Sustainable toys from Eichhorn
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Sustainable toys: wooden toys as an investment in the future
Made from natural, renewable materials, wooden toys are a sustainable choice. Especially in this day and age, when sustainability is becoming increasingly important in the toy sector, wooden toys are rightly enjoying growing popularity. In this article, we take an in-depth look at the benefits that sustainable toys offer the environment and your child, as well as the educational value of sustainable wooden toys.
What is a sustainable toy and why is it important?
Sustainable toys are fundamentally different from cheap, quickly consumable toys that often have to be disposed of after a short period of use. Manufacturers who focus on sustainability produce toys that not only have a high play value, but are also particularly robust so that they can be enjoyed for many years to come. Wooden toys are an outstanding example of such sustainability: they are made from wood, a naturally renewable and biodegradable material, making them an environmentally friendly choice that can be disposed of in an environmentally friendly way at the end of their useful life.
Safe play: the health benefits of sustainable wooden toys
Sustainable wooden toys are harmless to health and have many advantages. As a natural raw material, wood contains no hazardous substances and is safe for skin contact with children. Unlike some plastics, which can be harmful to health, especially if children put them in their mouths, wooden toys offer a safe play experience.
Protect the environment: play with Eichhorn wooden toys
With sustainable toys, you can reduce your ecological footprint. Because Eichhorn wooden toys are extremely durable. This means for you:
You buy a high-quality wooden toy once, which your child can then play with for years.
And even when they have outgrown the product, passing it on to younger siblings or relatives is a sustainable option.
The longevity of sustainable toys naturally also results in a cost advantage for you. Although high-quality, durable toys may initially seem a little more expensive to buy, their durability quickly puts this into perspective.
In the long term, you save money because there is no need to constantly replace cheap toys that break. When the life of a sustainable wooden toy comes to an end after decades, it will also be environmentally friendly. After all, wood rots naturally, so there is no waste left over to pollute the environment.
Good for the environment and development: the educational value of sustainable toys
Sustainable toys are of course not only good for the environment, but also for your child. In the following, we would like to explain in more detail how sustainable toys from Eichhorn support your child's development:
Haptic learning
Haptics, i.e. perception through the sense of touch, is automatically encouraged when playing with sustainable wooden toys. The natural surface texture of the wood offers your child the opportunity to gain all kinds of haptic experiences and sharpen their senses.
Aesthetic development
Sustainable toys from Eichhorn impress with their aesthetic, stylish design. For our doll's house with furniture, we have deliberately opted for a restrained color scheme that is pleasing to the eye. After all, sustainable wooden toys don't need to be a brightly colored chaos to be a real highlight! By engaging with discreetly designed toys, your child will develop their aesthetic sensibilities and learn to appreciate natural materials and their incomparably calming aura .
Concentration and patience
Does your child's patience need to be a little longer? Then sustainable toys that promote the ability to concentrate and patience are ideal. Our wooden puzzles are an example of sustainable wooden toys that address precisely this issue. When finding and putting together the right pieces, your child can concentrate properly and learn not to give up in the face of small failures .
Cognitive flexibility
Our toys are also sustainable because they open the door to a number of play scenarios. Thanks to the versatile combination of flexibly usable toys, the toys remain exciting even after your child has been playing with them for hours. Whether they are constantly creating new figures and structures with wooden building blocks or experiencing creative adventures with role-playing toys: your child can use their imagination, develop their problem-solving skills with numerous small challenges and discover almost endless exciting play possibilities for themselves.
Spatial awareness and geometry
With sustainable toys from the construction toy category, which includes building blocks and marble runs, your child can improve their spatial thinking and acquire their first knowledge of geometry in an age-appropriate way. When they construct buildings or watch the balls on their way through the track, they playfully develop an understanding of symmetry and balance - knowledge that will help them progress!
Environmental awareness
Sustainable outdoor toys in particular are an invitation to work together on the topics of sustainability and environmental protection. Our favorite outdoor activity: Paint an Eichhorn birdhouse or beehive together with your child and talk to them about the importance of these animals for our ecosystem. Alternatively, you can use any sustainable wooden toy as an opportunity to teach your child about the value of a sustainable approach to our environment and help them develop environmental awareness.
Cultural awareness
And then, of course, there is the promotion of cultural awareness through sustainable wooden toys. Handling wooden toys brings your child into contact with products that originally come from traditional craftsmanship - an extremely interesting topic that inspires many children ! Playing with musical toys and other wooden toys can awaken your child's interest in craftsmanship. Perhaps they would like to work creatively with wood themselves or discover the desire to become a toy maker one day?
How Eichhorn produces: locally, safely, fairly
At Eichhorn, we produce our sustainable toys mainly in Germany, more precisely in the Bavarian Forest, naturally under fair conditions. In this way, we support the local economy. In addition, this results in short transportation routes between the production site and the sales outlets, which is good for the environment.
Trust in certified Eichhorn toys
The sustainable toys for children that you can buy from Eichhorn are made from high-quality wood that comes from exemplary forestry. It is not for nothing that many of our products are 100% FSC-certified. This confirms that the wood from which they are made comes from forests that are managed in accordance with the social and ecological FSC standards. Eichhorn was also able to secure the "With a clear conscience" seal of approval from Focus Money in 2014. Another award that shows that you can trust our certified sustainable toys.
Sustainable toys protect the environment, are impressively durable and offer your child a high play value. That's why sustainably produced toys are a thoroughly good choice from more than one perspective. If you want to consciously choose environmentally friendly options for your child, you should pay a visit to the Eichhorn store. There you will find a large selection of high-quality toys that inspire sustainability.