FSC® -Certified Toys: Eco-Friendly AND Exciting
At Commotion Ltd, we champion the importance of FSC-certified and eco-friendly toys! It is essential to encourage the toy industry to make eco-friendly the standard because the planet our children will inherit matters.
We believe that a key way to achieve this is to start with the experts themselves: the children! There is a tendency when creating eco-friendly toys to produce these in muted, cool colour palettes, and while these look beautiful and aesthetically appealing to adults and the design-conscious, children, however, can see them as bland and not as visually exciting in the first instance as their noisy, battery-run plastic counterparts. It is these plastic toys that command initial attention when stepping into a toy shop or being unwrapped at Christmas. They offer bright colours, appealing packaging, sounds, and lights, but are normally short-lived products that end up in charity shops or even landfill months later.
Vibrant Sustainability: The Best of Both Worlds
At Commotion, we do not see why our FSC-certified, eco-friendly wooden toys cannot achieve both sustainability AND excitement! From brightly rainbow-coloured building toys to small-world play characters, we've designed our products to bridge the gap between eco and exciting.
After all, nature itself isn't muted or bland; it's bursting with vibrant colours! Think of tropical birds, coral reefs, wildflower meadows, and autumn leaves. Our FSC products draw inspiration from these natural colour palettes to create toys that are both environmentally responsible and visually captivating to children.
Let's explore some of our favourite FSC wooden toys from our tickit® collection that have been designed in-house to prove that sustainable can be spectacular:
Wooden Kaleidoscope Blocks & Wooden Lacing Jewels
New for 2025, these stunning resources will illuminate play and captivate children and adults alike. Our tickit® Wooden Kaleidoscope Blocks feature a set of 20 solid wooden blocks with enchanting kaleidoscope centres in ten vibrant colours, while the Wooden Lacing Jewels comprise 36 wooden pieces, each housing mesmerising faceted colourful centres, complete with three threading laces. Ideal for pattern-making, exploring colour, construction, and small-world play, all while being planet-friendly.
Small World Play Sets
From enchanted frogs and fairies to elephants and whales, we have created everything you need to maximise the magic of imaginative play with our intricately crafted character sets, all produced in FSC-certified wood.
Discover the sets here.
tickit® Woodland Trail Treehouse
We couldn't create our beautiful Woodland Trail Treehouse with anything other than FSC-certified wood. This captivating three-storey treehouse will elevate play and provide opportunities for creative language and fine motor skill development through the magical art of creative play. We were delighted to have won Gold in the Eco / Sustainable Toys category for this product at the Dadsnet Toy Awards 2025! Find out more here.
Gem Cube and Gem Circle Mirror Trays
These sparkly trays of magic will ignite the imagination and propel play into new and exciting dimensions. In each of these sets, the cosmic Gem Cubes and Circles are perfectly stored within an FSC-certified wooden tray. The tray itself gives added play opportunities as it can be used as a building base, as part of the play scene, or as a stand-alone toy with other items.
Rainbow Wooden Vehicles
This colourful set of solid Rainbow Wooden Vehicles comes complete with 3 emergency vehicles, 3 adventure vehicles, 3 community vehicles, and 3 city e-vehicles with an electric charging point logo. They are lovely and solid and hold nostalgic qualities of toys from past generations. The colours complement our Rainbow Wooden Loose Parts, Architect Sets, and Wooden Treasures so they can be used together for extended play opportunities. Again, making fun and creativity eco-friendly.
Wooden Picture Blocks
With a huge variety of topic areas to choose from our range of tickit® Wooden Picture Blocks offer vibrancy in play with their real photographic images of everything from birds to fruit!
What makes these blocks truly special is how they combine traditional wooden toy craftsmanship with modern educational value. Children can explore different categories like animals, insects, emotions, or foods while developing crucial skills in language development and classification.
Teachers and parents love how these blocks naturally encourage vocabulary building as children describe what they see and create stories around the images. The durability of these wooden blocks means they can be passed down through siblings or within educational settings for years, unlike plastic alternatives that may crack or fade further adding to their planet-friendly nature.
Whether used in classrooms, nurseries, or home environments, tickit® Wooden Picture Blocks bring the vibrant colours of our world into play through sustainable materials that children instinctively connect with. They are a perfect example of how eco-conscious toys can captivate children's imagination while nurturing respect for our natural world.
Creating Demand for Sustainable Toys
When children are genuinely drawn to sustainable toys, reaching for them first because they're visually appealing and exciting, we create a powerful market demand. As retailers, you know that products children actively choose sell better. By stocking our vibrant FSC-certified range, you're not only making an environmentally responsible choice but also offering products children genuinely want.
This growing demand sends a clear message to the entire industry: sustainability doesn't have to mean sacrifice. The more children embrace these colourful, eco-friendly options, the more manufacturers will be encouraged to innovate in the sustainable educational resources space.
Conclusion
At Commotion Ltd, we are striving to make planet-friendly choices easy and fun. Since becoming FSC certified in 2024, we are dedicated to moving all our tickit® wooden products to FSC-certified wood. While we know subdued and muted colour schemes have their place in play, we also believe that eco can be bright, bold, and visually magnetic too. After all, the natural world is brimming with colour, and it is instinctive for children to be excited and drawn to vibrant hues!
By choosing Commotion's vibrant FSC-certified products for your store, you're helping educate the next generation about sustainability while providing them with the engaging, colourful toys they love.