Fifth Stage: The Kid – you can now play games with your Hatchimal; you can even teach it to sing and dance. It can get hiccups with orange eyes or go cold with blue eyes but we didn’t see this before it hatched! The Hatchimal suddenly has rainbow eyes and you hear “ready to hatch music”. You then have to remove the ribbon band and it will hatch if upright. The top of the egg pops off and it sings “Happy Birthday”. It’s a good sized product. All kids love something that is big and can actually grow as big as them! The instructions are so hard to decipher. As they cater for all languages, you have to wade through a lot, to find what you are looking for. Also they are complex! For example when recording your voice, there are so many things you can do and kids will need help with this. There are so many things you can do with your Hatchimals WOW. There is a comprehensive list in the instructions and I will highlight some of the things we managed to do, after we had figured out the Hatchimal needs to be on a flat surface.

Inside the largest Hatchimals egg ever, you could hatch a pink or purple Hatchimals WOW in only 5 minutes! Then, extend the egg play and hatch again and again. I love this idea, as the magic isn’t over. Each time Llalacorn wakes up, she’ll be in 1 of 10 surprise moods! It’s very cute and kids who love to care for something, will love it. Cuddling and playing with it. Start by thinking about adjectives that describe the unicorn’s personality. Do they have a special talent? Are they gentle or mischievous? Consider words that reflect those traits.Consider adding a fun element to the name. For example, you could add an “o” at the end of the word to make it sound more playful. Your Hatchimal will sneeze. It rises and says “ahh ahh!” If you touch their forehead it will move down. If it reaches the top will do a big sneeze, if hits the bottom, the sneeze goes away. If you want to name your unicorn after a movie or TV character, turn to these famous unicorn names for inspiration. We are already huge Hatchimals fans in our house, after reviewing the Hatchimals Hatchibabies last Christmas. We also love the Hatchimals Pixies and Hatchimals CollEGGtiblestoo. Spinmaster seem to come up with something fabulous every Christmas, as was the Luvabella and Luvabeau interactive dolls the previous Christmas, which captured both my girls’ imaginations. While unicorns don’t exist in our world today, they are alive in the imaginations of children all over the world

Another way is to touch on of the toes three times. It should sink down and then if you tap the toes again it should grow. Stop tapping and it will sink. Again we struggled to do this but like anything, takes some practice. You can re-hatch the egg, which means the excitement continues and you can do this as many times as you want. The product has to be on a FLAT SURFACE or it doesn’t work. We spent ages playing with it on our carpet and it just would not do anything. I continually had purple eyes, which I believe is cuddle mode. We couldn’t get it to record our voices, we couldn’t get it to grow or feed with the fruit. We changed the batteries to a new set, as it is recommended after the first hatching and it still wasn’t doing anything. By chance we tried it on a table and after some follow-up advice IT WORKED! As I wrote right at the start, it has to be on a FLAT SURFACE. We spent AGES trying to get it work at the start, until given a tip! A flat surface is not a carpet, it is a table. You can then remove the Hatchimal from the egg base and start to play! You can see on the picture below it is moving, as my eldest was removing it from it’s egg base.My girls needed help with understanding how to work the product. I had to show them and my eldest is 6. Bear this in mind and you do need to read the instructions or perhaps watch a video for help.