Objects of use by children and babies, teething toys, toys for creative play, musical things, puzzles and games
Objects of use by children and babies, teething toys, toys for creative play, musical things, puzzles and games

Play
Build / Dig / Discover

A seal shaped paper 'balloon' from Japan. Supplied folded in to a flattened crescent the balloons are inflated by blowing hard into the small foiled h..

Japanese paper balloon, Seal
£3.60
A beach ball shaped paper 'balloon' from Japan. Supplied folded in to a flattened crescent the balloons are inflated by blowing hard into the small fo..

Japanese paper balloon, Beach ball
£3.60
A koala shaped paper 'balloon' from Japan. Supplied folded in to a flattened crescent the balloons are inflated by blowing hard into the small foiled ..

Japanese paper balloon, Koala
£3.60
A monkey shaped paper 'balloon' from Japan. Supplied folded in to a flattened crescent the balloons are inflated by blowing hard into the small foiled..

Japanese paper balloon, Monkey
£3.60
An orca shaped paper 'balloon' from Japan. Supplied folded in to a flattened crescent the balloons are inflated by blowing hard into the small foiled ..

Japanese paper balloon, Orca
£3.60
A panda shaped paper 'balloon' from Japan. Supplied folded in to a flattened crescent the balloons are inflated by blowing hard into the small foiled ..

Japanese paper balloon, Panda
£3.60
A pig shaped paper 'balloon' from Japan. Supplied folded in to a flattened crescent the balloons are inflated by blowing hard into the small foiled ho..

Japanese paper balloon, Pig
£3.60
A pink fish shaped paper 'balloon' from Japan. Supplied folded in to a flattened crescent the balloons are inflated by blowing hard into the small foi..

Japanese paper balloon, Pink Fish
£3.60
A raccoon shaped paper 'balloon' from Japan. Supplied folded in to a flattened crescent the balloons are inflated by blowing hard into the small foile..

Japanese paper balloon, Raccoon
£3.60
A premium, smaller scale hand fork, resulting from top-of-the-range German manufacturing, great for all sorts of jobs around the garden. great for all..

Krumpholz junior-sized fork
£16.50
Smaller trowels and forks both with ash handles and forged stainless steel bodies - made with the same care to quality and manufacture as the full siz..

Children's garden tools, trowel or fork
£23.00
A neat wire-bound flip-top notepad from Midori of Japan, with a cover made using recycled leather made in Valencia, Spain, and an elasticated band to ..

Midori ring bound notepad
£9.50
This Indian ‘whistling sparrow’ tin toy is a remake of the original 1930s Whistling Sparrow. A squeeze of the sprung lever (or ‘tail’) using thumb and..

Indian ‘whistling sparrow’ tin toy
£8.50
A choice of natural latex rubber erasers from České Budějovice, in the Czech Republic. The uniquely patterned ’Magic’ erasers are slightly the hardest..

White Koh-i-Noor logo eraser
£1.00
The Dreilochring — a hollow doughnut-shaped rattle or baby toy, with a hollow interior contains a small wooden ball. Hohenfried's rattles or greifling..

Hohenfried Dreilochring rattle
£32.50
The Kugelball — a hollow six holed sphere, with a small wooden ball inside. Hohenfried's rattles or greifling (clutching) toys are handmade to the ren..

Hohenfried Kugelball spherical rattle
£32.50
The Kugelrassel — a grooved, handled sphere, with little balls inside, which make a sweet, gentle sound when shaken. Hohenfried's rattles or greifling..

Hohenfried Kugelrassel rattle
£32.50
The Kugelscheibe — a UFO-shaped disk with a rolling ball in the centre. Hohenfried's rattles or greifling (clutching) toys are handmade to the renowne..

Hohenfried Kugelscheibe rattle
£32.50
The Laufring Aussen rattle — an outer grooved run-ring, with balls which race around the circumference. Hohenfried's rattles or greifling (clutching) ..

Hohenfried Laufring Aussen ring rattle
£32.50
The Laufring Innen —  an inner grooved run-ring, with little balls which run around this groove. Hohenfried's rattles or greifling (clutching) to..

