Tender Leaf Toys

A kitchen door that actually opens, a little shop with tiny jars, a treehouse with little ladders: with Tender Leaf Toys, the fun is in the details that children weave entire stories around. Behind this British brand is toy designer Danielle Hanson, who has since designed an award-winning catalogue full of playsets and games. Each piece is designed in the United Kingdom and handcrafted in Indonesia by a family-owned business, using reclaimed rubberwood and non-toxic paint and glue. Wooden toys, then, but with a finely painted touch.

From the first blocks to a whole dollhouse

For the littlest ones, Tender Leaf makes stacking and sorting toys and first puzzles, with which little hands can practice their fine motor skills while playing. Once they grow a bit older, children love to play make-believe, and that’s when the play kitchens and shops, the workbenches with tools, and the dollhouses come out. It is precisely those elaborate accessories, from little pans to shopping baskets, that keep the play and storytelling going for days on end.

Wood that lasts a childhood

Tender Leaf creates toys that can withstand a lifetime of love, and takes its responsibility seriously while doing so: the wood is reclaimed rubberwood, the packaging is recycled cardboard, and for every item sold, the brand plants a tree. This way, a play kitchen or dollhouse doesn't stay with just one child, but moves on after a few years to a brother, a cousin, or the neighbors' children. That immediately makes it a gift that lasts, also as a birthday gift or baby shower gift: ordered in a few clicks and ready to be unwrapped.