This Month's Pick

Our Butterfly Car Chimes will soothe and relax as you navigate through the busy highways of life. Hand tuned pipes Hand tuned pipes to produce magical faerie-like musical notes guaranteed to make you smile and feel more relaxed.

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Our Quinta Pentatonic Flute made of Pear Wood is a beautiful example of Choroi craftsmanship.

Draw the people of the world with these Colour Giant Skin Tones from LYRA. The highly pigmented lead gives the colours extreme intensity and allow them to flow easily across the paper.

Learn the ancient art of creating paper with this Paper Making Kit and make your own handmade paper, cards or stationery.

Using a moist brush with these Water Colour Pencils, you can create exciting watercolour effects, making these watercolour pencils ideal for sketching and illustrations, at school or while studying. When used for watercolour paintings, the colour combinations are endless.

Collect seashells in this unique Beach Shell Bag while you stroll along the shoreline. Your treasures remain safe the sand escapes through the mesh fabric.

Busy during the summer months, the Sun Faerie from Kathe Kruse flies from sun up to sun down bringing sunshine to flora and fauna everywhere.

Our Butterfly Car Chimes will soothe and relax as you navigate through the busy highways of life. Hand tuned pipes Hand tuned pipes to produce magical faerie-like musical notes guaranteed to make you smile and feel more relaxed.

Wakuschi Earth from Kathe Kruse, with her brown dress with a tiger eye and semi-precious stone necklace, positively enhances the area of life regarding “partnership”. She is connect to Nature and is a true Child of the Earth.

This wooden Spoon and Bowl from Camden Rose is ergonomically designed and meticulously handcrafted from cherry wood . The set is hand-rubbed with a food safe natural beeswax finish. Each set inherits the unique grain of each tree, which contains a history of the weather, climate and soil conditions experienced during its growth cycle. Each spoon and bowl set has unique shape, which is found within the piece of wood while being carved.

These 10 lovely Natural Plant Dyed Pastel Crayons from Artemis are manufactured of a completely natural plant base. and are of very high quality. Only the best natural plant dyes and raw materials have been used to produce these unique plant-dyed crayons to give you an exceptional artistic experience.

Geomix is awesome set of rainbow colored wooden blocks from HABA that literally embodies the concept of thinking outside the box. Your child can create colorful designs or build geometric patterns.

Our inspiring word "Believe" Car Chimes will soothe and relax as you navigate through the busy highways of life.
Musical chime maker Jacob Sokoloff hand tunes these three car charm pipes to produce a magical faerie-like sound to produce a musical notes guaranteed to make you smile.

Our Knitting Mushrooms from HABA are similar to the ones my grandmother would make me from an empty wooden thread spool and 4 picture frame nails. Once made she patiently taught me how to "knit " with it and a crochet hook. I remember how proud I was of the knitting I had done.

These Autumn Coloured Play Silks from Sarah's Silks are perfect for Seasonal Tables, and imaginative play.

When the day is tired and ready to close, we follow the sunset by illuminating A Little Light from Camden Rose. It is a time of togetherness, closure and reflection. The heart of A Little Light is the penta-form cherry wood candleholder. In biology, the penta-form plays an essential role in the chemical building blocks of DNA and the basis of proteins.

Busy during the summer months, the Sun Faerie from Kathe Kruse flies from sun up to sun down bringing sunshine to flora and fauna everywhere.

These light and airy Rainbow Silk Wings from Sarah's Silks will take your child to the world of imagination as they flutter their arms in the dance of the Butterfly Faeries.

In honour of Earth Day take your child out on a nature walk with this Magnifying Glass from HABA. Stop and admire the wonder of this great planet we call home and have been given the responsibility to care for.

Whether you make them funky, funny or fashionable, this Felted Hat Kit from Harrisville Designs will make art of felt-making will come alive.

Katy Elf has brought her colourfully illustrated suitcase, a child’s apron for your little one, a mushroom cookie cutter and her own special hazelnut cookie recipe.
Ready to begin baking the best cookies you’ve every tasted, she is dressed in her baking attire; red special apron, red baking hat.

