I love wooden toys, especially wooden toys of high quality that can be passed down from generation to generation. Here is a list of a few of my favorite wooden toys.

Pastel Toys

Pastel Toys are heirloom quality wooden toys handmade by disabled adults at their own self-sustaining community, a kibbutz, in Israel. It is quite a special community which manages to make the life of these disabled adults rich and meaningful by giving them work they can manage, somewhere to live and support from a community of people with similar situations as their own. So Pastel Toys are not only beautiful fresh colored wooden toys, but also a product of a community well worth supporting. Many of Pastel Toys products can be found at Giggle. (Enter “Pastel Toys” in the search field.)

Pintoy

Pintoy construction toys look beautiful with their natural and painted wood. There is everything needed to create a great big construction site in this series; a crane, a digger, a dumper truck, loaders, trailers, a set of construction equipments consisting of pneumatic drills, compactor and Compressor, wheelbarrow, pick and shovel, 2 traffic cones and 2 barriers. There is also a set of workers consisting of three workers and a Forman. You’ll find the Pintoy construction toys at Just Playing Toys.

Heirloom Rattles

A nice wooden heirloom rattle, that will last a lifetime and can be inherited by the baby’s own kids, and grandkids, in the future, is priceless. The walnut wood rattle from Nico & Zoe and the handmade heirloom hardwood rattle from A Toy Garden, are both simple, beautiful rattles made by natural wood, with round shapes and smooth surfaces. These are great ideas for baby gifts if you’d like the gift to stay in the kid’s family for generations.

Ostheimer

Ostheimer keeps the feel and look of wood in their toys, by only applying transparent paints and not totally rounding the figures edges. The surfaces of the toys are still smooth and soft to handle. Ostheimer wants kids to use and develop their imaginative abilities when playing with their toys, and this is why the silhouettes of all the figures are simple, and the details are very few. In this way they create a perfect environment for the kids to play in, without giving all the details, so the kids mind will work on creating their own little world for the figures! Ostheimers figures can be found at Myriad Natural Toys & Crafts. The Nativity story figures could make perfect gifts for the advent calendar, resulting in a beautiful Nativity scenery Chritmas eve.

Sevi

The well-known company Sevi has long traditions in making quality toys. Amongst their selection in wooden toys they have series of musical instruments. The instruments are colorful and full of cute details. You can find the Sevi instruments and other toys by Sevi at Au Bois Jouli.

Eco-friendly Wooden Puzzle Toys

The smooth, round edged wooden puzzle toys from Craftbury Kids are so elegant end cute, and will look fantastic on the shelf if the nursery or kids room. The natural wood is beautiful, but if you desire some colors, you could paint the different pieces in different colors of tox-free paint yourself! These puzzle toys are available in Pig, Tortoise, Rabbit, Lion, Cow with calf, Ocean with boat and fishes and Farmhouse with animals and a field with trees.

Skipper Pirate Yacht

Graham And Green has an aesthetic pirate-themed traditional wooden toy yacht. It is made from plantation grown hardwood and sail is made from genuine sailcloth. It is a beautiful toy of fine quality. (Via Notcot.)

Plan Toys

Plan Toys in general are great toys. I love the look of Plan Toys, and the attention the company gives to detail in their toys. They simply make beautiful designed children’s toys with a very modern touch. Oompa Toys has a great selection of Plan Toys.

Pnigg makes it easy for anyone to create beautiful invites. And the best thing about it; it’s free!

You choose your background from the Pnigg gallery, which is filled with loads of beautiful images, and then, after having put the right text on it, you can send it by e-mail or share it on the web.

There is a small fee if you want to have your invite printed on paper, or to have it send by SMS. The cost is USD 1.5 per 20 SMS and USD 1.5 per paper card, including postage.

You can also choose to use an image from the Pnigg Plus+ gallery, and the cost for this is USD 10 per custom invite.

Via Coochicoos

The Blackboard Wall Clock is, as the name might suggest, a clock and a blackboard in one. I like the idea, as everyone takes a glimpse at the clock once in a while, so any messages written on a clock will most likely bee seen.

You can buy the Blackboard Wall Clock at eco-artware for $80.00 USD.

The Tedior Necklace is a silver chain necklace with a small teddy bear pendant.

The teddy bear pendant has movable joints and comes in three versions; plain silver, silver with pink crystals and silver with clear crystals.

The silver chain is closed with a lobster clasp, and it has a small Dior D hanging of the end of it, as a small charm.

All three Tedior versions come in a white and silver Dior box.

You can buy the crystal-encrusted Tediors for $230.00 and the plain silver Tediors for $180.00 USD, at eLUXURY.

Many of us enjoy hearing music while cycling or walking around in traffic. This is potentially risky because the earphones makes it hard to hear what’s going on around you. TOPlays new earphones solves this problem.

TOPlays earphones make it possible to hear everything that’s going on around you, while listening to music. This is due to the fact that the earphones are fastened to the earlobe instead of being put directly into the ear. This feature also makes the ear pressure minimal, and protects the children’s hearing.

TOPlays earphones come in simple white-, black- and silver designs, as well as the more child friendly skull-, football- and panda designs. You can buy them at ME-WE SHOP at $39.98 and $44.88 USD.

Via ICTBLOG.it

The Jumping Brain is a cross between a brain and a frog. Boys are going to love it! Especially because you’ll be able to divide the two half’s of the brain.

This brainy toy is designed by Lapolab/Emilio Garcia, and will be available in a few months. There will only be made 12o figures of each color, but they will all be signed and numbered. The Jumping Brains will cost about $45-65 USD each.

Via Vinyl Pulse