Kindergarten

Let these open-ended wooden pieces delight and inspire your little one to play and dream with a Fairy Friend. This whimsical set includes just enough wood, fabric, and fiber to enchant the imagination and tickle your little fairy's outdoor senses. This set was created with my own, real-life, fairy-loving friend. She doodles and journals and creates and fiddles with these little pieces inside on shivery days...and we bring them with us outside on sunny ones. Find a hollow, a tree trunk, a sitting stump, a mossy green bank, leafy field, or pasture of posies to let these newfound friends dance in the light of creative thinking. Reminiscent of cloud-watching days, let your little one get entwined in the beautiful simplicity and dream-coaxing play of this lovingly packaged Fairy Friend. Each home includes enough pieces to set the stage for a daytime, playtime, mealtime, or nighttime adventure -- whatever your little one and Fairy Friend can dream of together.

Each Fairy Friend includes one of each item in a coordinating color scheme:

- A Fairy House made of felt, cotton fabric, and ribbon measuring approximately 7.5" tall and 5.5" wide.... with enough ribbon to hang from the wrist on walks through the forest or playtimes in the park.
- One Fairy Friend - each measuring approximately 2" tall painted in nontoxic, soy based paint.
- One crinkly leaf in coordinating cotton fabric, felt, and ribbon
- One felt pillow
- 10 pieces painted in the same color as your Fairy Friend and house
- 5 unpainted pieces

Let your little one delight in a dream walk; an investigation of imagination and pretend play; and a get-to-know-you with a new-found friend. You will be amazed and inspired by the conversations you will overhear and the imaginative ways your little one and Fairy Friend play and learn together.

Mama May I Explore? Why, yes…Most definitely!

Eye-Spy with My Little Eye…is a game I often go to when we are out and about and I need some cooperation. There is something magical about surprises…about finding things you weren’t expecting…about seeing the world, actually seeing the world, when you look out upon it. There is something enchanting about taking notice of things – the big and the small – life’s little details. Boring be the walk without conversation, investigation, or play. My little explorer loves findings things. She loves to discover new sights, sounds…and to collect little treasures from our journeys. 

Give your little adventurer the satisfaction of play with purpose in this magical exploration – a traditional game – a scavenger hunt - with some hidden learning built in. Enjoy the journey as a single, a duo, or group – taking in sights and sounds and searching for the magic of everyday things – “hidden” in plain sight. 

The Set You Get:

13 Wooden Scavenger hunt cards (for a total of 25 “Things to Find”) created by me
Moleskine journal to jot down your adventures / draw the things you can’t collect
Mini pen for such doodles
Muslin pouch for easy toting and treasure collecting

Though anyone is welcome to participate in this magical find-me game, I have found 4 to be the perfect age for actually getting excited to play the “game” – trying to find the things on the cards; collecting treasures; drawing findings; and investigating our surroundings. Played as a group, however, this makes the perfect something for family fun night - walks…talks…and exploration, because you can play at any age or skill level. 

Stack them up. Build them up. Topple them over. Nest them in. Create beautiful tree-scapes with these colorful, open-ended stacking pots. Create a world of whimsy and Seussical delight while playing and mastering a myriad of learning techniques. Help your little naturalist practice sorting skills by categorizing by color or size. Practice differentiation by lining them up from smallest to largest or from largest to smallest. Practice color recognition by grouping the colors of the rainbow. Practice fine motor skills by stacking the pieces up, up, up, and away. See how tall you can build before the trees come toppling to the forest floor. Play with physics and gravity. If a Tree Falls in the Forest…is a magical, open-ended building, nesting, and sorting toy that is sure to have your little explorer playing, pretending, and learning with nature. Use these pieces with building set or with little people to add a natural, colorful, and whimsical layer to pretend play. 

If a Tree Falls in the Forest…will it make a sound? With this play set you are bound to hear the sound of little hands busy at play and little mind’s hard at work… 

If a Tree Falls in the Forest…simply pick up the pieces and start building again.

Each set comes with 24 wooden cups in all. The set contains 4 different sizes cups in each of 6 different colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple), all wrapped up in a drawstring pouch for easy clean-up, organization, and portability.

Each pot has been painted using a nontoxic watercolor wash and lightly sealed with an organic beeswax and jojoba oil blend. None of the toys in the Rainbow Series are intended for children who still mouth things. As with all toys, children should be supervised while at play. Happy Exploring!

Lacing beads are a great way to encourage dexterity and build fine motor skills. The selection of shapes and colors provides a chance to build vocabulary and broaden pattern recognition through play. Each set comes with a myriad of shapes and color to thread, sort, lace, and explore.

Each set comes with approximately 35 pieces in combination of shapes and colors. They are painted with a nontoxic wash and lightly sealed with an organic mix of beeswax and jojoba oil. They come with a string for lacing (which may be different than the one pictured) and packaged in a drawstring pouch for easy access and portability. 

This is a great addition to the learning closet, a trip to Grandpa’s house, or a restaurant…Watch your little one’s concentration and fine motor skills develop through play with the Lacing Bead set.

*NOTE – This set of Lacing Beads is not intended for children who still mouth things as the pieces could be a choking hazard. As with ALL toys, children should be supervised while eat play.* 

This time of year my little ones are always on the look out for babies – not just human babies (infants), but any cute, little, sweet, adorable, natural animal baby they can spot. At the zoo, at the pond, at the park…wherever we adventure, they are smitten with interest over pint-sized furry (or feathery) friends. There is something whimsical about coming across these creatures…something magical. Recognizing what the animals are; knowing the sound they make; and learning what their baby is called is fun, interesting, and always leads to more conversation and discovery. Did you know a kit is just a young skunk? Did you know that both a cow and a giraffe baby are called “calf”? Monkeys have infants, just like we do! A fawn is a baby deer

Inspire your little biologist’s natural curiosity with these adorable animal pairs while enhancing observation skills and building vocabulary. The “mamas” are on bigger disks so they look and feel different. When playing a matching game, even the littlest explorers can sense the size difference and make a pair – one big, one small. Emergent readers will begin to notice letter shapes and groupings; Older explorers will recognize animal names; while younger zoologists can chime in with an audible animal sounds.

Each set comes with 18 animal pairs (36 disks in total). There are 18 coins that measure approximately 2” in diameter and 18 coins that measure 1.5” in diameter. Each image was originally hand-drawn and then hand stamped onto the wooden disks with archival black ink. The set comes in a muslin pouch for easy cleanup and tote-ability.