Today you're a zombie, tomorrow you're covered in horrible burns... & no-one wants to ask about the bullet wound to your shoulder! This fantastic kit shows you just how easy it is to create convincingly gruesome special effects using the special wax, face paint, gel blood & tools provided. Perfect for raising your Hallowe'en costume to the next level
- both kids & adults will love the stomach-churning results.
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Create attractive snowy pictures on your windows using this can of effective fake snow & the selection of five stencils including festive trees, a snow-laden home, Santa Claus & a Merry Christmas motto. Optionally you could use the Snow Spray freestyle to add a frosted edging to each pane. Once the New Year arrives, the snow can be wiped off with a dry cloth. ...

Kick the ' Blitz spirit' to the kerb & revel in a glorious, mean-spirited grump! This book is filled with philosophical"es, quips & observations from famous minds of the recent & ancient past, selected with a view to their succinctness & brevity so a few can be plucked from the pages at times of need. Sod Calm & Get Angry delights in topics rich for grumbling including politics, work & civilisation, with wisdom from wordy greats such as Abraham Lincoln, Bertrand Russell & Churchill. Every bookshelf needs a copy, for there will always be times when you'll find a satisfying message to add a little grist to the mill of your current gripe. ...

The ingenious Airship is a huge eight metre long sleeve made from a thin black plastic film (like the stuff bin liners are made of) & is simply filled with air when you are ready to fly. To describe the Airship as solar powered is technically true although perhaps a bit misleading. There are no solar panels but it presumably works by absorbing heat from the sun through the black skin, heating the air inside which makes the Airship rise. It is incredible to have something so big hovering up to 50 metres above you, & even possibly slightly unnerving, but as it weighs next to nothing it is completely harmless. Easily repairable if damaged, & re-useable. Excellent entertainment value. Does not require Helium! ...

Often referred to as a 'solar windmill', this fascinating scientific curiosity was invented by the English chemist Sir William Crookes in 1873. When exposed to 'radiant light' such as sunlight or an incandescent light bulb the paddles inside will spin; the hotter the light, the faster they go! This all happens due to pressure imbalances created within the perfect vacuum of the glass bulb. Even if the science is a bit beyond you, it is a truly beguiling marvel to sit on a sunny windowsill & observe. ...

A cute little soldier egg cup to hold a boiled egg
- & where he would normally hold a rifle, he is holding a spoon ready for use.
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A very compelling game for one
- the shiny black marbles are moved & removed from the board by jumping over one another, with
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