Wooden toys bring back the charm of the good old simple days and the touch of nature for our kids. In today’s fast paced world, where the focus on competing and completing instead of enjoying and nurturing the process, simple wooden toys help in truly helping kids stay true to the nature of play. Without the use of any batteries or lights, simple toys made of wood enhance a child’s imagination, allows them to explore and surprise adults with their novelty. Not just the value of play, wooden toys also help to develop a close connect with nature, understand the process of creating them and bring about a harmony with the toy.
Toys made of wood whether it’s pine wood, birch ply, steem beech, neem wood or any other local wood contributes to a beautiful texture for the toys. Besides this, the very nature of manufacturing them is very sustainable – with no use of plasticizers, hardened compounds or any other artificially sourced products going into their creation. The use of wood, simple vegetable dyes or water-based paints and beautiful textures that the artisans are able to create is all that adds beauty and the age old charm of a handmade essence to a wooden toy.
Today the way a child interacts with a toy is just as important as what the toy is made of and we ensure we are able to ideate designs that call for more open-ended play. Which means the child can engage and play with these toys in multiple ways. From building open-ended bridges, tunnels, tracks to pretending there to be an animal kingdom or a car garage is all left up to a child’s imagination. Being open-ended also ensures that the child repetitively comes back to playing with the same toy albeit in a different way. Offering a child simple blocks instead of toys which can be played in a unidirectional way has disappropriate impact on the value it adds to their playtime. Toys are not just meant for mere distraction or entertainment, they very subconsciously impact a child’s neurological development and the building abstract connections in their brain.
This indirectly gets transferred into being able to build a growth mindset. Offering toys that help a child play independently, offer opportunities for self-correction all while making and pushing the child to think in different ways in great proportion contributes to shaping a child’s mindset, developing a problem-solving attitude from an early age and trains their brain to embrace new/different/unusual/innovative methods of solving a problem at hand which is exactly what we want our young adults to bring to this nation.
While parents do find it difficult to productively engage the child or even able to spend considerable time with a child, the joy of playing with simple wooden toys which can be passed down generations is unparalleled. While the very nature of wooden toys makes them sturdy, they also last for a long time ensuring multiple repeated play with the same toys. When generations of kids interact with the same toy the joy of watching the toy also grow with the child is truly magical!
If you wish to be a part of this changing landscape and embrace the joy of simple wooden toys, do write to us and let us know which are the kind of wooden toys that you would like for us to add for your child. Since creating and manufacturing them is a long process as it is with most handmade products, we might take a longer lead time in creating them, however we would be more than happy to consider making them and having you and your child experience the magic of playing with them. For us this would also stay true to our vision of ‘Curating purposeful playtime for every child’