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Top Ten Wooden Toys for Christmas 2012

Le Toy Van Sophie's House

As we look forward to the busy Christmas trading period, wooden toys continue to enjoy a surge in popularity as consumers look for long lasting and imaginative toys that combine high standards of design and manufacturing with a nostalgia for Christmases when stockings were filled with beautiful wooden toys made by Santa’s elves in the North Pole carpentry workshops. WoodenToyShop.co.uk has drawn up the following list of the Top Ten traditional wooden toys for Christmas 2012 to help shoppers ensure they don't miss out on the perfect gift.

Millhouse Lollipop Easel Unfortunately we no longer stock this item.

1. Children’s easels are a wonderful way to combine fun with learning and development. Children love nothing more than putting on an apron or an old shirt, picking up a paintbrush, dipping it into fresh coloured paint and then creating a masterpiece. One of our finest wooden easels is the Millhouse Lollipop Easel, a deluxe wooden easel with a chalkboard on one side and white board on the other. This superb children’s easel is made in the UK by a family business in Lincolnshire. Style, quality and durability are key elements to all Millhouse toys. Lollipop Easel comes with a roll of paper, two trays for storing paint pots and bits and bobs and will fold away for easy storage.

Le Toy Van Lavender House

2. Wooden Dolls’ Houses have long been favourites at Christmas and this year will prove no exception. A dolls’ house is a very special present and a toy that will provide its lucky young owner with hours and hours of enjoyable and imaginative play. The Le Toy Van Lavender House is a magnificent example of the beautiful houses available to today’s children. Full of delicate detail such as window boxes, working windows and shutters and wisteria curling around the front door, this dolls’ house is without doubt one of this year’s must have Christmas toys.

Le Toy Van Excalibur Castle

3. Toy castles remain extremely popular with children who are enthralled by tales of knights slaying dragons and rescuing damsels in distress. Grownups are spoiled for choice with today’s range of castles, most of which, like Le Tov Van Excalibur Castle, have working drawbridges, turrets, flagpoles, dungeons and many other exciting features and delightful flourishes.

Le Toy Van Barbarossa Pirate Ship This award winner is always popular at Christmas.

 

4. A toy pirate ship is guaranteed to delight young shipmates on Christmas morning. Among our selection, Le Toy Van Barbarossa Pirate Ship is always in demand at this time of year. This award winning wooden toy flies two Jolly Rogers, has three black sails festooned with skulls and crossbones, a cannon that fire cannon balls, a rope ladder to take you up to the crow’s nest and also opens at the rear (the stern) for more fun and games down below the deck.

Melissa and Doug Workbench Time to roll up your sleeves, sharpen your pencil and get busy in the workshop!

 

5. Carpentry sets, toy tools and work benches are perennial Christmas favourites and this year we are betting that the Melissa and Doug Workbench will be carried down many chimneys on the 24th. This wonderful natural wooden workbench is crammed with wooden tools and even comes with a tip sheet with suggested projects for your young apprentice.

John Crane Tidlo Kitchen Station

6. What could be more fun than unwrapping a toy kitchen and then pretending to cook a huge Christmas dinner for all of the family? The kitchen features heavily in most children’s lives and they absolutely love playing in a pretend kitchen. The John Crane Tidlo Kitchen Station is one of our most popular toys of all. This deliciously retro-kitchen comes laden with utensils and authentic touches that will help any junior chef cook up plenty of fun and games!

BigJigs Village Shop A loaf of bread, a carton of milk and a packet of butter please.

 

7. Children love playing shopkeeper and a toy shop will be on many a Christmas list this year. The Bigjigs Village Shop is a magnificent toy village store which was a huge hit last year and will be snapped up again by parents looking for a deluxe treat for their children. This colourful and spacious wooden toy is available alongside a range of complimentary accessories, such as the Bigjigs Grocery Collection, the Food Scales, Cash Register and Shopping Trolley.

Pintoy Shetland Rocking Horse

8. Wooden rocking horses look perfect sitting under the Christmas tree. After the incredible success of Team GB’s equestrian team in this year’s Olympic Games, we are sure that toys such as the Pintoy Shetland Rocking Horse will be cantering through the skies with Santa and trotting down a chimney near you!

Bigjigs Mountain Railway Set

 

9. Wooden Train Sets are the kind of toys that thrill the whole family. Everyone, from Grandma and Granddad to little brother and sister, loves helping build an exciting layout and then taking journeys by train to imaginary stations, mountains, towns and cities. The Bigjigs Mountain Railway Set is a brilliant example of a train set that has bridges, a station, a mountain, buildings, people, vehicles and scenery to add to the excitement alongside the wooden track and train with freight wagons.

Kiddimoto Pastel Dotty Kurve Bike

 

10. Wooden balance bikes may be hard to wrap, but that doesn’t stop them appearing on many Christmas shopping lists. Many children dream of owning their first bikes and our balance bikes, such as the Kiddimoto Pastel Dotty Kurve Bike, will be cycling out of our warehouse at high speed in the months to come.

 

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