Toys made out of wood are a better value for your hard-earned money, mainly because they are a timeless toy. Wooden toys can take a beating that synthetic based toys just can’t handle. Kids can drop them, smash them, throw them or stomp on them and unlike plastic toys that break, crack and shatter, the wood toys holds up to. They are also environmental friendly sense you do not have to use batteries or electricity.
Wooden Toys: Best of Everything
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Car Melissa and Doug Car Carrier: Hit the road with a six wheel auto transport truck that comes equipped with four colorful and fun wooden cars. Not only does the truck roll anywhere your child’s imagination takes them, but all four cars are working rolling machines as well. The car carrier features a uniquely designed two level ramp that folds down in to one for easy loading and unloading. A perfect wooden toy for boys and girls everywhere, the imagination can do loads with a large truck and four cars that roll easily along the imaginary paths your child paints in his or her mind. Why We Like It: We love Melissa and Doug’s Car Carrier for its simplicity yet fun design. The truck provides hours of enjoyment and the cars are an additional bonus that provide fun and imaginative learning. Kids will love loading their truck and ‘driving’ it to the unloading location where their cars can then ‘drive’ away one by one. |
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Rocking Horse Stork Craft Rocking Horse: Classic and timeless are the two words that describe this amazing wooden rocking horse. Rocking horses are one of the best toys for toddlers, as they encourage creative play, imaginations and at the same time, teach balance. This wooden toy is made of heavy duty construction for safe play and features wide planks to discourage tipping. This great rocking horse makes the perfect addition to any playroom or bedroom and will easily become one of your child’s favorite toys. Why We Like It: We love the rocking horse by Stork Craft for its classic design and timeless tradition. It’s easy to assemble by just one person and it is sturdy enough for your toddler to enjoy for a few years. This toy will hold up under the abuse children put their toys through, making it easy to pass down. |
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Wooden Train Sets Thomas and Friends: Who doesn’t love wooden train sets and combined with the famous Thomas and Friends, who can resist? Thomas and friends chug a lug around a figure eight track, through neighborhoods filled with all of your child’s imaginative friends. There are numerous add ons that you can purchase to make this train set a one of a kind as a unique as your child. Why We Like It: We love Thomas and his friends and we love this set because it incorporates this child icon with the timeless tradition of wooden train tracks. The optional additions ensure that your child can use their creativity to make the best train station and town that they possibly can. The best part? No batteries needed! |
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Unique Building Toy Automoblox: Allow your child’s mind to wander with Automoblox wooden toys. Automoblox allows children to see and assemble cars that they see in their minds. The design is up to them. This super clever toy allows kids to put their imagination in to motion and create whatever their hearts desire. With choices such as trucks, convertibles, classic cars and futuristic cars, the options are endless and the choices limitless only by their creativity. Why We Like It: How could we not love this great toy? This toy is on our top toy list because it creates such a learning environment for children. Children design a vehicle that is only limited by what they can dream up. The Automoblox opens a child’s mind and creates a place for them to put their creative juices to work. |
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Classic Wooden Blocks Melissa and Doug Wooden Blocks: There is not a classic toy more than wooden blocks. Wooden blocks create a place for constructive and creative play while promoting fine motor skills. Wooden blocks have been a timeless toy for generations and with colorful designs, interesting shapes and sturdy construction, Melissa and Doug’s blocks can create imaginative structures that children dream up. Considered a top toy by many, wooden blocks easily become a favorite amongst youngsters everywhere. Why We Like It: We love toys that build a child’s creativity and wooden blocks do that and so much more. Wooden blocks allow a child to use their imagination to create whatever they manage to dream up….Not too many toys can say that for themselves. On top of everything else, these wooden toys are by far the most environmentally friendly: no batteries, no electricity, no metals or plastics and no small moving parts that can easily break. |
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Most Unique Building Blocks Tegu: Tegu is an awarding winning wooden block set. Each wooden block has a small magnet that holds it in place to create amazing three dimensional structures, automobiles or anything else your child can think up. The blocks defy gravity and leave playtime open ended, allowing complete creativity from the builder. Made with heirloom quality wood, this is a toy that will be passed down generation to generation without ever getting boring. Why We Like It: Some of the top toys of the World are the simplest designed and Tegu qualifies. This set encourages lateral thinking and imaginative play. The blocks don’t need to be stacked on top of one another, the magnets inside each piece allow the child to create an array of different designs by balancing boards any way they want to. |