Our Learn to Knit with Harris Bear from Harrison designs creates a delightful opportunity to "pass-it-on" spending quality time with someone precious and passing on a fiber art tradition teaching a child to knit.

What first appears to be scribbled wooden blocks is actually Selecta's Tier Puzzle filled with fascinating animals: a cat, , an elephant, a squirrel, a whale, a seal and many more… all animals you have learned about at home and elsewhere.

Our hand carved “Cheery Rattle” in a cotton bag from Camden Rose is sculpted from cherry wood in response to nature and organic forms that blend harmoniously with a soothing sound. The moving bead and organic textures encourage the development of the senses. Each rattle has unique shape, which is found within the piece of wood while being carved.

From delightful Lullabies to fanciful butterflies, Juanita’s Mariposa brings her special charm to music that promotes cultural understanding and creates learning opportunities for children ages 1 to 101." Mariposa is Spanish for Butterfly. This Latin American compilation of Lullabies and Songs of Tranquility are for people of all ages and all colours

Quiet Time by Raffi is filled with songs for pause, a cuddle or a nap. We all need quiet time. With his familiar voice and soothing melodies, Raffi's slow songs bring welcome calm to the day.
Raffi continues his Child Honouring Philosophy, a children-first paradigm for societal change.

Kunstlermemo (Artist Memo) from Selecta is a wonderful twist to a classic memory game. I am particularly drawn to this game for a variety of reasons. First, I love art and I truly enjoy memory games. They have always been a way to challenge myself in improving my memory, and for me, the warmth of wood has always been a plus.

Children enjoy the pleasure in the rhythmic kneading of our Plant-dyed Modeling Wax from Artemis. The child practices his or her fine motor skills while kneading the modeling wax. Through the changing of the material, the child can experience perception through the sense of touch. Feelings of form, imagination and inventiveness are awakened and developed.

Hand in Hand is a friendship game where cheerful children from all over the world hold hands if the picture boards are placed correctly after the dice are thrown. Truly a game of many friendships!

Parents have found that interacting with their children using the Cuddle Cards© from Mercurius has been a rewarding and enriching experience. Cuddle Cards© have been designed for children in the 6-12 age group. They can be used when a child needs comforting, deserves a reward, when they have finished doing their homework or last but not least, just for fun. The Cuddle Journal© is a wonderful addition to the Cuddle Cards© and is sold separately.

Flitting silently through the forest the Nature Fairy from Kathe Kruse brings balance and light every where she flies. She has long red wool boucle hair with a pony tail gathered at the crown of her head tied off with the stars she gathered from the sky. With two shades of green felt her wings carry her from one ecological adventure to another. Seven inches of delight, her green felt dress with long patterned sleeves keeps her perfectly camouflaged so that she might keep an eye on anything trying to damage her precious forest. Around her neck she wears the three stars given her by her sisters; Sky, Sun and Wind Fairy.

Alex plays with this set of Logic Building Blocks from HABA as much as his son Trevor. The HABA Logic Building Blocks are more than mere building blocks! Their system has been especially conceived to stimulate the natural learning process: through play the children discover shapes and quantities, spatial dimensions, physical laws and much, much more.

Red Grabbing Star from Kathe Kruse entertains all little teethers. They can listen to the crackle, chew on the wooden ring, or just chew on the washable jersey knit points.

This Month

Katy Elf from Kathe Kruse is ready to begin baking the best cookies you’ve every tasted! She is dressed in her own baking attire; red special apron, red baking hat.

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Katy Elf from Kathe Kruse is ready to begin baking the best cookies you’ve every tasted! She is dressed in her own baking attire; red special apron, red baking hat.

Called a Knitting Nancy (or Ned), Knitting Spool, Knitting Knobby, or what we prefer, Knitting Tower, this wooden cylinder will enable children to get right into the art of knitting up tubes which can be used in many different ways: a strap to hold a doll in a stroller, a headband, a band to tie on a silk or a rope to hoist up a heavy basket.

This all-purpose Main Lesson Book for lower and upper grades. It is excellently suited to wax crayons and coloured pencils as well as ink or india ink. The pages are separated by onion skin paper to prevent drawings from smudging written work.

With your Sand Pail in hand and water lapping at your toes as you walk the beach you are ready to settle down and create sand sculptures.

