How to choose wooden toys for your children

Today there're more and more wooden toys as gifts for children to play with. So parents are quite concerned about the safety of kids. How to choose non-toxic & eco-friendly wooden toys for your children? Then I'll introduce some practical ways to parents.

Tips 1: Touch with hands

Most of wooden toys are handmade. The more smooth on the surface of toy, the finer workmanship of of it. So parents should choose smooth toys without burrs, which will do harmless to your children.

Each surface of wooden toys needs cutting, and it's difficult to avoid sharp corners. Thus, workers only deal with the sharp corners by chamfering in the production process.

Wooden toys can be broadly separated into three categories. 1) Imported rubber wood & beech: fine and unique texture, soft feel, durable. But their price is higher than other materials. 2) Basswood & Pine: They feel elegant texture, clothy feel. Generally, these materials are often used by most of wooden toys. 3) Plywood: This kind of toy usually be applied in making jigsaw puzzles. In conclusion, parents can choose and buy appropriate wooden toys according to their favor.

Tips 2: Smell taste

A very simple trick, that is, smell taste.

Wooden toys, more or less, has a smell of wood. Strong smells are matters worthy of attention. There're two conditions that cause the heavy smells. One is tight plastic package, which is not an alarm situation. You need to keep them in the ventilated and cool places for 2-3 days, and dispose of this problem quickly. The other is paint. In general, there's no problem with paint of toys you buy through formal channels. Manufacturers must use non-toxic & eco-friendly water paint. Some of manufacturers make toys by using cheap and toxic lacquers in order to seek exorbitant profits. These inferior lacquers contains a large number of excessive benzene and lead, what will do harm to children's health. For example, heavy lead poisoning, has serious influence on babies' growth and developments. Meanwhile, each of baby's body organs will suffer damage.

Tips 3: Clean by cloth

Wooden toys must be processed through methods like polishing, grinding, chamfering, spray, dry, etc. before coming to market. Parents should try to choose natural colour toys for your babies at their oral phase. What is more important, avoiding kids to chew the toys or put them into mouths. Moreover, toys surfaces should be disinfected regularly.

Tips 4: Examine small parts

Babies' teeth usually appear at between 6 and 7 months. At this time, they like to chew on hands and other objects including toys. However, bacteria can be easily brought into children’s mouth to cause infections. Be sure that parents should pay more attention to your kids and avoid them to chew toys.

According to the facts, wooden toys must be carefully examined and chosen, especially small parts. Parents had better to choose the suitable toys depending on babies’ age. And children can play with toys in more safety.

Tips 5: Obsolete bulky & heavy toys

It’s important and essential to build up capability of practice for babies. If kids insist on constant hands-on practice, it will improve their hand-eye coordination, agility and wisdom. Most of wooden toys are made of solid wood, the weight of which is heavier than other plush or plastic toys. Therefore, parents should choose wooden toys in perfect size for your babies.

Tips 6: Check wood thickness

In addition to safety, educational value and games, wood thickness is another factor to be considered before your purchase. Some of toys are made of veneer and easily break off by kids during playing. What’s worse, irregular section can cut children’s hands. They are a potential security liability, so parents have to pay special attention to the wood thickness.

Tips 7: Safe wooden instinctive quality

At present, more and more wooden toys on the market depend on gorgeous color and multifunctional design to get such welcome by the customers. Colorful toys, of course, are attractive for children. However, there's a potential risk among these beautiful colors. Parents should choose toys made of water paint or wood color for your kids to ensure the safety.

Tips 8: Check the packing box (suitable for all the toys)

a. Please go to formal stores for purchase.

b. Check toys' brand, bar code, manufacturers' name & address, materials, suitable age, security warning, executive standard and so on.

c. If you buy imported toys, please check whether it has translation or not.