Every December, families observe the same pattern. After the excitement of Christmas morning fades, children often gravitate back to the toys that offer comfort, creativity, and calm. Increasingly, those toys are wooden. As families shift towards slower, more intentional festive seasons, wooden toys have re-emerged as favourites—not because they are trendy, but because they support the way children naturally like to play.
Setting up a Montessori-inspired home is about creating an environment that nurtures your child’s independence, creativity, and natural learning process.
If you are a regular reader of the blog you will know what an advocate I am of good quality wooden toys. I love them. I have loved buying them for my own children and giving them as gifts to others. There is something so nice about quality wooden toys, when you compare them with all the mass produced plastic stuff out there these days.
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Given that I know lots of my readers start their Christmas shopping in October, I have put together a list of a few ideas for this Christmas. I know that lots of people have high hopes for this Christmas, after not being able to spend time with loved ones last year. Whilst we are yet to know if COVID-19 will place any restrictions on celebrations this Christmas, it should be a significant improvement on last year.
If you are a regular reader of my blog, you might have seen my Christmas Gift Guide for 2021. I thought I would also put together a guide just for toys, but not a toy guide of the big brand toys that everyone is talking about this year – who needs to see that list again? Not me.
I love wooden toys. My dad used to call wooden toys ‘proper toys’. I never really understood that until I became a parent myself.
‘Small world play’ is an important part of the way preschoolers in particular play, and a great way for little ones to learn.