There’s something very unique about the feeling of rubbing your hands on solid, well-crafted wooden toys. Children seem to grasp this more than any other person because wooden toys have not lost their appeal through the ages and continue to be a primary toy for children in playgroups, homes and schools around the globe. Wooden toys are experiencing an incredible revival as parents long for their childhoods as they select toys for their children and as people generally go back to traditional toys in order to counterbalance the ever-sophisticated technology and toys of the age of technology. Few have summarized the fascination of wood in the past more accurately than the sociologist as well as design historian Amy F. Ogata, who in her work Designing The Creative, that wood “is a familiar and poetic substance, which does not sever the child from close contact with the tree, the table, the floor.” Then, here are the top six benefits of wooden toys designed for children. Ecologically sound Wooden toys that are responsibly sourced, certified wood are, naturally an green alternative to plastic toys. Since it is an organic, natural material wooden toys can be biodegradable, and be reused. Wooden toys can also be […]
read more