Find out more about us, out latest crafts for kids and adults , be inspired by our free printables for kids or enter our latest giveaway. Take a Num, the outer, soft, squishy, hollow characters, and nestle it on top of a Nom, the inner, hard-shelled characters that are either motorised to scoot around, or filled with flavoured lip gloss. Included in the playset were the Num Noms truck with 1 lip gloss base, 2 lip gloss flavours, 1 glitter sprinkles, 1 cupcake mixing tool with spatula, and 3 lip gloss container Noms.

While Isabella, 6, will stack and collect her Num Noms, Benjamin has found another interesting way to play with them. You will need scissors to get it all out from the packaging, but that seems to be standard for most toys. The lip gloss is simple to make, you get a big tub of lip gloss, then you add one of the flavours which look like ice cream sauce bottles, then mix a few drops in with a portion of the base. We placed some of the lip gloss base with one of the lip gloss flavours and some glitter, then placed it into the dispenser. Having mixed everything together, Isabella carefully scooped the mix into the Lip Gloss Truck and began to dispense it into her pots.The collectible Nums are high on the Christmas List this year and I think many children would be over the moon to receive the Lip Gloss Truck on Christmas Day. I love that the children can do this activity themselves without too much adult help as it gives them ownership and makes them feel more grown up too.

We loved how the playset looked and my daughter was really excited to get it out of the box and start playing. It means for me that I don’t need to worry if she puts it on one day after school; I won’t need to hunt out the nail polish remover just as we are meant to be leaving. This hasn’t been an issue for us as Isabella (and Benjamin) are quite happy using the lip glosses they have already made. The Lip Gloss Truck comes with enough ingredients to make up 6-8 lip glosses depending on how you divide up the main clear pot of ‘gloss’. I think Isabella would have liked the glitter tub to be a little more free flowing but from a parental point of view, it’s just right.Num Noms are little scented, squishy characters that are made to look and smell like different food! One I had initially divided up the main pot of gloss into sections, Isabella got right to the making. Scoop the lip gloss into the truck and dispense it like soft serve ice cream into a Nom lip gloss sundae container. I couldn’t resist yet more Num noms, those scented pastel collectables are still high on Phoebe’s agenda. The set includes a lip gloss base, 2 flavors, glitter sprinkles, 3 containers, and a cupcake making tool.