Monkey was very excited when a parcel arrived from Drumond Park recently. Mummy it’s Pumpaloons! How do you know what it is Monkey? I’ve seen them on TV. Oh wow, the power of advertising on my son has begun. Pumpaloons is a fun game for 2 players aged 4 years and over, it can be played indoors or, is a perfect garden game in the summer. In the box you receive 2 deflated Pumpaloons, along with 2 pumps and pump tubes and an instruction leaflet. Come on Mummy, I want to play now!
It was a lovely sunny day so we took everything outside to have some fun. The idea of the game is to be the first to pump up your Pumpaloon. But Monkey wasn’t bothered about racing me to win, he just wanted to pump up his own Pumpaloon. I want the Stripey Pumpaloon Mummy!
To start with you need to shake each Pumpaloon to ensure the sand in the base is properly distributed, attach the nozzle to the front of the tube and insert firmly into the Pumpaloon, place the other end of the tube into the Blue pump valve and you are ready to have some fun!
You can use any part of your body to pump the Pumpaloon up – they reach a height of 3 foot and inflate fairly easily. So if you were playing the game properly, it would be an all action, sprint to be the winner. I can really see this game being a big hit this summer.
I was eventually allowed to join in but could only play with the Spotty Pumpaloon. We did have lots of fun.
I’m sure Monkey’s friends will get to try these Pumpaloons out, over the summer holidays. You could either play a two player game, or have teams working on a relay basis. When you want to deflate the Pumpaloons you just pull the tube front out of the tube nozzle (but leave the nozzle in the Pumpaloon valve), scrunch the head up and squash it down, fold the arms over the top of the head and scrunch the Pumpaloon down. It’s really easy to do. Once deflated you can either reattached the tube to begin playing again, or remove the nozzle to pack away. I confirm that once deflated, everything fits back neatly into the storage box.
Priced at £19.99 I think this game represents great value for money, it can just as easily be played indoors, it doesn’t take up a great deal of floor space, so we could play Pumpaloons in our small living room without issue. There has been rumour that Stripey Pumpaloon might be moving into Monkey’s bedroom very soon, although I’m not sure how Brewster the cat will deal with that!
For more information about Pumpaloons and stockists please visit the Drumond Park website.
disclaimer: we were sent this game in exchange for an honest review.
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Now I have some great news – how would you like to win Pumpaloons for yourself? I have one game to giveaway thanks to Drumond Park – just complete the form below for your chance to win. Good luck!
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i would have them in the shape of my sons favourite characters peppa & george pig
I’d create a unicorn using shades of pink and silver! I loved them as a child and now I can re-live the fun with my two girls, who also share my love of princesses, unicorns and pink!
I would use bright colours and have Mr Tumbles and Dr Ranj from Cbeebies as my son loves their characters
I would make a large Peppa pig as my granddaughter would definately scream with delight
Pink and purple hearts – my daughters favourite colours and shapes!
I would have Harry Potter themed ones – Harry and Ron 🙂
a rainbow one
bright colours, and star shapes ,animal shapes
Iggle Piggle and Upsy Daisy shapes as little man would like that
My daughter would love a pink Hello Kitty one.
I think I’d go for a gothic looking one, with blacks and purples, with webs, bats and the like…….it’d be ideal for Halloween, and my friend the rest of the year!
I would use pink and blue pastel colours and I would make it in the shape of a cute bear.
I’d design a pirate one.. in black & brown
Blue with green stars, it should appeal to both boys and girls.
Rainbow colour because my kids would love that.
I would use purples and pink s as they are nice and girly and use triangles to make them look funky x
I’d make them black and white like giant chess pieces but with odd shapes and faces like they’d come off a Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland set! Why…they’d look fab!
princess theme…pink of course!
I would have a christmas set!
A Bright Yellow Sunflower :- Nice and Cheery for Summer.
tiger as we are big tiger fans
A big fat lady in a bikini
Foxes and raccoons.
I think I would create a giraffe, by the time the kids had pumped that up they would be in bed nice and early!!!!
a Dinosaur
Avengers like Spiderman, etc, ‘cos my 2 grandsons are big fans
I’d have wild animal ones, tigers, elephants etc
they would have to be dinosaurs, either natural greens and browns or something bright like red and yellow
I would shape them like characters from Disney movie ‘Frozen’, colours and all!
