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.

Jingling bells on an easy-to-grasp wooden handle.

Safe from birth.

15 x 8 x 3 cm approx.

This is a good steady-seller in the shop.  Colour-coded shape sorter combined with a clock face. Quietly educational.

24 x 24 x 8 cm approx.

Age suitability: 3 years +

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Fabric doll made by French company Kaloo, demonstrating typical French chic.

25cm tall.

Made of polyester.  The clothes are sewn on.

Wash at 30C on a gentle cycle.  Please do not tumble dry.

Age suitability: Safe from birth.

Three cuddly cats for developing baby's sense of touch and vision.

The three cats are different colours with different facial expressions.  They are made of different fabrics, with different textures. They are filled with different materials, one with conventional, quiet stuffing, one with noisy, crinkly material and the third with beads.

Each one is about14cm tall, 8cm across.

Wash at 30C on a gentle cycle.  Please do not tumble dry.

Age suitability: Safe from birth.

Eye-catching stacking toy made from food grade silicone, so it's durable, safe to chew and can be put in the dishwasher to clean.

The box contains both the apple and the pear.  Each has five pieces.

Age suitability: 12 months+.

From Bigjig's excellent range of mini vehicles, this green recycling lorry comes with a back that tips up and runs on cleated rubber tyres.

13 x 10 x 7 cm (approx.)

Made from FSC® Certified wood.

Age suitability: 12 months plus.

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. 

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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Hop on this metal scooter and just pretend you are cruising along the Italian Riviera.

Sturdily made of steel with solid tyres, this three-wheeled scooter is crafted to resemble a well-known brand of real scooters.  

Suitable in size for children from three to five years old, with a maximum weight of 20kg.

Push-along - no motor involved.

Made in Vietnam. Adult assembly (straight-forward) required to attach the front wheels and the steering handles.  

30 cm x 43 cm x 76 cm and weighs 5kg.

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.

Beautifully decorated board with seven colourful cogs. The cogs come in two sizes so there is a bit of interchangeability but the big ones, at least, are colour-coded.  It's fascinating watching how turning one cog turns them all - appeals to the curious child in me.  From an engineering point of view, please be aware that the cogs, being wood, don't always turn perfectly smoothly as plastic or metal ones would. Our demo one can stick a bit especially if someone has switched the cogs around.

21 x 21 x 4 cm

Age suitability: 12 months+

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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.

Superb little pull along toy from Korko who make lovely toys out of cork in Portugal.

Cork is 100% natural, renewable, biodegradable and even carbon negative. Moreover it means that this toy runs along quietly and won't damage anything when, inevitably, it hits furniture, pets and other children.

With its eccentric wheels, it does quite hop but it certainly lollops along.

Age suitability: 18 months plus.

This is a good steady-seller in the shop.  Colour-coded shape sorter combined with a clock face. Quietly educational.

24 x 24 x 8 cm approx.

Age suitability: 3 years +

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Gently turn the handle on this tin Jack-in-the-Box to the iconic sound of 'Pop Goes the Weasel' and, sooner or later, the jack will pop out.  It terrifies some children initially but most children love it and want to see it again and again and again.

16 x 14 x13 cm

Age suitability: 18 months plus.  Smaller children may need help locking the jack back in.

Jules the Dog is the pilot in this activity soft toy for young children.

7 activities: Jules is attached to the plane by elastic, so springs back into his seat when released.  He also has a squeaker inside his head.  Mirror on one wing, Lift the flap and crinkle on the other. Lift-the-flap on the fuselage. Spinner in the tail. The suitcase behind Jules has a rattle inside.

Age suitability: 9 months plus.

26 x 26 x 17 cm

Age suitability: 9 months plus.

Three ducks for the bath. Luckily Mother Duck can swim, so she bobs around happily.  The two ducklings however need the rubber ring.

100% polyester.

The box measures 25 x 6 x 12 cm

Loads for a small child to explore:  lovely embroidered details, crinkle in the arms, a rattle in the head, ribbons hanging from the clothes and a large teething ring.

7 x 7 x 15 cm.

Hand washable.

Age suitability: 3 months plus.

Fabric doll made by French company Kaloo, demonstrating typical French chic.

25cm tall.

Made of polyester.  The clothes are sewn on.

Wash at 30C on a gentle cycle.  Please do not tumble dry.

Age suitability: Safe from birth.

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Fabric doll made by French company Kaloo, demonstrating typical French chic.

25cm tall.

Made of polyester.  The clothes are sewn on.

Wash at 30C on a gentle cycle.  Please do not tumble dry.

Age suitability: Safe from birth.

Very soft ball in the shape of a knot.  The knot shape makes it easy to grasp.  The black and white stripes stimulate early vision. The three cat-shaped silicone teethers can be detached and moved around the ball but doubtless will end up in young mouths.

16cm across.

Machine washable at 30C on a gentle cycle.  Air dry.

Age suitability: From birth.

Loads for a small child to explore:  lovely embroidered details, crinkle in the arms, a rattle in the head, ribbons for a mane and a large teething ring.

7 x 7 x 15 cm.

Hand washable.

Age suitability: 3 months plus.