The Grapat free play box contains all the elements of play. It becomes a framework for action and sets limits to the items and spaces of the children’s fun.
This tray helps to create an isolated and enclosed area which improves care and respect towards the play within it. A child’s game needs an area that holds many parts and that allows for children to know their limits and understand space.
The box can become a sensory game when it’s filled up with sand, flour, salt, rice, along with other elements of play.
In the background, there are some stamped images which evoke the four classical elements: earth, water, air and fire. These elements are part of our lives, and helps us connect with nature. The box can be used as a game space or as an invitation to organize and classify.
Recommended age 3 years+
A wooden box made of beech (45x65x7 cm)
GRAPAT provides material without instructions, open-ended and autonomous play. Their only premise is to let children play, slowly, without time limits. Grapat hand crafts materials that encourage, invite and stimulate the creation of invented little worlds. Grapat is made following traditional processes, in the old way, with thick soft raw materials, natural dyes which let the wood veins be seen and vibrant coloured waxes and oils that slightly shine. The products are painted by hand, homemade, surrounded by nature and many children nearby that inspire the makers daily.
The wood we use comes from sustainable forests. Grapat uses beech and birch. Wood is the source that inspires us daily. It is robust, soft and hard, it is warm, it sounds good and it smells good.
The dyes are based on water and non-toxic that comply with the European safety regulations of the Toy EN / 71-3: 2014 + A1: 2014 / 2013. Working with dyes and not with acrylic paints allows Grapat to continue having contact with the wood. The dye does not jump from the wood when it falls to the ground or when time passes because it penetrates deep inside the piece. Sometimes it can happen that by an excess of pigments some piece loses some colour when coming in contact with the saliva, no problem, they are absolutely safe and non-toxic.
Grapat workshop is located in the countryside, and being close to nature can make some tones and colours have variations. Depending on the humidity or if there is wind the dye can impregnate one way or another in the wood. The finishes are made with waxes and oils of vegetable origin. The oils can have a strong aroma at first, but it loses it with the days. We love it!
Each piece that passes through Grapat’s hands is unique. Each one is painted by hand. And since from Grapat we defend the value of nature, we accept imperfection. It is beautiful and makes the material even more valuable. The cloth bags that are included in some of the products come from big companies that discard material when they have a small defect. As Grapat produces the bags by hand they can take advantage of them by removing those defects and giving them a second life. The fabrics vary and do not match with the photos of the products.
Care Instructions: If you clean Grapat wood products only use a damp cloth. Do not submerge in water and do not use disinfectant or hot water.
This is an exceptionally sturdy tray, and is large enough for a variety of types of play. My grandson is currently creating “magical worlds” for the Papoose Gnome Family we received with this order, using found objects from nature like twigs and pebbles combined with some of the Grapat loose parts like the trees and coins...but I know he will be using it in many ways!
Very good quality, large size. Can accommodate so many play activities - puzzles, small world play, loose parts play, sorting, even storage
