In the Woopie Green farm lacing toy, children thread a string through 13 wooden figures. Everything stores in a clear tube.

This wooden lacing toy is a colourful set that encourages threading figures and making arrangements. It has 13 figures: animals, plants, buildings and a tractor. Your child threads the string through the holes, and the wooden tip makes it easier. Colourful illustrations introduce farm life. The clear tube (6.5 cm across, 27 cm tall) is handy for storage and travel. Designed for children from 24 months.

What your child develops

• Fine motor skills. Threading the string takes precise finger movements.
• Hand-eye coordination. The tip has to go neatly into each hole.
• Focus and patience. Each figure needs careful threading.
• Recognising animals. Children learn farm animals and objects.
• Imagination. The figures make their own arrangements and stories.

How to play

Start with the bigger figures and show how to push the string through. Name each animal you thread and what it does on the farm.

Pull the threaded figures along like a train or lay them out as a farmyard on the table.

A great gift

The lacing toy is a good gift for two- to three-year-olds – something to bring when visiting or a travel toy.

What's in the box

• 13 wooden farm figures
• String with wooden tip
• Clear tube

Find more developmental toys in our developmental baby toys collection, or more ideas for this age in toys for 2–3 year olds.