Towards the end of every day when its clean up time, I can't help but take notice of what toys I have in my home. There are also some toys I definitely appreciate more than others, because in my small apartment things are always on display, and I love it when a toy is not only played with, but looks pretty.
I might as well come out and say I'm obsessed with wooden toys. They are beautiful, and lets be honest, kids can be super rough on things and I like how wood can hold up to those beatings. When I was in Prague about a year ago, I knew I wanted to bring my boys back a present. We found a cute local store full of beautiful unpainted wooden toys...I was in heaven. I picked a train for my older boy and a simple dinosaur on wheels for my younger son, but I would have picked out many more things if I had room in my suitcase!
Sometimes its hard to take the plunge and buy wooden toys because they are more expensive than their plastic counterparts. But when I think about it, I've had to throw away countless cheap toys over the years that have broke, and not one of those have been one of the wooden ones, so I think its worth the investment.
I thought I'd do a round up of some cute wooden toys for today's post, which was actually inspired by me cleaning up these trucks (which I bought at Ross for half the price they are in stores!).
I might as well come out and say I'm obsessed with wooden toys. They are beautiful, and lets be honest, kids can be super rough on things and I like how wood can hold up to those beatings. When I was in Prague about a year ago, I knew I wanted to bring my boys back a present. We found a cute local store full of beautiful unpainted wooden toys...I was in heaven. I picked a train for my older boy and a simple dinosaur on wheels for my younger son, but I would have picked out many more things if I had room in my suitcase!
Sometimes its hard to take the plunge and buy wooden toys because they are more expensive than their plastic counterparts. But when I think about it, I've had to throw away countless cheap toys over the years that have broke, and not one of those have been one of the wooden ones, so I think its worth the investment.
I thought I'd do a round up of some cute wooden toys for today's post, which was actually inspired by me cleaning up these trucks (which I bought at Ross for half the price they are in stores!).
Keep on Trucking from Land of Nod (my boys got two of these a couple years ago for Christmas. They are incredibly cute).
Vinci Pentagon Small Creative Puzzle from the Wooden Wagon. I think I would like playing with this just as much as kids would.
Stacking Rainbow from Fine Wooden Toys.
Bowling Set from Little Choux
Classic Embossed Alphabet Blocks from Amazon. You can never go wrong with a great looking set of blocks. Or there is this option for different shaped wood blocks.
Train Puzzle from Etsy.
Well, I could probably sit here at the computer and link to way too many more cute wooden toys. I thought I'd stick with the colored variety today (probably in part to help limit how many toys I'd link to!), but I still love the look of natural wood... there is something so organically beautiful about them... but maybe I'll save those for another post : ).
I would love to hear what wooden toys you and your kids like!
I would love to hear what wooden toys you and your kids like!
-Megan
