Educational Toys

Our range includes everything from building blocks and balance boards to walkers and musical instruments, each designed to support your child’s learning journey. As a proud Australian company, we offer a curated selection of educational toys that cater to toddlers and preschoolers alike, delivering quality products to families across the country.

Our Diverse Range of Educational Toys

My Happy Helpers is dedicated to offering a fantastic variety of educational toys for kids of all ages. Whether it's blocks, balance boards, or toy musical instruments, you'll find toys that not only captivate but also teach your child essential skills they'll carry with them throughout life.

Why Choose Educational Toys?

The best educational toys engage your child’s senses, fuel their imagination, and encourage social interaction. For babies, toys that stimulate their senses and help develop motor skills and hand-eye coordination are essential. As they grow into toddlers, toys that introduce them to concepts like colors, shapes, and symmetry become crucial for their continued learning and development.

Toys for Every Stage of Development

We offer toys for preschoolers that introduce them to numbers, letters, and language—giving them a head start before they begin formal education. Playing with these toys alongside your child not only strengthens your bond but also turns learning into a fun, shared experience.

Explore Our Classic and Contemporary Educational Toys

From blocks and balance boards to walkers and kids' musical instruments, My Happy Helpers has some of the finest educational toys available in Australia. Our toys are designed to entertain while teaching children the foundational skills they'll need as they grow.

Give Your Child the Best Start in Life

Begin your child's educational journey with our range of carefully selected learning toys, available online now!

Engaging Baby Toys for Early Development

Starting from infancy, our educational baby toys help little ones discover their senses, develop their vision, and build motor skills. Our Montessori Sensory Box is a must-have, featuring shapes that are perfectly sized for little hands. This toy introduces children to different shapes and colors, improves hand-eye coordination, and encourages sensory exploration.

Educational Toys for Toddlers

As your child transitions from baby to toddler, our educational toys, like our Magnet Fishing Game and our Wooden Abacus, offer fun and engaging ways to learn counting, dexterity, and problem-solving skills. These toys are perfect for helping toddlers develop their cognitive abilities in a playful and interactive manner.

Educational Toys for Preschoolers

For preschool-aged children, our toys like the Mieredu Wipe-Clean Activity Sets provide excellent opportunities for learning numbers, letters, and simple words. These sets are perfect for on-the-go learning, helping preschoolers practice counting, writing, and word recognition before they start school.

Wooden Educational Toys

Wooden toys continue to be a favorite among both parents and children. Our Wooden Indoor Slide and Kids Balance Board are perfect for active play, helping children develop motor skills and balance while enjoying hours of fun. With their timeless design and durable construction, these toys are sure to be a hit in any playroom.

Why Families Trust My Happy Helpers

Australian families love shopping with My Happy Helpers because we're a 100% Australian-owned family business. With years of experience, we pride ourselves on offering great customer service, competitive prices, and high-quality products. Our unique range of toys, furniture, and decor is designed with kids in mind, meeting Australian Safety Standards and backed by a 2-Year Structural Warranty.

We also offer a 30-Day Money Back Guarantee (conditions apply) with every purchase, ensuring a positive shopping experience every time.

Get the Best Learning and Development Toys for Your Child

Because we’re parents ourselves, we understand the needs of Australian families and are committed to providing products that stand up to the demands of daily life.

If you’re in Melbourne, visit us at our Dandenong South store from 10 am to 2 pm, Monday to Friday. Alternatively, shop online from our extensive catalogue and enjoy fast delivery Australia-wide. We aim to dispatch orders within 24-48 hours of receiving payment, so your child’s new favorite toy is just a click away.

The learning toys we have in stock can give your child a head start to life and learning.

Understanding the world around them, understanding how their body works, getting to know fine motor skills, all of this can be taught before your kids reach primary school. We have Montessori educational toys, which teaches through hands-on learning and collaborative play and so much more.

What are the different types of wooden educational toys?

In what ways do you want to enrich your child’s life today? Musically? We have a range of wooden musical toys such as rainmakers, egg shakers even bird whistles!  Would you like to work on their fine motor skills? Your kids can play with the gear construction set, a wooden lock activity set, or our fine rainbow stacker wooden toy.

