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Little Woodlanders Giveaway!


Today’s giveaway is courtesy of Rachel from Little Woodlanders!  Her shop is full of loveliness, and I am pleased to introduce her here today.  I asked Rachel to share a little about how Little Woodlanders began:

I started making wooden toys for my children shortly after I discovered the Waldorf ideas about play.  I love the idea of open-ended toys, made of beautiful natural materials, which allow children to use their imagination.
My inspiration mostly comes from my children.  I see what they like to play with and talk about, and often get ideas from them that way.  I also get ideas from going outside and from storybooks.
I opened my Etsy shop in January 2012, so I’ve been going a little over a year.  I started making wooden toys a couple months before that, as Christmas presents for my girls.


My favorite thing about my business is knowing that I’m making natural, handmade, open ended toys for children all around the world that will allow them to learn, use their imagination and have fun!
You can ‘Like’ my facebook page to hear about new products, sales, and for sneak peeks!  You can also follow me on Twitter and visit my blog!

For today’s giveaway I am offering one winner a butterfly life cycle set, and a knitting fork.  The wooden toy life cycle of a butterfly set comes with a leaf, an egg, a caterpillar, a cocoon, and a butterfly.  The set is made of hardwoods and painted with AP Certified non-toxic watercolours The cocoon is not painted, it is naturally brown wood.  A great toy for learning while playing, and also a wonderful storytelling companion!

The knitting fork, also called a lucet, is believed to date back to the Viking and Medieval periods, to create cords that were used on clothing, or to hang items from the belt.  Lucet cord is square and strong.  Luceting is fun and relaxing, can be learned from about age 4, and you can do lots of creative and fun things with the cord.  See my video here on how to use a lucet!

Rachel is also offering 15% off all orders through March 10.  Use coupon code SMALLTHINGS15

For your chance to win, simply leave a comment on this post.  Comments will close and a winner will be chosen on Monday, March 4.  The winner will be announced within this post.

 

Comments are closed.  The winner is Heather:  Such lovely things!  I’ve never heard of a Lucet; my 9 year old son wants to learn to knit, wouldn’t that be a great introduction!

 

Thanks, Rachel and Little Woodlanders!


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  2. The Little Woodlanders has so many beautiful treasures. My 2.5 year old would love the life cycle set. She’s intrigued by all things bug-related right now. I just started learning to knit about three weeks ago and was inspired to do so because I had just found your lovely blog, Ginny. It was on my “bucket list” and your beautiful work gave me the push to try it, so thank you.

  3. My day care kiddos would love the life cycle set. We’ve been learning quite a bit this year about the natural surroundings even in the city. Great giveaway!

  6. Beautiful toys! I had never heard of a knitting fork before, I would love to try one.

  8. I love Rachel’s toys, they look so lovely and smooth and wonderful for imaginative play

  14. So beautiful and creative! It’s amazing to see what kids will do with the simplest toys.

  18. Wooden toys are sooo amazing and always been a favourite choice when buying for my treasures 🙂
    So this is really a wonderful giveaway and such an awesome prize! Butterfly life cycle set, WOW 🙂 🙂 🙂 These products are sooo beautiful, thank you Ginny for showing us and Thank you Rachel for your kindness of the gifts!
    Continue to be inspired and share what you love 🙂
    Smiles SHarnee 🙂

  19. The life span of the butterfly would be perfect for our new grandson someday (to be born in July)! Love it all.

  23. such a sweet set of butterfly figures — also, i am madly in love with the babywearing mama doll, and would love to get one soon!

  27. The butterfly life cycle would be perfect for my son. He has a life cycle flip book that he just can’t put down. The knitting fork has me curious.

  28. Beautiful things made with care and love! I am excited to think the lucets would be great fun
    for both my grandkids this summer when they visit! We love to make things together!

  31. I’ve done spool knitting with my daughter, but hadn’t seen a lucet before. Would love to try it!

  34. I love the butterfly set, such a nice toy and teaching tool. I’ve used a knitting mushroom before but never a lucet, would love to try that with the kids. Thanks!!

  39. Ooh! So cute! I was thinking of getting a lucet for my daughter, so it would be awesome to win one!

  46. These toys are so appealing! I’d love to include the butterfly lifecycle toy in my daughters Easter basket! Thanks for the chance to win these items! My fingers are crossed!

  47. I just got a knitting doll for my daughter, but it’s a bit too difficult. I’d love to try that knitting fork! Thanks for the chance to win!!

  49. The butterfly set is beautiful! And I know that my kids would enjoy the knitting fork!