Shadows in the Woods
WK 7110
Regular price $65.002 board games of hide and seek in the light of a candle for 2-8 players.
First version: The burning tealight moves through the dark forest and tries to find the small dwarves in their hiding places. If a dwarf is touched by the light, it is frozen and not allowed to move any more. The other dwarves try to release it. All dwarves try to unite under one tree while the candle tries to freeze the dwarves. Who will win? A co-operative game for children starting at 5+ years, with adult supervision because of the candle.
Second version: The light remains stationary in one place. The dwarves must move through the shadows and jump over the light. A dwarf which has to stop in the shadow must wait until another player helps him by flashing him a ray of light. The game ends when all the dwarves have made it home safe and sound. It may not seem obvious, but learning about the path of light rays and direct and diffuse light is also being taught whilst engaged in play. Recommended for 7+ years, with adult supervision.
Instructions in English, French, and German.
Made in Germany.
rope-runner kit
WK 1100
Regular price $12.50Funicular fun! The rope runner is fine to pack in a little adventurer's backpack and take out into the woods, or for a bit of sport indoors or out around the house.
Assembly 8 yrs+; Play 5 yrs+.
Instructions in English, French, and German.
12 cm high. 145 grams. Pocket pals sold separately.
Made in Germany.
fun with colours
WK 5570
Regular price $5.85Look at the world with colourful eyes, mix colours, colour shadows - have a little fun with surprising experiments for children from pre-school age up, who will certainly pay closer attention to the colours in their surroundings afterwards. 7 colour sheets in a small box.
Recommended for 5+ years. Corners of the colour sheets are pointy, but with careful attention, some 3 and 4 year olds may also enjoy these. Instructions, explanations, and ideas for experiments in English, French, and German.
Box is 6 x 6 x 1.2 cm. Weight 10 grams.
Made in Germany.
glass sphere
WK 5640
Regular price $12.50The glass ball is hollow and when partly or wholly filled with water, becomes a magnifying glass. Reductions in image sizes are created if held under water.
Recommended for 9+ yrs. Particularly suited to the study of light and optics in Grades 6 & 7.
Instructions, explanations, and suggested experiments in English and French.
Winner of the german Spiel Gut award.
6.5 x 6.5 x 4.5 cm. Weight 41 grams.
Made in Germany.
Athena diabolo kit
GOU1002-GREEN
Regular price $35.00Once you get it spinning, you can throw it, catch it, twirl it... Moves are limited only by your imagination!
Made of two malleable rubber cupolas allowing routines at very high speed without risks when they topple. This set is perfect for beginners. Used in schools to practice basic techniques. Solid and resistant to falls.
Includes: 1 Athena Diabolo with wooden rubber gripped handsticks, and 1 instructional booklet in French and English.
Recommended for 6+ years.
Diameter of Diabolo is 10.4 cm.
Comes in red, orange, green, or blue diabolos. (Purple has been discontinued by manufacturer).
Made in Canada.
mini cable car 2-gondola kit
WK 1170
Regular price $40.00 Sale price $36.50 Save 9%The two cars are joined with a string. A wood block or a stone as weight in the upper car will cause it to travel downhill, at the same time pulling the lighter one uphill. Mini cable car kit includes materials for building 2 cars and a station for shuttle traffic.
Also comes with 2 pieces of 5 m long string. Cars are ~8 cm long x 3.8 cm wide.
Recommended for 9 years+.
Nest Notes: we do recommend following the maker's age recommendation, as the gluing of the cable cars takes patience and a little hand steadiness and skill. For cable car fun without gluing, and for younger children, we recommend the basket cable car kits. Please note that the basket cable car kits and the gondola cable cars kits use different rope (cable) configurations, and therefore do not mix and match.
Made in Germany.
mirror tube
WK 5520
Regular price $9.50 Sale price $8.00 Save 16%The hard cardboard tube with the help of the two flexible mirrors, one rolled into the interior of the tube, and one bent around the outside of the tube, leads to many experiments in reflection. The resulting patterns and views are beautiful and surprising and can lead to many further independent experiments.
