Local Utah Wooden Toy Brands
Made in Utah — For Utahns by Utahns
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(01) Grandpa Grump’s Workbench
Grandpa Grump’s got style! Specializing in 100% hardwood quality puzzles — each piece features a range of natural wood tone from light-hued Baltic birch to dark-hued walnut. Multiple wood types handcrafted into a single toy — that’s two thumbs up in my book!
Small batch toys with limited selection made to perfection — customize a name puzzle — learn with alphabet and numbers puzzles — play with bunny puzzles, brain teasers, and a good ol’ game of tic tac toe.
See Grandpa Grump’s Workbench on Etsy.
(02) Eric Jacoby Design
Some call it a toy, some call it a sculpture. Eric Jacoby is an architect by trade, whose become fascinated with modern wooden toys and furniture made with baltic birch and stainless steel hardware — Eric Jacoby Design’s future-fit Techtonic dinosaur toys flex with precise mechanics!
Due to the high-tech design and bold colors, you wouldn’t expect Eric Jacoby Designs to be made of “classic” wood — but one of their blog posts reveals the truth. Yes, Techtonic Toys are made of wood.
Visit the Eric Jacoby Design official website.
(03) Wooden Giraffe Toys
Committed to children’s health and the environment, Wooden Giraffe Toys uses only the finest materials — right down to the finish. Their puzzles are in a class of their own all their own.
For children, their thin-cut educational puzzles are shaped like animals (snake, snail, and turtle) and include the ABCs and 123s for learning.
For all ages, their penrose puzzles are flat geometric tiles (like diamond or kite shapes) that piece together create non-repeating patterns that seem to continue without end — at least until you run out of pieces to lay. Ask the makers about the geometrics if you’re as perplexed as I am!
See Wooden Giraffe Toys on Etsy.
(04) Caravan Shoppe
I bet you never thought your little one would make his or her very own wooden toys! Caravan Shoppe’s printable sticker “Olliblocks” will teach your child how! Each item on their shop is a digital download PDFs — with the decals to be printed on sticker paper, a supplies list available at basically any hobby shop, and easy-to-follow instructions.
“Olliblocks” are square stickers to place on square blocks. “Ollibots” take stick-on robot decals a little more advanced. “Playpropolis” stickables become city buildings for small world play. Take a Saturday afternoon to assemble your own wooden play toy — with these special stickers!
Visit the Caravan Shoppe official website.
(05) Homi Baby
Specializing in minimalist wooden climbing and dollhouses fit for babies and toddlers — Homi Baby is a “less is more” toy brand — made in the Richfield, UT — each toy comes with a parent to parent guarantee quality assured!
Ages 3-5 can climb all over their extra-wide Montessori climber made from organic hickory and ash hardwood — and toddlers get their first leg up on their mini Montessori climber. With just two dozen or so different toy toys — they focus on what they’re good at and take it to perfection. (Their website is having some issues at the moment, but we hope it’s up and running soon!)
Visit the Homi Baby official website.
(06) Laiksloft
Laiksloft combines woodworking skill with laser-cut precision to create lightweight puzzles and play pieces for puzzles and playboards — thin yet sturdy. Their farm animal puzzles double as sensory inserts — designed to fit perfectly when placed atop an IKEA brand FLISAT sensory table — the perfect height and learning level for toddlers and up.
(07) Perched
From the hoodoos of southern Utah come handcrafted wooden balancing blocks — better known as tumi ishi blocks. Try a set of 6 or 9 odd-shaped pine wood blocks for a meditative to stack and topple some time.
Located in Lehi, UT — Perched brand is where playtime, meets meditation, meets aesthetic decoration. Each block has 10 to 15 angled sides, resembling low-resolution meteorites — softwoods with natural variations in grain, knots, and color.
(08) Rock Blocks
These unusually asymmetrical geometric rounds are additionally called rock blocks — better known as tumi ishi blocks. These odd-shaped blocks — made in Highland, UT — are just as fun for kids at home as they are for adults in the office.
Attracted to Perch brand balancing blocks — but wish they had more color? The Rock Blocks brand’s solid colors are visually appetizing and delectably bold.
Visit the Rock Blocks official website.
(09) Tracey Toys
This Provo, UT shop transforms store-bought wooden forms into playful, hand-painted playthings and party favors full of character — with creative holiday flair and the keen ability to excite peoples’ imagination.
Tracey Toys’ specialty is peg dolls — painted in seasonal motifs, nativity scenes, and pop culture favorites like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. They also create assortments of wooden foods — such as donut rounds and watermelon arches — that make pretend play simply irresistible for all members of the family.
(10) Dutch Boy Toys
Made from maple, oak, walnut, purple heart, and zebra wood — yes, those last two are types of wood — Dutch Boy is a Lehi, UT brand where simplicity is it.
A line of few and mighty minimalist baby and toddler toys — their most interesting pincer and palmer block set teaches pinching and pulling with two-tone cylinders. If you’re sold on Dutch Boy’s quintessential simplicity — and in the mood for more — their all-in-one “Baby Bundle” has it all — a wooden baby rattle, a circle stacker, a ring stacker, and the pincer and palmer blocks previously mentioned.
(11) She Turns Wood
Located in Clearfield, UT —She Turns Wood makes heirloom quality of wooden spinning tops and turned-wood ornaments. With rich color tones and mesmerizing grain patterns — the wood turning process begins by selecting exotic woods with rich color tones and mesmerizing grain patterns — naturally beautiful and perfectly balanced.
In the past, She Turns Wood had used the same precise turning techniques to make rounded baby rattles, and might still if you ask. (Their shop is currently taking a longer-than-normal break, but we hope more tops will be turning up soon.)
(12) The Happy Factory
When a husband and wife couple retired from Southern Utah University with a love for woodworking and humanitarianism, The Happy Factory’s story began.
The Happy Factory is a non-profit organization that makes then donates wooden toys to kids at the Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City as well as the third-world parts of Liberia, Africa. Their wooden toys bring smiles to hundreds of children in difficult circumstances. Spread the love!
Visit the The Happy Factory official website.
(13) Tiny Tim’s Foundation For Kids
Tiny Tim’s is how caring Utah citizens touch hearts all across the globe. It’s a charity making wooden toy cars and life-changing experiences for poverty stricken youth in every corner of the world.
As the good people down at Tiny Tim’s say, “Every child deserves a toy and every person needs a purpose.”
Visit the Tiny Tim’s Foundation For Kids official website.
A Utah Toy Making Time Capsule
- La-Di-Dolls — From 1986 until 2023, La-Di-Dolls was a creative maker of dress up dolls — two-dimensional, from wood, paper, and felt materials. Sized 7-inch or 14-inches — each doll was deciphered by the color of their hair color — and were essentially identical other than hairstyle! Since the doll’s bodies were flat (wood or paper), you could color and cut out your very own outfits (paper or felt) for them — like a fashion designer — sprucing them up in two-dimensional clothes sketched, colored, and cut-to-fit.
- Timber Rocks — Until the year 2023, Timber Rocks was a college side-project turned into a tumi ishi blocks business. With their simple and quirky geometric blocks — near-identical to the Perched and Rock Blocks brands, which are still in business — Timber Rocks were made using unpainted and unfinished raw poplar wood.
