Good reasons to choose Ostheimer wooden figures:
- Lovable wooden figures that convey a beautiful picture of the world
- The wooden figures express the characteristics of people and animals in a childlike way.
- The absence of a naturalistic design stimulates the imagination and encourages lively play.
- Timeless, long-lasting toys that will accompany several generations through childhood.
- Toys that are carefully crafted by hand - each figure is a valuable, unique piece.
- High quality, made in Germany: the wood comes from regional, sustainable forestry. Paints, oils and other materials are certified and safely processed.
- A gift for the senses: the warm material wood, the loving design in form and painting as well as the final surface treatment with high-quality organic oils.
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Ostheimer figurines are made entirely by hand here in Germany. If you take a guided tour of the company's workshops, you can experience how many hands a figurine passes through from the initial idea to its completion: Drawing, designing, sawing, sanding, rubbing, painting, oiling. In this way, each figure becomes a valuable individual piece.
The high quality of Ostheimer wooden toys is also based on the use of environmentally friendly, certified materials. The warm, natural material wood comes from sustainable domestic forestry, and the selected paints and organic oils preserve the natural properties of the wood and make them tangible for the child. Many senses are stimulated: the feel of the surface of the wood, the smell of the high-quality oils, the beautiful sight for the eye.
The wooden play figures from Ostheimer are unique in their beautiful design and their high value for the healthy development of the child. They stimulate imaginative free play and are an eye-catcher in every room and outdoors too. Children love to act out all the things they experience in their environment every day, they want to look after the animals on the farm, put their little brother or sister to bed or retell the story of St. Martin: With the figures from Ostheimer, they can do this in a wonderful way. They create entire play worlds...
The design, artistic craftsmanship and painting are carried out in such a way that the characteristic features of an animal, its typical appearance, in short: its nature, are expressed. This is achieved precisely by not creating a naturalistic, detailed form of every external detail, but by deliberately limiting oneself to the essential, the special, the peculiarity and gesture of an animal or a human figure.
The child is not given something ready-made, not a detailed snapshot of a trotting horse with fixed eyes and facial expression - the Ostheimer wooden figure allows the child to immerse itself completely in the exciting world of the "horse" and gives its imagination plenty of room to create new scenes and situations in play: The little horse gallops, stops, neighs, nuzzles its head against me or lies down to rest. What the horse is and can do, how it behaves and moves in its typical way, how it looks differently at every moment - all this is contained in the restrained design of the wooden figure, and the child can bring it to life in free, imaginative play.
The wooden figures are based on the child's cozy view of the world, a good and intact world of people and animals. It is important that the world is good and intact for the child, this gives him the necessary inner security and thus also courage and strength for the encounter with reality. Ostheimer toys are created from an awareness of the importance of healthy child development. This is what gives them their inestimable educational value.
There are animal figures from all natural habitats around the world, from polar bears from Antarctica and native farm animals to zebras from Africa and penguins from the South Pole.
We attach great importance to creating animals of different ages and in different postures, so that small groups of animals, herds and flocks are created. This allows children to experience the life of these animals in their original environment and their behavior.
What skills does the "small world game" with the themed figures promote?
Children are creative and imaginative by nature.
Our play figures meet their need to create "little worlds" and play in them. Children can play and experience many things with the figures: working on the farm with cow, pig and goat, an adventure in the African steppe with lion and giraffe, the battle of good and evil with damsels, knights and robbers or the mysterious world of the forest with its stories and fairy tales.
