Whirligig’s Tunbridge Wells Toyshop

Full of wonderful creative toys to discover and play with.

Located in the heart of Tunbridge as part of the iconic Opera House building. With a wide variety of toys for all ages, our Tunbridge Wells toyshop always has something new to discover.

What will you discover in the Tunbridge Wells Toyshop?

Our latest fascination…

As those of us who read the Moomin books will know, the first butterfly of the summer is incredibly important. With this fascinating kit, the children’s first butterfly this year can be one they raised themselves!

This kit contains a habitat, food, and a coupon. Once the coupon is mailed off, they will receive five caterpillars from the breeder! The caterpillars will live happily in their specially-designed home and grow bigger and stronger day by day. Once they’ve grown enough, they will pupate and eventually emerge as stunning Painted Lady butterflies! You can then take the habitat outside and release them in a beautiful cascade to live their lives in the wild!

If you’ve visited our shop lately, you may have met our beloved stick insects – these butterflies are from the same company, and are every bit as fascinating. Pop by to visit our growing minibeast collection!

Great insects for Springtime

Little ones will be right at home

New construction kits

Fantastic arts and craft presents

Manager’s Special

This May, we are offering our old favourites from Metal Earth at buy one, get one half price! Just use the secret code word “METAL” at the Whirligig Tunbridge Wells counter, but be quick – the offer lasts only as long as our stocks do!

Our latest competition…

We’re huge fans of the Aquarellum ink painting kits – wax resist templates with a palette and selection of inks to mix an infinite variety of colours from neon to pastels! The wax on the paper keeps your ink within the lines, but the mixing allows you to choose how to fill them – the perfect mix of structured activity and creative freedom.

And you can win one!

Question – Which ink colours do you mix to make green?

Please email tunbridgewells@whirligigtoys.co.uk with your answer and we will get back to you!

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You will also receive a £5 welcome voucher to use online when you place your first order of over £20.00

Whirligig is the home of Djeco in Tunbridge Wells.

This fantastic range from Paris includes wonderful arts and crafts kits, games and puzzles and a superb range of toys for the very young. We love the quality of the pieces, the care they have taken over every instruction and the results you get from completing the projects they present.

The shop is full of samples that we have made up to show you – we can’t stop playing with them!

If you love Djeco, Whirligig is a great place to see the whole range.

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