Car Games
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Wooden Service Station & Garage - Small World City
£60.99This wooden garage doubles as a service station, so the cars in your child's collection always have somewhere to park, fill up and get fixed. Part of the Small World City range, it is made for ages 3 and up and invites long stories of drivers, mechanics and queues at the pump.
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Wooden Farmyard Activity Playset - Small World City
£45.82This wooden farm from the Small World City range gives children aged 3 and up a toy farm of their own to set up, rearrange and play out stories on, from the morning feed to bedtime. At 30 x 22 x 26 cm, it is a comfortable size for the floor or a low table.
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Wooden Fire Station Playset - Small World City
£65.99Crafted from smooth natural wood, this authentic wooden fire station playset provides toddlers aged 2 to 4 with an enriching tactile experience that inspires self-directed discovery.
Designed to nurture spatial reasoning and problem-solving, it introduces fundamental concepts through calm, focused hands-on play.
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Gift option
£2.99Is your order a gift? We will be happy to wrap it to surprise your recipient!
Gift wrapping: Whether the order is for a girl or a boy, we offer different types of gift wrap.
Gift card: A message to pass? We include in your order a card with your personalized message.
Warning: This option is not possible with gripper balls.
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Wooden Ambulance & Hospital Construction Playset
£14.99This wooden ambulance toy comes with its own hospital to build, for children aged 2 and up. Chunky painted pieces stack into the hospital, and the little ambulance rolls up to the entrance with its next patient, ready for rescue after rescue.
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Wooden Police Station & Car Construction Playset
£17.99Encourage lively pretend play and construction skills with this wooden police station and police car set. Smooth, chunky wooden pieces allow young children to assemble the police headquarters and race to the rescue, strengthening fine motor control.
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Wooden Car Shape Sorter Toy
£26.99Vroom vroom! This charming wooden car shape sorter vehicle combines rolling vehicular play with cognitive shape sorting!
Toddlers post colourful geometric shapes through matching cutouts in the car body, then open the rear boot to retrieve the pieces (20 x 14 x 11 cm).
Develops shape recognition, spatial orientation, and fine motor grip from 12 months.
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3D Wooden Helicopter Construction Kit - 74 Pieces
£29.99A hands-on 74-piece wooden construction set featuring perforated battens, wooden nuts, bolts, rotating rotor blades, rolling wheels, and 2 pilot figures for aspiring young engineers.
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Wooden Safari Animal Truck Shape Sorter
£35.99Embark on safari adventures with this wooden safari animal truck shape sorter. Toddlers can roll the sturdy wooden vehicle across the floor and post five wild animal blocks through matching cut-outs, blending shape sorting with mobile play.
This range gathers baby car toys made of solid wood, for small hands that love to push, roll and crash. You will find a chunky baby toy car for 1 year olds, trucks with moving parts for toddlers, and small world playsets that keep children aged 3 and up busy for hours.
Choosing a first car for a one-year-old
A good first car is short, heavy at the base and easy to grip with a whole fist. Our small play cars come in natural beech or pink, with rubber grips or thick rubber tyres that roll smoothly across a wooden floor without skidding. One even has a squeaking rubber horn, which tends to become the favourite part. The car shape sorters add a second game: posting the blocks through the right holes, then driving the load away. Our Montessori toys guide for ages 1 to 2 suggests what else to set out at this age.
Lorries with moving parts for 2 year olds
From 2 years, children want vehicles that do something. The dumper truck tips its load of shape blocks, the cement mixer has a drum that really turns, and the safari animal truck takes its passengers on board through shaped holes. The construction playsets, such as the police station with its car or the ambulance and hospital, are put together with simple pieces before the play begins. Lay a strip of masking tape across the floor as a road, and your toddler will drive the trucks along it, load them at one end and tip them out at the other.
Small world playsets: toy cars for kids aged 3 and up
Older children build whole scenes. The fire station, the farmyard and the service station from the Small World City range can stand side by side as a little town, and the soft felt road tracks can be rearranged into a new route each time. The 3D helicopter kit and the grey and yellow dumper are for children who enjoy assembling their vehicle before driving it, a step up from the push-along Montessori education toys of the toddler years.
For a first birthday, one sturdy car is plenty: a toddler will drive it across every room in the house long before asking for a second.