I don’t know about you, but there are 2 areas in the
supermarket that fill me with dread, the ride-on machines our little darlings
so love to fill with 50p’s for a 2 minute ‘ride’ and the magazine aisle!
T discovered magazines or rather I should say he discovered
the plastic tat gifts that are usually gracing the front cover and he’s
never looked back, every shopping trip is highly planned to get in and avoid the magazine aisle at all costs! I even can’t escape
in Aldi as they have now started selling them, as soon as you walk through the
door, yes cheers for that!
I try to stick to 1 magazine per month and so far this is
working. So when I was contacted and
asked if I’d like to review a new magazine for Cbeebies as you can imagine, I
was pretty eager. As a stroke of luck T’s
first magazine was received on the morning we were going away so he was over
the moon, not only did he receive ‘post’ but he actually got a magazine to
relieve his boredom on the journey, we were both thrilled.
The magazine in question is ‘The Furchester Hotel’ magazine,
The Furchester Hotel is a Sesame Street production for the BBC and has the familiar
characters of Elmo & Cookie Monster as well as some new characters who own
and run the hotel. The show centres on a
problem arising and all the hotel staff working together to resolve it. I must admit I really do like the premise and
have no qualms in T watching or ‘reading’ the magazine.
T liked it from the front page and couldn’t wait for us to
return from our trip so he could use this month’s free gift of a ‘make your own
portrait’s’ set.
The magazine is highly coloured and contains a couple of
story pages, lots of colouring and activities and to T’s delight stickers! It managed to keep him happy for a good hour
of our travelling time, happily sticking, colouring and making up stories from
the pages he can’t yet read. As a parent
I particularly like that there are little notes for grown-ups’ on the pages
explaining how you can extend learning or giving further information about what
the activities are teaching. It also
supports the Early Years Curriculum.
Activities include puzzles, colouring, using stickers in
learning and cutting, T is particularly keen on making the Cookie Monster mask!
The Make your own portraits set is really good, containing
lots of craft items for you to either copy the ones shown in the magazine (like
we did) or you can make your own.
Here’s a little peak at next month’s free gifts in case the
free gifts entice you!!!!
The Furchester Hotel magazine launches TODAY! It is aimed at 3-6
year olds with the core age being 4 and is priced at £2.75 which I think is a
really good price and I’d happily pay that once a month.
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