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