanks to tasi124 at HUKD

It’s my daughter’s 2^nd birthday party soon, and I may have gone a little over the top with the Winnie the Pooh décor –including decals, goody bags complete with stickers, games, a wallet and whistles, all Winnie the Pooh themed. I also thought this Winnie the Pooh Gazillion Bubble Blower would add a fun touch to the garden, filling it with bubbles.

Sadly, I was wrong.

Look, the Gazillion Bubble Blower is very cute. It’s a shiny happy looking Pooh bear that raises and lowers his right arm into the honey pot and up to his mouth, from which a steady stream of air blows. The fan makes a whirring sound, but it’s not terribly loud or  overly obtrusive.

The problem comes in the bubbles: there aren’t any.  Pooh blows, a bubble forms and it pops. There’s no release or stream of bubbles floating into the air to be chased by exhilarated toddlers.

I thought perhaps it was just a bad bubble liquid, so replaced it with bubbles from our favourite oversized bubble wand, but alas, it made no difference.

While I still think Mr. The Pooh would make a cute centrepiece – away from the food, as the bubble liquid pops all around it – and he still looks cute blowing his bubble, it’s just not what I expected, nor does it give us the party effect we were after. The disappointment is so much worse for the misleading name though – Gazillion bubble blower? Erm… not so much.

Use this Toys R Us promotional code to get 20% off top brands both online and in store. It is just for this weekend though, so you've only got till the end of Sunday to get this discount!

Click here to use your Toys R Us promotional code

• Discount: 20%
• Applies to: selected top brands
• Promotional code: 9008089999998
• Expires: 7th August 2011

To use this code in store, click on the link above and print out the coupon that appears. To use this code online you’ll need to go through to checkout. You’ll have to either log in or register on the site. Then when you get to the Check Out page, enter it in the Coupon Details box and hit apply. You don’t need to enter any other details to see if the code works.

The brands you can use this code on are Disney Pixar Cars, Thomas and Friends, Lego, Hello Kitty, Little Tikes, Nerf, VTech, Winnie The Pooh, Smart Trike, and Crayola.

There's some popular and normally rather expensive brands in there. Particularly the Lego stuff - always nice to get a 20% discount on that!

Thanks to seafrance2 at HUKD!

The Toy Story Buzz Gazillion Bubble Blower is currently £7.50 at The Entertainer, which is a 50% saving. It’s also one of the cheapest prices around with prices starting at £13.99 in other places.

• Fill your garden with bubbles, bubbles, bubbles

My daughter absolutely loves bubbles, and we can have hours of fun in the garden with me blowing bubbles and her chasing them. I also have some absolutely beautiful photos of her chasing bubbles with a look of absolute wonder on her face. I must admit though that it does sometimes get a bit boring, so I’m thinking this might be a wonderful invention to keep her entertained – although I wonder if it’ll be as much fun for her if I’m not playing along?

Either way, this Toy Story Buzz Gazillion Bubble Blower comes with a bubble solution, and creates an ‘endless stream of bubbles’. It requires 3 AA batteries  which aren’t included.

This is also available in Winnie the Pooh, which I think will be a brilliant addition to my daughter’s birthday party – especially at this price – it’s also £7.50 but only requires two batteries.

Thanks to AndyWedge at HUKD

There’s a good 50% off the VTech Winnie the Pooh Slide and Learn Book at Tesco Direct. It’s currently selling at £7.47 instead of £14.97.

• Sing along with the VTech Winnie the Pooh Slide and Learn Book

This book has six illustrated, easy-to-clean, hard plastic pages, featuring moving interactive elements for your little one to join in with to develop hand-eye coordination and manipulative skills – not manipulation skills, mind!

Each page has a short story phrase that teaches a different concept, such as opposites, words and numbers as well as popular nursery rhyme tunes, all achieved by twisting or sliding character features.

You can also press on Winnie the Pooh for a fun song to sing along.

While this is said to be suitable from 9 – 36 months, babies as young as four months are said to really enjoy listening to the songs, according to the gushing reviews for it on Amazon.

You will require two AA batteries, and one complaint of the system is that it doesn’t have an off switch, so the batteries drain quite quickly.

Thanks to kooltariq at HUKD

This really cute Winnie the Pooh Organiser Bag is £4.79 at the Argos Ebay Outlet store at the moment, with 99p delivery charge.

• Get organised with Winnie the Pooh

Okay, cards on the table, I have no idea what an organiser bag is when it’s at home? Is  it a laptop bag? A nappy bag? Something for toddlers? I honestly couldn’t tell you – feel free to leave a comment if you know though! That said, this is a  really cute looking bag, and I could definitely see it as a ‘beyond the nappy bag’ bag.

According to the description it is a ‘coral and pink’ bag, with yellow trim, and is made of polyester.

The Winnie the Pooh Organiser Bag has magnetic closing side pockets, which I always think is so much better  than Velcro and it has four external and four internal pockets.

The carry handle is adjustable, and it also includes a ‘plush key fob’, which does make me think it’s not meant to be a child’s bag, specifically.

Size wise, the Winnie the Pooh Organiser is 30cm high, 40cm wide and 11cm deep (so big enough for my laptop!) and empty, weighs .8 kg, so nice and light too.

If you can figure out what you would use it for, and like cutesy, this is a great price for a very cutesy product.

Thanks to andywedge at HUKD

The VTech Winnie The Pooh Play And Learn Laptop at Sainsbury’s has £5 off at the moment, dropping the price from £19.99 to £14.99.

• Click here to play and learn with Winnie the Pooh

My daughter was given a little started laptop for Christmas, with not many more buttons on it than this one, but seven months later, she  not only still loves and plays with it, but can also say all the animal names, their sounds and number on the laptop. It’s a great toy, but is educational too – and when Mummy and Daddy sit ‘working’ she sometimes likes to ‘work’ on hers too, so it’s a really useful tool when there are things I just have to finish.

This laptop features three play modes including a fun follow the lights game.  There are lots of features including five light-up shape buttons, a spinning disc, a sliding bee, a flipping butterfly wing and a roller ball.

Ideal for early learning, the VTech Winnie the Pooh laptop introduces shapes, colours, numbers and favourite characters.

The laptop requires 2xAA batteries which are included.

Standard delivery is £3.95, but click and collect is free of charge.