Local Arkansas Wooden Toy Brands
Made in Arkansas — For Arkansawyers by Arkansawyers
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(01) Westwork Designs
For congregations of churches and maintainers of historic buildings across America, would your unique building want its own wooden mini me?
Architecturally designed fine wood toys born from the mind of artist and architect Steven W. Hurd, Westwork Designs combines his childhood memories playing with blocks with his design skills to create a made-to-order architectural building blocks. You’ll have to share your blueprints and disclose your building’s historic significance — then Westwork Designs block architects fashion a miniature model emulating your building’s exact specifications.
Visit the Westwork Designs official website.
(02) Winter Creek Woodworks
Winter Creek Woodworks is one Ozarks brand for old-fashioned spinning tops, marble runs, and ball & cup novelties. Made locally in Tilly, Arkansas within the Ozarks — from mixed hardwoods: cherry, black walnut, and white oak — these toys will take you on a trip back to a simpler time!
Their wooden marble maze blocks — for example — are square pieces that fit together like plumbing — to construct a continuous track for marbles to move through! I’ve never seen a toy like that before, and sometimes the classics really can roll out surprise!
See Winter Creek Woodworks on Etsy.
(03) The Serious Toy Company
Magnetically articulated dinosaurs — yes, I’ll say it again — Magnetically Articulated Wooden Dinosaur Toys. On behalf of young and old fans of the prehistoric, The Serious Toy Company states plainly, “We like our toys to have teeth, claws, spikes, and horns.”
A small team of artisan toy makers in Eureka Springs, AR produce wooden dinosaur toys that look and move like the real thing. Take the apatosaurus for example — its long neck and tail swing back and forth in a lifelike fashion — due to the magnets embedded between each wooden section. If plant-eating herbivores aren’t your thing, then feast your carnivorous eyes on the tyrannosaurus — with necks that turn, with jaws and limbs that swivel!
See The Serious Toy Company on Etsy.
Visit The Serious Toy Company’s official website.
(04) Reggio Baby
Browse Reggio Baby for a crash course into the Reggio Emilia approach to preschool and primary education.
Reggio Baby — the Bentonville, AR toy brand — promotes constructivist and self-lead learning though handmade sensory pouches filled with all sorts of trinkets — shiny and simple, identifiable and abstract — to give children hands-on access to worlds of interesting shapes, textures, colors, and sounds. Since the loose parts are inside a sealed pouch — it’s a safe way for developing little ones to interact with oodles of new stuff.
An Arkansas Toy Making Time Capsule
- Olive Branch — Before the year 2025, the Olive Branch brand was on a mission to create healthier lives for families, with heirloom-quality non-toxic wooden toys. Focused on materials good to the planet and safe for child’s play, they crafted toys from locally-sourced hardwoods native to Arkansas.
