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  • Time to Walk your Children to School?

    Plum My First Play Centre

     

    Did you walk your children to school this morning or did you join the school run and fight it out in the traffic? Did you know this week is National Walk to School Week? Did you know May is National Walking Month?  A recent YouGov survey for the charity Living Streets has revealed that although 80% of parents walked to school themselves, 25% of parents do not think about walking their children to school.

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  • How a Dolls’ House Can Make Moving Less Stressful for Children

    Melissa and Doug Dolls House

    How can you make moving house easier? I have yet to meet anyone who has reported a smooth and stress free move, but you never know it might just be possible. We moved house last week and when I say last week I really mean week. We started packing up our old house on Saturday and finally completed our sale and relinquished the keys to our old house on Friday. What a palaver! Late on Wednesday afternoon when one of our wonderful team of removal men brought the thirty fifth box of books up the steps and into the new place, I couldn’t help thinking it would have been a lot easier if we were simply moving a wooden dolls’ house rather than a home filled with many years’ worth of (what seemed like at the time) treasured possessions. Continue reading

  • Let the Children Play

    Plum Square Sand Pit

    Every generation believes that they had it harder than their successors. How does that Monty Python sketch go again? “When I were a lad…” etcetera etcetera. Consequently, it would be easy to think that children today have a much easier life than their predecessors. Our current Secretary of State for Education certainly seems to think so: he believes our children don’t work hard enough or long enough, so we should extend the school day and shorten school holidays. Well, I’m not any kind of expert in educational matters, but there are two very experienced teachers in my family and I’m pretty sure they don’t think it’s as simple as that. Here at WoodenToyShop we think it’s just as important to let our children play. Continue reading

  • New Le Toy Van Wooden Toys

    Buccaneer's Fort Trap Door

     

    We get very excited in the WoodenToyShop office when we review the latest Le Toy Van catalogue. We are huge fans of Le Toy Van and their beautifully designed and very well made wooden toys. From fantastic farm toys to pirate ships, play kitchens and dolls houses, some of our best selling and favourite toys come from this award winning London based toy company which continues to innovate and astound with new painted wooden toys. We have put together a guide to the new wooden toys we are expecting from Le Toy Van in 2013. Continue reading

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