Sunday, February 28, 2010

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Natural Wood Beavers on Etsy




Wooden animals are hand made - painted with waterbased paints
Item is handcrafted from poplar wood, sanded smooth and painted with waterbased non toxic paint.

Wooden handmade beavers are about 2 inches long and 2 inches tall.

Please let me know if you have any questions or want me to make a special animal for you.

handmade toy, woodland forest animals, artisan toy, made in america, beaver

Natural Wooden Wheelbarrow Made in Germany


For all your little helpers in the yard and garden. Much better than plastic junk.

Wheelbarrow from native fir wood. Beech wood wheels with 5 inch diameter.

The Handles are made of beech wood. The surface of the wood is treated with an oil wax mixture. Length: 22.8", Height: 10.25", Width: 14.15". Made in Dorfsgemeinschaft Lautenbach, an anthroposophical workplace in Germany

Natural toy fun wheel barrow

The simple choices are those that last. Our wooden toys, constructed of oak, pine, walnut, and maple, offer the durability not often found in "toy store" toys. You'll find a wide selection of toys designed to encourage artistic talent and imagination, cognitive development and reading readiness, physical play and exploration in nature. Natural wood toys inspire years of inner creativity.

http://naturalbaby.stores.yahoo.net/outdoor.html

Sarah's Silk Play Silks at the Wooden Horse


Great versatile natural items.

Playsilks are a basic ingredient for children’s imaginative play. Silks can be used to create elaborate costumes, build forts, create landscapes and water for boats and animals, and much more. Light, flowing silk. 35x35 inch squares.

This are hand hemmed. Dyed with non-toxic dyes in the USA. Packaged in a lively paper wrapper that gives ideas for play. Available in a variety of vibrant solid colors.

Made In USA
PlaySilks by Sarah's Silks

Wednesday, February 10, 2010







Ebay Listings for Wooden Toys

Maine Toys Different Drummer Toy Shop




Started over 25 years ago

In 1973 our family fled the “big city industrial rat race” to live in the small town of Solon, Maine, where we started the Different Drummer Workshop. We have always remained a small family wood craft business, aimed at making traditional wooden toys for kids using native Maine resources.

Our wooden toys are best known for the quality of their craftsmanship. The primary material is white pine, and every board of wood is carefully selected to show off its natural beauty and grain. The completed wooden toy is finely sanded to a satin smooth natural finish

In designing and building our toys, safety, simplicity, and durability are the main considerations. In manufacturing we make sure that all joints are solidly glued, that corners and edges are well rounded, and all surfaces are sanded smooth and feel soft and pleasant to touch. No artificial finishes are applied to our wooden toys, except to the sailboat and the “executive desk toys” and games, thus reducing concern about toxic substances going into a child’s mouth.

We believe that toys intended for children should be non-violent and simple in design, leaving the child to use his or her own imagination (instead of a battery) to fill in whatever details are needed at the time of play. Only those wooden toys aimed at older kids (adults) are designed with extra details.

Another thing for which our wooden toys are known is their durability. Now that we have been making wooden toys for more than a generation we constantly have grandparents tell us about buying a rocking horse or a choo-choo train for one of their own kids, now grown, who has just passed it down to a new grandchild. Often they’ll exclaim about how much play the toy received, perhaps through several kids, and how well it stood the test!



Our handcrafted wood toy bathtub boats are great traditional toys with which generations of kids have enjoyed taking a bath.

The 10-1/2” Wooden toy Sailboat with its 2 removable people is a super bathtub toy for the future sailor in the family. This is the only kids toy to which we apply any artificial finish, the hull being dipped in lead free varnish to give some protection from its use in water. However, if you prefer an un-varnished hull note it in the instruction box at the bottom of the order form.