We love Sylvanian Families; we think they are so cute and collectable (and also have educational value too!) Squiggle has a huge ever- increasing collection and loves looking at the website or browsing the catalogue to see what she can add to her wishlist next! So I think I might have been nearly as excited as she was when we received the fab Sylvanian Families Village Cake Shop to review…
The cake shop comes with the mum of the Toy Poodle family, who is the shopkeeper, and alot of lovely little accessories to stock up the shop with. There are 90 bits in total, including the figure, shop, till, cake stands, counters, various cakes, boxes, piping, tongs and other cool stuff. Not everything included is pictured in my photos because Squiggle inevitably spreads half of it across the floor within 10 seconds of opening it… but that just makes it all the more realistic – after all, you wouldn’t expect such a delicious cake shop to be fully stocked at all times, would you?!
Anyway, back to the review….
What I really love about this set – and other Sylvanian Families sets too – is the quality and attention to detail. Squiggle said “I think it’s very cool the way the cake stacks up to make a big cake.” When asked what her favourite part of the set is, she said “Those strawberry filling cakes looked very yummy!” It is also great for fine motor skills, as you will see when you watch the video…
(I just love her giggle too!)
https://youtu.be/TMdWgrx1QuI
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I used to love playing with my Sylvanian family!
They are all so cute,I like the size of them.
I don’t have a favourite set but I love the fact they are all little families. I think it’s super cute to think of little families of animals living together in their own little world
I love the hedgehog family cause that’s the family that I had when I was a little girl 🙂
we have Freya at the beach
I love the Sylvanian families supermarket and also the cake shop. I love all the tiny accessories and detail x
I love the Sylvanian Families Family Table And Chairs its lovely to see the family sitting together at the table and would like to convey this on to my little grandson how nice it is for a family to spend time together.
I really like the look of the Beechwood Hall set.
I love how adorable they are! Not sure my favourite. But love the Nursery Set we have
When I was little I had the bramble hedgehog family they were my favourite x
Nursery set and school bus ? xx
Tree house is our favourite
The hedgehog family are absolutely adorable xxx
The walnut squirrel Family! So so cute! Love them all so much x x x
My favourite Sylvanian family is the Babblebrook Rabbit Family.
My daughter loved the bunny family and the barge now my great niece loves them too
Love the Hedgehog family, they are super cute
My daughter loves her Bluebell car and taking the baby seats in and out!
We love the treehouses.x
The canal boat and lock keepers cottage that I had when I was little.
We have just got the Sylvanian Families Day at the Seaside Set for a friends child.
The big windmill set my sister had it as a kid it’s epic
These play sets are brilliant! My daughter would love them ?
my daughters just started collecting sylvanian families
We love nursery set and a school bus 🙂
My daughter LOVES her hedgehog family. She has the whole set including twin babies.
I love them because they are soooo cute! I love their little outfits too. 🙂
What a wonderful giveaway. I love Sylvanian Families as they are so cute and both my daughters love playing with them making up their own stories.
all of them! xx
My little one loves them!
The hedgehog sets are our favourite
we love all of the sets
My daughter received her first sylvanian family set last month for her 7th birthday. Her grandparents bought her the car and bear family
I like the cosy cottage set. It would be ideal for my niece’s Christmas box.
My daughter (and myself) favourite family set is the Hedgehogs (sooooo cute!)
i remember having a house as a child with a chandelier that really worked!
I donated all my collection to my niece and she spends hours playing with it. It wasn’t really a set just odd pieces but she loves them all especially the pram
I like that I used to play with them as a little girl & they are still about today
The rabbit family are the cutest. Would make my daughter really happy xx
I am collecting the sets with my niece and we love the nursery set as so cute and little that we spend ages playing with them
My twin daughters only have one set so far with two families living in it. They love the fuzzy cute characters
I love the fact that I used to play with them and now my daughter really loves them. They are expensive but they provide hours of fun. Thank you
i love the cat family (especially the grey ones) I always wanted the complete set up as a kid but my parents never got me them!
My goddaughter loves the sheep family – they are just all so cute.
