Sorting/Stacking/Spinning/Hammering

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.

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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.

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+.

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.

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.

Nine solid wood animals in a handy cotton bag.  Stack 'em up and knock 'em down.

Made of sustainable rubberwood.

Age suitability: 18 months +

Small wooden rocket, held together by magnets.

Play with it as a rocket or alternatively use it as a stacking/unstacking today to liberate the astronaut.

Made of beech and cherry wood.

6.5 x 6.5 x 16 cm.

Age suitability: 2 - 6 years old.

Simple sorting toy. Square wooden box with five shapes to push through the matching holes in the lid.

12 x 12 x 6.5 cm

Made from FSC™-certified wood.

Age suitability: 18 months+.

Traditional tin humming top. Holes cut out around the edge so that when it's going round fast, it really does hum.

Good sturdy foot and no sharp edges. 

About 20cm tall.

Age suitability: 3 years plus.

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 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 +

BB096

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Keep baby amused with this sensory spinner.  The strong sucker on the back will stick to a variety of smooth surfaces, from bathroom tiles to car windows.  The four petals spin smoothly whilst the bear just looks cute.

BPA & phthalate free plastic.

Age suitability: 6 months plus.

7 piece skittle set.  One wooden ball and six smiling pirates.

Pirates are about 8 cm tall.

Age suitability: 2 years +

BJ853

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Wooden lorry to pull along, with holes cut out in the sides to push the ten brightly-coloured animal shapes through.  The rear door lifts up to retrieve them.

11 play pieces, including: 1x wooden lorry, 1x giraffe, 1x dog, 1x cat, 1x hippo, 1x elephant, 1x cow, 1x zebra, 1x camel, 1x antelope and 1x pig

Thoughfully-made hammerbench. Three wooden vegetables, a carrot, a potato and a tomato, to knock through the holes and into the net below.  The head of the hammer is encased in silicone to make it a little quieter.

Made from FSC™-certified wood.

20 x 9 x 9cm.

Wooden skittle set.  Six traditional guardsmen and two balls.

Each skittle is about 13cm tall.

Improves hand/eye coordination and concentration.

Made from FSC® Certified wood.

Age suitability: 2 years 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+

PL095

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Little children love stacking boxes and then knocking them down.  Djeco though have made that a little bit more interesting.  They have included five soft plastic animals, so the monkey can lift up one box, the giraffe can poke its head out of the top of another.  So there's loads more ways for the child to use their imagination, stacking this way or that, putting the animals in their houses or simply playing with the animals on their own.

Contains five beautifully illustrated cardboard cubes that stack inside each other for storage plus five plastic jungle animals.  Each animal is about 3 inches tall except for the giraffe who is taller and the crocodile who has stubby legs but a long tail.

Suitable for children 18 months +

DJ09101

Large tub of colourful, wooden building blocks.  The lid has different shaped holes to act as a shape sorter.

The cardboard tub is 23cm across and 26 cm tall.

Age suitability: 12 months plus.

Twelve large wooden beads, each measuring about 6cm across and wide enough to stand upright, and a length of cord, from the lovely French toy designer Vilac.

Age suitability:   18 months plus

Keep baby amused with this pack of three sensory spinners.  The strong sucker on the back of them will stick to a variety of smooth surfaces, from bathroom tiles to car windows.  

Teaches cause and effect and also very basic counting and colour recognition.  The wombat sits in front of two yellow petals, the koala in front of three red/pink petals and the cockatoo in front of four blue ones.

BPA & phthalate free plastic.

Age suitability: 6 months plus.

A carrot, a beetroot and a radish all happily sat in their plant pots.  Each is made of three stacking pieces that are interchangeable between the characters.

The figures are about 7 x 7 x 15 cm

Made from FSC™-certified wood.

Age suitability: 18 months +

PL121

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Let your child unleash its wild side by hammering on these three coloured pegs, turning the board over, and hammering the pegs back down again.

Age suitability: 18 months plus

Cork is 100% natural, renewable, biodegradable, carbon negative and, especially important here, it's quiet and forgiving.

Excellent little shape sorter to teach small children both shapes and colours.

!6 x 16 x 8 cm. Made from FSC™-certified wood.

Age suitability:  12 months plus.

An early time-teaching toy.

Start by teaching the numbers, shapes and colours by putting the correct wooden blocks in the spaces around the rim. Later move the hands to show the time.

Age suitability: 3 years plus.

A box of four lovely wooden toys specifically designed with the help of a psychomotor specialist to encourage a two-year-old's dexterity and concentration.

• Crocodile balancing toy with twelve leaves to place on its back.
• Screw toy consisting of three waterlilly leaves and their corresponding flowers.
• Handbell set with wooden stick.
• Twelve-piece jigsaw puzzle.

Age suitability: 2 years