Booklet with excellent quality set-ups and suggestions for experiments and open-ended questions, in german, english, and french language.
Recommended for 8 years and up. Particularly suited to the study of light and optics in Grade 6 and 7.
Winner of the German 'Spiel Gut' award.
Comes in a tube 21 cm long x 6.3 cm diameter, overall weight 95 g.
Made in Germany.
mirror ball
WK 5680
Regular price $10.00A lot of fun. Not only at Christmas time!
Too bad that you only have it at Christmas bringing out the Christmas tree balls... Actually, you should always have them at hand, because a mirror ball is great fun to experiment with! Try it, even if just the Easter bunny should be on the way.
Attention! Your mirror ball is very fragile, because it is thin blown mirror glass. Be very careful not to let it drop on the floor!
Glass mirrors give multiple reflections much better again than metal mirrors or plastic, hence the choice of materials.
Recommended for 8+ yrs. Particularly suited to the study of light and optics in Grades 6 & 7.
Instructions, explanations, and suggested experiments in English and French.
Winner of the German Spiel Gut award.
8 x 8 x 8 cm. Weight 52 grams.
Made in Germany.
animal tracks
WK 5575
Regular price $17.00Design your own animal tracks with six different track templates: Whether with chalk, paint, in the sand or on fabric: is it a wolf - a lynx or .. a wild boar? Eagle owls, bears and deer can also perform! Great fun for children.
Do you really know how large the footprint of a bear is and how small in comparison that of a lynx? What does it look like when wild animals walk through mud or snow? Use these life size templates to recreate the tracks of bear, lynx, wolf, red deer, wild boar, and eagle-owl.
Colour in the templates on the pavement/ sidewalk using chalks, spray chalk, or even mud, take them to print the tracks on snow or sand. You can even use them with textile paint to decorate some clothing or other fabric.
Contents: 7 templates for life-sized tracks on woodland animals (there are 2 for the bear), instructions on how to use them and interesting facts about step length, size, weight, feeding habits and predators of each of these animals.
For children from 5 years of age, helps to develop an interest in nature.
Made in Germany.
mirror cabinet
WK 5670
Regular price $21.50An introduction to experiments with reflections. With two mirrors, one flexible and the other a ball shape, much experimenting in the mystery-filled world of mirror images, of distorted mirror images, the mirror image of the mirror images, the distorted mirrored distorted mirror images, and so on...
Booklet with excellent quality set-ups and suggestions for experiments and open-ended questions, in german, english, and french language.
Recommended for 8 years and up. Particularly suited to the study of light and optics in Grades 6 & 7.
Winner of the German 'Spiel Gut' award.
Comes in a carton 11.5 x 8.3 x 4.6 cm, overall weight 105 g.
Made in Germany.
solar-powered carousel
WK 1600
Regular price $75.00Sunlight drives the solar Sun Carousel.
A small solar cell supplies the power for a small motor. In the sun, in the light of a light bulb or a halogen spotlight, the Sun Carousel begins to turn. It drives until shadows fall on the solar cell. As soon as the Sun Carousel is back in the light, the next ride begins.
Assembly instructions in English, with French and German available.
Recommended for children 10 years and older to build on their own. Younger children, perhaps even of 6 and older will enjoy to play with it, and they may participate to build together with an older helper.
Assembled diameter 25 cm. Weight 360 grams.
Comes with 3 small dolls.
Made in Germany.
Grapat Perpetual Calendar in French
GRAPAT 17-167D
Regular price $82.00 Sale price $73.80 Save 10%It contains 12 Nins® in 12 colours according to the Waldorf pedagogy, both to determine the month and its season of the year. 1 bowl of natural beech wood, two natural beech wood cubes with the numbers of the days printed, and a platform distributed in 4 sections that determine the seasons, stamped with the months of the year. (also available in English and German)
Annual manipulative and active calendar that allows the child to touch the year and understand the passage of time through the experience.
