As a manufacturer of wooden toys you will most likely need:
General Liability for premises and product claims
Workers compensation to cover against employee injuries
Property for your tools, equipment, and machinery
Medical benefits if you have 50+ employees due to the ACA
Melissa and Doug manufacture educational toys for children. It is the leading brand in wooden toys and puzzles. Their toys can be found at Toys "R" Us.
This time of year Christmas craft fairs are a great source for traditional, homemade wooden toys. Online, quality wooden toys can be purchased from Heirloom Wooden Toys.
Useless Wooden Toys was created on 2005-04-04.
Yes they had wooden and iron toys
Good offers for wooden toys can be found in the sale sections of online retailers like Oompa toys, Hearth Song, and Melissa & Doug. Popular retailers such as Amazon,Target and Walmart also stock wooden toys and have great deals on wooden toys during the holiday shopping season. For example, Walmart has wooden toys on sale right now starting at $14.97 for the Disney Princess My Princess Friends Wooden Stamp Set.
Wooden toys are still available from quality toy stores such as ToysRUs.com, but they are becoming rare and difficult to find. Collectable wooden toys can be purchased via eBay.com as well.
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LEGO used to produce wooden toys-alphabet blocks, pull-along animals, and other traditional wooden toys. The modern plastic bricks you see today weren't ever produced from wood but instead were created when LEGO changed from making wooden toys to making plastic toys. For a period of time, LEGO sets had wooden boxes and boards though.
Wooden toys are best for these pets.
I'm not certain about plastic or metal toys, but I found this great article about safe paints for wooden toys that might be helpful. http://woodentoys.xanga.com/733196515/wooden-toy-finishes---paints-and-sealents/
No, they splinter.
Definitely, I would think wooden toys more expensive than plastic toys. Toys used wood is more environmental friendly than plastic, also labour is more expensive than using machine to make toys.