It's nearly Easter!

Easter is right around the corner so we’ve rounded up the very best Sylvanian Families gifts you can give! Why don’t you take a look? 

The Chocolate Rabbit Family just love Easter and can’t wait to go on an egg hunt around Sylvanian Village! Buy them HERE for £16.99.

The Cottontail Rabbit Family are the newest addition to Sylvanian Village and boy, oh boy are they hopping with excitement for Easter! Buy them HERE for £16.99. 

The Cosy Cottage Starter Home is the perfect gift to give somebody who is starting their Sylvanian Families collection! It comes complete with Freya Chocolate, the Chocolate Rabbit Girl, as well as some bits and bobs to make Freya as snug as a bunny in a burrow! Buy them HERE for £19.99.

The new Classic Furniture Set is the perfect addition to make your Cosy Cottage extra snuggly! It even comes complete with Teri Chocolate, the Chocolate Rabbit Mother and a fridge full of delicious food. Buy your own HERE for £19.99.

It's Bake Off time!

Are you ready to cook up a storm? We’ve just launched a range of Bakery-themed products in February 2016 - get ready for your Sylvanians to have a bake off!

Bring the smell of baking bread and charm of veggie pizza and hot dogs to your Sylvanian Village with these cute, mouth-watering sets! The full range of products are available to buy now.

The Brick Oven Bakery, which is reminiscent of the iconic 1987 Sylvanian Families Bakery, will appeal to many nostalgic 30-something-year-old fans who will appreciate the fine detail of the product, which comes with 29 pieces of bread including croissants and pastries. This classic ‘renovated’ product also includes Abigail Bramble, the Hedgehog Mother, in her traditional pizzeria-style uniform.

Accompanying this set is the new Pizza Delivery Set which comes complete with a nifty delivery bike, over 25 pieces and Mortimer Bramble the Hedgehog Father.

The fun doesn't just stop there either! Cedric Walnut, has a new set of wheels - The Hot Dog van. This set includes the van, the cutest little uniform you ever did see, and various bits and bobs to make the tastiest hot-dog in Sylvanian Village!

Finally within this range we also have the new Doughnut Store for those Sylvanians with a sweet tooth. It comes complete with over 30 pieces and Margaret Petite the Bear Mother.

Stay tuned because in March there will be new and exciting Seaside products including a Seaside Ice Cream Shop (yum!), Secret Island Playhouse, where your sylvanians can have all manner of adventures and a Seaside Merry-Go-Round where they can twirl to their heart's content.

We’re ‘twinning’ a village with Sylvania, and you get the chance to pick. Just vote for your favourite village from our shortlist, which was put together featuring idyllic villages nominated by you!

What will the village win?
   • The parish council will be presented with a sign reading “Twinned with Sylvania”

   • The local primary school in the winning village will win 30 Sylvanian Families products (enough houses and figures to make an entire Sylvanian Village!)

   • The local primary school children will be offered a year’s free membership to the Sylvanian Families Premium Fan Club (usual membership fee is £9.99p.a.)

   • An additional £500 worth of toys will be donated to the school to sell at their village fete

Shortlist

Could your village be ‘twinned’ with Sylvania?

Brimscombe, Gloucestershire
Local Primary School: Brimscombe CE Primary School, Brimscombe

Staithes, Yorkshire
Local Primary School: Seton Community, Staithes

Langton Matravers, Dorset
Local Primary School: St George’s CE VA Primary School , Langton Matravers

Yatton, Bristol
Local Primary School: Yatton Federated Schools, Yatton

Carleton in Craven, Yorkshire
Local Primary School: Carleton Endowed CE Primary School

Swanage, Dorset
Local Primary School: Swanage Primary School, Swanage

Old Basing, Hampshire
Local Primary School: Old Basing Infant School, Old Basing

Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria
Local Primary School: St Mary’s CE Primary School, Kirkby Lonsdale

Coggeshall, Essex
Local Primary School: St Peter’s CW Primary School, Coggeshall

Masham, North Yorkshire
Local Primary School: Masham CE Primary School, Masham

Shepperton, Surrey
Local Primary School: Saxon Primary School, Shepperton

Cottingham, Yorkshire
Local Primary School: Hallgate Primary School, Cottingham

Tatsfield, Surrey
Local Primary School: Tatsfield Primary School, Tatsfield

Overton, Hampshire
Local Primary School: Overton CE Primary School, Overton

Kintbury, Berkshire
Local Primary School: Kintbury CE Primary School, Kintbury

To vote, just go onto our Facebook page and select your favourite village from the list.