Summer Coloured Play Silks from Sarah's Silks are perfect for Seasonal Tables, and stimulating imaginative play..

Alana, one of our Butterfly Faeries, is a delightful Waldorf Kathe Kruse creation. As her friend she will take you on magical journeys visiting flower after flower through the magical forests of imagination.

From energetic drawings to light watercolours, these artist’s Watercolour Pencils can be used both for colouring and watercolour paintings.
Using a moist brush, you can create exciting watercolour effects, making these watercolour pencils ideal for sketching and illustrations, at school or while studying. When used for watercolour paintings, the colour combinations are endless.

A simple and practical way to learn to weave. Our wooden Lap Looms are portable hardwood tapestry or frame looms that can be woven on while resting on a table, floor or, yes, your lap!

The flowing organic design of this wooden Fish Puzzle from Kathe Kruse is not only pleasing to the eye, but also a lot of fun to assemble.

Always ready, a true friend and companion he will be as your child grows.

Pretend Play with our Cloth Sandwich from HABA encourages children to explore with open end play. Through play, children express the world inside them and order the world outside. Open-ended play encourages this highly individual experience and is fueled by imagination.

These fine leather Children's School Bags from Ruitertassen have been a staple for European school children for years. Thick leather with a darling wool punch work sheep stitched on the front flap and a sheep key chain.

Autumn Faerie from Kathe Kruse flies through the trees colouring the leaves with bright orange, yellow, and magenta.

The Shell Bag from Kathe Kruse is the perfect for gathering treasure off the beach. The mesh allows for air circulation and the size is just right for little ones.

Our Sunnyland Puzzle from HABA is the perfect first puzzle for little ones. With a picture behind the puzzle pieces, the child is allowed to finish the image without all of the parts inserted. This amazing colorful wooden puzzle from HABA® also can be used as a play-set or a game. The smiling pictures invite your little one to join them in play. The sturdy wooden play pieces, which include; a house, cat, kite, sun, tree and person, have knobs for grasping. This clutching jigsaw for little ones offers lots of playing possibilities with different degrees of difficulty. Pieces can also be used for tracing. As such this jigsaw remains interesting over a period of time.

Breanna, a Butterfly Faerie from Kathe Kruse flies out early every morning to paint the newly opened flowers with the brilliant colours.

Plant-dyed Beeswax from Artemis will provide hours of creative moments with your child. Softened by the warmth of human hands, each piece can gently be manipulated until the artist guiding its form finishes their creation.

This Unicorn Costume from Sarah’s Silks will transform your child into a mythical creature who will be racing like the wind with a myriad of adventures waiting to be experienced.

Garden Faerie from Kathe Kruse flits through the garden bringing forth the first flowers of spring. She joyfully sings her song as the Crocus and Daffodils lift the heads to the sun and dress themselves in their spring attire.

Children can pretend to cook with this Small Cook Stove Top from HABA. Perfect for table edges or steps, your child will spend hours "cooking" meals just like mom and dad.

Hurray, it's snowing! In this Snowman Game from HABA each player gets to build a snowman: three wooden snowballs roll across the snowy roads and are quickly assembled on the colored markers. Who will be able to protect his or her snowman from the sun and bring it to the finish?

Simple games can be the most fun of all. Made of solid birch and oil finished, each Skittles Set from Camden Rose, (handmade by Amish Hand in the USA), contains nine natural pins, one twin-striped headpin, two balls, a cloth storage bag, and instructions for numerous ancient to modern games.
Beeswax Finish 5" tall pins, 2 1/4" balls
Hand-made by Amish hand in the USA

Elegantly crafted from maple, cherry and walnut, our heirloom quality hand crafted Hardwood Choo Choo Train from Camden Rose is notably large and durable. All the train cars, even the locomotive engine, were designed for maximum playability.
The cars join one another with a wooden coupler peg which fits easily into the hole on the adjoining car.

Katy, the Bakery Elf has brought her colourfully illustrated suitcase, a child’s apron for your little one, a mushroom cookie cutter and her own special hazelnut cookie recipe. Dressed in her baking attire, red special apron, red baking hat, she is ready and willing to help you and your little one bake the best cookies you’ve every tasted!

