With your own hands. Wooden toys as a way of earning

To date, the market of children's goods is oversaturated with toys of poor-quality, harmful materials. The main producer of such goods is China. This supplier has long pressed competitors from other countries and has become almost a monopoly in the field of toy production. Since China offers toys at a low price, Russian manufacturers have been forced to leave the "battlefield". However, today the population begins to understand that children need not cheap toys, but high-quality and eco-friendly ones. That's why many people come to the conclusion that you need to make wooden toys with your own hands. Or maybe not just do it for your children, and set up a small production?

Instruments

What does it take to produce children's wooden toys even in small batches?

First, you need a room. It is desirable that there are at least three rooms: for wood processing, painting, assembly and packaging of finished products. But this is ideal. In reality, first time you can do with a garage or cottage.

Secondly, it is necessary to acquire woodworking machines and some other equipment. At the beginning, chisels and drilling, milling, grinding and edge banding machines are sufficient . Decide which specific machines are needed, you can after you decide on the range.

Thirdly, in order to produce wooden toys by our own hands, we need a tooling for painting. There is only a choice for the master. The main thing is that all materials are environmentally friendly and do not harm children.

Fourth, you need equipment for packaging products. But this is in the future. While it is possible to simply purchase boxes of suitable sizes and independently to pack production.

Fifth, the staff. 2-3 people are enough to start production. Then, when the assortment and scale of production increase, it is possible to hire additional workers.

Requirements for toys made of wood

When you make toys yourself, you must follow several rules:

• Manufactured toys should be easy. For example, a pyramid. To make such a toy is extremely simple, because they are invented a long time ago. A rod is attached to the support, rings of different size and color with holes are put on it. The top of the pyramid is crowned with a ball. Everything, the toy is ready for sale.

• Toys should not have small parts that a child can put into his mouth. The consequences of breaking this rule can be very sad for the manufacturer and fatal for the baby.

• All products must be bright, smart and beautiful. Only such toys can attract the attention of customers and cause delight in children.

Advantages of wooden toys

These items for games have their undeniable advantages:

- Toys made of wood are environmentally friendly and safe.

- Toys made of wood are durable and durable.

- This is a traditional Russian wooden toy.

Range

In the first place come to the head of the pyramids, various mazes of wood for the smallest, cubes, horse-rocking. It is desirable to make cubes not too small so that children can build locks from them not to puppets, but to themselves. Of course, in this case, it is necessary to choose a lighter material, such as thin plywood, or even easier. After all, large wooden toys will be too heavy and unsafe for the child.

You can make simple swords and shields for boys, cars, prefabricated houses for dolls.

Toys for the street

If you decide to do your own wooden toys, do not forget about toys for the street. Steady demand will be used by various playgrounds, lodges, slides, swings. Although the market is full of plastic counterparts, the buyer does not satisfy the quality of such towns and corners. Wooden products will serve the child for more than one year, giving the child the opportunity to spend time with pleasure and pleasure on the street. Of course, street sites and small towns produce only under the order, as different buyers need different sets of these sets. Yes, and you can give the customer the opportunity to choose the color of the product - it will be a pleasant bonus.

As a street toy can be considered sports corners. Of course, such children's wooden toys are bought not only for the street - they fit perfectly even in small apartments, giving the child the opportunity to throw out the accumulated energy.

Toy Drawings

Drawings of wooden toys, the master or the owner of the business can quite easily draw on his own. While there are no complicated things to perform, nothing is complicated in this. More complex playgrounds for the street are manufactured according to individual drawings, based on the age and growth of future users.

If there is a need for a drawing, you can always contact a specialist who, at a reasonable price, will make all the necessary calculations.

Children love toys made of wood, especially if their parents created them, and children also helped. In order to make your own hands wooden toys, it is not necessary to be a joiner. For example, a wooden duck will be able to do any.

To do this, you need a piece of wood at least 2 cm thick, a template, a saw or a jigsaw, paints, a printer, nail files, a template, sandpaper.

- Print a picture of the silhouette of a duck on the printer.

- Cut out the image, overlay it on a tree and circle it with a pencil or pen.

- Cut the contour with a jig saw. All sections must be carefully processed first with a rough nail file, then with sandpaper. This is done so that the child can not get splinters.

- Together with the child color the duck. After drying the paint, you can cover the duck with varnish, so that the color lasts longer.

- You can leave the toy in this form, you can cut it into several pieces to make a puzzle. In this case, all the slices need to be processed again.

- You can drill holes and put the duck on the wheels, making a wheelchair for the baby.

Conclusion

Wooden toys made by own hands can bring joy not only to your children, but also to completely unfamiliar kids who can receive reliable, safe and interesting toys. If we approach the matter with the mind and with the soul, the work will bring not only moral satisfaction, but also tangible material profit. The main thing is to correctly calculate all the pros and cons of such an event. To minimize risks, you can order a business project to a professional who will not only show advantages and disadvantages, but also calculate the profitability and payback period of production.