Almost as long as there have been children, they have played with toys. Children who had no opportunity to play with real toys would make their own from whatever they could find, often pieces of wood or stones from the fields.

Boys and girls played with their makeshift toys, making up games and stories about the world around them that they lived in. Children are the same these days. Even when they do have toys at home, they love to go out and make up their own games from what they find around them.

An early game that was probably played was to use a stick as a horse to ride, as in the days when transport was all by horse it was natural for children to copy this.

In time, hobby horses were made of wood specifically as toys for children and eventually these developed into the wooden rocking horse. Although these days there is faster and more comfortable means of transport than horse and cart, children still love to ride on a wooden rocking horse. Here at My Natural Wooden Toys the wooden rocking horse is part of our range and children still love them.

By giving a wooden rocking horse to your children, you will be continuing a tradition of children’s toys that is hundreds of years old and your children can find out what has made rocking horses enjoyable to generations of children. A wooden rocking horse is part of the history of childhood that continues into the present.