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Mr Fox Crafts – handmade wooden toys and collectibles

Mr Fox Crafts - handmade wooden toys and collectibles

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Mr Fox

Symbolic Play and Cognitive Development

March 31, 2025
Symbolic play and cognitive development

How symbolic play can aid cognitive development.

Categories Blog post, Play Tags dramatic play, Howard Gardner, imaginative play, Jerome Bruner, multiple intelligences, narrative thinking, open-ended play, pretend play, small world play, W. George Scarlett

Why pretend play is so important in early childhood (3-5)

February 19, 2025

How play is different from entertainment. Why pretend play is so important for young children aged 3-5

Categories Blog post, Parenting, Play Tags dramatic play, imaginative play, open-ended play, pretend play, small world play, symbolic play

Moominsummer Madness

July 5, 2024

Why Moominsummer Madness makes a good family read, especially in summer. Why reading hight quality literature to young children makes a huge difference.

Categories Blog post, Books Tags children's books, living books, Moominsummer Madness, Moomintroll, The Moomins, Tove Jansson

Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson

January 13, 2024
Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson

Looking for a good winter read? Here are some good reasons why you should pick Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson. You could even read it with your family.

Categories Blog post, Books Tags living books, Moominland Midwinter, Tove Jansson, winter reads

Tales of Long Ago

February 12, 2025September 30, 2023
tales by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić

Folktales make a richer and deeper read than commercially created mass produced children’s books. Here is a classic by the great Croatian author Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić

Categories Blog post, Books Tags books, children's books, fairy tales, folk tales, Halloween

How to Have a Meaningful Conscious Halloween: 3 Points to Consider

October 22, 2023August 20, 2023
Halloween Decoration Set

How to have a meaningful conscious Halloween? Here are some points to consider: the Christian roots of Halloween; the pagan roots of Halloween; how children deal with scary stuff.

Categories Blog post, Parenting Tags children and Halloween, Halloween, Samhain festival, the Christian roots of Halloween, the pagan roots of Halloween, the symbolic meaning of Halloween

5 Reasons Why High Quality Toys Are a Great Baby Shower Gift Idea

March 12, 2023
wooden tiger

Find 5 good reasons why heirloom quality toys make great baby shower gifts that will impress parents and bring joy and a lot of benefit to children.

Categories Blog post, Toys Tags baby shower gift ideas, baby sprinkle gift ideas, gifts for newborn baby

How Play Can Be Healing

February 11, 2023
wooden dwarf figurines

Find out how play can be therapeutic and how to encourage meaningful healing play.

Categories Blog post, Play, Toys Tags dramatic play, imaginative play, open-ended play, open-ended toy, play therapy, playing with animal figures, pretend play, small world play, wooden toys

Are wooden toys more sustainable than plastic toys?

February 9, 2023
wooden toy people

Find out how wooden toys are more sustainable than plastic toys – in not-so-obvious but important ways that go beyond their being eco-friendly

Categories Blog post, Mr Fox Crafts, Toys, Wood Tags how wooden toys are more sustainable, wooden toys

7 Things to Consider before You Follow the Lagom Fad

January 28, 2023January 16, 2023
what lagom means

What lagom means and how we can apply this philosophy in our lives.

Categories Blog post Tags lagom, what lagom means
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