Willa and Woof are back, this time trying to find the perfect solution for kids who don’t have someone to bring to Grandparents’ Day at school. From author Jacqueline Harvey, this story is packed with adventure, imagination and loads of fun!
ALL Shapes is a range of stylish, flattering activewear designed for everyday New Zealanders, not just fitness models. We invited some Kidspot mums to put ALL Shapes Black Full Length Leggings to the test.
Rascal + Friends Premium Nappy Pants are designed for little humans who won’t lay still during change-time, or who are starting to potty train. Made with seriously good features to keep your jumping junior comfy and make change-time easier. Join Maria and her active 16-month-old, Alex, for a week in their life as they put Rascal + Friends premium nappy pants to the ultimate test.
Perfect for a fabulous outdoor summer in Aotearoa, "Get Outdoors - Brilliant Boredom Busters for Kiwi Kids", is a book full of fun ideas to get kids bodies moving and brains inventing.
This Christmas, 90 wonderful years since the LEGO® Group began developing a world of play, there's a LEGO gift that will delight and inspire creativity and play no matter where your child's interests and passions lie. We asked Amy and her ninja and LEGO-loving kids to review a new LEGO set. Read their review below.
The LEGO® Group has been inspiring creativity since 1932. This Christmas, 90 wonderful years of play later, LEGO playsets are still the perfect gifts that enable you to hand over the key to an exciting Christmas to your child. We asked some parents and their very excited children to review some of this Christmas's top LEGO and LEGO® DUPLO® sets.
If only Rabbit could see all the wonderful things right under his nose today, instead of always looking forward to tomorrow! "Have You Seen Tomorrow?" is a contemporary fable about practising gratitude, mindfulness and living in the present.
The Gold Coast has always been one of the top Australian destinations for holidaying Kiwi families. It's a short three-hour flight away to the white sands of Surfers Paradise where we can slip into shorts and tees and enjoy a relaxing break away under the Queensland sun. To help you find family-friendly accommodation on the GC, we sent a Kidspot family away for a fun time exploring the award-winning Paradise Resort Gold Coast. Read the review here.
Gentle on the planet and on little bums, Silk Baby wipes have a refreshed new look with playful designs featuring sweet animal characters. We gave mum of two, Yasmin, the opportunity to give Silk Baby Ultimate® Ultra-Thick Wipes a trial run during a busy family day.
If your kids think poetry isn’t for them, Roar Squeak Purr will cure that thought forever! This exuberant treasury brings together over 200 animal poems by New Zealand's best writers, many of them written by children.
At some stage, you're likely to be grappling with when to get your child a mobile phone and what phone to get. Mum Katie and Ella (8) took the AGM M6 - Tone Down Tech's 'dumb' phone - for a test run. Find out what they thought.
Cricut and Harvey Norman have recently announced a new retail partnership that will bring Cricut products, including the existing range as well as new innovations, to a growing community of New Zealand creators and aspiring makers alike. Join Katie as she reviews 3 of these fantastic products.
How are Hairy Maclary, Scarface Claw, Zachary Quack and all their friends feeling? Lynley Dodd is back with a delightful board book designed to help little ones identify and express their emotions - Hairy Maclary and Friends How Do I Feel?
From breakfast through to dessert and all the meals and snacks in between, "Edmonds My First Cookbook" includes more than 90 recipes to instil a life-long love of baking and cooking. We gave mum of two, Katie, the chance to review the book and try out a couple of the recipes with her kids.
The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton was bestselling author Jacqueline Wilson's own favourite book as a very young child. She is delighted to revisit this glorious magical world, weaving a brand-new story perfect for the next generation of young readers.
Hearing your child cough through the night can fill parents with dread during the winter months. Kiwiherb's new Children's Goodnight Chest Syrup works to soothe your little one's airways all night for a well-rested household. We gave Hayley, mum of two, the opportunity to review a winter wellness duo from the Kiwiherb range.
Poet Ben Brown and illustrator Helen Taylor have created a beautiful bilingual counting board book for toddlers featuring the birds of Aotearoa. With durable card leaves at a suitable size for little hands, and gorgeous page designs that assist developing minds with nature, number and word recognition, this New Zealand-themed board book is a perfect bedtime story and a very special gift.
It's not easy to avoid winter ills and chills, but Comvita has a range of winter wellness products formulated with the natural power of Mānuka honey. We gave five Kidspot families the opportunity to try out the range for themselves. Read their reviews below.
Witi Ihimaera is one of New Zealand’s most prolific and accomplished writers and he now brings us "The Astromancer - The Rising of Matariki - a lively story revealing the tradition of Matariki. Find out more about this special story along with what Ella (8 years) thought.
Meet Goose, a passionate artist who wants to create a PERFECT portrait and win the village art competition. But after a whole week of painting Puffin and friends, Goose is all aflutter. Is an artist’s work EVER good enough?
We asked Claudia and her 8-year-old son Jaxon to give us an update on how they were going with SquareOne – a free app that helps kids connect the dots between earnings, spending, and saving money. Claudia and Jaxon started using SquareOne a month or so ago so join us as we catch up on how things have been going.
Developed in New Zealand for Kiwi kids, Clinicians Kids is a range of high-quality and research-based supplements to support healthy, growing little people. We asked five Kidspot families to trial products from the range and give us their feedback.
Quorn Roarsomes are savoury, dinosaur-shaped alternatives to a chicken nugget that make mealtime fun! Plus, they’re an easy way to introduce kids to meat-free meals. We asked some families to try Quorn Roarsomes and give us their thoughts.
The Lighthouse Princess, the 2021 Storylines Gavin Bishop Award-winning picture book, is a delightful contemporary fairytale about an independent princess, who looks after a very special lighthouse lamp, fishes off the balcony and goes swimming with seals. Find out what our reviewers thought of this modern fairytale.
Two Kiwi dads created SquareOne - a free app that helps kids connect the dots between earnings, spending, and saving money. We asked Claudia and her 8-year-old son Jaxon to give this new app a test run. Find out what they thought.
Join the Little Lambs as they go on an Easter egg hunt in this colourfully illustrated picture book that takes the celebration of Easter and uses it to highlight the beauty of New Zealand's flora and fauna.
We asked three Kiwi mums to let us know what they thought of the Good Food Guide and Seed Pack from Save The Children.
Crane Guy is a rhyming picture book by acclaimed author Sally Sutton and illustrator Sarah Wilkins that utilises the classic I Spy concept to make a fun game of learning letters and their sounds. Aria (just turned 5) gave it a test run.
For those of us who have responsibility for at least some of the domestic cleaning chores, increasingly we are looking for products that not only help make cleaning easier, they are also easy on the environment and our pockets. I tried a range of Earthwise eco-friendly cleaning products to see how they perform.
In recent years there has been a massive increase in people and whānau wanting to learn and use te reo. The Māori Picture Dictionary / Te Papakupu Whakaahua, is designed to help you and the tamariki easily look up over 1400 words and phrases commonly used in daily life. Claudia and her children, Aria and Jaxon, reviewed this beautiful new book.
