non-plastic baby toys. What do you have?

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Our baby will be 4 months at Christmas. Family are asking about what to buy her, and she certainly doesn't need any more clothes! She currently has a lovely wooden A-frame play 'gym', a bouncy chair, a Whoozit, a squish toy, a couple of wooden rattles with and without bells, and wrist rattles. She also has a few black and white books and some fabric books. Any ideas about the sorts of toys/ equipment that might interest her over the coming months - up to her first birthday in August? I'm thinking of making up some treasure baskets as my gift, but what could others get her?
Thanks

Maybe a wooden bead frame/ activity cube thingy - my 2 loved these from the point when they could sit inf ront of them up to 2/3 years so would get plenty of use.

plenty here

Good idea, they're nice. Thanks.

Balls are good

Blocks, she may be a little young now, but will get lots of use of them over the coming years.

A wooden shape sorter, DD still plays with hers at nearly 2, we have one like this

Also stacking rings are good

Treasure basket is a great idea, DD loved hers

Musical instruments - maraccas, jingle bells etc. Or make your own shakers with beans/pasta/lentils sealed in a random pot.

I know you don't want plastic, but could you make an exception for stacking cups - they get loads of use here, from all ages.

Our secret was to buy DD a large wooden ark that has a huge range of animals that can be purchased seperately. We got the ark (first xmas) and family members contribute animals at xmas and birthdays. So DD gets a great collection and we don't end up with mounds of plastic. We write the contributors name on the foot of the animal so she has an appreciation of the family effort, and she loves to get the particular animals out for people, so it has become a great relationship builder, especially for people she doesn't see very often. Other advantage is the animals can be bought online and sent by post easily.

More brilliant ideas, thank you so much. I love the Noah's ark idea - may do similar with a farmset instead. So nice to write the name of the giver on the animal too.

Erm, this might not be what you were looking for, but my youngest DS absolutely adored wooden spoons. He used to suck them, hit things with them, chew them, use them to drag things towards him, you name it. So, his absolutely favourite toy as a baby was a set of three wooden spoons tied with a pretty ribbon.

Mine had a wooden car with a dog in it that they could drag with a short string. The dog went up and down. It was called 'riding with Henry'
That's one toy I have kept and it got very good use. Think it was from plan toys.

I like the wooden spoons idea, but can't imagine Granny going for it!! Plan toys are nice, aren't they.

We're a wooden home. DS has -

Wooden ABC blocks
Wooden pull frog (legs appear to be "walking")
Wooden tow truck pull toy
Wooden tractor trailers
Wooden cars
Wooden trains
Wooden "kitty" who rolls along
Wooden toy tools
Wooden boats (they have rollers on the bottom! Made by Tonka)
Wooden bead activity
Wooden shape sorter

An insane amount of books and various types of balls have also been successful.