- Strictly Briks – Trap & Gap £21.99 from Amazon,
Learn construction and the basics of engineering with this brik set which also can be used with other leading brands, make ramps, trap doors and build as high as you can.
Hape Tea For Two Set £17.99 from Smyths.
This set has everything kids need for teatime fun. Pop the wooden teabag into the teapot and imagine brewing up the perfect cuppa. 2 cups and saucers help children to learn about sharing, while the tray, milk jug and sugar bowl add to the role play fun. Imagine carrying the tray to customers in a tea shop, or share a pretend cup of tea and a real chat with family and friends.
With pretty patterns and rounded designs, the Hape Tea Set for Two is just right for little hands. High quality wood makes this set a beautiful gift, durable enough to withstand years of play.
This set is designed to encourage sharing and role play conversations, helping little ones to develop language and social skills. Put and take play can help to develop fine motor skills, while bright colours and natural textures encourage sensory development.
Hape Fire Station Set £69.99 from Argos
Set over three floors, this wooden fire station is ready for any emergency. Includes a furnished office, eating and sleeping quarters, a working garage door, and a fire pole that goes from top to bottom. Helps develop hand-eye coordination and stimulates the imagination.
Bronco Shovel Truck £29.99 from The Fowndry
Hazardous LEGO spill… sand pit emergency… for those that appreciate form and function, the perfectly balanced and ruggedly handsome beech wood Bronco is the push toy clean up solution that converts from dump truck to wheel loader at the turn of a scoop. Bronco is guaranteed to take your child’s creative imagination for a ride.
Hape 101 Wonderful Beech Blocks £12.99 from Smyths
Little ones can explore cubes and cylinders, stacking arches to build bridges and balancing triangular blocks to create soaring rooftops. When children play with the Hape 101-Piece Wonderful Beech Blocks set, they can express their creativity, learn to recognise shapes and colours, and build a wooden world for their other toys to play in.
These timeless and durable beech blocks make the perfect first building set. Stacking and building helps children to develop fine motor skills including dexterity, balance, hand-eye coordination and put and take skills.
The Hape 101 Piece Wonderful Beech Blocks set is made from durable wood. These wooden blocks feature natural textures and bright colours designed to stimulate your little one’s senses. With Hape Toys, you can trust that all materials are non-toxic, child safe, and of the highest quality.
Hape Mighty Echo Microphone £8.99 from Amazon
Art is wonderful and music is a great way to get children to express themselves. Learn cause and effect as their singing echo’s around as they create their own masterpiece.
Strictly Briks Brik Buster £26.99 from Amazon
They get knocked down, then they put them up again and repeat. How many bricks can you knock away before the tower falls? Learn balance and cause and effect. The bricks are also compatible with all leading brands, so put it in with their Lego and it’ll work fine.
Build ‘N’ Battle Lightsaber £29.99 from The Fowndry
Hand your average 5 year old an actual lightsaber and chances are your des-res would be ‘Alderaaned’ in less than 12 parsecs. Galaxy Gerd is the sensible alternative – a non-lethal 9-piece build ‘n’ battle modular toy that promotes creativity and helps hone mini Jedi master motor skills.
The handle comes as 8 individually designed beechwood parts; by sliding any combination of 4 onto a wooden spindle and impermanently locking them into place with two end nuts, pint-sized padawans can fashion their own unique sword hilt.
And instead of a blast-door bothering plasma beam, this innocuous fight sabre has a corrugated cardboard blade with a coloured knit cover for added protection.
Guaranteed parent and environment friendly, this elegant toy weapon from a more civilised age comes without light, without sound and without batteries!
Hape Musical Penguin Wobbler £13.99 from Amazon
Great for babies, this beautiful penguin embraces a child’s senses, touch him and he will wobble and make sounds. Ideal for little ones who are inquisitive.
Hape Quadrilla Space City £89.99 from Argos
Experience the stellar power of a Quadrilla deep space marble run! Launch your marbles through cosmic boosts and glow-in-the-dark loops to see which is the speediest space traveller. Draw how you want to build your marble run and then build it according to your plans. Take your marbles into space with this marble run! Includes glow in the dark loops and cosmic boosts! Helps develop creativity and forward planning.
