Dear daddy, your toys are beautiful!

There are many of toys available in shops. They are bright and striking, they are vivid and blazing. But they are dead...

They are made by some unknown master for unknown children. Think about that. If you want to show your love and care, you may try to make the beautiful toys with your own hands, like they were made hundreds years ago by our ancistors for their lovely children.

What was the most popular material in antiquity? Surely, that was wood. Wood is perfect material for crafting. It can be worked up in many ways by different instruments. Moreover, you can craft the toy with your son or daughter, it will be very interesting to see, how new woden toy is being born. Also, child will get acquinted with joinery, its instruments and the manufacturing process, which can be entertaining and useful in future.

Children live in games and fun. Your role is to help the child in his development. Through playing with toys child learns and develops, so it does matter what type of toy we give to our children. The toys have particular purposes in the development of child’s senses, motor skills, coordination; they encourage imagination, learning and improve social skills. Parents often make mistakes when buying the most expensive and intricate toy. Psychologists say that the best toy is the toy that is simple and versatile. The simplest toys made of wood, encourage child’s imagination the most. That piece of wood can be a ship, car, ant, doll, cake… For a right development and entertainment, children don’t need unusual and branded toy at all.

Characteristics of a good toy

A good toy should be elementary in order to promote child’s imagination and creativity; child should be able to play with his toy in different ways. The toy is good if it encourages child to concieve, have fun, experiment, feel and search for answers. The toy should promote development of psychics, motor skills, mental progress, social interactions and emotional skills. The toy should be enjoyable, laughable, safe and of high-quality. Such toy should help child to learn the world around him. It is proven that wooden stacking cups, wooden blocks and balls are the best existing toys.

Characteristics of a safe toy

We can’t talk about safety of any toy without taking in consideration child's age, his skill levels and temper. But, regardless of child’s age, there is a row characteristics that a good toy should have.

• A toy has to be durable enough so it wouldn’t fall apart to parts that could damage the child while playing.
• Toys must be made of harmless materials and they shouldn’t contain dangerous toxins and dyes.
• Toys that can be sit or climbed on, must be firm.
• Toys shouldn’t have sharp details or edges that could harm child.
• Toys shouldn’t produce loud noise
• Sshould be easily washed or scoured.
• Toy should be wooden :)

Advantages of wooden toy

Today, when shops are full of industrial plastic toys of mistrustful quality and almost always fragile and short-lived, toys made of wood are completely their contrary. Handmade and unique wooden toys carry the spirit of longevity of our ancistors.

It is known thar babies put every toy in mouth. Wood is natural substance and it’s much safer in baby’s mouth than any artificial toy. Wooden toys promote children to improve their imagination while playing with them. Also, wooden toys are often more durable. Artificial toys are easy to brake while wooden toys can endure much more blows and falls. Wooden toys are harmless, without any health risk and wood is more suitable than any other material. That is why, educational toys for primary school, such as building blocks or puzzles are made of wood. These wooden toys are long-lived and they will stay in good condition for many years without any damage.

Wooden toy plans

We offer you amazing wooden toy plans. By making these wooden toys according wooden toy plans you will create a unique toy for your child. Wood is natural material that is safe, it is hard to brake and it’s easy to maintain. Surfaces of wooden toys that you will create will be smooth and edges will be rounded.

Offered wooden toys have simple design and forms, smooth contours; children can easily hold them. When making wooden toys, please pay attention that glue and dyes are non-toxic and harmless.

On this site you will find free wooden toy plans for different age groups. Before beginning of production of wooden toy, you should carefully check dimensions of particular parts on the wooden toy plan, and evaluate if the chosen toy is suitable for your child’s age, skills and temperament.

When choosing wood for your wooden toys it is critical to use those types of wood that are healthy and that not contain dangerous or allergenic compounds. Good and healthy types of wood are maple, alder, birch, sycamore, poplar, cherry. Do not use exotic woods and walnut, because they can cause allergy.

Take all of above in concideration and ENJOY!