Wooden toys refer to toys made of natural materials such as wood and bamboo or synthetic wood. As a major category of toys, wooden toys have a long history. More than 1,700 years ago, wooden toys originated in the Beschgarten and Schönberg areas of Germany. Craftsmen carved small animals and sold them in Nuremberg. These high-quality, low-cost, lifelike wooden gadgets were deeply loved by people and gradually sold to the whole of the West. world.
Among the early wooden toys, wooden horse toys were the most popular, and people's enthusiasm for wooden horse toys has been passed down to this day. The popular wooden horse at that time was directly carved from this version, and a semicircular piece of wood was connected under the body of the horse. Later, people installed wheels under the wooden horse to form a tricycle, which made it more playable.
Due to the changes of the times, the content of wooden toys has also changed. With the development of transportation tools, simple wooden horse toys have become various wooden toys imitating cars, trains, and ships, which are thriving.
1. Most of the raw materials of wooden toys come from natural sources, and it also contains a faint log fragrance when you smell them carefully. Without the participation of chemical substances, wooden toys are suitable for young children to play with and are also convenient to clean and store, giving different children their maximum use value.
2. There are many kinds of wooden toys, and there are countless products. But at the same time, it has the advantages of the lightweight, exquisite, and moderate price of wooden materials, and it is quite resistant to falling, playing, and chewing.
3. The main function of wooden crafts toys is to improve children's physical functions such as hand-foot coordination and hand-eye coordination. These need to be gradually established through training, and toys are just one of the best training tools. If a child wants to build a box of building blocks into a figure, in addition to using his brain, he also needs to cooperate with his hands. It can be seen that toys have a great effect on the development of children's physical functions.