Recommended age 3+
GRAPAT provides material without instructions, open-ended and autonomous play. Their only premise is to let children play, slowly, without time limits. Grapat hand crafts materials that encourage, invite and stimulate the creation of invented little worlds. Grapat is made following traditional processes, in the old way, with thick soft raw materials, natural dyes which let the wood veins be seen and vibrant coloured waxes and oils that slightly shine. The products are painted by hand, homemade, surrounded by nature and many children nearby that inspire the makers daily.
The wood we use comes from sustainable forests. Grapat uses beech and birch. Wood is the source that inspires us daily. It is robust, soft and hard, it is warm, it sounds good and it smells good.
The dyes are based on water and non-toxic that comply with the European safety regulations of the Toy EN / 71-3: 2014 + A1: 2014 / 2013. Working with dyes and not with acrylic paints allows Grapat to continue having contact with the wood. The dye does not jump from the wood when it falls to the ground or when time passes because it penetrates deep inside the piece. Sometimes it can happen that by an excess of pigments some piece loses some colour when coming in contact with the saliva, no problem, they are absolutely safe and non-toxic.
Grapat workshop is located in the countryside, and being close to nature can make some tones and colours have variations. Depending on the humidity or if there is wind the dye can impregnate one way or another in the wood. The finishes are made with waxes and oils of vegetable origin. The oils can have a strong aroma at first, but it loses it with the days. We love it!
Each piece that passes through Grapat’s hands is unique. Each one is painted by hand. And since from Grapat we defend the value of nature, we accept imperfection. It is beautiful and makes the material even more valuable. The cloth bags that are included in some of the products come from big companies that discard material when they have a small defect. As Grapat produces the bags by hand they can take advantage of them by removing those defects and giving them a second life. The fabrics vary and do not match with the photos of the products.
Care Instructions: If you clean Grapat wood products only use a damp cloth. Do not submerge in water and do not use disinfectant or hot water.
Made in Spain.
Princesse
FP P Fr
Regular price $15.00Age: 4 à 7 ans Pour 2 à 4 joueurs.
Un jeu de fantaisie qui permet aux enfants de passer des moments agréables tout en développant leur imagination.
La ravissante princesse est ensorcelée et enfermée dans le château.
Pour sauver la ravissante dame, allons à la recherche des choses magiques à travers les villages.
Les enfants se servent de leur imagination et recourent parfois à la logique pour le choix de la bonne chose.
Les joueurs s’entraideront pour trouver leur passage au-delà des obstacles.
Contenu: Planchette de jeu en couleurs, 12 jetons “choses spéciales”. 6 carte représentant les problèmes, 4 pions, 1 dé, instructions
Please note that this is the French language version of this boardgame. Also available separately in an English version on our site. The playing cards are bilingual, but the writing on the board on the top of the box is in French in this version.
swings carousel
WK 1650
Regular price $75.00The swings carousel offers space for six little dolls, which should hold on tight while driving. It can be turned with the small crank.
Delightful is a "remote control" to drive the carousel when paired with a 'water wheel', 'windmill' or an engine (sold separately).
Recommended for children 10 years and older to build on their own. Younger children, perhaps even of 6 and older will enjoy to play with it, and they may participate to build together with an older helper.
Assembled diameter 35 cm. Weight 350 grams.
Comes with 3 small dolls.
Made in Germany.
Bhaváti
WK 4800
Regular price $150.00Bhaváti is an old Indian word for 'to build'. The Bhaváti wooden bricks with their specific shape entice children to build towers, fences, houses, and patterns or serve as building bricks in the following 4 game versions for kindergarten or older children:
Recommended for 3 years and up. There are 4 different game versions included: Two versions are for 3 or 4 years and up; one version for 5 years and up; and another game version for 10 years and up.
Instructions in English, French, and German.
Contents: 144 wooden building bricks, 20 wooden player pieces, 2 coloured and 1 numbered dice, 2 sturdy cardboard ring sets
Size of box: 43 x 30 x 5.5 cm
Weight 2.8 kg
Made in Germany.
Game Play Instructions:
Tower of Bable, a family game for 5 years+
Idea:
The players take turns throwing the dice to determine how many bricks of one colour they may use for building or have to remove. The first player to place