| Kids wooden toys have been with us for | | | | out of fashion, so much so that these wooden |
| thousands of years. They have been found when | | | | toys will be passed down to their children and |
| archeologist's have excavated looking for other | | | | their children's children. As long as they are |
| artifacts. It is believed that natural wooden toys | | | | treated well these toys will become heirlooms and |
| were the very first toys to be made and played | | | | not all is lost either, if they get damaged, parts |
| with. Wood was used all of those years ago | | | | can be made for them again. Its not like breaking |
| because really there was nothing else available | | | | a plastic toy and having to throw it straight into |
| that was so easy to work with and shape into | | | | the bin because it can't be fixed. |
| toys. Even in those times, the likes of the spinning | | | | We also seem to get attached to these natural |
| top was intricately carved. | | | | wooden toys and have feelings of love towards |
| So why then, now we have all of the different | | | | them, maybe because they have the feel and |
| materials and technologies do we still use and | | | | look of warmth, but not only that, they have |
| have natural wooden toys? There isn't just one | | | | been carved by somebody who loves to make |
| answer to this, let me elaborate. A child's rocking | | | | toys and who loves to know that children will love |
| horse or a wooden toolbox with tools, are both | | | | the hand crafted toy forever. The wooden toys |
| ideal for children to escape into their fantasy | | | | have been around for thousands of years and will |
| world and play for hours with and which, they | | | | probably be in another thousand years, there are |
| may put away for a time and eventually return | | | | not many, if any, other materials made into toys |
| for more fun, be it the same day or months | | | | that will be around for that length of time. |
| down the line. You see the toys never look to go | | | | |