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Christmas Gift Guide: Family edition
This segment of our Christmas gift guide is for the parents, aunts, uncles and everyone in between who are in a rush to get their family members a gift.
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In this edition of our Christmas gift guide, we couldn’t have thought of a better time to have gift recommendations for your close family members, kids or nieces and nephews.
We have suggested fantastic gifts from wearable items to boozy gifts under R500.
This segment is for the parents, aunts, uncles and everyone in between who are in a rush to get their family members a gift.
Christmas gift guide: Family edition
The Nerf Elite 2.0 Motoblitz
This toy is for everyone in the family to have some fun, not just the kids, it’s time to get your inner child out.
Toy guns that spill out water or darts may create images of chaos for some parents. The Nerf Elite features two ways to fire darts, giving you flexibility and tactical advantage in Nerf games.
You can unleash six darts at once with air blitz blasting powered by air-pressurised pump-action.
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Get everyone involved, take on opponents with motorized blasting to fast-fire 10 darts in a row in rapid succession.
It is also a 2-in-1 blaster that includes 22 Official Nerf Elite darts to fill both blaster modes and it does operate with batteries.
Monopoly Travel World Tour
Monopoly brings much nostalgia for many generations particularly for family get-togethers and during the festive season.
The board game has a new edition that has gamers discovering and visiting travel destinations.
The aim is for players to buy destinations, complete travel goals, and stamp the dry-erase gameboard with their token stamper to win.
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This game will also inspire some travel destinations you would love to go to one day. It’s a fantastic game and plays up to eight.
Other toys you should look into include the Baby Alive Princess Ellie Grows Up talking doll, which grows little by little with kids’ care and responds with 75 plus sounds and phrases.
Including a creative and colourful Play-Doh Cafe Playset. This pretend-play cafe set allows children to imagine creative Play-Doh drinks their way.
These toys are from Hasbro products and are available from leading retailers such as Toys R Us, ToyZone, Toy Kingdom, Hamleys, Makro, Importatoy and Takealot.com
Lazy Makoti’s range
We are certainly cooking up a storm over Christmas and Woolworths has created a range with beloved cooking personality, Mogau Seshoene popularly known as Lazy Makoti.
For a limited edition the Lazy Makoti Homeware range has harnessed Lazy Makoti’s brand well known for her traditional recipes but with a twist.
However, moving the fuss away from cooking, and making it simple and delicious.
The homeware is eight collections, they also come with food kits such as easy-to-make ginger scones to ujeque or dombolo (steamed bread).
“With this collection, I once again open up my heart to let my love for food flow to your kitchen. I hope all the ladies who will be transitioning to becoming umakoti this festive will also feel the love through the range,” she said.
The Lazy Makoti range is available in Woolworths stores nationwide.
