Local South Dakota Wooden Toy Brands
Made in South Dakota — For South Dakotans by South Dakotans
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(01) Magnum Enterprises
When the clock strikes high noon, it’s time for a Mount Rushmore State showdown! Magnum is a homegrown wood toy rubber band gun company out of Rapid City, SD.
From toy pistols to rifles, from toy handguns to automatics — Magnum has just about every kind of kids’ rubber band shooter you can think of. The woodcrafting firearm enthusiast emulates exact models — like a wooden AK-47 and M-60 rifle or a Magnum 45 and Colt 22 pistol. Bright orange barrel tips remind you — these are for friendly play only.
See Magnum Enterprises on Amazon.
Visit the Magnum Enterprises official website.
(02) Chivilla Bay
Specializing in handcrafted home decor & gifts — Chivilla Bay offers a small stock of miniature wooden play farming equipment and wooden lawn games.
Owned by a farmer and a crafter in Aberdeen, SD — they’re carving out a comfortable country life, and wouldn’t have it any other way. The wooden toys currently listed all have to do with barns — a wooden toy barn with doors the slide open and a roof that swings open — as well as the fencing, farm feeder, and cattle loader needed for a good day’s work.
Visit the Chivilla Bay official website.
(03) Custom Wood Artistry
A disabled veteran-owned custom woodworking company in Peever, SD specializing in finely detailed hardwood medley products. With as many as 14 hardwoods crafted into a single piece, Custom Wood Artistry’s plaques, trays, and toys celebrate the full spectrum of natural wood’s beautiful variations.
Their wooden toys range from classic name trains and pounding toys — and also doll’s furniture like cribs and dressers. Handcrafted with care, Custom Wood Artistry’s vehicle toys include dump trucks, pickups, airplanes, jeeps, milk trucks, and gas haulers.
Visit the Custom Wood Artistry official website.
A South Dakota Toy Making Time Capsule
- Gramps’ Toy Shop — Until some time before 2025, Gramps’ Toy Shop was operated by operated by a retired South Dakota woodworker — a husband, a father of eight, and a grandfather of fifty four. The brand firmly believed in life’s simplest things — with a selection of fine woods for each project — everything from birch to cherry to walnut — and then hand crafted into wooden toy construction vehicles (and some snazzy pizza peels, too).
