Magnetic Wooden Animals Set Savannah | Designed by Ingela P. Arrhenius | Toddler Activity Toy

Have you ever met a lion-zebra? Or a cheetah-giraffe? With these magnetic wooden animals, drawn by Ingela P. Arrhenius, your child can. Each savannah animal is cut into sections that click together with hidden magnets, and the sections swap between animals, so heads, middles and legs can be mixed into creatures that have never existed.

Toddlers start by putting each animal back together properly, matching stripes to stripes and spots to spots. Then the fun begins: a zebra with a lion's mane, a giraffe on cheetah legs, and plenty of giggles. The magnets make the pieces easy for small hands to join and pull apart, again and again.

Matching, building and rebuilding at their own pace suits the Montessori approach, and all the mixing up is great for vocabulary: animals, body parts, colours and patterns, and the names of whatever they just invented.

Suitable from 2 years. A funny, original gift that children come back to.