The Freedom To Play
High quality wooden toys designed to inspire and bring joy.
The Ultimate Building Toy
One of our most loved open ended toys, the Connetix magnetic tile range
helps develop so many skills as well as encouraging imagination. The
STEAM based toy helps to encourage maths, technology and arts, designed
to encourage learning through play the Connetix range is perfect for any
child to play with.
Stapelstein Stepping Stones
The Stapelstein stepping stones and wobble boards are designed to fit into your home not just as a toy, but as a design lead and functional resource that encourages play, movement and connection. Whether you're making up games, practising your balance or testing your child's physical limits!
Sensory Play All Year Round
Inspire My Play has created the perfect play tray for messy, creative, and small-world set-ups, this sensory play tray with removable compartments and lid was designed to help you create hassle-free sensory play experiences at home. No more attempts at lugging a tuff tray around the house or putting off messy play altogether!
Delivering beautiful, sustainable toys & gifts to inspire play from our home to yours.
Why do we love open ended toys so much?
We believe that play is one of the single most important elements of childhood, by providing a small but well thought our collection of toys we can allow our children to dream, imagine, problem solve and adventure way beyond the boundaries we've found ourselves with as adults.
Toy building blocks are my favourite recommendation.
Whenever I am asked about what is the best toy to gift to a child I always say blocks! Whether its for a one year old or 4 year old the humble toy block is the cornerstone of the toy box. they provide so many oppotunities to play, build, develop, count & sort that they pay for themselves year on year.
mixing and matching from different sets is one of the best ways to see c ahcilds creative side come alive.
Let customers speak for us
from 202 reviewsOn the pricey side but well used by our two and a half year old. Lots of creative play.
This is a beautiful set. It’s very well made (exactly what you’d expect from Bumbu) and these different pieces work brilliantly together to create a wonderful scene that’s very inviting for little ones to play with. The wood is stunning and very tactile. Worth every penny!
The customer service was superb and I wouldn’t hesitate to shop here again.
Keep playing them after receiving them! And thanks charnwoodschild for reply on inquiry and fast delivery.
There was a mistake with the order but the customer service to deal with correcting it was exceptional. Who I emailed with personally checked the corrected parcel and with it arriving on the 23rd December they sent it wrapped up. Much appreciated and recommended.
This is such a perfect set for small world play. I bought it for a birthday present for my little girl, and I just know she’s going to love it. The detail is excellent and the waterfall really gives a sense of movement. Good chunky pieces-all round super pleased with this purchase! <3
Great company, product areived quickly , packed nicely . The wobble board is lovely, my girls love to play with it.
My two year old (and me) love this set of pastel magnet tiles. I know we will be using them for a long time to come. And I’m already looking into what set we might get next. It’s amazing how quickly 120 tiles get used up. Especially the squares. It also came really nicely packaged. Thank you!
Need more! Love!!!
Bought this for my 3 month old, it's the first toy she can actually hold. She seems to really like it and stares at it a lot. We've also played rolling it back and forth between me and my toddler. Fab little toy.
This wooden ball run is a truly stunning piece. Well made, and exceptional quality which provides hours of entertainment. The sounds of the balls running down (and the additional accessories) are quite soothing and mesmerising. We have this in our toddlers bedroom and he often plays with it before bedtime as we find it is quite calming for him.
Such a fab open-ended toy for our two boys (3 & 11 years old). Not only do they look good in the home, they have so many uses. They are stepping-stones, obstacle courses, stools, sorting bowls, cars and towers. They are used on a daily basis as part of play or home life. We love them! Fab customer service and speedy delivery too.
We have owned this magnetic tile set for a year, and they are played with nearly every day. My two boys are 3 and 11, and are both keen on playing with them both together, or independently. A great investment! Brilliant quality, sturdy and we love the colours. Once you master the knack of 'fitting' them together, the possibilities are endless for hours of creative fun. We added the separate ball run pack to our set. I highly recommend this as a starter set.
We purchased this ball run set as an add-on to our standard tiles set. My two boys love creating ball and marble runs, and this has added hours of play to our existing tiles. Much loved and we have gone on to purchase an additional expansion set so we can extend our set to create even bigger and more complex runs.
An independent shop selling sustainable wooden toys
Hi, I'm Lauren, mama of one and master of non, lover of slow Sundays and chocolate hobnobs and I want you to know why Charnwood's Child is so special to me. When my daughter Wallis was born I discovered a new way of looking at our world; living in Charnwood we had abundance of beautiful forests and parks and seeing how she used her imagination inspired me to think of toys differently.
I began to spend far too long trying to find a site that delivered the best in quality, craftsmanship and aesthetics but which also put the sole focus of natural and imaginative play at the heart of their designs. When I increasingly found myself having to look further afield, discovering brands in Greece, Russia, Denmark and USA I decided to bring them all under one roof, this roof! I hope you enjoy browsing and please get in touch if you need any help.
Lauren x
Here's What Our Customers Are Saying
Stapelstein Balance Board
This is a really colourful well made Wobble balance board which my kids love and equally I have also been using to improve my balance.
Stapelstein Stepping Stones
'Beautiful Open-Ended Toy'
Purchased these for my daughters third birthday who has been using anything and everything as stepping stones around the house. She’s absolutely thrilled! Beautiful colours, lightweight for her to carry and stack independently. She’s used them as stepping stones, a house for maileg mice, a container to fill, a seat, a step up, for colour recognition and she’s only had them a few days. Looking forward to seeing where else her imagination takes her with these!
Willow Tree
Gorgeous
What a gorgeous piece! The colours and cut are amazing, I can't to add more Bumbu to our playroom.