This weekend’s giveaway is from Nova Natural, one of my family’s favorite shops! Nova Natural is a small, family-run business based in Vermont. It was created around the mission of providing natural, wholesome products that encourage every child’s individual spirit to flourish. We practice sustainability by working with small businesses and artisans to offer high quality, long lasting products with a high play value. That means they don’t get used once or twice and then tossed aside. Rather, they’re made to last, sometimes for more than one generation.
We’re lucky enough at Nova to spend summer in Vermont. As a small, family business, we like to carve out time to enjoy the gorgeous weather and bounty summer has to offer. For our children (and yours!), we try to have toys that spark the imagination, foster outdoor exploration or stir them to action.
An active day can lead to a restful sleep, so it’s good to give children new challenges that get them moving. Younger children still delighting in imitation will enjoy “mowing” the grass accompanied by the clackity clack of the tumbling wooden beads in the classic lawnmower pushtoy. The motion of a tree swing, as well as the balance necessary to stay on the wooden seat, can be a challenge that a child might spend a summer perfecting, as they learn just the way to keep it in free motion without sliding off the seat. The sturdy stilts bring a child to new heights as they master propelling themselves while staying atop the wooden blocks for their feet. Another fun challenge for the elementary aged child is jumping rope; those rhymes you probably remember from your childhood can help a new rope skipper to find the rhythm that will lead to success.
Other toys might help children find the quiet that nature has to offer. They can look more closely at the wondrous world with a microscope or press leaves or blossoms for a summer souvenir. And of course, there’s the peace brought about by water play. A good ship and a bit of quiet water can occupy almost any young sailor. For moving water, children will be enthralled by the waterpowered machine that will move the trout boat upstream. So, with the wind calling their names, send them outside to jump, run, learn and dream.
This weekend, we’d like to offer one Small Things reader a $50 Gift Card! For your chance to win, simply leave a comment on this post. And don’t forget, when you sign up to receive our newsletter, (scroll to the bottom of our homepage, and you will see the place to enter your email address), you will receive a coupon for $7.00 off your order.
Comments are closed and the winner is Heidi who commented, “We love our wooden walking blocks from Nova Natural! The jump rope book looks equally awesome… Thank you!”
Thanks, Nova Natural!
Hannah Cousar says
These are so inspiring! As a preschool teacher, I can see millions of fabulous uses for these amazing toys.
Hannah
beate teale says
love toys that stimulate discovery; these look great
Laurie says
These toys look fantastic! Thanks for this giveaway.
Sharon says
The stilts look great as do all the others. 😀
Orsi says
What beatuful toys! Would be the best thing for my daughter – so thanks for the opportunity!:)
Gris fleur says
Thanks a lot for the giveaway ! What a lovely treat !
Aimee Poole says
Love these toys 🙂
marzia says
My daughter would love that toys! Have a nice weekend!
Tara says
We love Nova Naturals… Especially with 3 summer birthdays coming up! Thanks for the giveaway!
Nina says
Thanks for the giveaway! Was just on their website looking at some beach toys for my little girl! 🙂
Rachel Stolpe says
We love Nova Naturals!!! Thank you for the giveaway.
Becky says
Thank you! Love nova!
Ameryn says
So perfect!
Samantha says
Such wonderful toys and a great giveaway!
Emily says
These are beautiful toys! Thank you.
--anu says
Nova toys are so beautiful, I have admired them for years. We have owned and loved some through the years 🙂
Julie says
Now these are real toys!
Britta says
Would love that jump rope rhyme book!
Beth says
I love Nova Natural!
Alyson N. says
Oh how exciting! I love toys like these, they just don’t make them like this anymore.
Laura says
Nova is one of my family’s favorites! Thanks for the chance to win!
Valerie W. says
Love the beautiful toys from Nova Naturals! Thanks for the chance!
Heather says
One of my family’s favorites as well! Such treasures!
Tara says
love love love to nova natural 🙂
Meghan says
Such great toys! Love supporting small businesses with thoughtful products!
Jen says
My kids love to be outside in summer and would love these toys!
Yasemin says
What a great summer giveaway! Thank you!
Nancy says
Oh wow! Phenomenal! Great giveaway!
Melody J says
This would be awesome! Thanks
Janelle G says
I always love the things I’ve ordered from Nova Naturals! Thank you for this opportunity 🙂
Angela says
Love Nova Naturals toys for my grandchildren! Full of fun, creativity and imagination! Thanks for the chance!
Denise says
My grandchildren love their toys from this company! Thank you!
Amanda says
I had that jumprope book! fond memories 🙂
thanks for the giveaway!
Alicia says
I’ve never heard of this company before. Thanks for sharing! It looks like they have all sorts of treasures available. 🙂
Linda says
Wow! These look like great products!
Mama Nuru says
Oh thank you! My kids would love this.
Dorothee says
Very beautiful – Thank you for sharing
Isabel says
For a long time, we’ve admired NN toys. So we’d be most delighted and grateful to win this great giveaway. Thank you!
stacey says
What beautiful toys!!
Brittany says
My kids would love these toys. We just moved into our first home because of our growing family and we finding that we have very few outdoor toys/activities for our kids to play with during the summer months so this would be a great gift for our two kids before their new sibling is born.
Heather says
Our family has been a fan of NN for years. Many of the favorites toys we have came from them.
Jamie says
Thank you! We have played with and admired you’d toys for a good while! Beautiful!
Kelsey says
There products are always beautiful.
Kim t. says
It would be wonderful!
Jennifer Cox says
What a great give away!
Joan says
Thank you for this wonderful giveaway.
Joan
Marilyn says
This is a very nice giveaway.
Thank You for the giveaway.
Marilyn
Marion says
What a great giveaway. The products look very interesting.
Thank You
Marion
Sarah says
What wonderful toys for children! Beautiful! Quality! Yes! Thank you for the giveaway!
Joy says
What a treat this would be! Thank you for the opportunity.