Teach your little ones to sort, order, and recognize patterns and opposites in style. Made from sustainable Michigan bassword, this set from Uncle Goose contains 28 colorful blocks with debossed numbers, mathemetical symbols, and geometrical shapes that correspond to a number on the opposite side.
These plates designed by David Rasmussen are functional Danish modern art for your dinner table. Available in hard walnut and maple, each plate is trimmed with a slick pop of color and finished with food-safe oil.
No need to clutter the crib with plastic playthings when your baby begins to teethe; Their toys can be good for their gums, good for the environment, and darn good-looking, too. Made from solid maple that's sanded smooth, these simple shapes from Little Sapling Toys are easy to grasp and clean, and for every purchase a tree is planted for Trees for the Future. If you're looking for gifts for a young one, their site has a bunch of beautifully crafted pieces, from blocks and skittles, to rattles and a rocking unicorn.
Kids' toys run the gamut from good-looking to garish, educational to, well, questionably useful in a young one's life. But you can never go wrong with a classic set of blocks, and millergoodman's graphic geometric prints make these basics even more fun. Your tot can turn these bright rubberwood pieces over—and over and over—in the box to create a new design (the Shapemaker Flickr pool has some finished masterpieces), then rearrange them again for a brand new look.
Karl Zahn added a playful alligator to his line of toys made from sustainably harvested new growth beech wood. The tripartite puzzle-like design is held together with dovetails—baby's first lesson in joinery.
