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Visit The Lexicon Glow Room for a magical light experience that will dazzle you with 20,000 LEDs. It feels like the room goes on forever! Then, take a dip in the Light Pool, a magical ball pool with golden balls to be found and prizes to be won!

If that wasn’t all, have a photo in the giant Christmas bauble ‘sparkling selfie station’ and follow the Twinkle Trail, spotting baubles in shop windows to collect the clues and enter to win fabulous prizes this Christmas. Plus, share your sparkling selfie station pictures, tagging #thelexiconbracknell or email them to marketing@thelexiconbracknell.com and you will automatically be entered in a competition for the chance to win a restaurant gift card too. 

There are also special performances from local choirs, bands and singers and even the chance to meet Bluey, Hey Duggee and Chase from Paw Patrol! You can be sure that a trip to The Lexicon will have something for everyone over the festive season this year. We loved our visit to The Lexicon last weekend and know we’ll be back again before Christmas!

Find out more on @thelexiconbracknell website.

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We spent well over two hours at @marwellzoo, enjoying the light installations, indulging in the food stalls and cafe, toasting marshmallows and even meeting Father Christmas! 

Glow Marwell was such a nice way to kick off the festive season - and it’s on all the way through December! If you’re looking for a really nice festive activity the whole family can enjoy, this could definitely be it!
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They stay in ‘their’ room overnight but explore the house during the day, getting more confident as time passes. They even got to the point of relaxing on the sofa with us last night.

Fred & George are now very much part of our family and I can’t imagine them not being there now - even at 7am when they’re miaowing at the door for breakfast!
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They are both used to us now, and love us. They’re less nervous, give us cuddles and let us pick them up. They’re still living in our spare room but starting to explore the rest of the house under supervision. 

They play fight constant. Love toys, especially a crinkly feather thing on a string attached to a stick, and love being up high. They are an awesome pair and we are so glad to have them.

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I wanted to put some of my favourite photos on the grid too as the kids did so many fun activities - they had THE best time. 

Giant swing, segways, climbing, archery, laser clays… there was so much to do that we couldn’t fit it all in - we need another trip!
And there ends our October half term - well, apart And there ends our October half term - well, apart from Troy who has a bonus week off!

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Crafts, Reviews, Toys, Games and Crafts · May 24, 2017

Melissa and Doug Paint with Water Art Pads Review

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LP and Little Man love painting – they love anything creative – but it come sometimes be a bit much sorting out the paints, finding them something to physically paint and then cleaning up afterwards. So when Magic Fairy Wings sent us their Melissa and Doug Paint with Water Art Pads I knew it would make us paint more often.

Melissa and Doug Paint with Water Art Pads Review
Melissa and Doug Paint with Water Art Pads Review

The Paint with Water Art Pads are an amazing idea. They have 20 pages to paint, much like a colouring book, but each page has a built in paint palette and comes with a brush – all you need is a cup of water and you have everything you need to paint – all contained in one nice size art pad.

Melissa and Doug Paint with Water Art Pads Review

I was impressed with how well the paints worked – you just use a wet brush on the paints and away you go. The children are still learning how to use these kinds of paints – rather than wet poster paints – and si getting the balance of water right was a learning curve for them. But they really enjoyed painting with the art pads and it was such a simple activity for them to do at home.

Melissa and Doug Paint with Water Art Pads Review

The Paint with Water Art Pads make painting pretty mess free. The children wore coveralls out of habit but they weren’t really needed. The paper is nice and thick, making the finished pictures ones that you could put on the wall or stick to the fridge.

Melissa and Doug Paint with Water Art Pads Review
Melissa and Doug Paint with Water Art Pads Review

The paintbrush that comes with the set is quite a basic paint brush with plastic bristles and one with softer hairs would work better but the children didn’t seem to mind at all – and we always have a supply of paint brushes at home. The Paint with Water Art Pads are great value and would make a lovely gift or stocking filler type present for any child. They’d also be perfect to take away on holiday or for a weekend away and store so easily too. I really think that the Paint with Water Art Pads will make us much more creative in the future.

The Melissa and Doug Paint with Water Art Pads have an RRP of £4.99 and come in two different styles.

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  1. Plutonium Sox says

    May 24, 2017 at 11:02 am

    These look good, my girls love painting with water but I always find that the paper is a bit too thin and falls apart with all the water. Might have to give these a go.
    Nat.x

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  2. Karen, the next best thing to mummy says

    May 24, 2017 at 5:56 pm

    These look amazing, Donna I used to enjoy oil painting by numbers when I was a child but my pictures took so long to dry that they sometimes got a thin layer of dust over them no problem with that happening with this

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  3. Laura - Dear Bear and Beany says

    May 25, 2017 at 6:56 am

    These look fab Donna. Alice will quite often ask to paint after school, but there really isn’t the time. These would be perfect. Plus mess free for Holly is exactly what I need. X

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  4. Brick pointing in Brooklyn NY says

    June 4, 2017 at 8:50 am

    These are amazing! Me and my daughter loves painting. I think, this is the good practices of art!

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