Push and Pull Toys
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Pull-Along Wooden Snail & Motor Skills Bead Maze
£9.99This cheerful pull-along wooden snail is a delightful 2-in-1 companion for early walking and tactile discovery!
As toddlers pull the snail along by its cord, the colourful bead maze shell rolls along; detach or stationary, the wire track lets little fingers slide vibrant wooden beads (14 x 12 x 14.5 cm).
Encourages walking motivation and fine motor dexterity from 12 months.
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Pull-Along Wooden Lion with Wire Bead Maze
£13.99Encourage walking milestones and fine motor dexterity with this pull-along wooden lion toy. Toddlers lead their brave lion friend by its cord while sliding colourful beads along the looping wire maze mounted on its back.
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Wooden Stacking Geometric Shape Train - Pull-Along Sorter
£17.99All aboard for learning and fun! This wooden stacking train features an engine and two detachable carriages with vertical pegs. Children thread colourful geometric blocks with 1, 2, 3, or 4 holes onto the corresponding pegs, combining counting, sorting, and pull-along play.
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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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Wooden Ladybird Push-Along Toy
£34.99When pushed forward, this charming wooden ladybird flaps its wings with every step! A delightful wooden push-along walker toy designed to encourage toddlers to walk, develop balance, and explore their surroundings. Suitable for toddlers from 12 months.
Wooden pull along toys are companions for toddlers who have just found their feet: a snail, a sheep, a horse or a unicorn on a cord that follows them from room to room. Most are suitable from 12 months, when walking turns into exploring.
Why a 1 year old often starts by pushing
Before the cord, there is the push. A ladybird or a crocodile on wheels, pushed across the floor on all fours or at a wobbly walk, shows straight away that a movement of the arm makes the toy travel. The crocodile's jaws flap as the wheels turn, and the farm tractor rattles its beads, so every push gets an answer. These are the wooden Montessori toys that leave the play mat and follow your child around the house.
Animals, cars or a bead maze on wheels?
Pulling is harder than pushing: your child has to walk forward while glancing back to check the toy is still following. The best choice starts from what your toddler already enjoys:
- Moving parts: a butterfly with flapping wings, a rainbow caterpillar that changes shape, a snail whose spiral spins.
- Something to do when they stop: the lion and the snail with a wire bead maze, or the geometric train whose blocks stack and sort.
- Little cars: chunky beech play cars with rubber tyres or a squeaking horn, easy to grip in one hand.
- For ages 2+: the cement mixer truck with a drum that turns.
How to introduce push and pull toys
Keep the cord short at first, and show the toy rolling behind you along the hallway: most toddlers want to try within seconds. Hard floors make the wheels run more freely than a thick rug. Once pulling in a straight line is easy, add a turn around the sofa or a doorway to get through.
A wooden push along toy, like the ladybird or the whale, suits a child who prefers to keep the toy in sight in front of them; a pull-along suits one who already walks with confidence. If the bead-maze models are the ones your toddler stops to fiddle with, our bead mazes and baby abacuses carry on that game at the table.