A Loja do Wood - Educational Wooden Toys

A Loja do Wood - Educational Wooden Toys

The Wood Shop (Loja do Wood) aims to expand the diversity and specificity of educational wooden toys in the Portuguese market, responding to growing demand for traditional, ecol...

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    20 backers

  • 10/12/2014

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The Wood Shop (Loja do Wood) aims to expand the diversity and specificity of educational wooden toys in the Portuguese market, responding to growing demand for traditional, ecological and durable toys.

Hello!

My name is Wood and I´m here to talk about  the wonderful world of the educational toys made of wood!

We, the toys of Woodoland, have today, a strong competition of the technological toys, but we don´t let ourselves be overcome by them!

Nowadays, people think that the children only want to play with tablets,  console of games, computers and other, but that isn´t true! We are extremely important in the children's life, especially in the first years of life. This is a fundamental period in the childhood global development (motor, cognitive and emotional), whose starting point is, above all, the interaction with the external world. The child is born with an intrinsic need of acting and  is through playing that expressed, communicates and interacts with the world around.

 It is through the manipulation of different objects that she improves the balance, coordination of movements and the gestural precision , and  acquires cognitive notions of distance (far away / close, long / short), position (in low / on top), greatness (larger / smaller, big / small) and situation (on top / in low, ahead / behind), among many other! All these acquisitions will be the base of the school learnings in future.

Remains unclear what all this technological invasion alters the overall development of the child, but one thing is certain: those luminous tablets, that need to be always linked to the record (ecological, therefore!), nothing enrich manipulative and social skills of children as well as we know that the impact of blue light of our competitors is nothing positive for the visual system of children!

The wooden toys, family of I proudly do part, usually have a very long life, and we love to pass for the different generations of each family!

Wood's store will work, in a first phase, only online, and with educational toys made of wood exclusively.

In this moment we have three major suppliers of toys, and our goal is to provide products not available
yet in our national market, with competitive prices.

The store will have a solidarity side. For each sold toy, 0,20 € will be donated to an institution: "Ajuda de Berço". The value donated, will be published quarterly in the homepage of the store.

About the author

Susana Sousa, 27 years old, discovered that his professional area - Psychomotor Rehabilitation and Special Education lacks certain materials, many of them simple, to help children acquire specific abstract concepts more easily, and  learning is only possible through the manipulation the concrete;

João Salvado, 26 years old, graduated in Geography (and we not have only one interest in life), as well  enthusiastic of e-commerce, also appreciate everything that relates to toys and traditional games.

Budget and due dates

Website + hosting - 200 €; Initial toys stock - 300 € (includes rewards); Office supplies (needed for shipping orders) - 20 €; PPL Commission - 30 €; Until January 31, 2015: Launch of the online shop (the insertion process as well as the description of each product and will be a slow process); Until February 28, 2015: Shipping of rewards.
  • Invest with
    1€ or more

    Wood thanks and rewards you with...

    A decorative wrist watch child (dimensions: 8 x 2,5 x 4 cm)

    1 backer

  • Invest with
    5€ or more

    Wood thanks and rewards you with...

    Children Puzzle, made of wood (20 pieces, dimensions: 20 x 1 x 20 cm) + a little children wooden book (dimensions:12,5 x 2 x 11 cm) + 5 € voucher for shopping in the store (include postage)

    9 backers

  • Invest with
    10€ or more

    Wood thanks and rewards you with...

    Children Puzzle, made of wood (20 pieces, dimensions: 20 x 1 x 20 cm) + a little children wooden book (dimensions:12,5 x 2 x 11 cm) + 5 € voucher for shopping in the store (include postage)

    3 backers

  • Invest with
    15€ or more

    Wood thanks and rewards you with...

    Children Puzzle, made of wood (20 pieces, dimensions: 20 x 1 x 20 cm) + a little children wooden book (dimensions:12,5 x 2 x 11 cm) +10 € voucher for shopping in the store (include postage)

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  • Invest with
    20€ or more

    Wood thanks and rewards you with...

    Children Puzzle, made of wood (20 pieces, dimensions: 20 x 1 x 20 cm) + a little children wooden book (dimensions:12,5 x 2 x 11 cm) +15 € voucher for shopping in the store (include postage)

    7 backers

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Payout completed

The raised funds have been transferred to the campaign owner

10/12/2014

Campaign ended

The campaign successfully raised the initial target

Campaign launched

11/11/2014

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