Description
About the product:
- Article number: 900000196
- Brand: Heutink / Educo
- Recommended age by the manufacturer: from 7-11 months onward
- Size: app. 40 x 24 x 7 cm
- Care: We always advice you to clean the toy with a wet wipe, before the first use. Please do not expose the wood to excessive wetness, and never immerse it fully in water!
About the Educo Early Years (0-3) Concept:
Educo is a traditional kindergarten supplier, having gained the trust of many public and alternative pedagogy kindergartens all over the world for decades. Known for its quality, parent has turned more and more to the manufacturer wishing to include their toys also into their homes. Building on their expertise in child development, with their new “Early Years Concept” they would like to offer high-quality and Montessori-aligned materials also for parents preparing their child’s environment more and more consciously in the first three years of life. The complete range is built up carefully, meeting the child and guiding through the parent with a specific material at every developmental stage. Unlike popular subscription boxes, the Educo Early Year materials can be purchased separately without commitment, and exactly in the time when your child is ready for them! You can also be sure that they were made with a deep understanding of early years development!
About Educo:
Educo started in 1982 in the Netherlands as a small family company with the goal to develop and produce innovative learning materials for preschool education, special needs education, and toy libraries. Today the company belongs under the umbrella of Heutink International, and they pride in manufacturing high-quality educational material known and acknowledged all around the world. The materials are designed to effectively stimulate children’s development through active, hands-on learning, and to withstand years of use even in a an institutional environment.
About Heutink International:
For over a century, Heutink has brought craftsmanship and quality to educational supplies. The company produces premium kindergarten and primary school materials, which are geared towards hands-on learning. With their team of educational specialists, Heutink develops traditional as well as innovative materials aimed at supporting play-fuelled development, based on internationally proven curricula and learning goals. The Netherlands-based family business was founded by in 1911, and today the third generation of the family leads the Heutink Group as a multi-national distribution and manufacturing business. Heutink produces their products in their own factories in the Netherlands, Sri Lanka and China with the commitment of high-grade craftsmanship, sustainability and environmental and social responsibility. The products are made of sustainable raw materials, such as wood from planted European forests and water-based inks and paints, and meet the demands of various rigorous safety regulations, including EN71 and ASTM. The products are manufactured in such way that they are able to endure for many years of use in childcare and schools.
Under the umbrella of the Heutink group belong such brands as Educo, Jegro or Nienhuis Montessori trusted by many educational institutions all over the world. The company also distributes GAM Montessori supplies, which – beside their own Nienhuis brand – os one of the two European companies whose materials follow the blue print of and approved by the Association Montessori Internationale (AMI).
