With its rich history of logging and lumbering, which are Washington’s most sought-after wooden toy brands in 2025?
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By the 1960s with technological advancements — trucks, tractors, and chainsaws allowed a single worker to cut larger trees in larger volumes — about one in seven jobs in Washington were related to forestry industry.
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Washington’s Top 3 Wooden Toy Companies
- (01) Mirus Toys – Vancouver, WA
- (02) Scroll Woodshop – Duvall, WA
- (03) The Wooden Dragon Toy Company – Sedro Woolley, WA
(01) Mirus Toys
Mirus Toys is a nature-inspired collection of interactive wooden puzzles and learning boards from Vancouver, WA — focused on science and nature, language arts, mathematics — plus wooden calendars and bulletin boards teaching both the rhythm of life and socio-emotional attunement.
Personalized name puzzles cleanly with two-tone hardwoods — dark letters and light puzzle board — their Montessori-esque and Waldorf-ish items made-to-order from Vancouver, WA — welcome natural vibes into indoor spaces for peaceful play.
Visit the Mirus Toys official website.
(02) Scroll Woodshop
Inspired by Coast Salish totem poles native to Washington — Scroll Woodshop manually operates a scrollsaw to carve carefully selected exotic woods — Bolivian rosewood, orange agate, purple heart, and cocobolo, just to name a few.
Scroll Woodshop’s modern yet rustic premium wooden pentomino puzzles celebrating the world’s wide variety of unique wood types in edge-to-edge fashion. Did you know? A pentomino is a geometric shape composed of five equal squares connected edge-to-edge — like how the letter “L” fits onto itself while playing Tetris.
(03) The Wooden Dragon Toy Company
For over 15 years, The Wooden Dragon Toy Company has equipped children who respond whimsically when asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” — with wooden toys enabling pretend play all-in on imagination.
From medieval wearables and weaponry — armored rocking horses and stick dragons — and a real-working wooden toy catapult only suitable for outdoors pretend warfare — this Seattle, WA area collection is made for every child’s fantasy.
Visit The Wooden Dragon Toy Company’s official website.
(04) Jake Toys
Combining haughty hardwoods, cutting and sanding to perfection, and finishing with food-grade mineral oil — these Walla Walla, WA made toys look great, and play even better. Making toys since the 1970’s, Jake Toys may be The Evergreen State’s longest-standing woodcraft artisan.
(05) Gma Gpa Crafts
Handmade wooden toys with a kitschy crafts look and feel. Sampling from shapes and objects popular with kids — animals, dinosaurs, and vehicles — you’ll find freestanding wooden puzzles, figurines, and push toys with a very homemade feel.
A Washington State Toy Making Time Capsule
- Manzanita Kids — Until prior to 2025, Manzanita Kids was a family-owned wooden toys and puzzles company focused on fully creative play. Based in Gig Harbor, WA, each toy was designed to achieve age-appropriate developmental goals. Both visually beautiful and perfectly natural — hardwood materials used to make Manzanita’s northwestern toy collection were locally sourced — walnut, cherry, and maple. The toys were finished with local beeswax and organic oil — safe and eco-friendly.
- Bitty Bean Handmade — Before the year 2025, Bitty Bean Handmade was where puzzles, pastels, and personalization combined — into a delightfully colorful range of handmade wooden toddler toys and nursery decor. Bitty Bean was a go-to place to prep and plan for a newborn Washingtonian’s baby shower.
- N.W. Alpine — Until before 2025, N.W. Alpine was a family-owned business pursuing their toymaking passion, in search of the simpler things in life. Their toy trucks and trains were hand made with walnut wood exclusively — rich, dark, dense, and durable. It was walnut the way it’s meant to be — all the way from Marysville, WA!
- Lake Forest Pegs — Until the year 2022, Lake Forest Pegs was known for custom hand-painted peg dolls — and other small-size painted blocks and figurines — celebrating a full spectrum of color. This Seattle, WA maker was on a mission to brighten up your day — from natural wood to neon tones, from light to dark skin tones.
- Wood Brain Toys — Until before 2022, Wood Brain Toys was a Seattle, WA-based fusion of Waldorf- and Montessori-inspired wooden play parts. They took a natural approach to open-ended toys that makes toddlers’ home learning into a whimsical play experience. (Not to be confused with Fat Brain Toys, the educational toys manufacturer and retailer headquartered in Nebraska.)
- Tack N Hammer — Until the year 2022, Tack N Hammer made post-industrial robot figurines combining reclaimed scrap wood, washers, screws, and springs into a totally intriguing figurine. At its conception in Vancouver, WA, the inventors weren’t sure what it was! An object for viewing or playing ? A thing for adults or children? What started as a project to make robot-themed home decor — transformed into a robotic playtoy idea when the inventor’s kindergarten-aged kids’ intrigue couldn’t be ignored.
