Melissa and Doug Wooden Toys

For over twenty years, Melissa and Doug, a US-based toy maker, has been perfecting the craft of making the best quality wooden toys for children that are fun, yet educational, encouraging to get kids learn while they play. Melissa and Doug wooden toys have earned many prestigious awards that include the Parents Choice Award, Child’s Best Toys of the Year, Baby Talk Editor's Choice Award, Oppenheim Gold Award Winner and Children's Choice Award and many more! These toys are the preferred choice of parents looking for the perfect toy gifts for their children to enjoy for many years to come.

Melissa and Doug Wooden toys are best known for their superior quality, traditional, yet innovative, completely safe for children, reasonable value and a diverse range of toys, thus making them stand out among the other toy manufacturers. Their selections of carefully crafted wooden toys combine functionality and quality and are designed to help children develop their cognitive and fine motor skills, visual development, hand-eye coordination and creativity. Here are some of the best selling Melissa and Doug toys:

For the aspiring little engineers, you may want to look at the vast selection of wooden blocks and building sets offered by Melissa and Doug. There are simple and basic blocks with alphabets and numbers for letters, numbers, colors and shape recognition as well as building and architectural blocks that allow children to build their own houses, buildings, towers, towns and other structures. These toys help develop their fine motor and cognitive skills, creativity and imagination.

Melissa and Doug wooden blocks and building sets are made of solid wood that are long lasting, and non-toxic, lead free paints that are completely safe for children. With so many toy blocks to choose from, kids can develop their creativity in building and constructing all sorts of forms and shapes, providing them many hours of fun and creative play.

Some of the most popular Melissa and Doug toy lines are the wooden puzzles. Melissa and Doug toys offer many different kinds of hand crafted wooden puzzles. They have brightly colored wooden chunky puzzles, classic jigsaw puzzles, peg puzzles and knob puzzles designed for both  the young and older kids, as well as Sound Puzzles and Blocks that feature built-in speakers that play music and sounds whenever you place the pieces correctly in the puzzle board.

Each wooden puzzle has a unique theme, a great introduction to a wide variety of different subjects that include alphabets, numbers, shapes, farm animals, ocean life, the solar system, geography and history, so you can easily find the perfect puzzle that will suite your child’s age.

If your kids have an interest in trains and automotive vehicles then they will surely love playing the Melissa & Doug Wooden Railway Set. This classic toy is designed to provide your aspiring engineers at home many hours of fun, creative and imaginative playtime.

The Melissa & Doug Wooden Deluxe Train Set comes with over 130 wooden pieces which include trains, tracks, engine sheds, bridges, railroad signs and many other train accessories. The set also comes with easy-to-follow instructions which enable your kids to be creative and build their train set in numerous ways and configurations in order to create their own train world.

For your little knight or princess who dreams of ruling a kingdom, the Melissa and Doug Folding Castles will make that dream come true. These castle toys are made of solid wood construction yet looks like real castles from the medieval era due to their meticulously hand-painted details and accents.

The Folding Medieval Castle features moveable parts such as turrets, towers, a working drawbridge and trap door and more! It comes with everything a young knight will ever need to recreate his own adventurous world of knights and castles. For the little princess, there is also a castle made especially for her, the Folding Princess Castle that comes with hand-painted pink accents, removable turrets, balconies, arched walkway, a working drawbridge and doors. In addition, there are also Castle Wooden Figure Sets available to further enhance the fun and imaginative fantasy play of your child.

If your kids love to play chef or a cook in the kitchen, shop at grocery stores and pretend to prepare play food for their friends and school mates, have a look at the collection of Melissa and Doug pretend kitchen accessories and play food sets. This line of toys offers everything that kids needs to prepare, cook and serve imaginative meals and snacks that include fruits, cookies, cakes, pizzas or sandwiches. Many of these food toys such as the Cutting Food Set, Cutting Fruit Set, Birthday Party Set, Pizza Party Set, and Sushi Slicing Play Sets also produce sounds when sliced.

Additionally, Melissa and Doug also offer many realistic kitchen wares and accessories that are carefully crafted to replicate real life things.  These well- crafted toys are made of solid-wood construction and come with superior quality, designs and safety features that will provide your little chefs at home with many years of creative and imaginative kitchen play experience.