Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom Live Competition

 As most of our readers know, we are huge Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom fans. Holly actually graced the top of our Christmas tree this year for the festivities as Opeie wanted her as our fairy.

We are very excited to announce we have teamed up with the Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom Live,  from the makers of Peppa Pig and the producers of the two hugely successful Peppa Pig theatre tours comes the first ever stage version of the BAFTA award-winning TV animation, Ben & Holly’s Little Kingdom. And we have tickets to give away!

The Little Kingdom – where everyone is very, very small – is home to Princess Holly and her best friend Ben Elf. Holly is a young fairy princess who is still learning how to do magic properly and sometimes her spells don’t work out quite right. Ben is an Elf. Elves don’t do magic but they are very good at making things. Ben doesn’t have wings like Holly but he flies on the back of Gaston the Ladybird.

As we’ve often mentioned before, we wish we could have a pet Gaston in our house, as he is brilliant! Who is your favorite character ?

In this exciting new musical adventure, Ben and Holly have fun and games helping Gaston clean up his messy cave; they go on a trip to The Big World with tooth-fairy Nanny Plum; and still have time to plan a surprise for King Elf’s birthday party, complete with an unplanned jelly flood.

Packed full of games, songs and laughter, this is an enchanting and magical visit to the Little Kingdom, live on stage for the very first time. This beautiful story of elves, princesses and childhood innocence will delight all the family.

This brand new UK tour is now on the road until July 2013 and we have 1 family ticket up for grabs at the venue of your choice, subject to availability. (A family ticket is for 4 people, minimum 1 adult. The tickets are non-transferable. No cash alternatives, accommodation or travel are provided in this competition.)  For further show information and tour dates: www.benandhollylive.com

To enter please submit your answer to the question below, together with your performance and venue choice. Click here to see dates and venue choices.

 Q: What is Gaston?

Caterpillar
Ladybird
Snail

‘Like’ Our Facebook page , where the winner will be announced.

This exciting competition closes Saturday 23rd February

Good luck to everyone, we would love to see your Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom photos on our new Facebook page, so get sharing!

..... A sneak peek, 

"Jelly flood, Jelly flood"

This afternoon Mrs M had some work to do at home and needed a bit of peace and quiet. It can be really difficult sometimes trying to get things done around the house as that beautiful boy of ours can be quite demanding.

I decided to take Opeie on a tour of the toy shops (for a change), I'm still looking for things for Christmas for the boys so it gave me a great chance for a mooch. We pottered round Toys R Us first which was a little disappointing as there wasn't anything new. Opeie usually prefers Toys R Us but he didn't seem all that bothered today, so after we headed up to Mothercare as they've had some great toys in recently. Opeie went straight to the keyboard/drumkit/Mixing table/Karaoke machine, sat down and started rocking out (that's my boy).

Opeie then spotted the book section so we sat down and read a few books, they had plenty of Rod Campbell and Peppa Pig books so he was a happy little boy.

After using Mothercare as our own personal public library we ventured next door to Smyths, Opeie got so excited when we walked through the door so i decided to conduct a little experiment. I thought i would let opeie wander about on his own and pick something fun for himself. hes only got little arms so i knew he couldn't go mad grabbing everything, it was very interesting to watch.

He started off by picking up a pack of three textured colourful balls, that was then dropped in the isle when he spotted a talking Mickey mouse who was quickly discarded for Minnie. We only got as far as turning around when he spotted all the Peppa Pig stuff, It was a toss up between the Peppa Pig doctors kit and the giant Peppa teddy. He ummed and ahhhed for a while and then decided he wasn't interested in either of them which was a surprise. He then turned and pretty much ran and grabbed a Bob the Builder which was strange as he doesn't usually Like Bob but that was short lived too.

He then wandered about a bit lost, we perused the Lego isle but nothing, Even the super hero isle didn't get much attention today apart from a brief fondle of a Spider-man figure. We went back up the pre-school isle and Opeie's little eyes lit up, i had no idea what he was going after as it was on the bottom shelf but he grabbed hold of it and smiled at me looking very proud of himself. Well the hunt was over and that little cutie of mine decided on a talking Holly from Ben and Holly's little kingdom doll. Well you cant have one without the other, that would be very lonely so i grabbed Ben too.

Opeie talked to them all the way home and then when he got home he kept blowing on Ben's trumpet all excited. It was so much fun watching his little adventure around the toy shop and it's made me realise that even though he does love the super hero toys like his big brother i still need to remember that hes still a toddler and is going to be into some of the younger childrens toys so i will make the effort to get him some for Christmas so ill be no looking for a Gaston to go with his new friends.