Wood has been used for centuries to make all sorts of objects and buildings, and educational wooden toys embrace all of the best properties of this fascinating material.
Not only does wood have a pleasant warm feel, it can be finished in thousands of colours or left natural and just varnished. There is a huge range of educational wooden toys that are produced by many manufacturers, from the basic building blocks to a play tool box for budding young carpenters!
Perhaps the best known of these are jigsaws. These can be very simple three pieces for very young children, up to thousands of pieces for those who like a real challenge!
Wood is becoming a more popular material, having been overtaken in the 90’s by the fashion for everything plastic. There are concerns of course about sustainability, but most suppliers are very responsible and will only purchase timber from managed forests for their educational wooden toys. Some manufacturers are even turning towards bamboo as a useful material.
Think of an abacus for learning to count, a clock to teach the time, push-a-long cars, blackboards, dolls houses, garages – the list of educational wooden toys is endless. The price of a wooden toy may be slightly higher than its plastic counterpart, but in terms of appeal, nothing can beat wood.
This company stocks some great educational toys including alphabet puzzles, wooden stackers and construction vehicles.
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A wide selection of party toys and accessories
Yorkshire-based company that sells a huge range of quality jigsaw puzzles.
A leading independent retailer of wooden garden play equipment.
Created to sell simple, well-made, traditional toys.
This company has been hand-making party bags since 2005.