Everything we make

First Toys

Sixty-odd sets across four aisles. Every one of them numbered, tested and posted from the workshop in Hackney.

Ages 1–3

Chunky and chewable

Ages 3–5

First builds

Ages 6–8

Booklet builds

Ages 9+

The long ones

Aisle by aisle

The toy shelf, restocked.

Building Sets

Lighthouse Harbour Building Set

Puzzles

Seaside Village Family Jigsaw

Board Games

Bumblebee Bingo

First Toys

Rainbow Stacking Rings

Plush

Biscuit the Bear, 12 in

Dress-Up

Reversible Superhero Cape in Sky

Arts & Crafts

Big Box of Rainy-Day Crafts

Printables

Rainy-Day Activity Pack — Printable

Gift Boxes

Rainy-Day Bundle

Pull-Along Duck

A wooden duck on a cord whose feet flap as it waddles behind a new walker — only a couple left from this batch.

$32.00
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Wooden Balance Bike

A birch-ply balance bike with an adjustable seat and air tyres — built to order and shipped straight from the Little Acorn workshop.

$149.00
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Rainbow Stacking Rings

Seven hand-painted beech rings on a rocking base — the first toy that teaches big, bigger, biggest.

$26.00
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Personalised Wooden Name Puzzle

Their name in chunky painted letters that lift out of a solid beech board — the gift grandparents order most.

$38.00
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Chunky Wooden Blocks, 40 Pieces

Forty solid beech blocks in eight shapes and five colours, in a canvas drawstring bag that doubles as a play mat.

$44.00
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Sketch to shipped box

How a set gets made.

Someone's kid asks

Nearly every set starts as a complaint. A child wants a crane that turns, a parent wants twenty quiet minutes, and neither exists on the shelf.

Paper, then plywood

Two weeks of sketching, then a rough prototype cut in the workshop. If it does not survive a week on the test panel it goes in the bin.

Twelve tests

Drop, pull, bite, wash, and eight more. EN 71 and ASTM F963 are the floor, not the target — we test past both.

500 numbered boxes

A run is 500 sets, stamped and packed in recycled board. When the last one leaves the workshop the set retires.

Before you buy

Eight straight answers.

Both, and we mark which is which. Anything rated 1–3 is tested for small parts and choking. Above that the number is about patience and finger strength, not danger — plenty of six-year-olds finish the 9+ sets with an adult nearby.

Tell us the set and the part number printed in the booklet and we post a replacement free, anywhere we ship. No receipt, no time limit. We hold spares for every run we have ever made.

Sometimes. About a third of retired sets get a second run, usually a year later and usually because enough people asked. Add your email on the product page and you will hear the day it is scheduled.

Orders placed before 2pm leave the workshop the same day, everything else the next working day. UK next-day is £4.95 and free over £45. Europe is 2–4 days, the rest of the world 5–9.

Within 60 days, opened or not, built or not. Post it back in whatever box you have and we refund the whole thing including the original postage.

FSC birch ply, beech dowel and water-based paint. The board games use recycled greyboard. There is no plastic in any set except the wheels on the vehicle range, which are recycled ABS.

Yes, and it is free. Tick the box at checkout and the set arrives in banana tissue with a plain kraft sleeve and a handwritten card if you leave us a message.

We do, at 25% off from ten sets and with an invoice rather than a card payment. Write to hello@example.com with a rough list and we will put an order together.

Still deciding

Tell us the kid,we'll pick the set.

Age, attention span, whether they like following instructions. One email back with two suggestions and no sales pitch.

Ask us what to buy