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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. I love your ideas. I am expectiong my first great-grandaughter and would love to give my first gift to her some of your work.

    Thank you

  4. These are beautiful! I would love to have some nice wooden toys like these for my children!

  11. Neat! I’ve never heard of Luceting, but I’ll have to look into it. My almost four-year old would love it.

  13. My daughter would cherish these lovely toys and my twin boys would well, find other uses, I’m sure.

  18. Lovely toys! I would love to win these for my girls who are fascinated by all things butterfly and for my budding knitter. Thanks for the giveaway!

  19. I prefer these types of toys for my children and grandchildren, and I would love to win these for my grandchildren! Thank you!

  20. THese are so wonderful!! My youngest son (3) loves to play with the most simple toys, especially animal toys or figurines. He would love these!!

  33. Beautiful! My little ones would love both the butterfly set and the lucet. I would enjoy learning how to use the lucet too! 🙂

  34. I’ve been looking for a well-made lucet for quite a while, so would love to win this giveaway

  35. 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!

  38. Love these beautiful wooden toys! My little girl turns two on March 4. How wonderful it would be to win these for her 🙂

  40. The ‘life cycle’ set is so beautiful set for Spring – thanks for the chance to win!

  41. I have never seen a Lucet, how clever of those Vikings. I will look forward to teaching a special little girl how to use it. What fun!

  48. The lucet is beautiful! I am excited to use this someday when my daughter is old enough! I also appreciate your commitment to imagination!

  49. I’d never heard of a lucet before, thank you for adding to my knowledge base! The finished product looks rather like finger crocheted cord, only fuller – square rather than semi-flat. I’m curious to know how stretchy the finished cord is.