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Mr Fox Crafts – handmade wooden toys and collectibles

Mr Fox Crafts - handmade wooden toys and collectibles

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      • Woodland animals
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Toys

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

How to Encourage Symbolic Play

January 28, 2023May 30, 2022
wooden toy people

How adults can foster symbolic play (also known as dramatic play, imaginative play, pretend play, small-world play, make-believe play.

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

Why we use hard wood to make our toy figurines

December 28, 2021May 6, 2021
north american animal wooden toys

Toys made of hard wood are stronger and heavier. They retain their beauty after extensive use. Heavier toys aid children’s sensory development.

Categories Blog post, Mr Fox Crafts, Play, Toys, Wood Tags hard wood, heavy toys, wood therapy, wooden toys

Why we make people of different times and cultures

July 24, 2020

Why children need to know people of other places and other times and why we make toy people of different times and cultures.

Categories Blog post, Play, Toys Tags First Nation toys, Himba people, Native American figurines, wooden toy people

Playing with Cougar

October 10, 2021June 27, 2020
wooden toy cougar

Find out how to help enrich your children’s play with wooden toy cougars.

Categories Blog post, Play, Toys Tags cougar, dramatic play, imaginative play, mountain lion, open-ended play, open-ended toy, wooden toy animals, wooden toy cougar, wooden toy panther, wooden toy puma

Playing with toy skunks

October 10, 2021June 12, 2020

Find useful information about skunks and tips on how to enrich your child’s play with toy skunks.

Categories Blog post, Play, Toys Tags open-ended play, skunks, small world play, wooden toy animals, wooden toy skunk, wooden toys

Playing with toy raccoons

October 10, 2021June 6, 2020
wooden raccoon toy

Playing with toy animals can be meaningful an fun. Raccoons could be fascinating figurines. Find out how play with them can be enriched.

Categories Blog post, Play, Toys Tags facts about raccoons, learning about raccoons, playing with animal figures, wooden toy raccoon

Playing with toy animals

October 20, 2024May 21, 2020
wooden animals woodland

Wooden toy animals can be used in many different ways to engage in meaninful and fascinating play. Find some ideas in this blog post.

Categories Blog post, Play, Toys Tags open-ended play, play with toy animals, small world play, wooden african animals, wooden farm animals, wooden toy animals, wooden toys, wooden woodland animals
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