Here at WoodenToyShop, the office is often blessed with the aroma of freshly baked cakes or biscuits. This week we have been celebrating National Baking Week by eating piles of plain chocolate chip and golden syrup cookies baked by our resident head cook Rob. As we contemplate the expansion of our waistlines and the need to buy larger trousers, we also recognise that while children love baking alongside Mum and Dad, grownups are often grateful for the kind of non-messy baking that keeps the kitchen spick and span. With that in mind, we hope you will enjoy the following WoodenToyShop Guide to Children’s Baking Role Play Toys. Continue reading
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Win a Le Toy Van Dolls’ House with WoodenToyShop.co.uk
As soon as the grownups will allow, children across the country will begin drawing up their Christmas lists and thinking about composing a letter to Santa Claus. Here at WoodenToyShop and no doubt up at the North Pole, we are sure that a Le Toy Van dolls’ house will feature very prominently in many of these lists and letters. Here in our office we love bringing Christmas cheer to as many children (and parents!) as possible and so we have decided to launch an October competition to win an absolutely magnificent Le Toy Van Cherry Tree Hall. Continue reading
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Birthday Time at WoodenToyShop
It happens once every year and it is something the children get wildly excited about. Even grownups are allowed birthdays and today at WoodenToyShop headquarters I am celebrating my __th birthday. I have to admit to being a little bit over excited, even though I have had many, many birthdays in the past. Jon has told me I need to knuckle down and get on with some work, so I wonder if I could get away with a little bit of day dreaming while reviewing some of our wonderful wooden toys and thinking about birthdays and birthday presents?
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The WoodenToyShop Guide to Toy Castles
We may not be entirely sure how many hundreds of years children have played with toy castles, but we have a sneaky feeling they have been doing so since, well, castles were the residence of choice for your upwardly mobile Lord and Lady of the manor. What we do know is that these traditional wooden toys show no sign of losing their popularity, so we hope the following WoodenToyShop Guide to Toy Castles will help you choose the perfect present for the young dragon slayer in your life.