We can’t wait to find out where our home away from home is and come and visit!


T&Cs- Official rules for "Twinned with Sylvania":

Twinned Village Rules and Conditions of Entry

1. No more than one vote per person.

2. To enter, you must vote for your favourite Sylvanian Village from the shortlist. You can only vote through the official UK Sylvanian Families Facebook page.

3. The promoter is EPOCH making toys Limited.

4. Employees (and their families or agents) of the promoter are not eligible to enter.

5. The entrant must use the relevant Woobox entry page which is located on the Sylvanian Families Facebook.

6. Any entry that is illegible, lost or misplaced, incomplete or fraudulent, or which otherwise does not comply with these rules, will be disqualified at the sole discretion of EPOCH making toys Limited.

7. No prize will be given to voters or the person who nominated the village. And entrants can only vote for villages which made the shortlist.

8. The vote will be open until August 1st 2015.

9. The prize for this competition for the winning village will be:
- A mascot visit from Sylvanian Families to the local primary school of the village. The date of the mascot visit will need to be agreed by the winning school in advance and is subject to availability. The primary school must consent to the mascot visit or the visit is void, and EPOCH making toys reserves the right to choose the date of this visit.


- 30 Sylvanian Families toys will be given to the primary school of the village. This prize is subject to availability and EPOCH making toys reserve the right to substitute with similar products if unavailable for any reason.

The Sylvanian Village prize consists of
Beechwood Hall (RRP £59.99)
Maple Manor with Carport (RRP £74.99)
Cedar Terrace (RRP £44.99)
Cosy Cottage Starter Home (RRP £24.99)
Chocolate Rabbit Family (RRP £16.99)
Walnut Squirrel Family (RRP £16.99)
Silk Cat Family (RRP £16.99)
Hedgehog Family (RRP £16.99)
Chocolate Rabbit Twins (RRP £7.99)
Walnut Squirrel Twins (RRP £7.99)
Forest Nursery (RRP £18.99)
Country Tree School (RRP £18.99)
Country Doctor (RRP £34.99)
Country Nurse Set (RRP £14.99)
Supermarket (RRP £39.99)
Toy Shop (RRP £29.99)
Sweets Store (RRP £14.99)
Bluebell Seven Seater (RRP £24.99)
Kangaroo Family (RRP £16.99)
Grey Cat Family (RRP £16.99)
Girl’s Bedroom Set (RRP £22.99)
Country Kitchen Set (RRP £22.99)
Country Bathroom Set (RRP £22.99)
Nightlight Nursery Set (RRP £19.99)
Master Bedroom Set (RRP £19.99)
Deluxe Living Room Set (RRP £22.99)
Chiffon Dog Family (RRP £16.99)
Hedgehog Baby (RRP £4.99)
Double Pushchair (RRP £5.99)
Semi-Double Bed (RRP £6.99)

- The primary school children at the winning school will receive a year’s free membership to the Sylvanian Families premium Fan Club (RRP £9.99)

- £500 worth of Sylvanian Families products will also be donated at the village summer fete if applicable. This prize is subject to availability and prizes can be substituted with similar products if unavailable for any reason. If there is no village fete then EPOCH making toys will liaise with the winning village to find a suitable cause to donate the products to.

