Come play with my bigjigs wooden farm (Bigjigs Toys Wooden Toy Play Farm)

Member Name: mumsymary

Product:	Bigjigs Toys Wooden Toy Play Farm
Date:	06/09/09 (86 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Durable

Disadvantages: Animals not 3D

I have played with this farm (alongside a child) at a play centre and would like to tell you about it.

This farm is a wooden farm it comes with a thin wooden plywood base that is painted green to represent grass and has a blue area to represent water painted on in one of the
corners. A few flowers are also painted on the green board as well as a path of stepping stones.

There are some farm buildings. The buildings are natural wood coloured with red roofs. There is a dog kennel, a windmill the sails do rotate. An open fronted wooden building with a few shelves this is stabling for the horses or shelter for the cows the chickens can roost on the shelves. Then a wooden building for the pig sty, perhaps as they do just fit inside it.

The essential feature of the farm is the animal,s I will admit The farm I played with had the addition of other toy animals and perhaps not all of the Bigjig toy animals that should come with this farm. However most of the Bigjig animals were there.
The big jig animals like the frees are not 3D they are flat, about 1cm thick so they do stand up reasonably well.
There are a couple of pink pigs, a couple of sheep, two cows two horses,, two chickens a dog and a ginger cat. There is a wooden 2 dimensional farmer and his wife too. There is a tractor and a wooden lawn mower (at least that's what I think it is.)
Then there is a wooden 3 dimensional wheelbarrow with a wooden spade. There are a couple of wooden tubs for animal feed


Then there are a few wooden trees these stand on a firm base, they are not 3d though they are flat, probably about1cm thick I seem to recall. A couple of the trees are fruit trees the painted green leaf area has a few coloured dots on to represent fruit, then there is a pine/fir tree shaped tree too.
To complete the farm scene there are a few wooden fences and a few wooden rows of vegetables one has carrots painted on, one row cabbages.

This is quite a good wooden toy I like the wooden painted base, I will be honest although the animals are simplified basic shapes and feature they do look like the animals represented I do prefer 3D farm animals to play with.

This is a reasonably strong farm, the quality fair, it should last many play hours good for either home or nursery. This toy can be played with other farm animals and sets to make a bigger more adventurous farm scene.

This toy suitable for a 3 year old and over. It does have play value. Your child will lear a little about the animals while they are playing , do play alongside yourtot use the names of the animals . say the noises they make . count the animals, group the same animals together .. Your child will pretend to feed the animals walk them around the farm base , talk to them . This set is good for imaginary play and speech development .


Although this farm is a few years old now it is still available to buy at several toy distributors. At http://www.amazon.co.uk Little wooden wonders is offering it for the price of £19.95 http://www.bigjigs.co.uk is selling it but this site is only for trade customers so I can not get the price details.



Would I recommend? Well it is a long lasting, well made classic toy but I do prefer 3d animals.

Summary: A wooden farm