Bird Stacker Wooden Toy

I am so proud of H and for the way this toy has come out especially after colouring with the natural dyes. This design is of a stacker with a bit of a twist to it. The birds will only stack at the correct positions and since the wood is not very wide it is all about balancing the stacks on top of each other. E loved them even when they were just a drawing on a paper and once H had cut the wood out she picked up the pieces and began stacking them even before we could smooth out the edges. We had to paint them after E went to bed as she wouldn't let us touch her new toy. She loves the weight as they are very light weight and the fact that she can hold them in her tiny hands, E has hands the size of a one year old. My very tiny little girl has a big mind of her own, she stacked the pieces in different arrangements and began role play with the smallest baby bird sitting a nest in the tree!

I like the translucency of these natural dyes and how they enhance with the grain of the wood as well as the different textures in every piece. Just the idea of being able to not only provide but also make natural toys for your child is so satisfying. After spending hundreds of dollars on buying hand crafted toys for E these new additions have made me so happy and pleased on H's craftsmanship.

None of the pieces are perfect in shape or colour but they fit together so perfectly and I like what they do to a two year old's imagination, look at how she likes to play around with her toys and can do this again and again without getting bored. 

Making toys by hand appeals so much more to E than asking her to choose one at a toy shop where she usually picks up the toys but never really comes back home with them. At one point she actually cried and said "I want to help you" as we were not letting her near the sand paper or the paints, leading by example is a great idea after all.