My niece adores the hedgehog family!
love the rabbit family, i used to love them as a kid, the little school with the bell is my daughters favourite playset
The Walnut Squirrel family is Ava’s favourites
The hedgehog family is my favourite
my children love the hotel the most and love setting up all the rooms
My daughter loves her Kangaroo family. It’s so cute the way the baby goes into the pouch!
The very cute rabbit family I still have a set of my own which are about 30 years old now
I recently got out my old sylvanian families for my kids, a favourite is the village bus
My daughter loves the hedgehog family
I love the houses – such great sets.
I love all the sets but the tree house one has to be our favourite
I had a huge collection when I was little, i mean huge! My favourite was a school
Building I had with a teacher and the children. I honestly loved them so much and I’m gutted that I didn’t keep them ( I’m sure my mum and dad sold them on a carboot sale!) My daughter loves them now!
I love all the cute little animal families
I like Beechwood Hall 🙂
My kids always adored ‘Cottontail Rabbit’ family. We had lots of fabulous adventures together:-) Now my little nieces Ruby and Scarlett have reached age to love all the wonderful wee families so this would be perfect Christmas present for them x
I love the rabbit family
Has to be the Hedgehog family. – so sweet.
Had one in our garden fascinating to watch.
I like the camper van set
It has to be the rabbit family. She has cheerleader rabbit which is her favourite
I love their simplicity and how they’ve held children’s attention for years.
we have Freya at the beach – she gets us in the mood for holidays every year!
My daughter loves Sylvanian Families, her favourites are the Underwood Badger family.
The detail. I used to love playing with these when i was younger as well
We love the pandas the most as my 5 year old is obsessed with Pandas
Beechwood Hall is extra special but I just love all Sylvanian Families toys.
ava loves the rabbit collection the best
Has to be the hedgehog family
My daughter loves the fox family and the school play set. Big sylvanian families fan.
the rabbit family
We love them all as they are great for firing up the childrens imaginations.
Sylvanian Families Ice Cream Shop……..
My daughter lover her sylvanian family hospital, she loves to look after all her little animals xx
i love the fact that they have been around for years and will always be loved by kids and adults alike, the sets can all be joined together with any imagination at all
I love the rabbit collection.
rabbit family as i love rabbits
hedgehog family
I like Seaside Birthday Party 🙂
I love the hedgehog family! I loved them when I was little too and they used to live in my hot air balloon light shade above my bed!!
I love how detailed they are, my Daughter loves her hedgehog family!
We love the Otters
My daughter has just started collecting, so I’m loving it as someone who never got any Sylvanians as a child, aha. She only has one set so far, the fruit and veg stall. Everything is so beautiful and detailed.
Grandaughter likes the rabbit family, my favourite is the kangaroo, all cute though
my grandaughter loves them x
How much my little 1 loves them / how they’re timeless
I love the fact they’ve stood the test of time – my daughter loves them just as much as I did
My daughter has started a collection, I have to admit i think the Hedgehog family are really cute. Lovely giveaway x
I love the detail in them, and they’re so cute!
I like the camper van set, this would keep my little angel quiet for a while
I love the detail on these
We love how detailed everything is, my daughter can spend hours playing with Sylvanian families! 🙂
Love them!
My favourite is the cat family
Love the rabbits
Me and my daughter love the ballet school set as she’s an up and coming ballerina
The Walnut Squirrel and the Red Panda families – very cute.
I love how they are such a great toy which is perfect to be handed down to your child then grandchild
I love them and I don’t really know much about them but would love to win this for my little granddaughter.
We’re penguin mad so we absolutely love the penguin family. But they are very hard to come by.
We’re a cat loving family so has to be the big Celebration Cat Family x
Excellent gifts
Love the campervan set!
i loved sylvannians when i was little but i always had to play at friends houses as my mum never would get them… i love the most right now is i can buy them for my own kids and get to play too.
I love these so much my childhood was all about these. My daughter has a tree house one at her nanny’s
I love that these have been around for so long. I remember as a kid being desperate for these little cutie pies and there is always such attention to detail. I love the little bits that come with it and how you can build the sets up.
