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The Benefits Of Wooden Toys
Toys have changed during the last century but one thing that has not changed is the fascination of both young and old alike with wooden toys. One of the most important benefits is the invitation to touch, feel and explore, an important component of any education program.

While children may play with a plastic toy, their interest can quickly wane, and few, if any, plastic toys encourage children to actually learn through touch. Wooden toys, however, are very different. Though it cannot be explained by anything scientific, wooden toys just seem to have the “magic touch” when it comes to encouraging imaginative play through exploration and contact.
Wooden toys extend a child’s attention span.

Compared to an electronic toy that makes noises and moves, a child will play more with a wooden toy than with a battery operated one.
Wooden toys will help unlock their imaginative minds and allow their personality to develop. Perhaps it is baking a cake with their wooden toy kitchen set or building their wooden dolls’ house together with their parents, where interaction will occur and let their little interior decorators’ creativity show! A wooden toy barn and wooden toy fence can create lots of memories as dads and sons play together and get all the farming done.

In this day and age where video games and highly complex electronic toys seem to be driving the minds of our children to places where we would perhaps prefer them not to go, traditional wooden toys offer the opportunity to enjoy a more pure and creative type of imaginative play.

Durability is another strong advantage of wooden toys; while modern plastic toys can frequently and easily be destroyed, wooden toys are designed to last . This makes wooden toys real value for money.

Our Le Toy Van wooden toys are made of MDF (medium density fibrewood) and Rubberwood. Rubberwood trees, after 26-30 years of latex production, are felled and new ones planted. Other woods are cut down for the sole purposes of producing furniture however, rubberwood is used only after it completes its latex producing cycle and dies, making it eco-friendly.

Wooden toys don’t need batteries, electricity or software packages so they are kind to our planet.