Holiday Croquet Fun!
Can you believe we are over halfway through the half term holidays? Time is flying by! If you are anything like us, you have been busy keeping the...
Tender Leaf Toys
If you've found your way here from tenderleaftoys.co.uk, we're delighted to have you! As the official and exclusive distributor of Tender Leaf Toys, ThreadBear is your one-stop shop for all the beautifully crafted wooden toys you know and love.
We are proud to offer Tender Leaf's stunning range, alongside our own charming ThreadBear collection and the modern, eco-friendly essentials from Mentari. Every toy is designed with care, creativity, and childhood development in mind.
Feel free to explore our wonderful collections and discover toys that inspire imagination, nurture skills, and bring joy to little ones everywhere.
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DIY Spring Flowers for Easter
Easter's around the corner, and we've got a lovely, spring project to pretty up your table this spring all your need are some everyday objects lik...
Crafting mini veggies
Fancy a New Year's detox?! What better way to promote healthy eating habits than turning it into a playful crafting session with your little ones?...
Building Minds and Tracks
In a world dominated by screens and electronic gadgets, there's a timeless charm to the simplicity and tactile joy that wooden toys bring. Among t...
Christmas Rudolph craft
Put on a play about Rudolph and Father Christmas! Our woodland Stores and Theatre is still one of our best selling products at Christmas time part...
Crafting a Wooden Wonderland Wish List
As we crash headlong into the festive season, we have put together a great craft activity to kickstart the holiday joy! It combines creativity, fi...
The perfect home corner
In your home, there is a corner where your child stands tall. It is her territory, her small piece of the world. Here, she first grasped the edges ...
Doll's house play | Rehearsing real life
A doll's house is a miniature world. That sounds trite but for your child it represents her universe. So much of life happens in the home when you ...
How to choose the right toy | Preschoolers
The years before your child starts school are a time of wonder. It’s the time of Father Christmas, the Tooth Fairy - and magic. Above all, it’s a t...
How to choose the right toy | Toddlers
Selecting the perfect toy for a toddler might seem straightforward at first glance. Venture into any toy store, and you're likely to be bombarded w...
Small world play | An early learning essential
Small world play Who’s that trip trapping over my bridge? Please don’t eat me. I’m only small. My big brother is coming along soon. He’s much bette...
Halloween!
Want to get your dollies and dolls houses ready for the scary season? We have come up with a very cute and original idea to paint up the conkers t...
Embracing the Colours of Autumn - get crafting with our free printables!
As the leaves turn vibrant shades of red, orange, and gold, and a crisp breeze fills the air, autumn presents the perfect opportunity to engage in...
New Brand: Mentari Toys
MENTARI toys is the little sister brand to TENDER LEAF TOYS. It has roots in the same company and shares the same ethical trading and use of sustai...
Buying toys for your Toddler
Choosing a toy for a toddler is easy. Go to your local toy shop. Look for the noisiest, most garishly-coloured plastic tat you can find. Does it h...
Happy Chinese new year!
Wishing our lovely friends and partners in Taiwan a very Happy Chinese New Year! We are very happy to welcome the year of the Rabbit which is the s...
Summer Holiday Fun!
The summer holidays are upon us! Schools are over for a whole month...Yippee! Whether you have a holiday planned or not we can transport you to t...
Celebrate the 4th July!
We’ve created some Independence Day inspired decorations this week to get ready to celebrate on July 4th!Ideally, you need crepe paper to make th...
Make a space themed card this fathers day!
It's Father's Day in the U.K. this Sunday and everyone knows that the best card is a handmade one! So we've used the artwork from our new Space ...
Astronauts get peckish too!
Our fab designer Kate has designed these terrific graphics for your hungry little astronauts to take with them in case they feel hungry on their i...
Join us in celebrating the Queen's Platinum Jubilee!
There will be four days of public celebration for Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee – An extended bank holiday, from Thursday 2nd to Sunday 5th J...
New Printable for our shopping cart!
We have a fab new printable to accompany our beautiful new shopping cart that is going to be available for your little ones at the end of May! Pret...
Print out your own Eco Car!
Embrace Earth Day this year with this paper craft celebrating the future of transport with an electric smart car! Taken from Tender Leaf Toys new...
Happy Easter!
Follow these simple steps to create an Easter headdress! All you need is square pieces of paper, a pair of scissors, card cut into a long strip to...
A delicate balance
We understand our enviromental responsibility. Wooden toys mean less plastic. Les plastic is good for our oceans.
Love wood & play.....
We create exciting worlds of imaginative wooden toys, that are made to last with a lifetime of love. We strive to continuously develop and grow our charmingly quirky products, that are engaging, tirelessly entertaining, and perfect for little hands. While we love to be educational through play, we encourage every child to be authentic so that they can grow with confidence, and have fun at the same time!
Start with a sketch
Our products are all dreamt up by our lovely designer Danielle Hanson, and then brought to life by our good friends at the factory, who are like family to us. Each part of the Tender Leaf cog is as important as the next, and we love working together to acheive our legacy.
Tested, tested, tested
We know they are fun to play with, but we have to be sure they are completely safe and durable. All our toys meet the safety standard EN71, ASTM and AS/NZ ISO.
Heart and home
Creating toys with longevity is what we do best. We work hard to maintain a strong brand identity and together we strive to be the best we can be.
Every year, we spend around two months working alongside our wonderful suppliers Mentari International in Indonesia, makers of all Tender Leaf Toys. Their family-run factory operates with high standards of training, wellbeing and respect and provides dependable employment for hundreds of local villagers. During our visits we work together, eat together and make gorgeous toys together.
Toys for this generation, trees for the next
We are deeply committed to protecting Indonesia’s natural resources and only work with reclaimed rubberwood, a by-product of the latex industry. In addition, for every reclaimed tree it uses, Mentari plants a new one, driving ahead the cycle of regeneration. Mentari & Tender Leaf Toys have been awarded the ICTI Ethical Toy Program seal of approval for their ethical and sustainable supply chain.
We support Eden Projects here in the UK, who are now recognised as one of the most effective re-forestation projects on the planet. For every order you place with us, we plant 10 trees. Read more about this on our blog.
Handmade means a lot
From raw wood to the finished product, every single stage of production happens in the same family-run factory. Once each toy has been hand-painted, assembled and checked, it is wrapped in paper and packaged in recycled cardboard.
We care a lot about being as sustainable to our lovely planet as we can be, and we are close to eliminating single use plastic in all our packaging.