Collection: Gifts for Kids

Gifts for Kids

Most of what is here falls between ten and fifty dollars, which is the range most children's presents actually live in. The youngest end starts under ten dollars with wooden cars and small toys, and the top end runs to the large construction sets and the biggest teddy bears for a proper occasion.

Magna-Tiles are the most popular thing in the collection and the easiest present to get right. The sets come in several sizes, from a small expansion pack up to the fire station, and they all work together, so a second box adds to the first rather than duplicating it. That is what makes them worth buying into: a child who already has some will use more.

Candylab makes the wooden vehicles, and they are the ones that survive more than one child. There are campers, vans, delivery trucks and garbage trucks, all solid wood on rubber tyres, and most sit under thirty dollars. They are also the size that fits a pocket, which matters if the present is going in a stocking.

For the very young, our own range of kids stationery includes personalised sets in the thirty dollar range where a name is printed on every card. For older children the art supplies start around twenty dollars for a paint stick set and go up to the larger 60-colour boxes, and the books and craft kits sit in between. The plush range starts just above twenty dollars and covers Steiff and the smaller characters children ask for by name.

If you know the child's age, that narrows it faster than anything else, since our plush, puzzles and play sets are all grouped by what suits a particular stage. A toy that is too young gets put down quickly, and one that is too old does not get picked up at all.

We keep the range in stock and new pieces arrive as we find them. If there is something particular you are looking for that you are not able to find on the website, reach out to us and we will be glad to help.