| How many toys are made of other materials that | | | | mention but a few, in a vast range of natural |
| you can't find made from wood? Not many, other | | | | wooden toys, most of which have been hand |
| than the electronic ones. You see, natural wooden | | | | carved. |
| toys have been around for more years than any | | | | We know if we were all to look in our homes that |
| other toy. That's FACT. Archaeologists have found | | | | we would find lots of plastic toys. But where are |
| natural wooden toys when digging for other artifacts, | | | | these toys kept? Are they out on display in pride of |
| which date back to before Christ. That certainly is | | | | place? Or are they pushed to the back of a |
| more than can be said of plastics and man made | | | | cupboard or wardrobe, probably never to be played |
| materials. Wood in fact will still be around when | | | | with again? Now if you would take a look again, is |
| plastics and the like have ceased to exist because of | | | | there any wooden toys? My guess would be, yes, at |
| the scarcity of oil. | | | | least two and probably one of these is on display, or |
| Look at the skill of the wooden toy maker, it is | | | | left out. It is out because natural wooden toys are |
| remarkable and to look at a child's rocking horse | | | | attractive and pleasing on the eye, they can be a |
| when it has been hand carved and the final touches | | | | centre piece in the lounge, or if small enough sat on a |
| added is a joy to see. I am sure if you were to ask | | | | mantelpiece over the fire. |
| the wooden toy maker to make a toy of your | | | | Do we love natural wooden toys because the |
| choice he would not have a problem carving one to | | | | wooden toy maker puts so much love and effort |
| perfection, whatever it may be. Yes the moulding of | | | | into his masterpiece, which is then passed on through |
| plastic has given it an edge in the past, but | | | | the wood, or is it because it was once living and |
| nowadays with new technologies, the wood carver | | | | giving us life through its leaves giving us oxygen. It |
| can give highly polished and intricate finishes to wood | | | | may be lots of differing things, one thing is for |
| never seen before.There are lorries, diggers, spinning | | | | certain though, wood will be used for making toys |
| tops as well as aeroplanes and pirate ships to | | | | for generations to come. |