the wooden horse

I've been buying from The Wooden Horse since they were located in Old Town (1976 for those that are counting).

What I love is the wall by the stuffed toys has lots of cool but inexpensive items like marbles, bouncy balls, and bubbles for kids wanting to spend their allowance.

I bought my one marionette there...where else are you going to find a hand crafted honest to goodness marionette??? (snake charmer...I used my birthday money when I was in 6th grade & still have it to this day)

What I love are all the arts and crafts items as well as science kits and unique games.

They have always been great to my daughter. When she buys something with her money, there has never been any problem with her handling her own transaction...even when she was 5 or 6 and bought some pretty rocks.

They're a great place for buying birthday and Christmas presents since they do wrap with a large variety of paper, and will custom make the bows out of yarn.

There is a separate room for dolls (including little kitty dolls with wooden furniture) and dress up clothes, a section for musical instruments, a section for Legos, a section for Brio, a large section for the under 18 mos crowd.

Say your friend or cousin or whatever had a kid and you had NO IDEA what to get them. Go to the Wooden Horse. I saw the manager spend 10 minutes with a woman going over all the different infant toys to help her find something.

Most of all, go and enjoy being a kid again.

10/10