Grapat Nins, Mates & Coins

Grapat Nins, Mates and Coins, 18 wooden pieces.

This beautifully crafted set of 18 rainbow coloured timber pieces is an open ended, loose parts toy, providing children with a tactile tool with which to discover and explore through non specific play. Fill and empty, move, sort and stack. One coin can serve to cover a mate (cup) and so hide its contents and make them disappear, Nins can hop into the mates or stack them all up in so many different ways. Simple exploratory games that help to develop, hand eye coordination, imagination, math skills and so much more.

Joguines Grapat is a small, family-run workshop producing natural wooden toys near the base of the Pyrenees mountains in Catalonia, Spain. Casiana and Jordi (the founders of Grapat) drawing on ideas from Waldorf and Montessori pedagogies, and the natural world around them, believe that play is a sacred moment, that simply made toys without instruction encourage children to explore and discover each in their own unique way.  Made with love using mostly beech and birch wood sourced locally from sustainable forests, all Grapat Toys are finished with water-based, non-toxic dyes and vegetable oils, and come beautifully presented in sustainable eco-friendly packaging.