Hohenfried Laufring Innen ring rattle
£32.50
The classic Hohenfried Urfisch — a  fish-shaped rattle with slender tail for grasping, and a small ball inside which gives a gentle rattling soun..

Hohenfried Urfisch wooden fish rattle
£35.00
A simple wooden push car, handmade from local timber and non toxic child-safe dyes at the Hohenfried Werkstätten in the German Alps. Hohenfried Heimat..

Hohenfried hand made wooden car
£14.00
A balloon powered rocket car, handmade from local timber and birch ply off cuts at the Hohenfried Werkstätten in the German Alps. Hohenfried Heim..

Hohenfried hand made balloon car
£10.00
A rubber band powered paddle boat, handmade from local timber at the Hohenfried Werkstätten in the German Alps. Hohenfried Heimat is an open community..

Hohenfried hand made paddle boat
£10.00
Der Kleine Schwede, or 'little Sweden', whose vernacular houses these are made to resemble — a tiny dyed and stamped beech building set contained with..

Der Kleine Schwede miniature houses game
£10.50
The Fröbelgabe No. 5b was conceived by Hermann Goldammer, a student of Fröbel. It contains round building blocks, namely half cylinders, cubes, and tr..

Fröbelgabe 5b by by Hermann Goldammer
£46.50
A toy of simple Bauhaus inspired geometric shapes and primary colours created in 2011 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding of SINA Speilz..

The Basic Game by Fred Voß
£14.00
Unchanged in recipe, design, or packaging since its launch in 1927, Coccoina contains in its aluminium tin a separate compartment holding a small brus..

Coccoina Italian paste glue
£4.00
With a wooden grip of oiled beech-wood and light natural (pig) bristles. Designed to be safer and easier for little hands to hold. From the the Versmo..

Baby paint brush, beech wood & bristle
£6.00
A very soft natural hairbrush of oiled pear-wood, with short fine bristles of white goat hair. For smoothing downy hair and gently massaging the scalp..

Hairbrush for babies, pear wood & goat hair
£15.00
A softer brush made with light natural bristle mounted to a waxed beech stock. Gentler than the adult brushes, so as not to tug and break young fine h..

Hairbrush for children, beech & bristle
£12.00
A hand stitched, heart-shaped body brush, made of a pale birch wood and exquisitely soft white goat hair. Designed to fit perfectly in the hand, this ..

Swedish heart-shaped baby brush, goat hair
£21.50
Natural hand and sustainably harvested sponges from the eastern Mediterranean sea. Natural sponge is generally softer than its synthetic equivalents, ..

Sustainably sourced baby bath sponge + duck
£21.50
Official referee whistle. Following on from its cousin the Metropolitan, and a year younger being born in 1884, the Thunderer came about as Joseph Hud..

The Thunderer, or Official referee whistle
£9.00
The authentic British police whistle, introduced in 1883 as a replacement to the unsurprisingly ineffective police rattles. The discordant 2 tone soun..

Authentic British Police whistle
£12.00
A professional orchestral, or perhaps theatrical nickel plated siren whistle with a complex rotating mechanism which accurately recreates the vibratin..

Nickel plated Siren whistle
£40.00
A nickel silver traditional English shepherd’s lip whistle, used for the training and control of sheepdogs. This can take a little practice to make a ..

Traditional English Shepherd's whistle
£5.00
Clarkes original tin penny whistle, created in 1843 by Robert Clarke a farm labourer in Coney Weston in Suffolk. He then walked with his son and a bar..

Clarkes original Penny whistle in C
£17.50
A simple yet creative pattern making toy consisting of 60 diamond shaped child safe lacquered wooden tiles, 10 in each of the primary and secondary co..

Shape maker, mix & match puzzle
£25.00
A 500g pack of rainbow coloured modelling clay – in blue, green, violet, red, yellow, and white, made in the UK. Non-drying, non-toxic, and endlessly ..

Colour Clay modelling clay, Rainbow
£4.00
A set of 5 beech wood toy vehicles, made by Sina Spielzeug, to stretch those budding imaginations. The set consists of a Limousine, a Pick-up, a Motor..

