Author: modculture

Made for kids, these ABC wooden blocks could also add a nice pop art feel to your home.

Available from ethical shopping site Green Apple, the blocks are 1.75 inches square and made from highly renewable and sustainable basswood, coloured with child-safe inks and finished by hand. The set includes 27 blocks providing 4 complete alphabets, 3 sets of numerals, and 27 different animal pictures.

And once your child gets bored of them, you create make a Peter Blake-style installation of your own! The set retails for a very reasonable £15.

Find out more at the Green Apple website

And thanks to Kavel for the tip off!

In more creative times, kids (including me at the time) would make their own go-kart out of old wood, rope, borrowed wheels and a few nails. These days such a vehicle wouldn’t pass many health and safety tests, so you have to buy them – and top of the tree is this Kombi-Kart.

Essentially, this is that same kart from your childhood, but made properly and safely with four sturdy wheels, two fixed axles, steering rope and all the screws and heavy-duty bolts you need to keep it together, even on the bumpiest of roads.

It’s designed for kids of age eight or over, but is strong enough to hold an adult if you’re feel nostalgic. It retails for £149.

FInd out more at the Children’s Furniture Company website