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Dollhouse Plan Toys The Green Dollhouse: Children learn about the environment and how to protect it through their own surroundings. The Green Dollhouse is a completely eco-friendly dollhouse that encourages this thought. The design includes a wind turbines, a solar cell panel, a electric inverter for generating electricity and a rain barrel for collectin water. The doll house is outfitted with furniture for five rooms and additional furniture and decorations can be purchased for an entire home decorating scheme. Interactive role playing will come to life when children place their dolls in this environmentally friendly doll house that provides hours of fun playtime. Why We Like It: The entire doll house and its contents are crafted with recycled and natural rubber wood, dyed with vegetable and soy dyes and promotes healthy living. It even includes recycling bins around the interior of the home and energy efficient sliding binds. The open sides make it easy for dolls to march room to room. |
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Easel Melissa and Doug Easel: Set up your emerging artist with all of the tools they need to create their very own masterpieces. This large easel is perfect for both small and large projects alike. One side features a classic chalkboard while the reverse side is a dry erase board. The easel kit also features a bright and colorful paint tray with cup holders, a locking paper roll so kids can easily paint or color their masterpieces on paper, a paper cutter and a tray to hold chalk and an eraser. Kids will love all of the options they have when they pull out the easy to store foldable easel. Why We Like It: This easel is super easy to fold and unfold for easy storage in a closet or even under a bed. The wood is sturdy and durable and the features are numerous. Kids can play school on their chalkboard or write themselves notes on the dry erases board. They can create original art masterpieces on the paper roll and then do it all over again. This easel is one of the best there is because it is loaded with options and features that take it from just a wooden stand to something much more. |
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Workbench Melissa and Doug Wooden Project Workbench: Mini versions of daddy’s will love this pint size workbench that may look just like the one already in your garage or workroom. With predrilled holes and cut outs for all of little Jimmy’s tools, your child will love tool time with the man in their life. Boys will love hammering into the sturdy pine or screwing down a nail. Even comes with project ideas so dad and son can spend some quality time hanging out while they make something for mom. Why We Like It: This sturdy workbench comes with everything your budding builder needs to get started: two Allen wrenches, toy saw, sawing board, wrench, screwdriver, hammer, 12 bolts, 12 nuts, 4 wheels, 4 hubs, 4 connector blocks, 4 nails, 14 building strips, and instructions to spark creative ideas for projects of your own. |
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Play Kitchen KidKraft Large Kitchen: Every little chef needs their own kitchen and when that kitchen is made of sturdy wood and outfitted with all of the gadgets that make it special, then you have a winner. This large kitchen features a refrigerator, freezer, oven and microwave with see through doors that open and close, realistic knobs, and storage areas for all the items that make a kitchen complete. All the little details of this kitchen have been thought of it and it is both realistic and fun! Why We Like It: The KidKraft kitchen is large enough that more than one cook can be in the kitchen at a time, making this a great team work play area. Kids will love the realistic stove burners and the see through oven where they can watch their cookies and cakes bake. Plenty of kitchen accessories are available to make this kitchen your child’s dream kitchen. |
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Pull Toy Plan Toys Dancing Alligator: Classic pull and play wooden toys have been around for generations but this playful and colorful alligator is as modern as our World today. When this fun alligator is pulled around, the wood makes a fun and rhythmic click clack sound that will delight children of all ages. The alligator looks as if he is dancing (hence the name!) as his wooden structure sways back and forth. Perfect for toddlers just learning to walk, they’ll feel as if they have their own little pet. Why We Like It: Made of recycled wood and non toxic materials, this adorable alligator will worm his way in to your heart as you watch him trail behind your child. The wheels are set off center so that he sways (dances) a path behind the puller. Your child will delight in his new little friend. |
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Construction Vehicles Melissa and Doug Stacking Construction Vehicles: What child doesn’t love construction vehicles? With these three trucks, a dump truck, bulldozer, and cement mixer, the fun never ends. Children take the stackable pieces to build, take apart, and rebuilt their big trucks. Fun and bright colors are a feast for the eyes and the big parts make it easy for little hands. The pieces can be mixed and matched interchangeably from the three different trucks, so children can create their own super trucks of their own creative thoughts. Made to last, these trucks are a must have for every little boy! Why We Like It: Fun and functional go hand and hand with these quality wooden toys. Playtime has never been so much fun then when you get to play with something that you build and even the smallest hands won’t have a hard time with the extra chunky wooden pieces. |
