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Zoggs Hungry Seals water game. RRP £15.00
Submergibles dive game. RRP £12.00
Toypedo water rocket. RRP £11.23
Hydro Flyer airplane-themed water toy. RRP £9.50
A collection of fun swimming toys to keep your little ones amused in the swimming pool, help to build confidence and enhance different water skills.
Available from: http://www.prescription-swimming-goggles.co.uk/
RRP: from £9.50
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Toypedo
A great toy for boys! It basically looks like a rocket / torpedo and my boys (aged 3 and 5) who love anything military thinks this is brilliant.
In the pool you can use this in a number of ways. Drop it in the water and it sinks to the bottom, use it to play catch with or throw it underwater and watch it glide like a real torpedo. It glides beautifully and goes a long way to great squeals of delight. As a parent of two who can’t yet swim I am slightly anxious when it glides off into the distance. I’ve now trained them to glide in the shallow sections and feel much happier!
It is amazing for water confidence as they are constantly diving underwater to retrieve it and within minutes they were happy to have water in their eyes, put their face in the water, duck down to collect it. I’ve tried on many, many occasions to get them to do this and never managed what the toypedo has achieved!
Great value for money as it is a toy that will grow with the boys.
Hydro Flyer airplane
The Hydro Flyer is another great toy for boys both big and small. Basically it is an underwater stunt plane. Simply wind up the plane propeller (which twist an elastic band) and release. It then glides, dives and loops (depending on where you’ve set the tail fin) in the water. The boys play with this at the pool, in the bath and round the house. It makes splashing around in the pool fun and has increased our time in the pool.
Previously we would only last about twenty minutes but now armed with two interactive toys we happily spend an hour.
Excellent service and speedy delivery.
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Submergibles:
There is nothing my daughters like more than going swimming but it can get a bit boring just swimming up and down the pool so they were very excited when I told them we had some fun swimming games to take with us.
The first name that pops into my head when I think about swimming accessories is Zoggs, we have many floats and pairs of goggles made by them and they also do a wide range of swimming toys. One of the toys we have are called Submergibles. They are round in shape and look a bit like spaceships! They come in a pack of 2 and are brightly coloured (ours are yellow and green) which make them bright and eye catching to see when they are in the water. They have brightly coloured rubber nobbles around them, which at first I wasn’t sure of their purpose but I soon realised that they are very handy for gripping when they are wet.
So, how do they work? Well I thought they were just little floating balls when I first saw them but in fact there is more to them than meets the eye! You can unscrew them in the middle to determine whether they float or sink and if you only unscrew them a bit they are sort of suspended in the water – brilliant! There are no set rules how to play the game. I set them up (i.e. determine whether they are going to float or sink) then throw them in the water and the girls have to retrieve them. Because of their bright colours they are very easy to see and it is a really easy but fun game for all ages. They are recommended for ages 5 years and above but I think children a couple of years younger could happily play this game. I started off at the swimming pool with just my 2 girls playing but ended up with about 8 other children – they were very popular!
These swimming toys are absolutely brilliant for encouraging water confidence. You can unscrew them a little bit more each time to allow them to not completely sink to the bottom but sink enough to encourage your child to put their head under the water to retrieve them. I couldn’t believe how much more confident Maddison was by the end of the hour swimming session, her ultimate challenge was to fetch a submergible off the bottom and she did, she was very proud of herself! I cannot recommend these highly enough, we have been trying to build Maddison’s confidence up in the water for a long time and these achieved in one hour what we have been trying to do for over a year!
A first class water toy and one which will be accompanying us to the swimming pool for many years to come.
Hungry Seals Game:
A great way to encourage water confidence in children is to play games in the swimming pool, it instantly puts my children at ease and helps them to forget their nerves. We have been familiar with Zoggs water toys previously but had never come across the Hungry Seals game. The game consists of 2 hungry seals (which are rubbery plastic plunger type devices which you hold in your hand!) and 4 pieces of weighted ‘food’ (which are little yellow discs). The discs are numbered 1-4.
There are no hard and fast rules on how to play this game but the idea is that you drop the discs onto the floor of the swimming pool and the players retrieve them using the hungry seals. If you press the end of the seal over the disc it fits snuggly into the seals mouth. The discs are then removed by pressing the sides of the seals mouth. Both of my girls found it quite hard to remove the discs but I think this will probably get easier as they are used more though.
We played the game in 2 ways. Firstly I put the discs number side down on the floor of the pool and they collected 2 discs each, the person with the highest score was then the winner. This was Maddison’s favourite game to play, because her number recognition is not that great and it was quite hard for her to see the numbers under water. We also played where the numbers where facing up and I would shout out a number and they would take it in turns to swim to the bottom and retrieve the correct number. This really helped Maddison with her numbers and improved the amount of time she was able to stay under water. There are endless ways to play this game and although recommended for children aged 3 years and over my 9 year old absolutely loved it. It is a really versatile game which is excellent value for money and I think it will provide years of water fun.
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