Where's Wanda?

Wanda the Wonder Bunny at Blackpool Tower

Wanda was sent on her travels with instructions to look after her, pass her on to a new family and send in a picture to wonder bears HQ. We were delighted with the first two photos!

Wanda enjoying some crisps waiting to watch King Lear performed at Rendlesham Forest.



Wanda was passed on to a new family at Birmingham services...we hope they get in touch soon and let us know where Wanda has been wandering!


Will Wanda get in touch? Watch this space (keeping everything crossed!).


Thanks to the Boast family for the lovely photos!

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Jungle Party

Despite organising wonder bear parties, I still love organising my own children's parties. this year I decided to give my son a break from Wonder Bears and he had a jungle themed party in the garden.

He made lots of signs and helped prepare some of the games. Here is Henry just before his friends arrived wearing his hat ready for a jungle safari!

We ordered jungle party plates, napkins and party bag things from Amazon, but made lots of the games and signs ourselves. Below you can see is 'fishing' for jungle money using a chopstick, a piece of string and a magnet. The jungle tokens all had a paperclip attached. 

The snakes were hidden around the garden and were quite difficult to find. Other games included obstacle course, colouring jungle pictures and pin the tail on the monkey. All prizes were 'jungle coins' which could be exchanged at the jungle cafe for sweets ready to take home in the party bags.

The Jungle tuck shop also served 'jungle juice' to thirsty jungle adventurers.

Now, I am well known for my kitchen disasters, but thought I would attempt a jungle cake this year. Ok, it it a bit of a wonky 6, but was quite yummy and had lots of chocolate buttons round the side to cover the really dodgy bits!

If Henry and his friends didn't already have an abundance of Wonder Bears they could have had monkeys, tigers or lions as part of their jungle adventure, from www.wonderbears.co.uk

All in all a rather fun party! Hope it has given you some ideas....

Wonder pups at Southwold

Thanks to Emma and Rosie for sending in this fabulous picture of Wonder Bears at Southwold! it made me smile so much... thought it could lend itself to a funny caption - what do you think?

Rosie made her Wonder Pup at a birthday party, then bought a kit for her cousin as he liked it so much! Available from

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Wonder Bear conducts his first interview, with Pipers Vale gymnast Flo!

WB: How old were you when you started gymnastics?

FLO: I was 7.

WB: What has been the hardest thing for you?

FLO: The hard moves and the conditioning.

WB : How often do you train?

FLO: I train 3 days all 5 to 9pm

WB; Do you get tired?

FLO: Well, sometimes and sometimes I’m really hyper!

WB: What is your fave piece?

FLO: Range, which is a mix of conditioning and moves like splits, bridge and moves on the bench.

WB: What is the hardest piece?

FLO: The hardest piece is bars because it’s about the strength.

WB: Who is your idol?

FLO: Beth Tweddle and Janae at my club

WB: What would you say to young girls wanting to start gymnastics?

FLO: Try your best and follow your dream!

WB: What colour would your next leotard be?

FLO: It would have swirls with green, violet and blue!

Thanks Flo, Suffolk champion and regional bronze medallist!

There's no such thing as a ....

Wonder Bear took a stroll through the deep dark wood.
A fox saw the bear and the bear looked good.
"Where are you going to, you fluffy bear?
Come and have lunch in my underground lair"
"It's terribly kind of you Fox, but no -
I'm going to have lunch with a Gruffalo."

Away Fox ran, didn't he know?
There's no such thing as a ....

Hopefully no Gruffalos around, but when the rain stops, why not plan a Wonder Bear picnic?

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Adapted from the fabulous Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson

Wonder Bear is at Baylham Farm

Today Wonder Bear is at Baylham Rare Breeds farm in Suffolk. This blog is being typed up by Florence aged 10. Florence's mum is the Wonder Bear lady( she looks after Wonder Bear!!) When we arrived it started to hail!! Wonder Bear got very wet! We sheltered in one of the pigs feeding area. We sheltered under there for about fifteen minutes and all of us got soaked! When the hail had stopped we went and queued up for the lambs to be put on our laps! We waited for about 5 minutes. Florence, Henry and our friend Finn got to hold the lambs, Wonder Bear just sat there and watched patiently.

Henry got the big lamb, Florence got the baby lamb and Finn got a big lamb!! After that we walked to the goats feeding area and we fed them.

We could all see that the goats were very hungry! After that we headed for the big field. There were all sorts of animals. I got a photo with a very funny looking one!!

These cute piglets were born last Friday, so they are only 5 days old. My mum has just ordered some Wonder Bear pigs to make, they are very cute too!

Thank you Florence for telling us about Wonder Bear at Baylham today. If you have visited somewhere interesting with your Wonder Bear please let us know, maybe we could feature your writing on this blog! All contact details are on the website....

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Easter bunnies!

Well it has been a busy few months at Wonder Bears. We held our second workshop at The Tea Hut in Woodbridge, and it was very busy indeed with lots of Easter bunny presents being made, chocolate brownies consumed, and in between colouring, face painting and an Easter trail!

Also, we had a huge response to our ad in raring2go, with party bookings coming in still - some in July, September and October!


New in stock are Penny Penguins, and coming soon are Sooty, Sweep and Soo...now who is old enough to remember them...?!