From the simple joys of a coconut shell water scoop at $9.95 to the interactive wonders of our wooden weather station at $74.95, these tools are an investment in your child's educational journey. In these formative years, the value they add to your child's development is beyond measure, making our educational toys online not just purchases but investments in their capacity to learn and grow.
What are the different types of wooden educational toys?
Deciding how to enrich your child’s day is an exciting opportunity with our diverse range of children's educational toys. Whether it's honing fine motor skills through interactive play or awakening their musical talents with musical toys such as rainmakers, egg shakers, even bird whistles, we have it all. Our gear construction sets, wooden lock activity boards, and rainbow stackers are designed to foster young imaginations and promote problem-solving skills. Featuring a curated selection of Montessori and Steiner educational toys, My Happy Helpers is committed to providing educational toys online that will inspire, educate, and entertain.
What are our favourite Educational Toys
My Happy Helpers has a marvellous range of educational toys for kids of all ages, and the best thing is, they’re wooden. This gives a great tactile feel for young hands and are quality products lasting for years. Chances are they will become heirlooms while still being more than safe for little hands to play with years after you buy them.
Our collection of stylish wooden toys encompasses a delightful variety to captivate every child's interest and imagination. From the creative click of a wooden camera or wooden tractors to the joyful discovery of cause and effect at a pound-a-peg table, each toy is a doorway to learning. Your children can embark on prehistoric adventures with wooden dinosaurs, create their own ecosystem or farm with toy animals or rule over a kingdom with their very own castle set. These toys are masterfully designed to foster critical thinking and problem-solving skills, expand vocabulary by learning the names of objects, and, above all, provide endless fun. Including the beloved tractor in our lineup, we ensure that playtime is always an educational journey.
Musical Instrument Toys
Introducing your little ones to the world of harmony and rhythm, musical instrument toys do more than just create sound; they pave the way for an exploration of auditory creativity and aural distinction. As your children find their beat with our comprehensive band-in-a-box, or discover melody with animal-shaped shakers and colourful xylophone, they are not merely playing — they're developing fine motor skills and coordination. Beyond the conventional range of pianos and drums, our range extends to unique wooden rainmakers, rotating music boxes and musical bells, inviting a symphony of learning and joy into your home with My Happy Helpers' exquisite collection of musical educational toys.
Montessori Toys
Montessori toys transcend traditional play, offering tactile encounters with the natural charm of wooden materials. Each toy, crafted from elements kind to both touch and the environment, invites little ones to learn instinctively and safely — even when curiosity leads to a taste test. Engage your child's mind with wooden sorting and sequencing blocks that illuminate concepts of mathematics and object permanence or stacking blocks that demand balancing acts. These are not just toys, but tools, designed to sharpen young minds and senses through the authentic texture of wood, aligning with the Montessori ethos of mindful, tactile learning.
Waldorf Steiner Toys
The essence of Steiner Waldorf toys lies in their ability to bring the richness of sensory experiences into playtime. Each Soft felt doll, sensation of falling sand, and the warmth of polished wood in your child's hand is carefully selected to engage and develop fine motor skills through diverse textures and materials. Renowned for their impeccable craftsmanship, these toys embody the spirit of joyful learning, encouraging smiles and discovery in equal measure. With Waldorf Steiner toys, play becomes an immersive journey into understanding the tactile world, fostering an environment where learning is as natural and delightful as the materials from which these toys are made.
Educational Toys for 1-year-olds
My Happy Helpers is dedicated to sparking joy in the early developmental stages of childhood. Our selection of learning toys for 1-year-olds is carefully curated to nurture curiosity with a touch of fun. Enchanting musical instruments offer a symphony of sounds for little ears, while simple animal puzzles introduce shapes and the wonders of the Australian fauna. Our soft numbers blocks are perfect for constructing and deconstructing without a tear or break, allowing for a playful exploration of numeracy and structure. These toys are more than just playthings; they're tools for growth, enabling your child to delve into the realms of language, numeracy, and creativity, all within the bounds of delightful play.
Educational Toys for 2-year-olds
At two, children become sponges for the world's wonders, beginning to piece together words and images as their imaginations take flight. Toys for two-year-olds channel this curiosity into positive development. Imagine a push wagon teeming with coloured blocks: it's not just a support for their first steps but a treasure trove for budding architects. And with garden tool sets, your child is not just playing in the dirt; they're budding botanists exploring the marvels of nature. My Happy Helpers offers a plethora of toys that cater to the flourishing minds and bodies of two-year-olds, fostering growth in every sense.
Educational Toys for 3-year-olds
As they approach kindergarten, three-year-olds stand at a thrilling developmental milestone. Their understanding of numbers is growing, their reading skills are rocketing ahead, and they’re learning how to grip and grasp and heighten their fine motor skills through play.
At three years old your child will want to explore and understand more of their world, which our collection of educational puzzles, educational games, and more can help with. Fill your 3-year-old’s mind with wonder and chances to create and learn with all the educational toys for three-year-olds from My Happy Helpers.
Educational Toys for 4-year-olds
Four is the magical age of boundless energy and inquisitiveness, with school on the horizon and the world at their feet. They can run and jump, they can carry a conversation, and they are learning new words and numbers and things all the time. The amount of information a 4-year-old absorbs into their minds is incredible, and being able to fill their imaginations with educational toys for 4-year-olds is a must.
Boost their confidence through learning with word games, building games, and puzzles. Feed their play and imagination with a treehouse playset or an animal vet playset too. They can learn about animals in the sea or beasts of the African savannah with these stackable wooden toy animals.
Get your child excited about learning and understanding the big world around them with toys from My Happy Helpers.
Educational Toys for 5-year-olds
Five-year-olds are bundles of energy and complexity, their emotions as vivid as their imaginations. Their brains are becoming complex; they can understand their own feelings but may still find them complex to express, needing more demanding stimuli, such as a good puzzle or a challenging building activity to help themselves develop even further. The educational toys for 5-year-olds that My Happy Helpers have can help navigate this transition into school life, bridging the gap to formal schooling.
As children approach the age of five, their worlds expand rapidly, teeming with vivid imaginations and the ability to form deeper social connections. My Happy Helpers' range of toys, from Dinosaur games or castle playsets allows for shared experiences that nurture storytelling and collaborative play. These playtimes are more than fun; they're a fertile ground for learning and creating, where each interaction is a stepping stone towards social adeptness to prepare them for not only school but the wider world.