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Wagon Radio Flyer All-Terrain Steel and Wood Wagon: It’s a full-sized stake-side wagon with natural finished select wood sides and inflatable pneumatic tires for smooth travel over rugged terrain. The original Little Red Wagon design makes this wagon a classic. The high wooden stakes and big brawny air tires allow it able to handle on or off road adventures. Features full-sized all-steel seamless body with no scratch edges, extra long handle for easy pulling, no-pinch ball joint to keep fingers safe, fold-under handle for easy storage and controlled turning radius to prevent tipping. Why We Like It: Kids love being pulled around in fun wagons and this stacked wagon makes it extra safe for the littlest of kids have fun in. Wagons are classic and timeless and older children will have fun filling it up with their toys and pulling it around the every changing terrain of your yard. |
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Pound Melissa and Doug Deluxe Pound and Roll: Build early shape, color and size differentiation skills with this great tower of pounding fun. Toddlers will love taking the including wooden hammer and pounding the balls through the holes. Once through the holes, they can watch and listen as the balls travel down the ramps and out the bottom, where they can then do it all over again! Sturdy and colorful, this toy will quickly become a favorite among your child’s array of toys. Why We Like It: We love all wood toys for the durability they offer and the no fuss required. So many toys are made of plastics that crack and break easily and others require batteries that never seem to last. With the Pound and Roll, you have a sturdy construction made of hard to break wood, and no batteries to worry about! |
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Puzzles Melissa and Doug Chunky Wooden Puzzles: A true value, these wooden puzzles are perfect as babies very first puzzle! With tons of designs to choose from, finding the perfect one for your child is easy. Each puzzle has over sized pieces, perfect for small hands, and colorful and eye catching designs. Children will love piecing together their puzzle, taking it apart and doing it all over again. As an added bonus, each puzzle piece stands straight up so it can be played with separately to encourage pretend play. Why We Like It: Puzzles, even the simplest of puzzles, encourages creative thinking and when the design is playful and colorful, children quickly become engaged. These puzzles are also designed for toddlers, so you are helping to build eye and hand coordination and lateral thinking at an early stage. |
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Ride-on Toy Prince Lionheart Wheely Bug: The Wheely Bug is an amazing wooden ride on toy that your child will instantly fall in love with. Handmade and beautifully crafted, there are six different styles to choose from. The Wheely Bug encourages active play and can be used indoors or outdoors on smooth surfaces. The padded seats make it comfortable and the unique design makes it unlike any other ride on toy. The wheels are on castors so children can turn or spin round and round with just a shove of the hands. Bright and colorful designs make these more than a ride on toy, they make them a friend! Why We Like It: Kids of all ages need exercise and fun ride on toys encourage that. With six different designs, all painted to look like kids favorite animals or bugs, there is sure to be one that your child will adore. Help them name their riding toy and watch them have fun while being active at the same time. |
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Push Toy Chomp and Clack Alligators: Push toys are perfect for toddlers to help them become sturdy on their feet and when you combine fun elements in to the style, you have a winner like this Chomp and Clack Alligator! With each step your child takes, the alligators take turns opening and closing their mouths with a gentle clacking noise. The alligators’ noise and animation encourages movement and development of gross motor skills, while spinnable, slidable beads on the handle supports help improve fine motor skills. Why We Like It: Wooden toys are perfect for toddlers because of how sturdy they are. This particular push toy is not only sturdy, but it teaches essential motor skills and helps new walkers find their balance. Bright, fun and colorful, this push toy is handcrafted, unique and safe for indoor play. |
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Play Food Melissa and Doug Play Food: Stock up your child’s play kitchen with tons of play food from all of the food groups. Sandwich making kits, dairy and bread essentials, fruits and vegetables; Melissa and Doug have thought of everything that a kitchen needs and created it. Unlike plastic pretend food, these wooden pieces will last and are built for small hands. Encourage pretend play and help the budding chef by stocking their kitchen with all the food they need for a perfect day filled with meals and snacks. Why We Like It: The different sets come in a wooden storage box, making it easy to store and organize the play food. We love that buyers have the option of purchasing food groups, separate foods or whole kits. There is even a sliceable food set that includes a wooden knife for true imaginative play. |
Wooden toys have been around for generations and we don’t see them going out of style…ever. There is something to be said about toys that are made from items in our World, and not manufactured from synthetic materials. The next time you are given a choice between a toy made of wood or a toy made of plastic, take a good look at the craftsmanship and we know which you’ll choose.
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.