Wooden toys are a NATURAL PRODUCT

Wooden toys tend to be green!  Most parents love that wooden toys are a natural product…made right from trees. Children also understand this and can even be shown this process if you make your own toys. Many believe that the wooden toy has a living energy to it that a child will respond to. It’s the same material as the tree in the backyard that they touch every day.

Many wooden toy manufacturers are cognizant of the fact that their product requires cutting down trees. This may make some people unhappy. HOWEVER,  many wooden toy manufacturers have active restoration policies and may replant as many as five trees to replace every one that is used. FURTHER, wood from some trees isn’t actually taken until another product is taken from it. Take the rubberwood tree, for example. Rubberwood trees are cut for wooden toys after they have been sapped for all of their juice!  Did you know rubberwood is a hard wood (much like maple).

We will discuss being GREEN Tuesday.