The products to be donated are as follows:
Fox Family (RRP £16.99)
Meerkat Family (RRP £16.99)
Dappledawn Rabbit Family (RRP £16.99)
Chocolate Labrador Family (RRP £16.99)
Fox Baby (RRP £4.99)
Meerkat Triplet Babies (RRP £11.99)
Deluxe Living Room Set (RRP £22.99)
Sister's Bedroom Set (RRP £22.99)
Cycling with Mother (RRP £12.99)
The New Arrival (RRP £13.99)
Babies Ride and Play (RRP £16.99)
Baby Bath Time (RRP £17.99)
Peaches & Freddy's Swing and Play (RRP 11.99)
Cosy Cottage Starter Home (RRP £24.99)
Baby Carry Case (Rabbit on Baby Chair) (RRP £4.99)
Baby Carry Case (Cat in Cradle) (RRP £4.99)
Baby Carry Case (Bear on Rocking Horse) (RRP £4.99)
Baby Carry Case (Rabbit on Pushchair) (RRP £4.99)
Baby Carry Case (Cat on Swing) (RRP £4.99)
Baby Carry Case (Rabbit with Piano) (RRP £4.99)
Baby Carry Case (Squirrel on Car) (RRP £4.99)
Baby Carry Case (Dog on Slide) (RRP £4.99)
Baby Carry Case (Cat on See-saw) (RRP £4.99)
Family Saloon Car (RRP £19.99)
Elsie's Ice Cream (RRP £15.99)
Cycling Adventure (RRP £13.99)
Fish & Chips Van (RRP £29.99)
Village Shoe Shop (RRP £9.99)
School Music Set (RRP £14.99)
School Lunch Set (RRP £14.99)
School Friends (RRP £14.99)
Adventure Treasure Ship (RRP £16.99)
Seaside Birthday Party (RRP £16.99)
Seaside Cruiser House Boat (RRP £59.99)
Total Value £503.66

Only one primary school in the winning village will be chosen, and it is the discretion of EPOCH making toys which school this is if there is more than one in the local area. If the school of the winning village does not wish to take part for any reason, then EPOCH making toys reserve the right to choose a runner-up.


10. EPOCH making toys reserves the right to change this prize at any time. Please note that only one primary school will win this prize, and if there is more than one in the local area of the winning village, this school will be picked at the discretion of EPOCH making toys and partners.

11. Votes must be received before midnight on 1st August 2015.

12. The winning village will be contacted in September 2015 and announced in October 2015.

13. Entries from UK mainland addresses only. There is no cash or other alternative to the prize, and changes to the prize are at the discretion of EPOCH making toys.

14. No responsibility is accepted for entries lost, damaged or delayed as a result of any network, computer/phone hardware or software failure of any kind. Proof of sending will not be accepted as proof of receipt.

15. By entering this competition, you are giving us permission to use your details for administration of this competition, as well as giving your consent to add your email address to our email marketing list. We will contact you from time to time with various promotional emails, which you can easily opt out of.

16. The winners agree to participate in all required publicity.

17. Promoter reserves the right to cancel or amend the terms of this promotion without notice due to circumstances outside its control.

18. Promoter may at its discretion change the period of the promotion.

19. The promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with Facebook. Facebook is not responsible to entrants in respect of any aspect of this promotion.

20. The information provided will be used in conjunction with the following Privacy Policy found at www.sylvanianfamilies.net/uk/other/policy.php.

NEW Sylvanian Families Nature Trail launches at Hatchlands Park, National Trust, Surrey.  

We’re excited to announce the launch of the Sylvanian Families Nature Trail at Hatchlands Park, National Trust. Open from 1st May 2015, the nature trail will give little conkers and grown oaks alike the chance to get outside and learn more about nature.

The perfect way to celebrate our 30th birthday this year, the Surrey-based trail involves a series of fun, Sylvanian-themed nature activities to give you a taste of the outdoors, and fill your lungs with fresh air!

Free to all National Trust visitors, or Hatchlands Park visitors, the Sylvanian Families Nature Trail leads families with young children through an area of recently planted woodland, prompting them to discover interesting facts about the surrounding wildlife and trees. 

Armed with an activity sheet collected at the entrance to the park, budding young nature-goers can have fun spotting the familiar Sylvanian characters: Freya Chocolate Rabbit and Ralph Walnut Squirrel, who appear on specially designed signs along the trail. The signs provide questions to test children’s knowledge of nature, with the characters providing handy, rhyming clues! The answers to the questions can be found on the activity sheet alongside a picture to colour in, a maze to complete, and a spotting guide. There are also eye-catching wooden sculptures of Freya Chocolate Rabbit, Ralph Walnut Squirrel and Abigail Bramble Hedgehog dotted along the trail.

