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
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
Various rattles or greifling (clutching) toys handmade to the renowned carpenter, pedagogue, and educational theorist Hugo Kükelhaus’s original 1..

Hohenfried rattles
£27.50 – £29.00
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 dumper truck
£40.00
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 mobile crane
£45.00
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..

Flappy runner duck
£28.00
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
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
£5.00
Smaller hairbrushes of either oiled pear-wood mounted with seven rows of soft white goat-hair for smoothing the downy hair and gently massaging babies..

Hairbrushes for babies & children
£9.50 – £12.00
Natural hand and sustainably harvested sponges from the eastern Mediterranean sea. Natural sponge is generally softer than its synthetic equivalents, ..

Bath sponge with duck
£17.00
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
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
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..

Tambourines
£9.00 – £10.00
Whilst not as well known as its more famous forebear, this is actually its animation grade equivalent, used by Aardman for Wallace & Gromit, Chicken R..

Newplast
£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
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
£8.00 – £10.00
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
£14.50 – £16.50
For centuries the beautifully figured birch burl kuksa has been the drinking vessel of the Sami, the indigenous people of far northern Scandinavia. Ha..

Finnish Kuksa birch burl cups
£20.00 – £125.00
Small chlidren's forks and spoons hand cut, ground, and finished by Inoue Hiroyuki of Atelier akarino-tane in Asahikawa City, of birch cut from the fo..

Kodomo, children's cutlery
£34.50
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 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
A wooden puzzle known variously as the Tower of Hanoi, Tower of Brahma, or Lucas’s Tower popularised in the West by the mathematician Édouard Lucas. I..

Tower of Hanoi
£18.50
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
£9.50
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
£9.50
Made in the wood workshops of Botton Village of mixed soft and hard woods supplied and sourced by their own sawmill from either the community's own ma..

Lifeboat
£39.00
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 excavator
£40.00
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 bulldozer
£29.50
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
£18.50
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..

Pull along wooden horse
£16.50
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..

6 fish and a stick
£27.00
An old fashioned piggy bank for coins only, as the pig must be inverted and shaken to extract any savings making notes hard to retrieve. Made in the w..

Piggy Bank
£27.50
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 w..

Skittles
£55.00
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
£6.65
A box of 12 square sawn white writing chalks, with special paper sleeves which protects fingers from dust and smudges. The paper is loose and intended..

Drei Sterne school chalk
£3.00
A box of 12 square sawn coloured school chalks, with special paper sleeves which protects fingers from dust and smudges. The paper is loose and intend..

NEOCOLOR chalk
£8.00
A box of 6 coloured, conical - tapering from end to tip - cast school chalks, with an anti dust coating. Anton Franz Mörtel founded his chalk factory ..

Coloured school chalks
£3.00
A box of 6 coloured fine round soft pastel chalks for drawing. Anton Franz Mörtel founded his chalk factory in 1870, but it was in the 1920's that the..

Drei Sterne pastelle
£4.50
Square sawn coloured school chalk, with a special paper sleeve which protects fingers from dust and smudges. The paper is loose and intended to be wit..

NEOCOLOR seminar pack
£5.00
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
£8.50
The authentic British police whistle, introduced in 1883 as a replacement to the unsurprisingly ineffective police rattles. The discordant 2 tone soun..

Police whistle
£10.75
A professional orchestral, or perhaps theatrical nickel plated siren whistle with a complex rotating mechanism which accurately recreates the vibratin..

Siren whistle
£35.00
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
£24.00
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
£4.50
Imbued perhaps with the spirit of Doctor Doolittle Monsieur François Morel has since a childhood amongst the verdant hills of the Rhône-A..

Blackbird call
£22.00
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
£20.00
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
£17.50
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..

Goldfinch 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
£16.50
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
£21.00
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
£20.00
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
£29.00
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
£32.50
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
Named after the mischievous sprite from A Midsummer Nights Dream, This petite harmonica has stainless steel covers and a plastic comb. Part of Hohner’..

Puck harmonica in C
£11.50
Essentially a copy of their own Marine Band harmonica but with a plastic instead of pear-wood comb, the Big River Harp is now the cheapest of Hohners ..

Big River Harp
£31.50
Made in the wood workshops of Botton Village of hard and soft woods supplied and sourced by their own sawmill from either the community's own managed ..

Box of bricks
£35.00
A quietly fascinating toy created by the German (geometry obsessed) cabinet maker and graphic designer Fred Voss around the three-dimensionally tessel..

Pyrom
£120.00
A miniature or doll's sweeping and cleaning set contained in a neat wooden case. Includes a naturally bristled floor broom, red lacquered bucket, pegs..

Doll's broom set
£25.00
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
£10.50
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
£8.00
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
£10.00
Untreated beechwood, 24cm long including handles, 5cm diameter. Made in Germany...

Child's rolling pin
£5.00