Best Toys

Toys have been made from wood for a long time, since wood was available for toy making long before plastic products were introduced. Wooden toys are still around today and as popular as ever because of their relative durability and longevity. Toys such as building blocks and alphabet blocks, little vehicles and doll furniture are all products that are still made of wood by some companies. Here are some of the best wooden toys available for kids today…

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Wooden building blocks are among the most popular of these, and they are available in sets of painted and natural blocks with shapes like rectangles, squares, arches, triangles, cones, and other shapes. Kids can use these blocks to challenge their imagination and build large buildings that they design by themselves as they build. While there are many different companies that make wooden toys, one company stands out as the best- a company that started out making only wooden toys and that still specializes in wooden toys whenever it is possible to make a toy out of wood instead of another material. This company is Melissa and Doug.

Best Wooden Toys Brand - Melissa and Doug

The Melissa and Doug wooden toy company started out as a small business in the garage of Doug’s mother’s home. The company started out with a single product, a wooden cutout puzzle. Since then, the toy line has grown to include dozens of different toys, all educational in nature, and the vast majority made only from wood. These toys all have a particular subject to offer to kids, from basics like letters, numbers, shapes and colors to motor skills and pretend play.

One of the parent favorite products in the Melissa and Doug toy line is the easel that is built just for children. Built at just the right level for the youngest artiste, this easel can hold special oversized paper pads or other painting or drawing media. Although it is not like other wooden toys, it is one of the most popular- and higher quality than many of the other kids easels on the market.

Melissa and Doug makes a full line of wooden toys, including lots of different themed wooden puzzles. They are not jigsaw type puzzles, but a solid piece of wood topped by another piece of wood with cutouts of various shapes. The puzzle pieces have little knob handle sized perfectly to fit tiny hands. Each puzzle is a self- contained unit that is portable, so kids can take them along on visits to the doctor’s office when there could be a long wait or on car trips when kids could get very bored sitting in one spot. These puzzles are some of the most popular models in the Melissa and Doug toy line.

Melissa and Doug also offers some of the highest quality wooden building blocks available on the market. Praised by parents for the use of high quality hardwood that doesn’t chip or break easily and high quality paint that resists chipping, these blocks are favorite imaginative toys among kids. Other popular wooden toys in the Melissa and Doug line are the Play Kitchen, which allows kids to have hours of imaginative pretend play, and the line of trains and other vehicles that allow kids to have lots of pretend travel play.

Melissa and Doug also have a full line of baby and toddler toys as well as a full line of puppets and theaters. The latter is very popular among families who like to do fun activities together. Families can take turns putting on shows in the living room, a kind of family friendly after dinner theater. The puppets and theaters are well made just like every other Melissa and Doug toy, and they are becoming a very common item to see in day care centers and even some schools.