I love the treehouse set its both mine and my daughters favourite
I love them because kids can let their imagination run wild, also they’re good quality and are are cute!
The Sylvanian Families remind me of my childhood. I badly wanted one of similar houses but never got one.
I love that they are such cute characters
My daughter loves her sylvanians! Her Christmas list is full of all things sylvanian, especially the striped cat family!
Love to watch the children playing with them!
I love the camper van set and I know my grandson would love it too as he love all automobiles
My favourite are the Hedgehog family because I remember them from when I was young, and it takes me right back 🙂 I loved my Sylvanian Families and had hours of fun!
We love them all but if we had to choose it would be the striped cat family as we are a cat loving family.
They are adorable and lots of fun creative play to be had with them
Love them all as they are so cute 🙂
The rabbit family as they are cute!
This cake shop looks amazing ? Hours of play!
I love the dog family
I love the rabbit family ?
I love the attention to detail – they are so cute!
the hedgehog family there so cute and fluffy
I loved my sylvanian families as a child and would love for my children to have some to play with some too! The school house was my favourite!
The ice skating friends are cute!
I didn’t have any of them as a girl but my nieces love them! I always wanted the treehouse X
It is hard to choose the best set or family. But I really love the Hedgehog Family… they look so cute with their prickles!
Sylvanian Families Chocolate Rabbit Family, Many thanks
I love the fact that Sylvanian Families are always great to look at even if you aren’t playing with them. They are so detailed that they always look brilliant just on display. x
I love the “Milk Rabbit” Family but all the families are so cute, I also love the Morris Minor – reminds me of days out as a family when I was younger
love the creativity and role play my niece does with these toys
i love all the minature things and how much detail is in them , cakes seed packets etc they are so cute
They all look so cute – I like the rabbits
I loved the school house when I was little and the baby animals!
I love that my daughter loves playing with them as much as I did as a child and I love the cottages as I think the furniture that you can buy and collect to put in each room is such a lovely hobby xx
i love that they are so cute and provide hours of play love the owl family
I always remember the rabbit family from my childhood.
My daughter loves Crystal Babblebrook the best out of her Sylvanians – she was ‘inherited’ from a big girl we know. She has the Silk Cat family, too, with prettier dresses, but Crystal is her favourite.
I love the Dappledawn rabbit family..they’re so adorable!
My favourite family are the Red Panda Family as they are my favourite animal
They are really cute and provide lots of play
I think its the teeny tiny details that fascinate them so much, my daughter has the school and its so lovely
I really love all the Sylvanian families. Their homes and cars all look so well made and welcoming. The characters are so cute and loveable.
I love the Meercat family, they are so cute
I love the little Morris Minor car – I learnt to drive in a Morris. The owl family are my favourite
I love the owl family!
I had several of them as a child, my favourites were the twin kittens. I so wish I’d kept them, as my little girl would have loved them.
I just love how mini everything else..im addicted to miniature things
The campervan set is so adorable
the sylvanian school is awesome, my son and i play schools with it all the time
I love them all! I loved them as a child, I love that my daughter loves them now. They are just so adorable, I took my daughter to London for her 7th birthday this year and we went to Hamleys just to look. Couldn’t believe the Sylvanians there it was like a Sylvanian world!
We love the Owl family!
my fave set was a green morris minor car what a wonderful giveaway thankyou x
This is beautiful! My mum used to have the hotel, and one of my first memories is washing one of the baby ducks (do not recommend).
Does Squiggle not want to keep it?
Yes, she is keeping hers! We have another to give away!
Oh and the hotel is awesome isnt it! But washing them isnt the best idea lol 😉
the little fox family – cute
Wow they are all so cute but I think the hedgehogs are the sweetest.
Tree house set is cute!!
Love the little fox family and the caravan xx
My twin nieces love their Cosy Cottage Starter Home
This would be my daughter’s dream play set. We don’t yet own anything from the Sylvanian Family range but she has played with some of the range at her friends house and makes lots of little stories with the characters.
