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

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A curious mix of of high technology and natural materials, perhaps serving as a reminder that the future need not be entirely synthetic. Produced in Y..

Mokulock, wooden building blocks
£23.50 – £45.00
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 fork
£14.00
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
£7.50
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
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’
£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
Various rattles or greifling (clutching) toys handmade to the renowned carpenter, pedagogue, and educational theorist Hugo Kükelhaus’s original 1..

Hohenfried rattles
£32.50 – £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..

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..

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..

Paddle boat
£10.00
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
£12.00
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 paste glue
£4.00
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
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
£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
£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
£12.00
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
£9.00
The authentic British police whistle, introduced in 1883 as a replacement to the unsurprisingly ineffective police rattles. The discordant 2 tone soun..

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

Siren whistle
£40.00
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 ..

Boatswain's pipe
£26.50
A nickle silver traditional English shepherd’s lip whistle, used for the training and control of sheepdogs. This can take a little practice to make a ..

Shepherd's whistle
£5.00
Handmade in France by François Morel using beech and metal, the blackbird call can, with practice and attentive listening, be used to imitate the tril..

Blackbird call
£24.00
Imbued perhaps with the spirit of Doctor Doolittle Monsieur François Morel has since a childhood amongst the verdant hills of the Rhône-A..

Cuckoo call
£24.00
Handmade by  François Morel from beech, with skill and practice this chaffinch call can be used to accurately replicate the high pitched twitteri..

Chaffinch call
£24.00
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..

Goldfinch call
£22.50
Imbued perhaps with the spirit of Doolittle M. François Morel has since a childhood amongst the hills of the Rhône-Alpes region been making instrument..

Swallow call
£21.00
Imbued perhaps with the spirit of Doctor Doolittle Monsieur François Morel has since a childhood amongst the verdant hills of the Rhône-A..

Hand nightingale call
£22.50
Imbued perhaps with the spirit of Doolittle M. François Morel has since a childhood amongst the hills of the Rhône-Alpes region been making instrument..

Robin warbler
£22.50
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
Imbued perhaps with the spirit of Doolittle M. François Morel has since a childhood amongst the hills of the Rhône-Alpes region been making instrument..

Starling twitter call
£42.50
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..

Penny whistles
£15.00
A quietly fascinating toy created by the German (geometry obsessed) cabinet maker and graphic designer Fred Voss around the three-dimensionally tessel..

Pyrom
£130.00
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
£22.00
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
£32.50
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 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
£18.50 – £20.50
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 dustpan & brush
£15.00
Created in 1956 as a sort of German counterpoint to the Zena Rex and especially for those who prefer to hold their peelers at 90° to the object peeled..

Famos vegetable peeler
£5.20
Natural horn bowls in two sizes, small approximately 100mm in diameter, or large at about 160mm. Ranging from white, to translucent amber, through all..

Horn bowls
£25.50 – £36.00
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 trowel
£14.00
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
A many coloured musical tower from Hohenfried Werkstätten. Easily mistaken for a naive rainbow sculpture or else some kind of creative storage solutio..

Klangturm (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
Or little Sweden whose simple houses these were once thought to resemble - a tiny dyed and stamped beech building set contained within a classic pull-..

Der Kleine Schwede
£7.80
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 baby brush, heart
£19.50
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
Natural hand and sustainably harvested sponges from the eastern Mediterranean sea. Natural sponge is generally softer than its synthetic equivalents, ..

Bath sponge with duck
£21.50
Imbued perhaps with the spirit of Doctor Doolittle Monsieur François Morel has since a childhood amongst the verdant hills of the Rhône-A..

Mallard call
£19.50
Imbued perhaps with the spirit of Doolittle M. François Morel has since a childhood amongst the hills of the Rhône-Alpes region been making instrument..

Tawny owl call
£24.00
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 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..

Marine band harmonica
£38.50
Musical balls sold as a complete set of 12 - two each of red, green, yellow, orange, blue, and purple - in a cotton bag. Simple and beautiful rattles,..

All the musical balls
£66.00
An endlessly creative toy consisting of 250 brightly coloured lacquered wooden balls, and a double sided board, machined on one side with in a square ..

Mini ball game
£33.00
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 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
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..

Horn 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..

Egg or baby spoon
£8.40
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
Untreated beechwood, 24cm long including handles, 5cm diameter. Made in Germany...

Child's rolling pin
£6.00