When I was pregnant with my first child, I was convinced we would never have an apartment full of plastic toys like Barbie, Sylvanians and My Little Ponies. Now I know that was wrong in so many ways. We don’t have tons of toys, but we haven’t been able to avoid the commercial and popular kind, and since these toys often bring many hours of play time, I’m okay with having them around.
But as my children have been getting older, I’ve realized that they often appreciate the more unique pieces that are to be found in their toy collection. With this in mind, I’m trying to avoid buying anymore Barbies or My Little Ponies and instead focus more on hand crafted toys, either made by myself or bought from small companies or individual crafters.
Here’s a small selection of my favorite hand crafted toys, that I wouldn’t mind adding to the toy collection in our household.
1. Handmade Waldorf inspired doll I made for my youngest daughter. 2. Hungry bear doll / Coral and Tusk 3. Handmade ragdoll / Dancey Pants Disco 4. Cat headdress / Animalesque 5. Bunny in bloomers / Yume Creations 6. Camera / Fanny and Alexander 7. Fox mask / Coral and Tusk 8. Stacking toy / Toto 9. Wodden thief doll / Sketchinc 10. Ragdoll / Tippitoetailor 11. Play tent / Such Great Heights
I couldn’t agree more with you. Like your kids mine also have a waldorf doll each that their grandmother made them. They are really fond of them and often they even get to sleep next to them at bedtime. For playing my daughter also have a good quality regular doll that she plays with a lot.
That’s so lovely Tina! My girls also have a few regular dolls, but they actually stopped playing with them, when Alma got the Waldorf doll. Now my 6-year-old really wants one as well!