Want To Send Your Grandkids Something Extra Special? Discover These Must-Have Heirloom Wooden Toys.
Made of from sustainably sourced wood and painted with non-toxic, water-based paints, these heirloom-quality gifts from Raduga Grez, Tender Leaf Toys and Guidecraft are just the thing you need for memory-making with the grandkids!
When it comes to gifting toys, we know how frustrating it can be to see a million plastic parts tossed haphazardly around the house the next time you come to visit. We also know that you want your gift to facilitate years of memory making, not months.
That’s why we are ALL ABOUT these timeless wooden toy options from Raduga Grez, Guidecraft and Tender Leaf Toys.
Scroll down to learn more about these sustainable toy brands and discover our favorite toy picks.
Sustainable Wooden Toy Brands We Love
Raduga Grez
All ethically made in Russia from sustainably sourced wood and non-toxic water-based paints, the gorgeous wooden toy collection from Raduga Grez includes Montessori-inspired rainbow stackers as well as timeless block sets, food toys and more!
Tender Leaf Toys
Made from renewable rubber wood and non-toxic, water-based paints, Tender Leaf Toys offers everything from dinosaur figurines to dollhouses to play kitchen sets. The perfect combination of educational and fun, they’re items that even your grandkids’ kids will play with.
Guidecraft
Inspired by STEM activities, Guidecraft uses FSC and GreenGuard certified wooden materials to create timeless transportation toys, train sets, big building blocks and more!
Wooden Toy Gifts For Grandkids
Stackers & Arches
Ideal from 12 months and up, these classic stackers are wonderful for honing hand-eye coordination, learning about shapes and sizes and encouraging open-ended play. Understated and cute, they can also double as nursery decor!
by Astrup Shapes Stacking Tower
$52
Raduga Grez Mountains Small Stacker
$35
Wee Gallery Wooden Stacker – Bear
$24.95
RWee Gallery Wooden Stacker – Panda
$24.95
Wooden Figurines
The wooden figurine sets are a colorful playtime favorite! Fantastic for facilitating open ended play, they allow children to use their imaginations while honing their hand-eye coordination and expanding their vocabularies.
CLiCQUES Rainbow Girls Woden Figurines
$140
CLiCQUES Rainbow Boys Wooden Figurines
$140
Grapat Rainbow Tomten
$28.20
Play Kitchen + Toy Food
Play kitchens and toy food are an absolute essential for both boys and girls. Great for encouraging healthy eating and broadening a child’s vocabulary, they also help children develop independence, life skills and a sense of self.
Available in a variety of natural colors, the Milton & Goose Essential Play Kitchen has loads of accessories and looks fabulous in your home!
Milton & Goose Essential Play Kitchen
$659
Raduga Grez Wooden Fruit Set
$65
Raduga Grez Wooden Vegetable Set
$65
Things That Go
Transportation toys are ideal for teaching kids how things work and demonstrating cause and effect. From setting up a train set to considering which truck would be best to move a heavy load of blocks, kids get to think critically, problem-solve and use their imaginations.
Both Guidecraft and Petit Collage have fantastic options that don’t require a driver’s or operator’s license!
Guidecraft Wooden Front Loader
$49.95
Guidecraft Big Wrecking Ball Truck
$119.95
Petit Collage Wind Up and Go Playset – Firehouse
$18
Guidecraft Wooden Police Car
$49.95
Guidecraft Foundation Train Set A
$129
PlanToys Ramp Racer
$60
Timeless Wooden Dollhouses
Remember your first dollhouse? SAME. We spent hours creating special family scenes, decorating rooms and imagining what type of home we’d make one day. Scroll down to see a fabulous collection of sustainably made wooden dollhouses and Goose Grease’s The Organic Family!
Pretty in Pine Round Doll House
$165
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Maquette Kids Stepped Gabled Dollhouse
$180
PlanToys Contemporary Dollhouse
$250
Goose Grease – The Organic Family
$36
Wooden Role Play Toys
When kids role play, they get to pretend to be someone else and experiment with different personality types. Fun to do solo or with a friend/family member, toys like the PlanToys Coffee Maker and Vet Set can help develop manners, communication skills as well as hand-eye coordination.
PlanToys Tool Belt
$25
PlanToys Dentist Set
$30
Hape Coffee Maker
$24.99
PlanToys Vet Set
$30
Wooden Blocks
Because block play is incredibly important for both cognitive and physical development, the National Association for the Education of Young Children believes every classroom should have a set!
These unique blocks from Guidecraft take the activity further (and outside) but allowing kids to think and grow big!
Guidecraft Outdoor Wooden Hollow Blocks
$999.95
Guidecraft Wooden Blocks Set D
$299.95
Once Kids Eco-Blocks™ Wooden Set – 250 Piece
$110
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