New for 2024 the tickit Woodland Trail Treehouse offers a world of play opportunities. Made from tactile, robust birch plywood and painted in safe water-based paint it truly brings the wonder of nature to any setting. This innovative educational toy slots easily together to create a three-storey tree house and comes complete with an owl, squirrel, hedgehog and three ladders to help them move around.
The fun doesn’t stop here, this magical treehouse can be combined with any of the tickit wooden playsets or lose parts to create captivating playscapes that will encourage learning through play for children from three years and beyond.
We recommend the tickit Woodland Trail Set, tickit Forest Friends, tickit Seasonal Wooden Trees, and the tickit Treasures Sorting Set.
The innovate design lends itself perfectly to collaborative play, with easy access to play from multiple angles children can explore key educational areas of learning such as sharing, empathy, negotiation and language development… all through collaborative play. Through co-operative play children naturally expand their vocabulary, express their thoughts to their peers, problem solve and use language in context. By providing exciting resources, such as the tickit Woodland Trail Treehouse, to support this, you can springboard their imagination and boost creative language development organically.
The clever design of the tickit Woodland Trail Treehouse means it is also perfect for small spaces as it folds flat for easy storage and construction is so simple and rewarding as children are able to independently build and take apart the treehouse with ease.
Elements of the treehouse can also be used separately, for example the top level can be constructed alone and played with on a tabletop, meaning it is great for quick set ups or very compact settings and travel.
Through play, problem-solving and critical thinking skills are honed and explored. The Woodland Trail Treehouse offers the opportunity for children to make decisions about where the animals will go, why they are going there, how they will navigate their way around the tree and use the correct language to discuss these ideas and plans, evaluate options, and come up with solutions collaboratively or independently. By doing what children do best - playing, they will enhance their critical thinking skills and promote logical reasoning.
By bringing the woodland characters to life children will practise and refine their fine motor skills. The treehouse has multiple ways for the characters to move around, from climbing ladders to navigating their way over and under archways in the treetops. By manipulating these educational toys children are not just expanding their language, social and problem-solving skills, they are also perfecting their fine motor skills. By practising these skills in a way that is fun and comes naturally to children, future tasks such a handwriting, holding cutlery and tying shoelaces will be easier as they have improved the correct muscles and practised their hand-eye coordination skills needed to undertake these tasks.
Our eco footprint is important to many settings and educationalists and we echo this at Commotion HQ, which is why our tickit Woodland Trail Treehouse is made from solid, beautiful and natural plywood and painted in non-toxic paint, so it is as natural as the trees it represents. Using natural materials in play brings an added sensory benefit. Wooden toys are tactile and look beautiful which makes play more exciting and rewarding. We love to let nature inspire us when creating our educational toys because we believe that by creating natural products that reflect the outside world opportunities to discuss the importance of nature can open up organically as part of play, allowing children to learn actively and with relevance.
In conclusion, by providing children with resources that inspire their sense of playfulness and exploration you are also allowing them to refine and perfect key life skills while instilling an interest and desire to expand their learning. Our tickit product team at Commotion are passionate about creating products that are interesting, exciting and different to what you may see in the average toy shop. We want our products to resonate with children and that can keep up with their expansive and magnificent imaginations, which is why we have added the tickit Woodland Trail Treehouse to our range of educational toys.
