Wooden Tracks & Toy Trains

Eichhorn wooden trains for little train drivers

Real explorer kids love having a railroad running through the entire apartment. Whether it's just a small set with wooden track or with extended accessories - when playing with wooden trains, children live out their imagination in a particularly exciting way. Read the following article to find out how a wooden railroad promotes children's development and what is important when buying wooden railroad toys in general.

Playfully promote toddler development with wooden trains

Wooden trains provide children with sustainable support in their development. They promote not only creativity, but also motor skills, coordination and concentration. Quite incidentally, of course, the imaginative play that young children especially love. Wooden trains are toys that parents, grandparents and uncles and aunts particularly like to give as gifts.

Wooden trains promote motor development. The little fingers have to insert individual train tracks of the children's wooden train exactly into each other, exchange rail parts for others and operate the trains and other accessories. So it takes some skill and perseverance to get the train rolling.

A wooden train for toddlers also trains the ability to concentrate. Frustration tolerance is also strengthened if a train derails or components do not fit together. In addition, visual perception benefits from playing with the wooden train for children.

For children under three, the simple sets without complicated structures are just right, while the older kids from three already include bridges, stations and other things.

Tip: Start with a simple railroad set and expand it step by step with wooden train extensions. This way, excitement builds up again and again with increasing age and the child is never bored while playing. Since the train sets can be combined with accessories in many different ways, they can be used to create very extensive train constructions that will be fun to play with for a long time.

From what age are wooden toy trains suitable?

Wooden trains are great educational toys in every way. They are ideal for 3- to 5-year-old children, depending on their developmental stage. Even first grade children still enjoy playing creatively with the extensive wooden train sets.

A distinction must be made between sets with simple wooden trains and wooden trains where the trains run on real wooden tracks. Simpler models are suitable for beginners. Later on, a little more accessories can be added. Remote-controlled versions are ideal for older children who are looking for new challenges.

Eichhorn has these toy trains in its range:

• simple Eichhorn train
• sets with remote controlled trains
• thematically extended Eichhorn railroad with accessories (e.g. railroad set with bridge or fire department set)
• wide range of rails (different rail variants)

from 12 to 18 months

• simple wooden train set
• ideal for the development of gross coordination
• not too complex in structure
• no small parts that can be swallowed
• few parts
• easy operation

from 3 years

• more complex wooden train
• promotes fine motor skills
• offers more variety
• more parts
• with various accessories

What should parents look for when buying a toy train made of wood?

If the purchase of a wooden train is pending, various criteria are important for the selection. In addition to the age recommendation, the material quality, sustainability and safety features are important.

Age recommendation

The age recommended by the manufacturer is the most important information. This tells you which developmental stage the wooden train set is suitable for. Many sets are recommended for kids from three years because they contain small parts that can be swallowed. The older the child is, the more individual parts are included.

Product quality

Young children often explore toys with all their senses and even put them in their mouths. In general, they still handle the individual parts very roughly. The wooden train should therefore be of a correspondingly high quality. The use of robust, chemically untreated hardwood, which promises durability even under heavy use, speaks for good product quality. 

Security

Safety first. The wood should have a smooth surface without sharp edges. In addition, only water-based paints that are harmless to health are allowed for children.

Tip: The smell speaks for the use of safe paints. A wooden train should never smell unpleasant or even chemical when unpacked.

Sustainability

The sustainability factor is important to many parents when buying toys. The wood should come from sustainable forestry and be treated with ecologically safe paints.

Eichhorn products stand for sustainability. The FSC certification of the wooden toys (FSC = responsible forest management) shows that the materials used come from sustainable wood cultivation.

Extension options

If a wooden train is an expandable set, you can add more parts at any time. Additional wooden train accessories bring new fun, so that children can enjoy it again and again.

For example, the following extensions are possible:

• Additional trains (e.g. wagons, locomotives)
• Additional parts for a larger rail network (e.g. rails in different shapes, crossings or bridges)
• Additional buildings (e.g. station, engine shed, houses)
• Traffic signs and traffic lights
• Accessories for the expansion of the surrounding landscape (eg, trees, mountains)

The many possibilities for expansion mean that there are virtually no limits to the fun of playing with Eichhorn wooden trains. Many things can be combined with each other in very different ways to create imaginative landscapes and track layouts.

Our Eichhorn range of wooden trains & accessories

The wooden train set assortment from Eichhorn is very diverse. Many sets can be expanded as desired thanks to extensive accessories for a varied rail network.

How about an additional bridge, tunnel and various switches, for example? Or additional functions with light and sound that make playing with Eichhorn wooden trains even more realistic for children?

Wooden train sets

A wooden train set is ideal for giving as a gift. Here, tracks and trains, as well as other accessories, are already included so that the child can get started right after unpacking. There are numerous wooden train sets from Eichhorn, which differ in the number of parts and the age recommendation.

Wooden tracks

Your wooden trains can always be supplemented with train tracks from Eichhorn. With engine stops, tunnels and other track parts, your route will look even more varied.

Conclusion: Eichhorn wooden trains - for exciting train adventures

Eichhorn wooden trains are not only fun, they also promote children's development and are therefore rightly regarded as valuable toys that appeal to different age groups. From smaller wooden trains to wooden trains with tracks and remote-controlled models, Eichhorn has everything to encourage your child's creativity, fine motor skills and dexterity.

It is important that a wooden toy train is suitable for the age of the child, is of high quality and is designed to be safe and sustainable. You can get a direct introduction to the complete range here on the Eichhorn homepage. From here you can access all other categories, where you will find many interesting gifts for children in addition to the right train set. For example, wooden puzzles, wooden and skill games or exciting outdoor toys.