Kiddicare is a large independent retailer of baby and nursery equipment and nursery furniture and claim to keep everything in stock ready to send out to you. You can buy Avent sterilisers and feeding bottles, Grobags, buggies and travel cots, high chairs, rockers and baby swings plus lots for the home including playpens, stair gates, cots, changing units and nursery furniture. Delivery is free to most of the UK and takes about four working days.

The Kids Window is a real children's department store, offering children's clothing brands from designers such as Catfish, Inside Out, Marie Chantal and Budishh, a full range of baby equipment, activity toys such as trampolines, swings and slides and lots of toys and games.

You can search on this website by age, gender, season and brand. or click through to each section of the range.

If you’ve ever visited this world famous Regent Street toy emporium (I hate the word but it’s the only way to describe this store) you’ll know that there’s a huge range of gadgets, games, soft toys, puzzles, stocking fillers and every toy you can think of at all price levels and for all ages. In fact it’s a disastrous place to take more than one child at a time as there’s so much to see.

Being able to buy everything online makes life so much easier - let your kids at this website at your peril though.....you have been warned.

Otherland Toys offers a wide selection of toys, gadgets, games, collectibles and is great for gifts. I suggest when you’re looking round that you click on ‘only show items in stock’ and there’s so much to choose from anyway and at least you’ll not be looking at what they don’t have. There are remote control cars at all levels, excellent gadgets, Meccano Magic and lots of outdoor ideas. Make sure you have your cup of coffee with you when you start, you’ll need it.

Just about every boy has at some time made an Airfix model (or quite usually part made and left but never mind, they’ll be busy for hours and hours). The joy of opening all those tiny tins of paint and spending lots of time making a mess and gluing bits together seems irresistible, particularly during holiday rainy days. Well here it all is online, on a very simple site, where you can order all the kits with a few clicks from a supercharged 1930 Bentley to the Tiger Moth. There are lots of models to choose from with full details for each and every one. They’ll ship Worldwide.

Whether you're new to the world of dolls' houses or a dedicated miniaturist, the Dolls House Emporium should fill you with inspiration. The site features fully decorated dolls' houses and thousands of miniatures in colour co-ordinated room sets plus carpets and flooring, lighting and wallpapers. You can also see a selection of 1:12 scale dolls' houses shown open and fully furnished to give you ideas.

Personally I’ve never had the patience to tackle mega jigsaw puzzles but I know that there are those who do, and who keep them out year round for rainy day entertainment. This site is aimed at puzzle enthusiasts of all ages as it caters for everyone with 60 piece puzzles for children and going to right up to the (horrendous to me) 13,000 piece puzzle by Clementoni – I wouldn’t know where to start, would you?

Lego kits seem to have become more and more complicated and you practically need an engineering degree to build some of them (well I never was very good at that sort of thing). Let your son on this website if you dare. Everything is brilliantly shown, including Star Wars, Lego Sports, building sets, Robotics and the very latest editions. You can take the Club tour, order the magazine or click on to the Games Page.

Model Hobbies are the perfect place for the model addict. They have an extremely well laid out website and offer models by over fifty different manufacturers, plus all the paints, tools and brushes you could possibly need. There are miniature soldiers here as well. They cleverly highlight the newest kits to hit the market so that you keep coming back for more and you can buy gift vouchers too.

This is one of those websites that obviously started off doing one thing and then branched out, because you can not only find bears here; but labradors, elephants, rabbits, cats and dalmations, plus lots of other dogs. So if you know someone who collects soft toys or needs a feel-good gift you should take a look here. Oh yes, and you can buy Lovvie Bears, Thank you Bears and Anniversary Bears here as well.

Toys by Mail Order specialises in toys, gifts, games, nursery items and jigsaw puzzles for children of all ages. You can search the range of wooden toys and soft toys for baby and toddler gifts, the many items stocked for older boys and girls plus traditional family games. They offer fast delivery, a gift wrapping service and personalised messages for special occasions. As well as all this you’ll find Manhattan bootees, puppets, dolls, puzzles and games for when they're a little older.