We have Montessori toys and Steiner educational toys too. All these great ways to feed your child’s mind and imagination, getting them to explore the world around them and begin to understand concepts and ideas.

Delve into a world where play nurtures the mind: My Happy Helpers' wooden educational toys are crafted to enhance cognitive development and spark the joy of learning in children across Australia. From the curious toddler to the eager young learner, our Montessori-inspired educational toys for mathematics, language or practical life skills bridge the gap between knowledge and play. Delight in our collection, where each toy is more than a gift; it's a stepping stone towards a lifelong love of learning, covering the essentials from mathematics and language to practical life skills.

Learning numbers and how they can do awesome things together, is a core component of a child’s education. My Happy Helpers has a superb range of mathematical toys for kids to get their teeth into.  Colourful counting games, a traditional abacus too! We have a tree counting set that allows children to learn to count with abstract objects, not just wooden numbers.

To take counting to the next level, try some Cuisenaire Learning Rods.  Maths can be fun, and counting can be enjoyable. With My Happy Helpers, your children will be many times in front of the curve by the time they enter school.

Language and Alphabet Toys

Playing with letters and words helps children understand how language works, how sentences work, and sparks joy in spelling and talking. We have an extraordinary array of language and alphabet toys for your kids to wrap their minds around.

They can learn how to craft letters with a wooden tracing board of the alphabet play with and arrange letters with a letter disk game. Each disk has a letter, upper case on one side, lowercase on the other.  Combine words and pictures with our Animal Alphabet Flash Card game or build language and geography skills with our maps and flag games.

With My Happy Helpers, your child will be talking, spelling, writing, and creating stories in no time.

Giving your children the best start in life and educating them about their bodies and the world around them, can be done with a smile and giggle with educational toys from My Happy Helpers.

Educational Toys for 1-year-olds

Learning toys for 1-year-olds include musical instruments they can shake, rattle and roll, and learn about sounds and noises. They can play with simple animal puzzles and understand shapes and native Australian Animals.  Let them build and play with a pack of number blocks. Build a tower and let it crash without breaking anything. Give your young ones a chance to explore words and numbers, experiment with their fine motor skills and creativity, all thanks to the toys from My Happy Helpers.

Educational Toys for 2-year-olds

When children reach 2, they are absorbing the world around them. They are beginning to understand words and images, and their imagination is starting to bloom. Harnessing that energy and allowing it to grow positively is where toys for two-year-olds come in.  A push wagon with blocks not only helps them steady themselves to walk, helping them to learn gross motor functions and navigate their world, but it also comes full of coloured blocks to pile up and play with. Encourage your child to get out into the garden and learn about nature with some cool garden tools and a belt.  Engage their problem-solving skills with a colour and shape puzzle set.  My Happy Helpers has loads of cool toys to engage your child’s growing mind and body.

Educational Toys for 3-year-olds

3-year-olds are on the cusp of Kinder. 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. They want to explore more and understand more of their world which we can help with, through educational puzzles, educational games, and more.  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

Being 4 years old is arguably the best time of a child’s life. They are just about to start school. 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 vacuums up 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 them excited about learning and knowing everything! Feed their vibrant minds with toys from My Happy Helpers.

Educational Toys for 5-year-olds

Boisterous 5-year-olds are complex little people. They understand feelings but might not be able to express them. Their brains are becoming complex, needing more demanding stimuli, such as a good puzzle or a challenging building activity. The educational toys for 5-year-olds that My Happy Helpers have can help navigate this transition into school life.

Their imaginations are growing wilder, and they now have more chances to learn social interactions through play. Dinosaur games or castle playsets allow for shared story experiences.  There is a lot you can give your 5-year-olds to encourage a joy of learning and creating. My Happy Helpers is always here to feed your child’s mind and help them develop into bright young adults.

Our collection of wooden educational toys spans a vast range of prices, ensuring there's something to fit every budget. 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.

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.

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.