Wooden Toyshops
Toys play a huge part in your child’s development from their very first day. Brightly coloured soft toys, with shiny surfaces, rattles and sounds provide visual stimulation and encourage your child to explore through touch, and lets face it, not just with their hands!
As your child grows and starts crawling and then take their first tentative steps the variety of toys available to stimulate them. Instead of plastic toys, why not consider wooden toys? Over the last few years wooden toys have become very popular with parents and there’s some very simple reasons why:
1Wooden toys are much more durable than plastic toys
2They are safe and in the UK conform to many stringent regulations, such as non toxic paint
3 There is a huge range of wooden toys available, from chunky lift out puzzles, push along toys, dolls houses to wooden train sets
4They are inexpensive
By the time your child is 3 the range of wooden toys explodes into a vast array of imagination inspiring play sets. Take a wooden play kitchen for example, there’s many options for kitchens from table top cookers, single all in one play sets to individual kitchen units. Add a saucepan and vegetables that can be cut, or a birthday cake that can be sliced and there’s no limit to the imaginative play. As your child cooks lunch for their friends social skills and sharing are keenly developed.
With a wooden train set your child will further develop their imagination and fine motor skills as they build up the track layout and push the train engine and wagons around. With the Thomas Wooden Railway system they will be able to relate stories they have seen from the popular TV show or books into their play with Thomas, James or Bertie taking a trip around Sodor. There are also lots of wooden train set accessories such as track pieces, engine sheds and stations that can be added.
The world of wooden toys has changed over time, and whilst the word ‘Traditional’ is often used, this sometimes portrays a stuffy, Victorian England handmade type of toy, but this isn’t the case! Wooden toys nowadays are modern, beautifully made and are of a very high quality build standard.
Wooden blocks are a traditional building toy that, nowadays, come in a variety of shapes and colours. With push along toys and shape sorters and everything in between you’ll be safe in the knowledge that your child’s development will be enhanced with wooden toys!
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