I love them all, my granddaughter has quite a few, she plays with them for ages
PERFECT for creative fun
It’s amazing how many stories we can make up
Dalmatian Family
They are just wonderful labrador family are super cute.
They are all adorable i just like the fact that they are so detailed. My favourite is the hedgehog twins so cute!!!
Love that they are animal families. We love animals. We live as family / group, etc :- So we need to find our place/s within the different groups. Family being the first one we are likely to encounter. Role play, etc.
this is just adorable and would make an awesome xmas gift for my daughter. What I love is that the sylvanian families playsets are just so classic and timeless!
I just love these and lots of imaginative play can be had with them x
I absolutely LOVED Sylvanian Families as a child and still love them now! I have always loved the caravan and shops and I used to play with them all of the time. I also loved the Timbertop family the most and have been trying to hunt down a reasonably priced westie family recently!
They are cute and have been around for so long
I collect SF and so does my little girl! I love the vintage stuff while she collects the modern sets
I love the detailed little houses & buildings that come with them – I always wanted Sylvanian Families but never had many, and I think my little girl would love them!
I have such fond memories playing with them, the 80’s with my Sister, we used to set them up, and they had a whole backstory, we would play for hours! I am so glad my children and family can keep playing, I wish I still had our old sets
The log cabin looks fantastic with the sweet little hammocks.
I really like the rabbit family
i just love how cute they are i sed to have a few sets when i was a kid but cant remember which ones x
when i was little i had the beaver family they were cute!
the treehouse they are so cute
i love the treehouse set
I love the school bus, I had one as a child and my daughter has one now 🙂
I love all the little teeny tiny things that come in a set, everything is so perfect. It makes opening a new box quite exciting, as we discover things. Keeping track of them once they are being played with is another matter?
I love all of them! They are so cute and very tactile with the lovely body flocking!
I love the hedgehog family. They are so cute.
Love the rabbits
They look so sweet!
This is adorable! The Chihuahua family is my fav!
Love them all .perfect for my Christmas cupboard for local food bank in December
My girls are such huge fans of Sylvanians it would be hard to pick one favourite family but the goats would be way up there!
We adore the little hedgehogs they’re cuter than cute!!
I love how cute they are.
I love how cute they are … Plus they remind me of my childhood shopping with my Gran in the toy section at Woolworth’s!
They are all such cute little families hard to pick a favourite, think the hedgehogs are my favs, love the details in the houses etc.
They’re all so cute but I love the toy poodle family
They are just adorable….The Twins sets are so cute, especially the Walnut Squirrel Twin Babies x
I don’t have any children but would love to win this prize for charity, to go to Romania.
My favourite (oh and my daughters as they are her toys.) ? is the boutique, so cute, the little handbags are really pretty
We love the border collie family, we got them as have border collies that look like them
I love the Hedgehog family. Great toys to play and get the imagination going.
I just adore the hedgehog family x
We love the treehouse set which goes lovely with the walnut squirrel family
I love that the Sylvanian has been around since I was a little girl and it hasn’t actually changed that much! Now my little girl enjoys playing with them! Its lovely to see something that hasn’t been ruined by technology etc
Chihuahua Family
I love their sweet, tiny outfits, they make me feel like getting some fabric scraps and trying to make some tiny clothes myself
Jane Willis
My daughter loves the cosy cottage starter home – she loves playing with dolls houses
I used to love playing with Sylvanian families as a child and would love to start a collection for my four year old daughter to play with. 🙂
The village cake shop is so cute.
I absolutely love the Sylvanians, I used to play with them when I was a little girl and now my little one plays with them we adore the little hedgehog family! So so cute!!
We love the Hunter-Smyth Chocolate Labrador Family
The walnut squirrel family, and the red pandas. So cute..
I love that they remind me of my own childhood!
the little cow family
Me and mine love the wee labrador family!! xx Thanks for the review. x
My favourite Sylvanians family is the Chihuahua family!
We love the Sylvanian Families too!
U love the little cow family
I just love the little hedgehogs
My niece loves the walnut squirrel family