Parents 'Not Playing With Their Children Enough' - Hobbies offer a Solution

Recent News reports have suggested that most parents of young children worry that they do not spend enough time playing with them, according to a survey.
More than 6 out of 10 parents say they play with their children only occasionally, and 1 in 6 fathers say they do not know how to.
The survey of 1,600 parents of children under the age of ten was conducted for toy company Playmobil.

It found that more than 9 out of 10 parents buy electronic toys for their children, but a third of mothers admitted to being baffled by children's high-tech gadgets and games.

Hobbies offer the perfect solution for parents who are looking to spend quality fun & educational time with their children.

The latest Hobbies 2014 Handbook offers Great Value Model Trains, Cars and Planes to build and play with, as well as Dolls Houses to furnish and decorate.

Take the children to the local Boating Pond to sail a traditional wooden yacht

or in the back garden with a Ready-to-run Remote Control Tank with Battle Effects and which can fire BB Pellets.

or to the park to fly a Balsa rubber-powered model plane that you've constructed yourselves. Watch these incredible planes soar into the sky.

Buy the NEW Hobbies 2015 Handbook

The latest edition of the Hobbies Handbook has over 180 pages of products to inspire and challenge you.

We now stock an extensive range of plastic model kits of aircraft, ships, transport & military models.

Tools are a speciality, and Hobbies stock an extensive range of Fretsaws, Bandsaws, Sanders. Routers, Lathes and Dremel Multi-tools, Airbrushing Tools and much more.

We also have a huge selection of specialist books from Whittling and Scroll sawing to Dolls Houses and Model Ship building.

Our Period Ship Kits are always massively popular and include a Mississippi Paddle Steamer, the magnificent HMS Victory, Golden Hinde and our best selling HMS Fly.

Then there are Pond Yachts, Radio Controlled boats, Balsa Rubber-Powered Planes & Gliders, and Remote control helicopters



Brand New for the 2014 catalogue is the high quality OcCre Model Kits. These include a London bus, London tram, Stephensons Rocket, San Francisco cable car as well as the Lisbon tram, Berlin Tram, Adler Steam Train and Pacific 231 locomotive train.

In the Craft Kits section we show Jigsaw puzzles, Sequin Art, Painting by Numbers, Matchbuilder kits, 3D Fun Cubic Puzzles.


Hobbies are world famous for our Model Plans enabling you to build your own Dolls House, childrens toys, garden furniture, rocking horse, jeeps, cars, trucks, trains and hundreds more great ideas.

Our Dolls House section is second to none, and combined with the Streets Ahead catalogue, we offer everything you will require for building and furnishing an amazing dolls house.

In the Steam section we offer the range of Mamod working steam models, including steam rollers, engines and even a fire engine.




All for only £3.25 including postage from Tel: 01508 549330 or from the website.

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