Orchard from HABA was such a fun game to play with my grandsons! We rooted for each other when it was time to roll the dice. When the game was over we each counted the fruit in our baskets. Then the boys had as much fun filling the trees up to prepare for the next game. In this exciting board game, players must work together to harvest the crunchy cherries, juicy apples, sweet pears, and marvelous plums before the insatiable raven eats all of the fruit! The beautifully polished wooden fruit pieces, baskets, and colorful game board from HABA® make this cooperative game especially attractive. This is HABA®'s most popular game in the US. A co-operation game; all children win or lose together.

Down on the Farm from HABA helps your child learn where eggs, milk, and wool come from. Who will help the farmer and his wife to feed the animals? When the sun shines the animals want to be on the meadow, but when it rains they quickly run back to their stables.

Brena, a Butterfly Faerie Waldorf doll from Kathe Kruse, and her two sisters, Aithne and Alana, spend their spring and summers painting the flower petals with brilliant hues.

Snuggling up to Fay, a Waldorf Doll from Kathe Kruse is an easy thing to do. The warmth of the wool and other natural materials fosters a feeling of contentment that grows to friendship.

Ready for any adventure is Liliane our 15” Waldorf child from Käthe Kruse. Children delight in the friendship they develop with their Waldorf dolls. Lasting memories hold fast long into adulthood.

On cold days my grandchildren enjoy playing Bocce Chicken or Bocce Mouse from Kathe Kruse. This fun game keeps them out of mischief for a while and they really enjoy seeing who can get the chicken closest to the egg.

Linden’s favourite adventure game is Viva Topo. She undertakes a possibly perilous expedition which leads her to a fantasy land filled with delicious pieces of cheese. Every step you take will be followed by a hungry cat- a dangerous journey! The winner at the end of the expedition is the mouse family the most cheese.

Owen thinks this fantastic Wooden Train from Debresk of Sweden is truly marvelous! Invisible train tracks take him on journeys throughout his parents house. Carved in the finest wood it is extremely smooth and leaves much to your child’s imagination, which is what childhood is all about! Any special child that has this train will love it for life!

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This Month

Klettinos have been our favourite for years. Colourful, soft and filled with fun sounds there are so many imaginative variations a child can make.

Previous Picks

Hand in Hand, a friendship game that is a classic in Germany. Cheerful children from all over the world hold hands. Truly a game of many friendships! It's nostalgic for us because it reminds us of It's a Small World!

The art of weaving is easily taught with our Wooden Lap Loom with Accessories. Perfect for a home school lesson. This is a portable hardwood frame loom that can be woven on while resting on a table, floor or, yes, your lap!

This colourful and beautifully Handwoven Cotton Storage Wrap is suitable for up to 12 Stockmar wax crayons and 12 Stockmar wax blocks.
A perfectly wonderful way to store and carry your quality beeswax crayons.

The top is down on our Small Wooden Open Convertible from Debresk. Jump in and go for a ride! This quality wooden car is sure to be passed down to your children’s children.

Pollinating the flowers, the beautiful Monarch Butterfly flits silently through the air, pausing ocassionally to show off her bright orange color.

The Short-eared Owl is a real hoot with big, bold eyes that seem to stare you down. Make bedtime stories come alive with our Folkmanis puppets!

This happy little Woodland Home Gnome brings his own kind of charm, joy and a little mischief into your home.

Our Stockmar Beeswax Block Crayons are fabulous for little hands to hold. No worries of broken points. I love using them to add texture and shading in ways stick crayons could never accomplish.

Our Child’s Apron from Camden Rose brings back nostalgia for yesteryear. Crafted by the Amish from American made cotton fabric, our apron includes an adjustable neck strap that fits children from 3 years old to pre-teen.

Then & Now is a source of stories and interesting comparisons. A different kind of memory game, a juxtaposition is of things from different decades.

Little Tim wants to bake an apple pie for Grandma Edna. In the Country from HABA will show him how obtain the ingredients necessary. First, he needs to get the flour, apples, milk and eggs. How will Tim obtain the ingredients? The apples must be picked, the grain ground, the eggs gathered and the cow milked.
Will Tim be the first to surprise Grandma Edna with a pie?

