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| Unique Visitors: 13 |
| Total Unique Visitors: 10854 |
| Visitors Out: 87 |
| Total Visitors Out: 87 |
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| Educational Toys for Babies |
| 2008-07-23 09:01:29 |
Parents and carers today want toys for their children that are not only entertaining and fun but also educational. Babies arrive in the world hungry for learning, and milk, so it falls to parents and carers to ensure that they are adequately stimulated, supported and challenged.
Babies are like sponges. They absorb every aspect of their [...]...
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| Top Ten Traditional Wooden Toys |
| 2008-07-23 08:09:35 |
I’ve taken a close look at our recent sales statistics to compile this list of traditional wooden toys that continue to be immensely popular:
Jacobs Ladder:
This is a very popular traditional folk toy consisting of wooden blocks that are held together with ribbon. When the toy is held at one end the illusion of a block [...]...
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| Marbles over the Millennia |
| 2008-06-23 05:05:24 |
There’s a nicely written piece about traditional games on Time Magazine’s website with the author describing how he and his primary schoolmates played marbles in the playground in the 1970s. No doubt he thinks that makes him sound old, but I could have written the same about my primary school in the 1950s and I [...]...
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| How dangerous are Magnets in Toys? |
| 2008-05-07 06:11:42 |
Since the autumn of 2007 there have been very quick moves by the authorities on both sides of the Atlantic towards greater control of magnets in toys. This has been matched, it seems to me, by a very evident alarm amongst toy-buyers as to the safety of magnets in any form. A programme screened in [...]...
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| Happy Birthday Mulberry Bush |
| 2008-05-01 07:37:09 |
We didn’t realise it but it turns out we’re celebrating our 400th anniversary this year, in a here-we-go-round-the-mulberry-bush sort of way. Today’s Times carries a fascinating letter – if slightly arcane – from the Master of the Garden of the Inner Temple, London (no less) explaining the provenance of the two mulberry trees that grow [...]...
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| Traditional game to get new look |
| 2008-04-28 08:27:00 |
Apparently the makers of Monopoly in USA are “dropping Water Works and Electric Company in favour of Wind Energy and Solar Energy” according to globeandmail.com . They quote the games owner’s CEO as saying this is “a nod to the efforts of countries worldwide to increase the effectiveness and availability of renewable energy and resources.”
A [...]...
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| Could wooden toy making return to Britain? |
| 2008-04-22 05:46:31 |
It’s no secret that a huge proportion of the world’s toy manufacturing has found its way to the Far East, particularly to China, in recent years. Very few of the wooden toys we sell now come from anywhere other than that part of the world. Don’t get me wrong - some of these people [...]...
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| Junior Joiner - Carpentry for Kids |
| 2008-03-26 08:12:58 |
I never cease to be amazed at the number of Junior Carpenter sets we sell – certainly one of our most popular toys. Although it shouldn’t really be described as a toy because these are real tools that really work, and certainly should be used under supervision, at least to start with.
Perhaps that’s [...]...
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| Toy safety - is it a minefield? |
| 2008-03-25 06:32:12 |
Mulberry Bush take the issue of Toy safety very seriously. All the toys we sell come from reputable manufacturers and safety testing certificates are held by them, or by the company that imports them into Europe. The test certificate for any toy – be it a wooden toy, game, doll etc - [...]...
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