Handmade Christmas Tree
Handcrafted, secondhand Christmas tree by Dottie Angel. Beautiful!
Etsy Finds: Wooden Playthings
Etsy seller mooshoopork has lots of fun wooden playthings that would surely bring a smile to someone on your Christmas list. She’ll even make...
Cool New Gift for Children: StradaBlox
These wonderful wooden race tracks made by StradaBlox snap together using socket-type connections and rare-earth magnets, making them sturdy and rigid yet simple enough...
Vanilla Tricycle
Handbuilt by Sascha White of Vanilla Bicycles for his daughter. Definitely a daddy's girl!
Projects: Flowerbomb
Here’s a fun collection of tutorials for making various forms of guerilla gardening artillery. The concepts were created by Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Yoeri...
Paper Animals by Carlo Giovani
Brazilian illustrator and paper artist Carlo Giovani has created a nice niche for himself by making stylized papercuts for high profile clients (like the...
Teach Your Child How To Identify Trees
The ability to identify trees is one of those fundamental skills that is often overlooked. I love this gift set by Naef, which introduces...
Music Box Revisited
The train literally plays the track of this inventive music toy by designer Ricardo Seola. The track, which is designed with small bumps that...
Vintage Furniture for Children
Up top, children’s dining set designed in Denmark (designer unknown). Second picture, plywood bunk beds designed in the 1960s by Angelo Manglarotti. Both designed...
Vintage Carnival Circus Clown Bicycles
Trick bikes from the big top of the 1930s, available at Modern 50. Where do they find this stuff?
Free Audio Stories for Kids
Listening to audiobooks before bedtime is nightly ritual that my children enjoy (Ann Twigg is practically a member of the family). Though obviously not...
Vintage Wooden Toys From An Unusual Source
Dutch designer Ko Verzuu and his team at ADO made these gorgeous wooden toys (as well as many others) during the 1920s and early...
Hand-Stitched Teepee
I just came across these wonderful teepees via the papier mache blog. Made from hand-stitched recycled yacht sailcoth and poplar stick poles, each comes...
Lego Meets Paper With Help From MUJI
Such a simple yet ingenious idea, punching Lego-size holes in paper! Polish up on your Japanese (or let Google Translate take care of it)...
Etsy Finds: French Vintage
Etsy seller My Red Boots has a beautiful collection of vintage items for children, mostly found while scouring flea markets and yard sales in...