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Would I like to receive a lawn croquet set to review? Well of course my answer was yes, having visions of long sunny days playing croquet in the garden as a family. But oh how the weather gods have laughed all over those day dreams, in fact it has rained absolutely every single day since our lovely croquet set arrived on my doorstep

I’d planned on sharing lots of lovely sunny, family shots of us playing croquet in this review but I’ve now realised if I wait for the sunny day to take them then the review probably won’t be written until October which isn’t really fair on Garden Games who sent me the set.

“A fun introductory Lawn Croquet set, with 4 brightly coloured wooden mallets and balls, sized perfectly for children. Also includes 6 metal hoops, a wooden winning post and rules. Comes packed in a zip fastening bag. The Garden Games Lawn Croquet set is perfect for starting out, designed to get your children into the game and learn on a set designed for their height and age, once they are hooked and older you can then move them onto a full size set. You can also set this set up for your children as they play their game of croquet and you play yours, either way this great little set is a perfect starter set.”

Now my children are still a little young to play with this set properly but with a bit of help from mummy and daddy we still manage, we just keep hold of the sticks to make sure they don’t become lethal weapons I’m impressed with how incredibly solid and well made the croquet set is, it certainly feels like a quality and well made product. The brightly coloured sticks and balls are also very appealing to the kids

I love that the kit all packs away very neatly in it’s own bag which we can easily throw in the car so we can take it with us to the park to play (again if it ever stops raining, this is my plan anyway). In the meantime I’ve resorted to constructing my own hoops out of building blocks so we can test it out (with a lot of care) indoors! This is not recommended by the way if you have lots of breakables or cats which try to steal the balls – but I had to test it out somehow

I think this is a fab product and I’m really hoping the weather picks up soon so we can properly test it out The lawn croquet kit sells for £49.99 over at Garden Games which I think is pretty good value as it looks like it will last us for years to come and hopefully get lots of use. If croquet isn’t your thing then check out their other outdoor toys such as Giant Jenga or Garden Quoits. I’ve had great fun looking at their website.