Educational Wooden Toys

Outdoor Toys

We stock outdoor toys for a range of activities.

We have just started to stock a new range of large garden play equipment from Plum Products. The play equipment includes; wooden swing sets, children's trampolines, climbing frames and playcentres, metal swings and seesaws, sandpits and playhouses. All of the outdoor play equipment is manufactured to a high standard giving kids hours of fun in the garden.

Gardening can be great fun, educational and very rewarding for children. We sell a range of gardening toys; trowels, rakes, watering cans and wheelbarrows, great for involving children in growing plants, fruit and vegetables.

We also have outdoor toys and games for the garden. Family games like twisted hoopla and children's quoits, and fun toys like sand pits, water tables and paddling pools.

With spring and summer approaching there will be plenty of nature, insects, bugs and pond life to watch and discover. We have a range of insect discovery kits, magnifiers and children's binoculars, outdoor toys that will enhance nature hunt discoveries.

All of our outdoor toys conform to European Safety Standards.

Wooden Toys

Our stock of wooden toys which are both traditional and contemporary in their design and are sourced from various manufacturers such as Plan Toys, I'm Toy and Orange Tree Toys.

Our wooden toys are durable, beautifully made, easily cleaned and without sharp parts and rounded edges are safe.

Wooden toys tend to inspire creative and imaginative play in children. Modern high tech toys are often noisy and over stimulating. Educational wooden toys can be an important tool in a child's development from rattles for babies to role play toys for pre-school children. Wooden toys allow children to engage in meaningful play, developing cognitive, problem-solving and fine motor skills. Wooden toys have unique textural and tactile qualities which invite children to touch, feel and explore.

Some manufacturers of wooden toys source their wood from sustainable resources. For example Plan Toys and I'm Toy use Rubber wood to make their toys. The rubber wood is recycled from rubber trees that are no longer able to produce latex. In the past these trees were cut, burnt and discarded.

All of our wooden toys conform to European Safety Standards.

Educational Toys

We stock many educational toys which are both traditional and contemporary in their design throughout our online shop.

educational toys are entertaining but can also help a child to develop both mentally and physically in the following areas: problem solving, reasoning and numeracy; communication, language and literacy; knowledge and understanding of the world; physical and creative development.

Problem solving, reasoning and numeracy

Educational toys can support a child's learning in a broad range of contexts in which they can explore, enjoy, learn, practice and talk about their developing understanding. Some of the activities which support this area of development are: using numbers for counting and labels (for example using building blocks), calculating (for example using fraction boards); shape, space and measures (for example shape sorters and puzzles).

Communication, language and literacy

To become skillful communicators babies and young children need to be encouraged in a number of ways to express themselves. From making their first marks through art and craft, reading children's books, spelling and playing with musical toys, we have a variety of educational toys to enhance these activities.

Knowledge and understanding of the world

Exploring and understanding the wider world is great fun and can be enhanced with the use of educational toys. We have a selection of outdoor toys that can enhance their experiences such as insect exploration kits and children's magnifying toys. Children can also learn about the wider world with games and role play toys.

Physical development

A child's physical development can be supported by activity toys, games and ride-on-toys. These toys will help with aspects of a child's physical coordination, movement, control and manipulation of objects. Child's food choices are of course also important. Educational toys like reward charts for example can encourage your child to learn and understand about different foods and healthy eating.

Creative development

Creativity is about taking risks, making choices and decisions and is strongly linked to play. Creativity emerges as children become absorbed in action and explorations of their own ideas, expressing them through movement, making and transferring things, using media and materials such as crayons, paints, scissors, words, sounds, movement and make believe. We have many educational toys to help with a child's creative development through a variety of art and craft, musical toys and role play toys.

All of our educational toys conform to European Safety Standards.

Baby Toys

We source a good selection of baby toys in wood and fabric from makers Plan Toys, Fiesta Crafts, Latitude Enfant and I'm Toy. Our selection includes traditional toys and several with a more contemporary design. The range are durable and importantly are safe as babies use their mouths to explore. Many of the wooden toys are made with sustainable rubberwood which has a beautiful natural finish.

The range of baby toys are designed to be simple, assisting in a babies development without being over stimulating. Toys can be an important tool in a child's development from rattles for newborns, stackers, sorters through to push along toys for toddlers. Our baby toys are selected to include various textures, colours and shapes and tactile qualities which invite children to touch, feel and explore. Toys can assist in babies development of cognitive, problem-solving and fine motor skills.

While many of the newborn toys are found in the baby toys section be sure to look in the activity toys section which contains many toys for various stages up to toddlerhood eg building blocks, stackers, sorters, pull along and push along toys to name a few.

All of our baby toys conform to European Safety Standards.