It contains nine magnetic building blocks made from 100% recycled plastic; three cubes, three triangle and three quarter-circle pieces. This is themed the Animals set because it comes with a straight-forward pictorial instruction booklet with a guide to make ten simple animal shapes including kitten, fish, llama and crab. For the very young children who may be unable to follow the instructions, older siblings or parents could easily make them and introduce fun games to teach babies the animal names.

More likely than not though, the children will probably begin to build their own creations and creatures without taking the slightest glimpse at the instructions (hence the attempt at a gremlin and the rocket my young helper fashioned).

This is an educational set as well as a toy and linking the blocks together will help children with their fine motor skills.

The blocks are brightly coloured and appealing but chunky enough to prevent little hands from getting them fully into their owner’s mouths.

Even with the limited number of blocks in the set, there are many shapes that imaginative children can build and play with.

The strength of the magnets is perfectly judged because they are sufficiently powerful to keep the construction intact while building or moving but they are not too strong that a toddler would struggle to separate them. Another plus is that they won’t quickly snap together and trap their fingers in either. They do however make a very satisfying clicking sound when the magnets align that also makes these perfect fidget material.

Read our reviews of Geomag sets for older children: Geomag Supercolor Panels and Geomag Magnetic Construction.

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This set is ideal for toddlers and young children to play house and copy their parents. The variation within the set includes everything a child could possibly want to allow them to imitate baking, cooking, tea parties and meal times. There is a set of plates, bowls, cups, saucers and cutlery for a four place setting as well as pots, pans, pastry cutters and more. It even comes with its own washing up rack!

All 59 pieces are made from strong plastic in primary colours that are sized well for little hands. The Nordic Ecolabel is shown on the box, which certifies that the product is free from phthalates, meets strict environmental requirements and that all relevant health considerations have been made.

At 9-years-old, my son is much older than the target range for the set but he was genuinely excited by the vast array of different utensils. He was keen to test that the toys could be used like real cooking implements and got to work straight away.

The knives, although understandably blunt as befits a child’s toy, are still strong enough to cut through mini-cucumbers and butter a bread bun. The teapot and cups hold liquid without any leaks and in fact, the teapot pours so well the table stayed dry.

The mixing bowl and the whisk were used to make cupcakes and the toys survived a cleaning in the dishwasher.

There is so much packed into this little box you will do well to get it all back in again once you are full after your imaginary (or in my case real) afternoon tea.

The Dantoy kitchen set is available from Amazon.

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