Local Arizona Wooden Toy Brands
Made in Arizona — For Arizonans by Arizonans
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(01) Wool Mob
Wool and wood are a match made in heaven — well in this case, made in Gilbert, AZ. Wool Mob offers whimsical toddler toys exclusively featuring two all-natural materials — colorful wool felt balls and wooden play objects.
Need a safe, fuzzy, and natural sling shot? Wool Mob’s inventory is visual eye candy and a wonderful sensory experience — these toys are children, mother, and mother earth approved!
(02) Olive And Fawn
From a dreamer, a designer, and a maker in Scottsdale, AZ comes a series of pastel-perfect and skillfully-crafted wooden toys in the Hebrew language.
Lovely in looks and educational in play — the toys offer a fun way for Jewish families to introduce traditional values into their homes.
(03) Arizona Mantel Works
Arizona Mantel Works makes classically handcrafted wooden toy vehicles and figurines from poplar and birch woods. Hand held haughty — the wheeled cars, planes, and trains measure from 6 to 9 inches long. One unusual reason to take a peak? The Arizona Mantel Works wooden rattle wagon pull toy is equipped with square wheels to cause a racket.
Although the toy parts are pieced together with plain wood, a wood-burning tool is used to incise details like a custom number. Glues, lacquers, and mineral-oils are applied to keep finish these long-lasting toys.
See Arizona Mantel Works on the Uptown Farmer’s Market website.
An Arizona Toy Making Time Capsule
- Lily & River — During the climbing toy craze of 2020, Lily & River was Arizona’s hottest brand for wooden climbing toys and other child-sized acrobatic equipment. When people across the nation found out about Lily & River — previously made in Phoenix, AZ — they simply fell in love with Lily & River. At that time, it was one of my favorites, too — with aesthetic beauty and intuitive design at large-scale — all while promoting holistic development of your child’s body, mind, and soul. I’m quite perplexed to learn Lily & River is no longer in business, but I’m glad to know some of their pikler triangles, ladders, and slides remain in stock at random retailers across the internet.
- Tiny Tikes Play — Until the year 2022, Tiny Tikes Play was home to Arizona’s most meteorologically accurate handcrafted rainbow stacker — because it commingled clouds and lightning bolts. Tiny Tikes Play fashioned premium wood into playful shapes, and added tutti-frutti assortments of delicious colors — for a fair weather playscape of open-ended, early learning, and sensory play toys.
- Dear Baby Kay — For the several years following 2017, the Dear Baby Kay brand made baby keepsakes with refined taste — custom engraved with your baby’s name — for families to keep track of important milestones. Their aesthetic focused on simplicity and purity, to keep the mother-child bond extra special.
- JoePaul’s Crafts — Until the year 2023, crafty Arizona families looked to JoePaul’s collection of 3D wood craft parts made from basswood, pine, and premium medium-density fiberboard (MDF) to purchase a letter to paint. It was ABC, from bulky letters to wood carving kits — but nowadays, only a few of JoePaul’s letters remain available for sale on Amazon.
