Grimm's Spiel & Holz Design
Waldorf Wooden Toys & Puzzles

Fine Wooden Toys is pleased to offer a beautiful selection of natural wooden Waldorf toys by Grimm's Spiel & Holz Design of Germany. Stacking rainbows, geometric, mosaic and magnetic puzzles, wooden blocks and wheeled horses - all lovingly handcrafted and finished with natural dyes and oils. These Waldorf toys and geometric puzzles are incredibly versatile, offering unlimited opportunity for open-ended creative play. Just select a category above, then click any product to find a full description, age recommendation and price.

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The Toy Makers
Spiel & Holz Design ("Play & Wood Design") was established in Germany in 1978, and has produced many award-winning Waldorf-inspired toys and wooden puzzles. Their foundation for toy making is based on Waldorf education and the teaching philosophies of Rudolf Steiner, and they try to include this aspect in the development and production of their toys.

Natural Toys
All of these unique and inspired Waldorf natural toys can be used in a variety of creative ways. The wooden stacking rainbows and element puzzles can be telescoped, stacked and arranged in many exciting and fun ways, or used as tunnels, bridges and houses for other toys. The Fantastic Blocks, including the Dwarf Village and Gnome town sets, are puzzles, building blocks, and pretend-play buildings all in one! The thick wooden pieces of the mosaic puzzles and geometric block puzzles can be used out of the frames to stack and create vertical as well as flat table-top designs. Children (and adults, too!) can exercise their imaginations by creating endless original designs and patterns with the magnetic and geometric mosaic puzzles.

Fine Workmanship
Grimm's Spiel & Holz Design uses only European wood, mainly Alder. Most of their Waldorf wooden toys are handcrafted and hand finished, which allows a much better expression than machine production. The toys are finished with natural vegetable/linseed oil or child safe water-based dyes. The wheeled wooden horses and pull along elephant also have felt, cotton and natural leather accents.

Award-winning
Most of these wooden toys carry the Spiel Gut ("Good Toy Guide") recommendation. This means that the toys have been tested with children and examined by experts with a positive result. Toys are judged by play value, material, workmanship, construction, durability, safety, design and suitability for the appropriate age group
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