Red and green dragons!
The planets would be cool space theme
pale blue and white,frozen theme
A big yellow lion as my daughter loves them and it would be fun
i would make dinosaur as my daughter is crazy about them and have pink and yellow
pink and purple in hearts and stars 🙂
They would be bold colours like red and navy with lots of stars on them. I love stars 😀 x
A flower shape with a daisy print – love flowers!
hearts – called love and marriage because I am a Hart by birth!
A giant Boris Johnson in a cowboy costume.
A pink and a green giraffe! The colours because they are the kids have colours and we all love giraffes!
Buzz Lightyear!
this would be dinosaurs as my son is mad for them
A giant yellow banana in blue striped pjs – a little reminder of my child hood.
A princess one x
I think a glow in the dark one would be great.
black and green Zebra stripped xx
one would have to be batman shaped, and the other spiderman, as my grandaughter is superhero mad!
Black and white sun, moon and stars
I would design a Mr Blobby style pumpaloon all round with pink and yellow spots
A pirate and parrot pumpaloon would be AWESOME!!
I’d love to see them covered in flowers so they look gorgeous in the garden 🙂
love neon colours and stars and moons
I would have them as birds, penguin, owl, chicken, parrot etc because I love birds.
Bright colors and i would have a Postman Pat one, as its my youngests FAV character.
Rabbits — red, blue and white!
Definatly make peppa pig
Purple and red, my fave colours and Minnie Mouse shaped as my daughter is besotted with her!!
Disney characters ones would be good, bet anna and elsa would go down well!
pink with purple hearts and orange with green stars – these are my two childrens favourite colours and shapes
bruce willis in a yellow suit
A gold star! Because both my daughters love the nursery rhyme twinkle twinkle and also we always say “love you all the stars” to each other x
Pink and purple with hearts. Just seems sweet!
A princess & prince design x
Peppa pink in shares of pink
Lots of bright coloured spots to help the little ones learn colours by running and touching them when the colour is called out.
Orange and red because they are my sons favourite colours and in a rocket shape
Batman and the Joker, my two boys would love that!!
Orange and white like a traffic cone
any character ones would be great 🙂
yellow stars on blue
My daughter would love a curious George set.
he would be blue with purple and pink stars
I would use dark blue with yellow stars and call it midnight!
I would design a green an blue dragon shaped one as my daughter loves dragons
I would do a cat and mouse shaped ones just because i’d find it funny that the one pumping up the cat was trying to catch the one pumping up the mouse! (im still very much a child at heart :D)
If I could choose a shape it would be dinosaurs. If it was just colour and patterns it would have to be all different colours in individual triangles.
Giant yellow and black bumble bees cos they’d be fun
red pink and star shapes in a unicorn form
I’d have black and white spirals because it would look cool
I would make a yellow star shape character – it would be so fun for my son to play with
It would have to be superhero shapes for my son.
Batman in his normal colours, must have his cape on, grandson loves him
I would choose mickey mouse ears because I love Disney and in blue and green because they’re my favourite colours 🙂
I’d have yellow and purple monkeys – my son’s favourite colours and animal 🙂
purple with green stars!
I would have a yellow one with spiky hair so that it looked like Bart or Lisa Simpson!
A minion because my nephew is obsessed by minions!!
a moon and a sun, then they can race to see what comes up first
A dragon shape – They love all types of dragons!
My little girl adores fairies and princesses so I would love Pumpaloons that looked like fairies and princesses in pinks and lilacs x
Definitely a princess in pink, I have a very girly 3 year old! x
Shaped like Micky mouse
Bright pink in the shape of pigs because my twin girls love peppa pig.
Shaped like a giraffe as my children love giraffes although would change the colours to pink and blue
I would use cartoon characters tom and jerry perhaps plus Disney characters
They would be great in the shape of Macca Pacca and Iggle Piggle from In The Night Garden
the shape of a pink peppa pg would be fantastic
I would design them as one direction characters because my 7 year old daughter loves them !
I’d go for red and black just to look bold.
Little green aliens so my kids and nephews can shoot the aliens in the garden
A nautical themed boat that we could jump into and play afterwards… although that would be a lot of pumping. That’s what imagination is for though 🙂
Moo cows 😀
Pink and like Pigs or maybe hippos because they’d be so cute.
a minion one because all kids love minions!