Gemma, Jacob and Max all love magazines. They often choose one in the supermarket after we have been shopping, and spend a quiet afternoon reading and doing puzzles. I do find that some of the magazines they choose lack a bit of educational value, and I am not a massive fan of the cheap, plastic toys tacked on the front to sway their decision. So when we were offered the chance to review a new educational magazine, I was keen to find out more.
Amazing! magazine was launched in 2014, with the sole aim to make learning fun for children. Aimed at children aged 6-11, each issue of Amazing! is focused around a fascinating theme, such as The Stone Age, Super Planets, Deadly Creatures and Victorian Britain. Inside, the magazine covers core Key Stage 1 & 2 curriculum subjects, including maths, English, history, geography and PSHE (personal, social and health education). With a bright, colourful and bold design, the pages are bursting with fantastic facts, cool puzzles, fun activities and super stories, which will keep your child entertained for hours. And the best thing is they’ll be learning lots of amazing information to help them with their schoolwork without even realising it.
We received the Awesome Oceans edition, which has been a massive hit – both Gemma and Jacob are really interested in the sea, ocean creatures and historical facts – one of their current favourite TV programmes is Horrible Histories.
The magazine has a huge range of activities, from factual information pages and ocean themed maths puzzles to shark posters, stories, languages and coding. Something for every school aged child, and offering heaps of learning opportunities – without them even realising they are learning!
This is definitely a magazine I would consider subscribing to, whereas I wouldn’t have considered this with any of the magazines the children have had previously. They will be great to keep and look back on when they need help with themed homework, as well as just being lovely to look back on for fun. Priced at £4.99, Amazing! magazine is in line with other similar items available in the shops, and you can save money with a subscription for 12 months coming it at £49. Of course, the bonus of this is that it will be delivered to your door, so you don’t even have to brave the supermarket!
This is a children’s magazine that I am not familiar with, when my own children were young and when I was working as a registered child minder I could have named all publications targeted towards children but sadly I am out of touch now it looks great though so may buy it for my granddaughters
I’ve not heard of this one before, looks like something my 7 year old would enjoy. #triedtested
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I love the idea of this! My daughter loves magazines but they don’t seem to last for long and it often seem a bit of a waste (my son is really in them for the horrible toys!) This looks like it would be worth the price! #TriedTested
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We had Amazing! Here for 12 months and the boys enjoyed it, though it didn’t keep their attention for very long. It was great to keep revisiting though and actually they can be kept and read again which I thought was a great feature #triedtested
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I haven’t heard of this magazine before, sounds quite good. #triedtested
This sounds like fun! I can’t wait until my daughter is at an age where she can enjoy magazines.
We have a collection here, they have some great activities #TriedTested
This really does look “Amazing”. My six year old is starting to grow out of the magazines he’s been reading for years, might try him with this. Thanks you 🙂
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Like others, I’m not familiar with this magazine. Although it seems fun and interesting to try as my boys loved magazine too. I will have a look at this in the shop. #triedtested
I think this would be really good for my son who is 6. They are actually doing about the oceans at school at the moment.
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We reviewed this magazine when if very first came out and I thought it was really fab and full of great facts #TriedTested
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This looks great – my daughter loves magazines but at 2 she’s more obsessed by the stickers!! #TriedTested
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This looks like just the perfect thing for my son, he hates reading books but needs to read more and love learning new facts. I will have to try and find a copy and see how he gets on. #TriedTested
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Its funny how magazines seem to be more appealing to kids than books even when they contain the same subject matter. My kids used to love having a magazine as a treat and I’m sure this would have been their type of thing but they would be too old for it now. #triedtested
That looks like really good fun. I used to have these type of magazines when I was a child and I really enjoyed them. #triedtested
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My kids love magazines and now that Matthew reads by himself we need more reading material! I’ll show him this one… #triedtested
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That looks great, will definitely check it out when Finn is older. He loves magazines, although at the moment he’s only interested in the cbeebies ones! #TriedTested
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Oh wow this magazine looks great! My son loves magazines and facts so this would be perfect. Might get him a wee subscription for his birthday or something as he’d get a lot out of this 🙂
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These actually look really good. I’ve given up buying kid’s magazine because my children like the idea of them, but don’t ever do any of the activities unless I make them. These look great and right up my son’s street. #TriedTested
My two older ones love magazines too – I shudder to think how much I spend on them! #TriedTested
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