Bambino Goodies Christmas Gift Guide: Soft & wooden blocks for babies & toddlers

Blocks rock and whether you’ve got a baby or a toddler, there’s something to suit all age groups. They’re great for stimulation and encouraging co-ordination, understanding balance and shapes, as well as promoting learning about colours, numbers, the alphabet or even animals. From soft, to wooden, to traditional, to quirky, here are nine hot buys [...]

Rockin’ Blocks

Building blocks are always a welcome gift for a new baby, but what if the recipient’s parents are less-than-traditional hipster urbanites? No problem. Head for Brooklyn-based Beebles’ Etsy store, where you’ll find the rather fabulous Rockin’ Blocks, which can be snapped up for $40, plus $14 shipping to the UK. Inspired by graf art, the [...]

Classic Alphabet Blocks

Natalie writes… I definitely have a thing about wooden alphabet blocks and I love this set of Classic Alphabet Blocks from Urchin which have a vintage look and feel about them. They’re really gorgeous and embossed with letters and numbers surrounded by decorative borders on some sides, and then stimulating black and white letters, numbers, [...]

ABC Buggy by Janod

Natalie writes… I saw the ABC Buggy by Janod at The Baby Show and even though I love the bambino’s sleek black Brio Toddler Wobbler, this would have been very tempting as it’s a visual and sensory delight! It’s coloured with non toxic paint and comes with 30 alphabet and number blocks, plus there’s a [...]

Brilliant value eco friendly baby blocks

A while back I featured the ABC Wooden Blocks from The Green Apple, a fab little haven full of bang on trend eco friendly products and I had a quick peek over there and discovered that they have some brilliant baby blocks, both sets for well under a tenner. At £4.50, the BABY blocks set [...]

ABC Wooden Blocks from The Green Apple

Natalie writes… When you start looking around at educational toys, you could be mistaken for believing that it’s all plastic-not-so fantastic these days, but there are lots of wooden toys without a battery in sight that stimulate your child and look great. Case in point, these ABC Wooden Blocks from eco store, The Green Apple. [...]

Original ABC Nursery Blocks

Brenda writes… These beautifully embossed hardwood nursery blocks are decorated with lovely storybook images from the early 1900´s. The original cover graphics and the history of the alphabet blocks are also included. Suitable age 2 years+. Available from Bramble Corner for £27.99.

Custom Made Baby Blocks from Millimoomi

Last year one of BabyGeek’s best buddies was baptised and we were stuck for a gift. We wanted something fun for her now and something she would be able to keep. When I came across the Millimoomi shop on Etsy I knew these gorgeous blocks were what we had been looking for. Zoe makes traditional [...]