Set of 5 simple wooden vehicles
£30.00
Red painted beechwood handle, rice straw. Something of a misnomer rice straw is not derived from rice at all but from sorghum a type of cereal growing..

Child's rice straw sweeper
£10.00 – £12.00
Red painted beechwood and horsehair, waxed beech handle. Redecker have been hand making brushes using traditional methods since 1935. Still a small fa..

Child's room broom, beech & horsehair
£18.50 – £20.50
Natural ox-horn dessert, breakfast, or child's spoons hand cut, formed, and polished in Carnforth, at the last remaining horn-works in Britain. Th..

Hand made horn child's or breakfast spoon
£13.50
Natural ox-horn egg or baby spoons hand cut, formed, and polished in Carnforth, at the last remaining horn-works in Britain. The colours range from wh..

Ox-horn egg or baby spoon
£9.00
Natural horn bowls in two sizes, small approximately 100mm in diameter, or large at about 160mm. Ranging from white, to translucent amber, through all..

Lancashire-made horn bowls
£25.50 – £36.00
A small (about 45mm diameter) turned beech screw-top box for the safe keeping of milk teeth (Milch Zähne), be that by parents for prosteritory or fair..

Tooth box, ‘Milch Zahne’
£6.50
A gentle soap for children, made in Heidelberg by Klar Seifen, established by Phillip Klar in 1840. Gently cleanses and nourishes young sensitive skin..

Klar's Kinder (Children’s) soap
£4.50
Gift vouchers, or certificates in denominations of £10.00, £25.00, £50.00, or £100.00 of letter-pressed card produced for us in the printing workshop ..

Objects of Use gift certificate
£10.00 - £100.00
A premium, smaller scale hand trowel, resulting from top-of-the-range German manufacturing, great for all sorts of jobs around the garden. great for a..

Krumpholz junior-sized trowel
£16.50
A plain paper A5 sized notebook from the LIFE company of Japan. Made with 100 sheets of finely laid, watermarked, and acid free archival quality Japan..

A5 Noble notebook, plain
£15.00
Twelve colourful blocks, of beech and water-based paint, that can be arranged to form a circle or square in red, yellow, and blue. Mix them up to crea..

Herve Tullet's Blocks
£51.50
The Griefling rattle — a rattle or baby toy in the shape of a ring with a central bar holding three loose disks, with a hollow interior contains a sma..

Hohenfried Greifling rattle
£32.50
A many coloured musical tower from Hohenfried Werkstätten. Easily mistaken for a naive rainbow sculpture or else some kind of creative storage solutio..

Klangturm wooden musical sound tower
£95.00
Made in the wood workshops of Botton Village of oiled hardwood supplied and sourced by their own sawmill from either the community's own managed woodl..

Wooden passenger train
£25.00
A box of 12 children's oil pastels from Sakura of Japan. Made from a mixture of pigment, oil, and wax. First created in 1925, these were initially ava..

Sakura cray-pas, oil pastels
£8.50
A hand crafted dog toy, or koiran lelu, made of recycled eco-cotton in blue and white. Each chew toy is braided by hand for SokkoTaito Oy, a Finnish c..

Koiran Lelu Finnish cotton dog toy
£19.00
The original Admiralty Boatswain’s pipe or call (it should never called a whistle) made to an Acme design of 1870, and still used by navies worldwide ..

Original Admiralty Boatswain's pipe
£26.50
Hand-made in France from beech and metal, this blackbird call can, with practice and attentive listening, be used to imitate the trills and modulation..

Hand-made French Bird call, Blackbird
£31.00
Hand-made in France from boxwood, this cuckoo call is fairly easy to play, the skill being primarily one of rhythm and timing. Play by sucking and blo..

Hand-made French Bird call, Cuckoo
£28.00
This handmade boxwood duck call is exceptionally easy to play, making it ideal for younger enthusiasts, however whilst sound like a duck might be easy..

Hand-made French Bird call, Mallard duck
£23.00
Hand-made in France from beech wood and metal, with skill and practice the chaffinch call can be used to accurately replicate the high pitched twitter..

