Item Details - PlanToys Dancing Alligator Wooden Baby Toy

This Dancing Alligator from PlanToys is a multi award winner, he is uniquely designed and quite innovative. While being pulled, the wooden pieces make rhythmic click-clack sounds. The head gently nods, the rounded mouth moves up and down, and the accordion-like body undulates during walking. Toddlers will have fun pulling it along as they learn to walk and explore their new world. Great to encourage walking.

Size: L25x H9.5x W9cm

Age: Suitable for 18mths+

About Plan Toys

Thai Children and Baby Toy manufacturer PlanToys are based in Samut Prakarn a few Kilometers to the South East of Bangkok. They have been making toys since 1981. For all its toys the company uses clean, natural Rubberwood recycled from rubber trees no longer producing latex, see 'A Note About Rubber wood' below. Three years before the wood is used, no fertilizer is added so that the wood stays chemical free, and to stabilize the wood PlanToys uses a slow chemical free kiln drying process. PlanToys uses non toxic, water based dyes to add accent colours to products, this colour contains no heavy metals such as lead or mercury. PlanToys uses recycling and recyclable material to minimize the impact to the environment. 

This is what they say about themselves:-

'We create toys that inspire children's imagination as well as promote their physical and intellectual development. We're also proving that it is possible to maintain superior quality standards while steadfastly following a path of environmental and social responsibility.'

A Note About Rubber Wood

Rubber trees (Hevea basiliensis) (yang phara in Thai) can be sold for timber once they have passed their productive life, which is usually about 25 years. The wood is a semi hard, light coloured timber. It has a pleasant grain and can be used in wooden utensils, furniture, flooring and chipboard making. Thailand at 1.6 million hectares (4 million acres) has the worlds second largest area under rubber cultivation.

(Source World Agriculture and the Environment, Joseph M Clay, Island Press, 2004, p335)