To celebrate, we’re also launching the #KnowMyNature Competition, which will see social media users face outdoor photo challenges and nature questions for a chance to win all manner of Sylvanian prizes.

Additional Information

National Trust Hatchlands Park, Parklands, open daily, from 10.30am to 6pm.

Entry price to the Parklands only (which includes free access to the Sylvanian Families Nature Trail): Adults £4.70, Children £2.30

For opening times and entry prices to the whole of Hatchlands Park, please visit:

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/hatchlands-park

Breaking News from Sylvania!

We’ve launched a shiny new web shop offering the full range of Sylvanian products in one place, just CLICK HERE to browse. 

It has everything in the current UK range of Sylvanian Families available to buy in one place, meaning you can browse all the products to your heart’s content and always find just what you’re looking for.

Exclusive peek at new products:

If you visit www.sylvanianfamilies.co.uk you can see all the familiar families, buildings and vehicles that make up the Sylvanian Families collection, but you can also have an exclusive glimpse at the brand new products that are being launched next year. We’re bursting with excitement and can’t wait for you to be able to add these to your collection!

Keeping up to date with Sylvanian News:

Check out the Sylvanian news section, where you can catch up with the latest happenings in Sylvania and find out about events, competitions, new product launches and all sorts of other wonderful Sylvanian goings on.

Ideas of things to make and do:

Once you sign up to the website and login, you can access our new Sylvanian Families Forum where you can chat to other Sylvanian fans and also get ideas of fun things to do such as art and craft, baking and nature activities. You never know, one of your favourite Sylvanian characters might even join your discussion with their very own hints and tips!

Delivering Value:

We will strive to send you your parcel as soon as possible but please allow up to 5 working days, unless you have selected the ‘Next Working Day’ option. The ‘Next Working Day’ option costs £5.99 and ‘Standard Delivery’ costs just £3.99. 

We are so excited about our new shop, particularly with all the surprises we have planned for our 30^th birthday celebrations this year!  So why not buy something for your little one, or maybe tell a friend about our grand opening, and we’ll see you soon for some cake! 

New Premium Fan Club – sign up now!

We have just launched the brand new Sylvanian Families Premium Fan Club – Sign up now!

The exclusive new Sylvanian Families Premium Fan Club launched on 1st January 2015, and marked the start of Sylvanian Families’ special 30^th birthday celebrations

Whether you’re a collector or a Mum or Dad looking for a special gift for your little one – this could be just the thing you’ve been waiting for. The new fan club costs are just £9.99 per year for UK members, £15.00 in the rest of Europe (inc Republic of Ireland) and £20.00 in the rest of the world, you can get all sorts of exciting goodies from a limited edition figure to a quarterly magazine!

Exclusive Premium Fan Club Gifts

1)  A Freya figure of your very own!

A special welcome pack which contains this exclusive figure of Freya Chocolate dressed in a sailor outfit, packaged in a pretty collectors gift box.

2) A magazine all the way from Sylvania!

The Sylvanian Families Fan Club magazine will travel all the way from Sylvania to your letter box every quarter! The magazine will be filled with plenty of lovely pictures and new stories about Freya & friends and all their adventures, plus lots of fun activity ideas and games. You will receive all the latest Sylvanian Families news and announcements, including updates on where and when you can meet real life Sylvanians in UK toy shops and shopping centres.

3) Birthday celebrations

Sylvanians will take any opportunity to have a slice of cake, so when it’s your birthday, we will make sure to pop you a card to say ‘Congratulations’!

4) Christmas time

Christmas is a magical time for Sylvanians of all ages, and to celebrate we plan to pop you a little note to wish you ‘Happy Holidays’. It’s the least we could do to celebrate the holidays!

5) Sylvanian Families Online Shop

We help out friends where we can in Sylvania and you will be able to get special discounts on our new Sylvanian Families Online Store so you can keep growing your own unique Sylvanian world, www.sylvanianfamilies.co.uk. For all the latest news and online games, you can also hop over to our main website www.sylvanianfamilies.com/uk .

