Busybynature offers a unique range of natural toys, tools and other creative materials. Our products are carefully selected to encourage children's involvement and learning through everyday life activities and through truly free play. All our items are thoughtfully sourced - we only use suppliers who source responsibly and make use of ethically-minded and charitable business organisations.
Our fully functioning and durable children's tools and real but small tools, help children to follow their natural drive to take part in practical life activities, accept challenges and learn to manage risks. It is through these real life accomplishments that children's self-esteem flourishes. Through free play with natural toys and open-ended materials, children connect with their senses and explore and discover their real world and their imaginative world.
We supply wide range of responsibly sourced and fair trade child-sized tools - real tools for cooking, cleaning, gardening and woodwork. Many natural materials are used in the tools - woods and metals - making the tools beautiful as well as useful. We also offer higher-risk tools that are intended for adults to use, or children under careful supervision who are following a Forest School approach to learning, including Original Storm Kettles, Rotating Kitchencraft Delux Apple Peeler/ Corer.
Our wooden purpose-made toys are beautifully crafted, with care and reverence, and finished with natural dyes and oils. The simplicity of the toys invites a child's creativity and sustained play. Handmade Evi and Camphill toy figures - dolls, gnomes, fairies ... add depth to the play and appeal to the imagination. We also offer heuristic items - non-toys, that can be used for exploring.
Our natural tools and toys fit well with Steiner and Montessori teachings and beliefs as well as any practical common sense approach to children's development and learning.