Toys for Cause & Effect

Can you stack the wooden animals exactly as they appear on the card? Djeco's Animal Stacking Game is great for building fine motor skills, spatial awareness as well as concentration. The game includes 20 cards with different levels of difficulty to recreate and 6 wooden animals. The animals are also a great open-ended play resource when not used for the game. Recommended from 2 yrs+

Each player in turn draws a “challenge” card which tells them either to balance a letter on the board while saying a word containing that letter, or to balance a stick between two letters while saying a word containing both letters. If the challenge is successful and everything stays balanced, the player wins the card. A 2-in-1 game that challenges vocabulary and skill. Players: 2-4 players Time: 15 minutes Recommended from 8 yrs+

Djeco's Locktou is a set of 3 wooden animals helping children to practise their fine motor skills and hand eye coordination. Each animal has a different lock to work out. What does cat have behind the fence? Who is driving with fox in the car and what does bear have in the luggage? Size: Box 22.5 cm x 22.5 cm x 4.9cm Recommended from 3 yrs+

A playful and educational balance game by Djeco. Try to balance the colourful, geometrically shaped wooden animals on the wooden flower. But it is not as easy as it looks, the flour has a rounded base! The perfect game to work on problem solving and fine motor skills as well as learning about balance and cause and effect.  Extensions for play: The wooden pieces could be sorted by shapes or colours. Trace them on a piece of paper and have the child match the shapes to the outlines.  Contents: 1 wooden flower, 1 wooden die and 24 wooden geometric pieces. Recommended from 3 yrs+

The Zig & Go Sets are a series of wooden chain reaction, puzzle and construction games. Children can copy the 3 designs in the instructions booklet to build the courses, or they can test the possibilities with their own set ups - the options are endless.  Highlights include: a tunnel for an element of surprise a wacky car and funny Zig domino characters. This game is compatible with all the other Zig & Go kits in the collection.  Contents: 43-piece wooden construction game with 3 large wooden balls. Recommended from 5 yrs+

Djeco's Zig & Go Sets are a great introduction to STEM concepts such as gravity, force and momentum. The sets explore how a mixture of concepts can create a chain reaction.  This 45 piece set with wooden dominoes, balls and other components will inspire creativity and build skills like perseverance, STEM problem solving and critical thinking.  This set can be combined with other Zig & Go sets to create bigger circuits. Recommended from 8 yrs+

Let the cars slide down the wooden ramps and enjoy the pleasant clicking noise they make. The racing cars set comes complete with the stand, 2 single red cars and 1 double black car.  Recommended from 3 yrs+

Assembling the colourful wooden cogwheels on the board is only half the fun. Only when the big blue wheel is cranked does it become clear whether the plan has worked. Are all the wheels turning? And most importantly, in which direction are they turning? The illustrations have been carefully chosen so that the running cogwheels create a “complete artwork”: Learning should always be this creative and fun. Size: 33 × 21 × 3.1 cm Recommended from 3 yrs+

Goki's Knight's Castle Ball Run Building Set consists of 79 colourful, wooden parts and can be built up to 70 cm high. With many different set ups, this set challenges creativity and patience.  Recommended from 3 yrs+

The friendly wooden pull along crocodile features the typical wiggling movement as it gets pulled along. Material: Solid wood Length: 20.5 cm Recommended from 12 mths+

A wooden shape sorter is one of the classics, and rightly so. It can teach so many different skills with a simple wooden box and some different wooden shapes. As simple as it might look, the concept of making something fit into a hole in a specific way is a difficult task to master and requires lots of thinking and problem solving. The shape sorting is at the top only, with example shape decorations attached to it's sides. Size: 16 x 16 x 10 cm Recommended from 12 mths+

Build it up, build it up, build it high, build it up up up into the sky! Can you stack the elements of the tower in the right way? This tower is a little bit tricky with it's shaped pieces but an ideal tool to learn to recognise and allocate shapes. Size: 7.5 × 7.2 × 27.5 cm Recommended from 12 mths+

A colourful set of 50 wooden building blocks made of high-quality beech wood. The set includes a good variety of different shapes in both, natural wood and colourfully painted. Includes a printed cotton bag for easy storage. Block Size (approx): 5 cm Recommended from 2 yrs+

The shapes and colours of this basic building set are inspired by Friedrich W. A. Fröbel’s concepts about child development and education. Friedrich W. A. Fröbel (1782-1852) was a German pedagogue who created the concept of the “kindergarten”. This 30 Piece Basic Building Set is ideal for young children with its fewer and larger blocks with simple shapes. Create walls, fences, stalls as well as houses, towers and castles… whatever their play requires to be built. By building and playing with blocks, children develop fine motor skills and spatial thinking skills. Contains 30 building blocks in a wooden frame. Size: Frame length 44,5 cm. Single blocks 4 cm thickness, length 4-24 cm. Materials: Lime wood, non-toxic water based colour stain/non-toxic plant based oil finish. Recommended from 12 mths+   Due to this product's size and packaging it is unfortunately unable to be gift wrapped.

Grimm’s newest addition to their Building Sets comes in natural, oiled alder wood, with an eye catching and unique grain. The different grain and colour of each individual piece, as well as the annual rings or small knotholes add to the beauty of this set. This building set is more than just a few wooden stair blocks. It is an ideal starter construction set with some large and solid parts that can be assembled into sturdy and stable structures. Think along the lines of castles, houses or forts. Large windows and gate openings are easily achieved with these blocks while more experienced builders will be able to use them for more intricate constructions. Have fun discovering the countless combinations that arise from connecting the individual parts. Consists of 19 building blocks with felt in wooden frame. Materials: Alder wood, non-toxic plant based oil finish. Size: Frame 44.5cm, single blocks 4cm thickness. Recommended from 3 yrs+

Sixty geometric wooden blocks in bright colours by Grimm’s. They are wonderfully, vibrantly coloured with all natural water based colours. Hand sanded to ensure no sharp edges or corners. Since they are not varnished, they have superior grip when building. This classic wooden block set comes in a mesh bag for easy storage.  Size: 1 cm, 2 cm and 4 cm thickness. Recommended from 12 mths+

The Large Building Rollers are wonderfully tactile and versatile construction pieces. Watch as the element of movement is added to the play scene - see the rollers roll in all directions. Combine them with other building pieces, both small and large, to create colour matched Castles, Palaces and entire Cities. Motor skills are encouraged with the Stacking Game and there is lots to discover with the various colour sorting options. Size: H = 20/40/60/80/100/120/140/160/180/200 mm, Ø 40 mm 25 pieces in a wooden frame. Recommended from 3 yrs+