I love International Friendship Day with My Little Pony! This year it is all about the original besties for kids… their parents.

I still have to pinch myself that I got so lucky to have 2 such beautiful girls. I get to play with them, buy them toys (that I secretly want for myself) and I get to be there to listen to their little whispers.

This Friendship Day plan some fun activities My Little Pony with your kids and share your #MLPFriendshipDay moments by tagging @MyLittlePonySouthAfrica on Facebook.

The Mane 6 have a few suggestions to help you getting started:

1. Pinkie Pie would like it if you baked together – especially if it’s rainbow cupcakes with lots of sprinkles. If you bake a few extra consider dropping it off at a local old age home.
2. Fluttershy would love it if you could spend the day at an animal shelter and show some love to the animals waiting for a home.
3. Twilight Sparkle wishes you would do a readathon and do your best impressions of the characters’ voices.
4. Rarity would like to be invited to a tea party with a few of your friends.

Just in time for International Friendship Day, My Little Pony is also introducing a new collectable range called the Cutie Mark Crew.

After school today we will open a Cutie Mark Crew Confetti Blind Pack and I’m so excited! The rumour is that there is an adorable 4cm figure inside and that it could be a pony, sea pony or Equestria Girl with accessory, collector card and storage case.

Tune in to see the confetti fly!

There are also Cutie Mark Crew playsets and these combine 2 confetti blind packs with 3 Cutie Mark Crew themed characters!

These are available at Toys R Us and Toy Kingdom Stores.

My Little Pony is bringing more of the magic of friendship to fans when the My Little Pony 2018 – Live Show visits Durban and Johannesburg during September and October.

Join all your favourite pony friends on their friendship journey filled with wonder, adventure, lots of laughter, music and all out entertainment.

Brought to you by My Little Pony in partnership with ToysRUs and Sun International, show tickets are available from Computicket.

Ponify your world and get ready for the 2018 My Little Pony Friendship Tour with an awesome variety of My Little Pony characters and playsets, all available from your closest ToysRUs store.

There’s something for every pony fan, including the latest addition to the family The My Little Pony Equestria Girls fashion dolls. Each 28cm doll is dressed in a stylish outfit, complete with fashion accessories that match their character personalities, with their cutie marks inspiring the design on each of their outfits. Follow Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Rarity, Apple Jack, Sunset Shimmer and friends at school dances, battle of the bands where the power of friendship makes anything possible. Follow this link for some quick “Get the Equestria Girls look’ advice or to create Rainbow Dash inspired hair.

Inspired by My Little Pony: The Movie, join the underwater adventure with the Flip & Flow Seapony figures, each sporting a mermaid-like tail with colorful liquid inside. Flip them upside down to see the liquid appear and disappear. Imagine magical fun with My Little Pony: The Movie Seapony Figure Assortment, where each seapony figure has a beautiful mermaid-like, poseable tail decorated with glitter. Open the necklace accessory to reveal a treasure inside. Show off your undersea style with the My Little Pony: The Movie Glitter & Style Seapony Assortment, with their signature cutie marks on the back fin, their eyes and wings are detailed with glitter too. Keep the stylin’ fun going with long, colorful hair and undersea-themed accessories

Cuddle up with the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Plush Figures. The larger-sized soft and floppy plush pony figure is a huggable friend for My Little Pony fans, perfect for bedtime snuggles. Recreate magical play experiences with the MLP Pony Friends. Each 7cm figure is decorated with a personalized design. Style their mane and tail with the comb accessory as you imagine the ponies getting ready for the Friendship Festival.

For more Pony fun follow My Little Pony South Africa on Facebook.