Wooden Toy Train Set Tunnel – Compatible with Brio
Little boys & Girls love traditional wooden train sets, they promote imaginative play & role play & as parents we love to encourage this essential element of childhood. This traditionally styled train track tunnel offers even more opportunities to develop the make- believe land created by amazing little minds!
For thousands of years, wooden toys dominated children’s toy boxes. But with the rise of plastic came the perhaps inevitable decline of wooden toys. Cheaper, easier to mass produce & more affordable for families, toymakers were compelled to move with the times & wood simply couldn’t compete. It seemed that wooden toys had become largely obsolete.
But today is seeing a resurgence of interest & popularity in wooden toys, which retain attractiveness in their durability & quaintness – qualities which plastic simply cannot match. Similarly, wooden toys provide mental stimulation in a way that computer games, despite their enormous success, cannot. Wooden toys are less interactive & have less movement & detail than plastic toys, but this is not their disadvantage; on the contrary, it is exactly these features which encourage children to use their imaginations in order to make more of the toy. Furthermore, it is predominantly toys made out of wood which are designed especially to provide cognitive benefits: just think about wooden alphabet blocks or shape sorting games. Wooden toys have diversity unparalleled by other toys because they offer both fun & learning. & it is parents’ growing recognition of this that has led them to increasingly return to wooden toys, a once lost phenomenon which is now an ever growing trend.