Pounding & Hammering Toys
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Arctic Ice Floe Wooden Hammer Bench Toy
£19.99This Arctic Ice Floe wooden pounding bench allows toddlers from 18 months to channel energy constructively into developing hand-eye precision, trajectory control, and physical cause-and-effect.
Features colourful wooden pegs that push through silicone-buffered holes and a lightweight wooden mallet.
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Wooden Pounding Bench - Pastel Hammer Peg Toy
£23.99A classic toddler favourite, this wooden pounding bench features colourful wooden pegs that children tap flush with a lightweight wooden mallet. Once all pegs are hammered down, simply flip the sturdy bench over to start the fun all over again!
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Classic Blue Wooden Hammer Bench with Cylinders
£28.99This classic blue wooden hammer bench is an essential gross and fine motor activity toy for energetic toddlers from 18 months.
Tap the colourful wooden cylinders through the bench with the wooden mallet, flip the bench over, and start all over again (20.5 x 8.8 x 8.5 cm).
Develops hand-eye precision, strike force regulation, and focus.
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Wooden Peek-a-Boo Bird Pounding Bench Toy
£35.99Discover cause, effect, and motor precision with this wooden peek-a-boo bird pounding bench. When little builders tap one friendly bird peg down with the wooden mallet, another cheeky bird pops right up, providing endless kinetic giggles and fun.
Ball hammering toys and wooden pounding benches give toddlers from 12 months something they are allowed to bang. A tap sends a ball rolling out, a firm knock pushes a peg through to the other side: every strike has a result they can see and hear.
Ball hammering box or peg bench?
The pound and roll hammer box comes with 4 balls: your child places a ball on a hole, taps it through and watches it roll out at the bottom. It suits the youngest, as a ball goes through with a light tap and comes straight back out to play again.
A peg bench, a classic among wooden Montessori toys, asks a little more. The pegs need a steadier aim and a firmer blow, and on most benches, once every peg is down, your child simply turns it over and starts again. Choose from the pastel wooden pounding bench, the warm taupe or natural models, the Arctic ice floe, the peek-a-boo bird or the classic blue bench with cylinders.
From 12 months to 2 years: which children's hammer toy?
- From 12 months: the pound and roll ball box, the natural eco bench, the Arctic ice floe and the 2-in-1 hammering bench with baby xylophone, which turns the mallet into a beater.
- From 18 months: the pastel, warm taupe and peek-a-boo bird benches.
- From 2 years: the colourful bench with mallet and the classic blue bench, with pegs that take more effort.
- For a bigger play corner: the XL activity cubes, which combine a hammering side with several other activities.
Hammering without the chaos
Hand over the mallet and let your child find their own rhythm. If it starts landing on the table instead, calmly put the bench away and bring it out again later: they quickly learn that the hammer is for the pegs. A bench works best on a low table or the floor, where your child can kneel and strike from above.