Got any young people in your life in need of a Christmas present? Enter our competition and you could win a copy of Alex Milway's latest book: Pigsticks & Harold and the Tuptown Thief! We've got four copies of Pigsticks & Harold and the Tuptown Thief to give away. Enter the competition … [Read more...]
Top six tips for making children’s clothes
Charlotte Denn is the founder of children's clothing store, What Mother Made. She designs, hand-makes and sells children's clothes from her studio in east London's trendy Dalston. We asked her to give us her top tips for sewing your own children's clothes 1. Hand Sew! hand sewing is a great … [Read more...]
The best Halloween outfits for babies and kids
I don't have a baby, but if I did I'd definitely dress she or he up in one of these outfits from FancyDress.com. In fact, I've got a godson who I'm tempted to dress up in one of these not-remotely-scary outfits. The first six are available from FancyDress.com. They're not the only outfit I'm … [Read more...]
My First Digital Music Player from BabyZoo
If you're going to design a music player for very young children, the least you can do is make it look like a farmyard with a cow attached. That's certainly the attitude the designers over at BabyZoo have taken, and we heartily approve here at Dork Adore. The BabyZoo Coco Music player (or … [Read more...]
Superhero outfits for you and your little ones
If you're not content with dressing your children up in superhero t-shirts and babygrows, you can now take the geek thing a whole step further by dressing yourself up in a matching top. [Related: Marvel Super-Hoodies] People will think it's cute and not at all weird. Fabric Flavours, makers … [Read more...]
Wishbone Balance Bike “Apple-A-Day” special edition
The great thing about Wishbone balance bikes is that they start out life as Wishbone three-wheeler trikes (no balance required), convert into small balance bikes with just two wheels for bigger toddlers before growing into a larger balance bicycle for your older pre-schooler. Very clever design … [Read more...]
Does your toddler need an iPad?
You might have cooed over desperately cute pictures of little babies interacting with iPads, but does this mean that no nursery is complete without a few Apple accessories? Is computer play a necessary part of children’s play in 2012 – even very tiny children? These days, a toddler holding an … [Read more...]
Retro games clothes for kids
Ok, so the 80's bought us a lot of bad things. Bubble perms, shellsuits and Banarama to name a few. One thing they did get right, though, is Pac-Man. Incredibly addictive, I used to play this game for hours when I was a kid, along with Chuckie Egg (anyone remember that?) So, I squealed a … [Read more...]