Excelify Blog — July 2012

20% off Splash About

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20% off Splash About

Our friends over at Splash About have been creating some amazing safety swimwear stuff for ages - they are the lovely team which created the very first children’s float jacket way back in the 1980’s - before Trunki was even a twinkle! This year they’ve created this patriotic Union Jack design and we’ve got a 20% discount for Trunki friends off this and lots of other great designs. Just go to www.splashabout.com and use promo code* TRUN20. You can pack your Trunki full of fantastic and stylish UV clothing (all SPF 50+), wetsuit shorts and tops, and a whole range...

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Competition: You can be a contender in the Olympics too!

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Competition: You can be a contender in the Olympics too!

Destination Junior London 2012 Sports is the exciting fast paced board game that will take you on an adventure around the venues of London 2012! Join the fun with the London 2012 mascots, Wenlock & Mandeville, at sports events collecting medal points. Plan your way around the London 2012 venues to reach your Destinations as quickly as you can. Pick up cards to boost your turn or even unlock the shortcuts and zoom around the board on rainbows! If you're nimble you can knock other players back to the start and take the lead! Be the first to the finish...

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Go treasure hunting this summer – 50% off exclusively for Trunki fans!

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Go treasure hunting this summer – 50% off exclusively for Trunki fans!

The six weeks of summer holidays can seem like a very, very long time to keep children from saying ‘I’m bored’. So if you’re looking for something a bit different that both adults AND children will enjoy and which doesn’t cost the earth, we’ve got a suggestion: treasure hunting. www.huntfun.co.uk has over 240 treasure hunts set up across the UK, with a handful in France and Belgium too. The hunts encourage families to explore a local area, unearthing hidden historical gems they might ordinarily have walked right past.  They take about two hours to complete but if you want to...

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Winners announced! Shark & Whale PaddlePak Testing

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Winners announced! Shark & Whale PaddlePak Testing

After launching the humorous 'Little Scientist' video, we asked you readers to tell us what you would set as Test 5 for the PaddlePak experiment. Well, what a great response! We giggled our way through your creative, silly and even practical ideas for the test. Take a look for yourself here. Aside from the strength, durability, capacity and waterproof tests we have already tested for (in the video), how would you test the PaddlePak bags? Here are the THREE winners (in no particular order) with the ideas we liked the most ;o) 1. Steve Newton The Jealousy Test – Strap on...

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ZSL Animal Conservation: Leeroy the Lion SnooziHedz

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ZSL Animal Conservation: Leeroy the Lion SnooziHedz

You've all been introduced to the adorable Animal SnooziHedz, but now it's time to get to know them individually. If you saw our last post, you'd know that for every SnooziHedz sold, 50 pence will be donated to a relevant charitable cause. Well, this is how Leeroy the Lion SnooziHedz will be helping the Asian lions in ZSL London Zoo. About the Asian Lions This is the lion of the bible and Roman arenas. It used to range from Greece, across the Middle East to India, but persecution has virtually wiped it out and it is now critically endangered.  In 2011 411...

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