No lights, no music, no motor… Are wooden toys old-fashioned? We don’t think so!
Discover with us the great advantages of choosing these toys for your Mini. We present 5 great reasons!
1 – They invite imagination and creativity
With wooden toys , the only driving force behind play can be your Mini's own energy and imagination!
Without the distraction of a light or a voice telling them what to do, children will use their own creativity to play, to imagine all kinds of adventures and find new challenges to solve. They will create endless car tracks, busy people and animals like we have never seen before. In this way, children will also develop their spatial sense, initiative and problem-solving skills.
2 – Stimulate learning
To understand and assimilate the world around them, children look for examples among adults or other older children. As wooden toys tend to recreate objects used by adults, children also learn everyday actions through play – they gain autonomy and communication, and develop their motor and reasoning skills. Both more sophisticated wooden toys, such as kitchens and workshops, with classic puzzles and building blocks, have this educational value, helping your Mini to learn by imitation or simply to understand how adult things work.
3 – They are safe, resistant and long-lasting
Besides never becoming obsolete simply because a more modern version has been developed, a wooden toy can be dropped, can fly or even dive and still continue to work. There are no loose parts that could be swallowed or sharp edges that could hurt your Mini. So… they last a long time! Who knows, maybe one day you will have a grandchild playing with the same toys !
4 – More ecological
All the Wooden toys are sustainable and eco-friendly, as wood is a biodegradable and renewable material. The paint itself is usually water-based. While they save the environment from the toxic metals and materials found in batteries and plastic waste, wooden toys also save parents’ wallets, as they no longer need to keep an endless supply of batteries!
5 – Promote attention to detail
Without other obvious distractions, we can appreciate aspects that normally go unnoticed: small differences in texture, shape, color and weight, or even small changes in the movement of a toy, which requires a little more energy to move. If parents themselves notice these details, even though they already know what to expect when picking up the toy, imagine how interested your Mini will be when he discovers them for the first time!
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