This Backstrap Loom from Harrisville Designs is a wonderful introduction to the art of weaving. Based on the Peruvian backstrap loom used for centuries to make the colorful woven sashes, straps and bands that are so distinctive. Using the same methods, it’s easy and fun to weave unique, beautiful bands so useful in a variety of ways, from belts to carrying straps.

Threading Crocodile from HABA is a great manipulative that not only helps to develop your little ones dexterity, but also is a beginning introduction into the art of sewing.

This Sand Pail from Holland is sturdier than any other pail you have owned. On recent camping trips it has survived unscathed by 4 very active boys. This is the second summer for my pail and it almost looks new!
Mary, Mary, quite contrary..is what your little one might say while putting this Flower Puzzle from Lauri together.

Animate this Large Beautiful Monarch Butterfly from Folkmanis as she pollinates the flowers. Then let her pause to show off her bright orange color.

Silkscapes from Sarah's Silks are larger playsilks designed for endless possibilities. Is it a magical river, an enchanted play space, a puppet theatre? Your child decides what it will be today. Tomorrow it may be something else.

Flitting silently through the forest the Nature Fairy from Kathe Kruse brings ecological balance and light every where she flies. She is dressed to be camouflaged so that she might keep an eye on anything trying to damage her precious forest.

Artemis has created these lovely 10 Pastel Crayons with a completely natural plant base. Each unique crayon is a product of nature’s colours giving you an artistic experience unlike any other. Ten soft tints of primary and secondary colours are medium soft and agreeably mellow. Only the best natural plant dyes and raw materials have been used to produce these unique plant-dyed crayons.

We’re on our way to the field to bring in some hay with our hand-crafted Tractor and Cart. Both are made from solid wood and are durable.

Winter Elf from Kathe Kruse eagerly awaits to travel on many a Magical journey with all who wish to join in her frosty Winter Snow Carriage.

In our game, Planet Sensory from HABA, Sensor, the sensory explorer, guides the players to an exciting planet: carrying out various activities all about seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, moving.
Sensor, the sensory explorer, guides the players to an exciting planet: carrying out various activities all about seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching and moving they get to know their senses better.

Little Tim wants to bake an apple pie for Grandma Edna. In the Country from HABA will show him how obtain the ingredients necessary. First, he needs to get the flour, apples, milk and eggs. How will Tim obtain the ingredients? The apples must be picked, the grain ground, the eggs gathered and the cow milked.
Will Tim be the first to surprise Grandma Edna with a pie?

Our Scarf Knitting Kits from Harrisville Designs are a fabulous interactive way for young ones to learn from adults as well as a gratifying skill for them to acquire.

It’s fall and the farm is bustling with activity bringing in the harvest and readying for winter. This Farmyard look inside first puzzle from Selecta® pictures what’s inside the barn; see the horses, cat, bird and tractor.

From the enchanted ice island comes Blue Dragon to add delightful embellishments to the stories you tell your child.

The Castle Canopy from Sarah’s Silks will provide a delightful play space for Knights in shining armor, Kings, Queens, Princes and Princesses. Let your child’s imagination soar!

We love the Beeswax Block Crayons from Stockmar! A child is led away from the hard line to an experience of coloured surfaces and planes; on strong drawing paper he can press down hard with no breakage. The blocks have wide surfaces and different length sides, making special colour effects possible. The edges of the blocks allow for detail work.

Mulberry Faerie Showanna and Jenny look forward to sharing magical moments with each other.

Isabel spends hour’s quietly crafting life-like figures of animals with our Plant-dyed Beeswax from Artemis. The warmth of her hands softens the wax and makes it pliable as she artfully reproduces her models.

On the wings of imagination this delightful Celestial Silk Play Canopy from Sarah Silks weave dreams of wonder. Ringed canopy of silk gauze to hang over a child's bed or to create a play space. Seven feet tall and will cover a twin bed.

Nickolaus takes the Shell Bag from Kathe Kruse® on all his beach walks. On Glass Beach he collected several sand dollars, a sea urchin skeleton as well as many other treasures.