Plan Toys

Their Vision

At Plan Toys their vision has been to create toys that inspire children’s imagination as well as promote their physical and intellectual development. They are also proving that it is possible to maintain superior quality standards while following a path of environmental and social responsibility.

About Plan Toys

Plan Toys is the first company to manufacture toys using wood from rubber trees that no longer provide latex. The trees grow to heights of 50 feet or more. The sap from the rubberwood tree is the world’s primary source of natural rubber. After about 25 years, the latex yield decreases and the trees are usually cut down and burned. Instead of wasting this valuable resource, they build their toys from the rubberwood which helps preserve the delicate balance of our eco system. There is no deforestation involved in the harvesting of rubberwood, as felled trees are replanted with new ones. Rubberwood is an eco-friendly, sustainable, high quality wood. The paper used in their packaging is recyclable which further reduces waste and our plants use state of the art solar energy. Our plants use state of the art solar energy and biomass (fuel from biodegradable organic material).  This is pretty impressive!  Not only because of the way they use these otherwise wasted trees but the fact that they can turn them into wonderful and safe toys.

I  love toys that are of good quality and wooden ones at that.   These toys almost always seem to stand the test of time and fair better than a lot of the mass market toys out there.  I can remember as a child the wooden toys my grandmother had and she still had them when I was 28!  I would much rather give the boys something simplistic that encourages the use of their imagination, than a toy that only has one function.   I was given the chance to review Plan toys and I am impressed with their quality and most importantly their use of safe eco-friendly materials.

Plan Toys’ Stacking Tree ($20) is so cool! This stacking set is designed based on the concept of nature. Each wooden piece can be stacked to form different kinds of trees. Children can learn the color variation and size. I took it out of the box and the boys were instantly tugging at my pants saying “mommy play, mommy play.”   Both of them went right to work taking the pieces off the spindle and re-stacking them how they saw fit.  Monkey  loves just spinning the pieces on the spindle, and stacking them as well.   They loved doing this over and over and after I put it up earlier in the day, they went right back to it after they woke up.  So far they have stacked according to color, and mixed it up, there is no right or wrong way for little imaginations.

We also go the opportunity to try Plan Toys redesigned 50 blocks ($20). The set contains 36 natural blocks and 14 colored blocks. These blocks encourage creativity, expands children’s thinking ability, and stimulates their imagination.  These are the blocks that I remember as a child, and I spent many hours creating buildings and bridges, and stacking them over and over. Both Bubs and Monkey are huge fans of blocks and “building towers.”   It is so much fun to watch them, because they get excited when they can stack blocks to make a tall tower.  Bubs can be found in such deep concentration that you can see his little tongue sticking out…it is so fun to watch and see what they come up with.

Plan toys has a huge selection of unique and timeless toys to choose from.  I have already started a list of things that I would like to get the boys.   They would make great Christmas presents for a special little someone in your life and the prices are reasonable and the toys are well made.  I give Plan toys the “Mommy Seal of Approval!”