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The number of jigsaw pieces suitable for a particular age varies with experience and the jigsaw picture. Here is a rough guide:
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| 2 - 3 years |
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under 20
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| 3 - 4 years |
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20 - 50
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| 4 - 5 years |
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49 - 60
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| 5 - 6 years |
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60 - 100
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| 6 - 7 years |
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100
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| 7 - 8 years |
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100 - 200
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| 8 - 9 years |
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200 - 300
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| 10 years + |
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300 - 500
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Kites For Kids
Single line kites are easy to fly and reliable. We keep a wide range of designs including a ladybird and a butterfly. We also stock a quality Tasmanian kite, pocket kites and even one on a keyring!
Sports Kites
Exhiliration, fun and excitement! Sports kites have two strings, so you control the flight. They are a buzz to fly for ages 8 to adult.
We stock a range of good value imported kites and extremely high quality Tasmanian kites. The Tasmanian kites are the best in the country with extra reinforcing, carbon fibre rods, tough nylon and superb design.
Sparky: Extremely stable and easy to recover from the most dire dives! Medium speed. Wind range 8-40kph
Nipper: Great preformer. Medium speed, smooth arcing turns but stable and easy to recover. Speed range 6-40kph
Nipper Extreme: An extremely fast precise turning stunt kite. Kevlar nose and spring loaded tail handle high speed crashes. Speed range 6kph and up!
Jester: The ultimate adult stunt kite. Awesome agility yet stable. The definitive trickster. Wind range 5-40kph.
Wind Socks
Wind socks indicate wind direction and bring colour and movement to the garden. The trout attracts positive energy and good Feng Shui to your home. Socrates keeps an imported and higher quality Tasmanian range.
For years, people believed that newborn babies could hardly see and that when they did start looking around it was simple shapes and primary colours they preferred.
But times have changed. It has been found that babies in-utero have even responded to light shone on the mother's stomach and, throughout the world, experts and parents agree that babies can see from the moment they're born.
From the time its eyes open the vision cells in a baby's brain are being stimulated to remember everything it looks at.
Studies show that it is not the primary colours but black and white geometric patterns which attract their attention time and time again. From a day old, baby's eyes are drawn to black and white stripes, circles, triangles, contrasts and repeat patterns.
Socrates' black and white baby mobile allows the baby visual stimulation that is so important for their development.
As the baby grows their attention will turn to primary colours.
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What do all the numbers and specifications mean?
The most obvious specification you encounter when choosing a binocular will be numbers like 7x50, 8x40, 10 x 50 etc.
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The first digit, eg the 7 of a specification 7x50, is the magnification or power of the binocular. A binocular with a power of 7 will magnify 7 times.
The 50 in the same specification is the diameter of the front (objective) lens. The larger the lens, more light enters the binocular - and the more light the sharper the image.
Angle or Field of View: indicates how much you see of whatever you're looking at. A Wide Angle binocular will let you see a greater area than a standard binocular.
Exit Pupil: is the disc of light you can see in the eyepieces when you hold the binocular at an arms length. The size of these discs in millimetres is an indication of the brightness of the binocular.
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