Wooden toys refer to toys made of wood, bamboo and other natural materials or synthetic wood.
Wooden toys, as the name implies, the raw material is natural wood. Divided into: pure wooden toys, synthetic wooden toys, wooden auxiliary toys and so on.
In 2003, China National Light Industry Council awarded Yunhe County, Lishui City, Zhejiang Province, the title of "China Wooden Toy City" characteristic area.
Mainly baby wooden toys, children's building blocks, chess toys, puzzle toys, educational toys, and other children's toys made of qualified wooden materials. More environmentally friendly and durable, help children grow. Wooden toys for younger babies are often made of natural solid wood, the surface to do without paint treatment or safe special water-based paint treatment is more common.
The most common materials for wooden toys on the domestic market in China are: pine, lotus, basswood, basswood plywood, MDF (Medium-density fiberboard), beech, rubber wood.
★ Pine: the cheapest, lighter, white, the wood grain path is larger, easier to fall cracked than other wood.
★Hollywood: most often used as wooden toys, the price is higher than pine, high density, heavier, uniform grain, resistant to falls. Basswood: beige, light, no wood grain, fall-resistant, more expensive than the last two.
★Linden plywood: easy to cut, often used to make wooden puzzles.
★MDF: density board, easy to cut, brown, wooden toys in the mixed water part of the commonly used, cheap.
★ Beech wood: uniform grain, cross-section is a bit like a grain of rice, a little bit, the price is higher than the lotus wood, but also resistant to falls.
★ Rubber wood: toys made of this wood, exports for more, mainly for very young children to use, feel very good, very safe.
In addition, imported wood is generally better than the price of domestic wood. Whether it is resistant to fall also depends on whether the processing front after drying, drying is the time to grasp the degree. Time is not well controlled, many times the wood will crack.
Wooden toys inside the main is the use of the above kinds of. In general, wooden blocks are quite resistant to fall. Considering the cost performance, the best and most practical of the lotus wood.
In ancient times, wooden toys were a single wooden toy, but modern wooden toys are different degrees of practical contact and processing of different materials, to achieve the diversification of toy functions, multi-functional.
Wooden toys in the toy category in a large category, a long history, wooden toys in developed countries in Europe and the United States at each stage of historical development, in Europe and the United States has a unique cultural ideology, the history of their respective countries, Germany's wooden toys is the earliest and most famous. In ancient times in Germany, there is the emergence of belt lathe, wooden toys is the belt lathe processing, after hand polishing, the size of such wooden toys from very small a few feet to very large toys are available, the most representative works of this type of toys on the wooden ark.
In the United States, there is a man named Albert in Philadelphia, he is a German, immigrated to the United States in 1872, he began to make wooden horse toys for the circus, he made the wooden horse with flexible and lifelike characteristics, was used by many local circuses, has been still seen it, is very popular at the time of the wooden horse. Later, the circus installed four wheels on the wooden horse, it became the prototype of the ancient carriage.
Because of the inspiration of wooden horses, in the subsequent manufacturing of wooden toys, wooden trains, wooden cars, wooden boats, wooden tractors, etc., and so far, wooden airplanes have become the favorite toys for children, from this point can be seen, wooden toys have both a long history and cultural connotations, there are given the atmosphere of the times.
In other wooden toys, stilts and gyro is also a very popular toy for children, stilts is a very simple wooden toys, educational and fun, gyro is a practical production process of the simplest wooden toys, but the most used among children, as a child playing gyro on the ice, when the gyro rotation, from learning the principles of mechanics, acceleration and other knowledge, it can be said that wooden toys for people's intellectual development in the credit.
In our country, wooden toys have a much longer history, in ancient times the famous Huarong Road, always play as a child, understand the role of each character, feats and mutual combat skills are very important, after that, there are wooden toys blocks, in the process of building blocks,, understand the reasoning of the building, built well will not fall, built unscientifically is to fall, which may have developed a lot of architectural designers, so that toys are the intellectual teacher of human enlightenment, play well children's intelligence will be clearly outstanding, which also gives the toy manufacturing enterprises honorable duties.
Wooden toys generally have natural, abstract and artistic forms. The natural form expresses the essence of toys and gives people comfort, while the abstract form expresses the intellectual factor of toys and gives people infinite reverie. Artistic form shows the appreciation factor of toys, giving people a sense of beauty. When a person is in a depressed mood, if he is enjoying a very large and stupid toys, then he is more painful, at this time, he appreciates a bright color, elegant shape, looks very happy toys, the mood will be very different.
Wooden toys not only have a unique charm on intellectual development, but also have very good characteristics in other aspects, practical safety is the first, because wooden toys are processed with wood, non-toxic and tasteless, very helpful to children's physical and mental health, and then is not broken, wear-resistant, resistant to wrestling and other advantages, which is also a foreign keen to buy Chinese wooden toys factors.
