Fire Station Activity Book and Play Set Review

As part of Parragon Books, Book Buddy Scheme we were sent this fire station ativity book and play set to review. It’s actually quite good timing as earlier this week I was teaching our girls, who are almost four years old, how to phone 999 should they ever need to!

This cute little set allows children to build their very own fire station and engine, plus there’s also a fun activity book included.

My girls are a little too young to build the fire engine and station, but they enjoyed helping to pop the pieces out of the cardboard and handing them to me to put together.

There are quite a few pieces and I would recommend having some sellotape to hand to help hold some of the pieces of the fire engine in place. The instructions were helpful and easy to follow, even though I did get a bit frustrated when trying to put the fire engine together as it was quite fiddly! It took me around 15-20 minutes!

The cardboard used is durable as it’s quite thick so I imagine as long as children don’t put the pieces in their mouths, then it’d last a while. It’s all brightly coloured and the pictures are fairly large so the various pieces included are easily recognisable.

I like that the doors on the fire station can be opened, but I am a little disappointed that they’re not tall or wide enough for the fire engine to go through. Something that could be improved in my opinion.

There are firemen and women included, cones and fences, as well as a cat stuck up a tree and a dog, along with some fire and fire extinguisher pieces too.

R and M enjoyed playing with this set and were happy acting out the rescue of the cat and various other scenarios they’d made up.

The activity book that comes with this is really good. It’s brightly coloured and the writing is easy to read.

There are quite a few different activities such as counting, colouring and spotting various items in pictures.

Children can also trace over the dogs outline and find the matching dog.

Overall, this is a lovely play set for young children.

For the purpose of this review we were sent one Fire Station Activity Book and Play Set. All views and opinions are 100% my own.