SECTOR GUIDE: WOODEN TOYS FULANITOS
St Albans-based Willowbee Design’s new Fulanitos wooden play-sets were launched at the Harrogate Home & Gift Show earlier this year, receiving a positive reception. Designed to be an entry level wooden
creative play activity, each of the game sets has a short story book to introduce the eight characters. This is as well as an easy-assemble model of
either a Pirate Ship, Medieval Castle or Country Cottage. All of the stories have been created and written by the BAFTA award winning comedy writer Dean Wilkinson.
ALSO AVAILABLE
Great Gizmos has a range of eco-friendly wooden toys on offer this year including the environment-preserving Plan Toys series of toys, puzzles and dollhouses; Children can run zoos, play with horses and tackle flames in a series of wooden sets from Haba. These include the Large Play-set At the Zoo, My First Play World Horse and My First Play World Fire; Golden Bear has a range of wooden domonoes sets available in Banana in Pyjamas, Ben and Holly, Peppa Pigand Poppy Catthemes; New firm Bee Smart is making its first foray into the wooden toys sector with a portable ten-piece wooden kitchen set; Papo’s Trendy Horse Boxes provides a stable for horse and horse rider toys and features large windows, a removable roof and two swing doors; TP Toys is taking an environmentally friendly approach with its wooden products and the firm’s new line of play frames, including the Kingswood 2 play frame, are made from European FSC certified pine or spruce; B Kids’ Soft n Safe range combines wood, eco plastic and rubber to bring children a fun selection including the Sorting Cube, Pounding Shape Bench, Tap n Tilt Roller Rack and the See n Spin Alphabet Rack; The latest wooden ride on from Kiddimoto is BoxKart. The product marks the firm’s first four-wheeled toy and comes with an adjustable frame, handbrake and pneumatic tyres. Elsewhere, the firm’s latest Kurve bike is the Splatz Kurve with a design that looks like it has been decorated by kids; the Cookin’ Creations Kitchen from Little Tikes will delight mini-master chefs with its stove top, oven and dishwasher all with clicking knobs; Rainbow Designs is adding to its The World of Eric Carle collection with a Wooden Shape Sorter clock to help children with number and shape recognition and the Wooden Caterpillar Stacker to aid hand-eye coordination.
The Castle set includes knights, a princess, a king and more, and comes in a display of 12 boxes, while the Pirate Ship (with pirate crew and ‘femme fatale’) and Cottage sets come in displays of 16. Each product retails for £8.95 to £9.95. Meanwhile, the bi-plane
features a photo-voltaic cell to work a propeller and retails at £7.95.
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October 87
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