Games and Puzzles

From Bigjig's excellent range of mini vehicles, this blue tractor comes with a driver and runs on cleated rubber tyres.

13 x 10 x 7 cm (approx.)

Made from FSC® Certified wood.

Age suitability: 12 months plus.

Wooden maraca, (comes singly), with a llama painted on.

FSC® certified wood.

15cm long, 6cm across.

Age suitability: 12 months plus.

Georgia is a soft and friendly fabric doll from Bigjig's range of ragdolls.

She is 28cm tall and has removable clothing.

Age suitability: From Birth.

Sturdy illustrated box containing twelve magnetic fish with two fishing rods.

FSC® certified wood.

The box measures 28 x 15 x 3cm.

Age suitability: 2 years onwards.

Bigjigs ragdolls are soft plush dolls with removable clothes and happy faces. Moreover they are all safe from birth.

28cm tall and light enough to be carried around everywhere.

Brightly painted tambourine for little ones to demonstrate their prodigious musical skill.

Really quite loud!

FSC™-certified wood.

About 23 cm across.

Comes in two colour variations. We will pick one randomly to fulfil an order.

Age suitability: 2 years plus. 

From Bigjig's excellent range of mini vehicles, this red fire engine comes with a rotating ladder and runs on cleated rubber tyres.

13 x 10 x 7 cm (approx.)

Made from FSC® Certified wood.

Age suitability: 12 months plus.

Wooden egg-shaped rattle with fine illustrations on the side.

Egg-sized - 7 x 5 cm.

Age suitability: 18 months plus.

Wooden cube puzzle with nine cubes giving six puzzles of farmyard animals.

10.5 x 10.5 x 3.5cm

Age suitability: 10+ months

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Wooden sailing boat in an assortment of pastel colours.

Made from FSC™-certified wood.

About 11 cm long and 10cm high.

Age suitability: 2 years plus

Please note: I haven't tried these out in the bath so I don't know how well they would float upright.  Wood swells when it stays wet which may mean that that it doesn't last as long as you'd hope.  Ideal though as a toy in a dry environment.

Comes in four colours.  We will send you one boat with the colour chosen at random.

Both a first cube puzzle and a stacking toy.

Four different pictures to make by slotting the nine cubes onto the uprights.

Made from FSC® Certified wood.

Age suitability: 12 months plus.

This is one of my very favourite toddler toys in the shop.  I love demonstrating it.

When the child is young, you leave the cat in the hemisphical base, give it a little nudge and watch it wobble.

Later you take it out of the bowl, push down on the head and watch it shoot across the floor. Great fun.

Made from bioplastic.

10.5cm x 10.5cm x 11cm

Age suitability: 18 months to 4 years.

Six pictures boards held together by a plastic ring. The pictures are only revealed when you paint over them with the water pen.  That makes the colours and the many hidden features magically appear.

If you let them dry, the colours will fade, only to re-appear when painted again.  So you can use the picture boards again and again.

Each picture is about 18 x 15cm

Age suitability: 18 months plus.

This is a simple wooden shape sorter that sells well in our shop.  We have one on display and both adults and children play with it. Nothing particularly fancy about it but people like it and it's good value.  Comes with six different shapes.  Everybody enjoys slotting them into the correct holes but it's funny how many people can't work out how to retrieve them. (You slide one of the spokes up)

15 x 15 x 12 cm

Age suitability: 12 months +

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Bigjigs ragdolls are soft plush dolls with removable clothes and happy faces. Moreover they are all safe from birth.

28cm tall and light enough to be carried around everywhere.

A lovely little drum to allow young percussionists to demonstrate their immense sense of rhythm to proud parents.

Painted with Native American illustrations.

FSC® certified wood.

15 cm diameter, 8 cm deep.  Adjustable strap.

Age suitability: 2 years plus.

Large, wooden train loaded with colourful blocks.

Pull this along, then unload all the blocks and restack them in a different way.

Encourages motor skills, plus teaches colours and shapes.

52 x 8.5 x 18 cm with 50cm of string.

Made of FSC™-certified wood (beech and cherry).

Age suitability: 12 months plus.

Wooden birthday cake with six candles. Use the slicer to cut it into six pieces. 

Made from sustainable rubberwood with the slices held together with velcro.

Age suitability: 2 years plus.

A stacker made from sustainable rubberwood with a two-piece cat and dog and a little bird on a tree.

21 x 4 x 9.5 cm

Age suitability: 12 months plus.

Lorry and trailer and three lovely little cars, a racing car, a pick-up and an executive saloon.

26.5 x 7 x 15cm

FSC™-certified wood.

Age suitability: 18 months +.

Two toys in one. 

A hammering toy in which you knock the coloured ball through the hole and onto the keys of the xylophone where the the ball goes clickedy-clack as it rolls towards the hole at the end.

Turn it over and it becomes a xylophone for any budding percussionists.

Made from FSC® certified wood.

29 x 19 x 10cm

Age suitability: 12 months plus.

Classic stacking toy. Seven coloured rings to stack on the spike in order of size, with the ball going on top.

17 cm tall.

Made from FSC™-certified wood.

Age suitability : 12+ months.

This is one of my very favourite toddler toys in the shop.  I love demonstrating it.

When the child is young, you leave the dog in the hemisphical base, give it a little nudge and watch it wobble.

Later you take it out of the bowl, push down on the head and watch it shoot across the floor. Great fun.

Made from bioplastic.

10.5cm x 10.5cm x 11cm

Age suitability: 18 months to 4 years.

Made from a block of lime wood, this lovely blue truck has open deck at the back perfect for transporting the ten rainbow-coloured strips of wood.

22 x 11 x 12 cm

Lime wood with water-based, non toxic colour stain.

Age suitability: 1 year plus.

Grimms is a family owned German business.The products are either made in Germany or in small independent workshops elswhere in Europe. They are then brought back to Germany to be painted by hand in bright and colourful child friendly non toxic paints.  Being made of wood, they are warm and wonderfully tactile.

Each item is unique and almost everything has been sawn and sanded in a variety of beautiful woods, including Alder, Lime, Beech and Maple, all sourced from sustainable European forests. (FSC Certified )

There is a limitless amount of imaginative and creative play just waiting to be discovered in our beautiful range of Grimms products

Six pictures boards held together by a plastic ring. The pictures are only revealed when you paint over them with the water pen.  That makes the colours and the many hidden features magically appear.

If you let them dry, the colours will fade, only to re-appear when painted again.  So you can use the picture boards again and again.

Each picture is about 18 x 15cm

Age suitability: 18 months plus.