Hand-made French Bird call, Chaffinch
£30
Hand-made of boxwood and brass the goldfinch call can be used to accurately replicate the high pitched twittering of one of our more common, and attra..

Hand-made French Bird call, Goldfinch
£27.00
Hand-made in France using beech wood, the swallow call can, with practice and attentive listening, be used to imitate the trills and modulations of th..

Hand-made French Bird call, Swallow
£25.50
A simple hand call of metal and wood, which is turned producing friction noise, which with perfection of pressure, speed, and rhythm, imitates well th..

Hand-made French Bird call, Nightingale
£27.00
A small hand warbler similar to the nightingale call, producing sound from the friction of metal against wood, and which with variation 
in pressure a..

Hand-made French Bird call, Robin
£27.00
Made from polished boxwood, the Tawny Owl is one of the easier calls to play, tapping a finger upon the top hole whilst quivering ones tongue to emula..

Hand-made French Bird call, Tawny owl
£28.00
Imbued perhaps with the spirit of Doctor Doolittle Monsieur François Morel has since a childhood amongst the verdant hills of the Rhône-Alpes region b..

Green woodpecker call
£32.50
Hand-made in France from rubber and brass, the starling is a fairly easy call to master, the rubber pipes held between forefinger and thumb and the ha..

Hand-made French Bird call, Starlings
£48.00
The Hohner Little Lady mini harmonica is only 35mm in length, yet possesses eight reeds and therefore a full octave range. Still assembled, tested and..

Little lady miniature harmonica
£14.50
Made of nickel coated brass and with a pearwood comb, the Marine band is virtually unchanged since 1896. In an early example of 'celebrity' en..

Original Marine Band harmonica
£47.50
A simple wooden güiro — a Latin American percussion instrument traditionally consisting of an open-ended, hollow gourd with parallel notches cut in on..

Wooden Guiro percussion instrument
£6.50
Classic birch ply and natural hide tambourines with single rows of zils. Played simply with a flick of the wrist, a tap of the frame, or beating of th..

Birch ply and natural hide tambourine, 8"
£10.00
A set of twelve beautifully crafted musical balls — two each of red, green, yellow, orange, blue, and purple — in a cotton bag. Simple and beautiful r..

Hand crafted set of 12 musical balls
£82.50
A quietly fascinating toy created by the German (geometry obsessed) cabinet maker and graphic designer Fred Voß around the three-dimensionally tessell..

Pyrom geometry game by Fred Voß
£175.00
An absorbing and endlessly creative toy consisting of 250 brightly coloured lacquered wooden balls, and a double sided board, machined on one side wit..

Pattern-maker, wooden ball game
£39.00
A 500g pack of rainbow coloured modelling clay – in green, yellow, orange, red, violet, white, blue and brown, made in the UK. Whilst not as well know..

Newplast modelling clay, Rainbow
£3.00
A 500g pack of rainbow coloured modelling clay – in green, yellow, orange, red, violet, white, blue and brown, made in the UK. Whilst not as well know..

Newplast modelling clay, skin tones
£3.00
Hand shaped box wood modelling tools for forming and carving drying and non-drying clays. Single tool randomly selected, multiple orders will have dis..

Modelling tools
£1.20
A miniature or doll's sweeping and cleaning set contained in a neat wooden case. Includes a natural bristle floor broom, red lacquered bucket, metal d..

Doll's broom set in wooden case
£22.50
Children's red painted steel dustpan with a brush made from untreated beechwood and horsehair. The brush measures 22cm in length, the dustpan 19.5..

Child's painted steel dustpan & brush
£15.00
A three piece baby's cutlery set of white vitreous enamel over stainless steel. Enamel is made by the high temperature fusion of powdered glass slurry..

Japanese enamel baby cutlery set
£20.50
A turned beech bowl about 14cm in diameter. Traditionally a muesli bowl, but also being 'shatterproof' a good alternative to plastic baby, children's,..

Wooden baby or cereal bowl
£12.00
An untreated beechwood rolling pin for children, or for smaller rolling jobs, with a central metal axle, around which the wooden roller turns. 24cm lo..

Beech wood rolling pin for children
£6.00