You can sign up HERE! What are you waiting for! 

Seaside Greetings!

We’ve just launched a shoal of Seaside-themed products in January 2015 - get ready to take your Sylvanians to the seaside!

Sylvanians love the woods and meadows, but they also like to explore – so we’re thrilled to say that there will soon be a whole new area of Sylvania - consisting of ‘Adventure Island’ and ‘Sea Breeze Cape’ - together they will make the most perfect seaside landscape for holiday family trips and all sorts of exciting adventures.

Obviously we already have the wonderful Seaside Restaurant– a popular haunt for family lunches – but now there is a whole range of additional products that you can collect to fit alongside this lovely eatery.

The key product in this range is the Seaside Cruiser House Boat – which includes a waterslide, dingy boat and small island! With 55 pieces including a figurine of Freya dressed in her smart ocean outfit, this ship is sure to make a splash!

For all those wannabe Explorers out there, there’s the brand new Adventure Treasure Ship – it doubles as a playground with a slide, swing, climbing net, viewing deck and even hidden treasure!

Pictured above is the Splash and Play Whale – this has a spinning feature at the top, and there’s even a mini whale swing, which looks as though it would be great fun. The Splash and Play Whale can cleverly sit on top of the Adventure Treasure Ship, creating an even bigger seaside playground! 

There’s a special Seaside Camping Set, which comes with a floral tent and outdoor dressed Tiffany Silk Cat. There’s also a Seaside Birthday Party set, complete with birthday cake. 

Many of these products are connectable to existing Sylvanian Families items, and the Seaside Cruiser House Boat connects to the Cosy Cottage, Seaside Restaurant and Forest Nursery. Meaning that you can have more fun than ever when you add these products to your Sylvanian World!

Happy seaside adventures!

What Did Your Sylvanians Do Last Summer?

Last July and August we asked you to send us your best Sylvanian Summer snaps and we were amazed with the results!

Over last summer, we ran a competition asking fans to take photos of their Sylvanian Families in holiday themed settings – either at home or abroad – and upload them to our social media profiles, with the hashtag #SylvanianSummer. 

Clearly you love taking pictures of your Sylvanians enjoying themselves, as we were inundated with over 450 entries to the competition! It was a tough job to whittle down all the wonderful photos to a shortlist, but when this was done, the selected images were sent to a distinguished panel of judges to pick the top three winners plus ten runners-up.

First prize (a £1,000 Forest Holiday!) went to a family from Guernsey - Lyndsey and Grant Dowinton and their daughter, Abigail who turned 4 on October 20. They took this cute photo of Abigail’s Sylvanians enjoying a family trip to the countryside - whilst they themselves were on holiday in the New Forest during the long hot summer.

Mum Lyndsey said “We were on a mission to spot ponies in the forest, but we’d also taken Abigail’s toys with us in case we came across a suitable sunny spot. I had the idea to take a photo of the Father Rabbit character taking his own family snap, so Abigail helped set them all up and Grant took the photo. It was a breezy day, so the characters kept falling over, but we managed it in the end!”

The Dowintons’ photo was picked as the overall winner and the family will enjoy a £1,000 Forest Holiday in one of nine locations across the UK (http://www.forestholidays.co.uk/).

Lyndsey commented, “Abigail’s grandparents gave her some Sylvanian Families last summer, and she has collected them ever since. She has a great imagination so she loves playing with the characters, especially the little babies… she makes up her own stories and scenarios for them. We’re absolutely thrilled we have won this prize!” 

The second prize, which was a furnished Sylvanian Families Grand Hotel, went to Amelie Riberolle for this summery snap:

Third prize, which was a Sylvanian Families Cedar Terrace went to Rachael Scott for this 'berry' pretty picture! 

There were also ten runners-up, who each received a Chocolate Rabbit Family set.

We run regular competitions on our social media platforms, so if you fancy winning some great prizes then check out Facebook/sylvanianfamiliesUK or Twitter @Sylvanian_UK.