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Mr Fox Crafts – Handmade Wooden Toys and Collectibles

Mr Fox Crafts - Handmade Wooden Toys and Collectibles

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Play and Child Development

Posts drawing on research and practice around children’s play — why it matters, what it develops, and how the right toys and environments support it.

Why our toys do not have eyes

March 13, 2026April 17, 2020
wooden toy king and queen

Why do Mr Fox Crafts figurines have no facial features? The answer is rooted in play research, design philosophy and a deliberate commitment to open-ended imagination over fixed character.

Categories Mr Fox Crafts - Behind the Brand, Play and Child Development, Toys - Philosophy, Design and Use

The benefits of playing with toy animals – an intro to pigs.

March 13, 2026April 11, 2020
wooden pig family

Pigs are among the most intelligent domesticated animals — and among the most culturally significant, appearing in everything from Aesop’s fables to Orwell. Here is how that makes wooden pig figurines richer play props than they might first appear.

Categories Play and Child Development, Toys - Philosophy, Design and Use
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