Vilac Wooden Farm Magnets — 20 Pieces

Not twenty animals — a whole farm, for the fridge door

Most magnet sets give you a row of animals and leave it there. This one gives you the farm: the barn, the house, the fence, the kennel, the tractor, an apple tree and a pear tree, and the farmer's wife to run the place. Which means a child isn't just sticking things on the fridge, they're laying out a scene and then telling you what's happening in it.

🚜 All twenty, in full

Horse, sheep, dog in a kennel, rooster, rabbit, house, farmer's wife, goat, chicken, cat, a second horse, barn, pig, fence, duck, cow, apple tree, tractor, donkey and pear tree.

Two horses is a nicer detail than it sounds — it means a pair rather than a single, and pairs are what young children reach for when they start making up stories.

🧲 The magnets are embedded in the wood

Worth stating plainly, because it's the thing that matters most here. The magnets are set into the wood rather than glued to the back as loose discs. Swallowed magnets are a far more serious matter than an ordinary small part — more than one can cause real internal harm — so a set where the magnet is embedded rather than stuck on is the only kind we'd stock. This set is rated from 2 years and carries no under-threes warning on the box.

🧊 Where it actually lives

On the fridge, at the height a two-year-old can reach, which is the quiet genius of a magnet set: it's a toy that occupies a child in the one room where you're trying to get something done. It also packs flat, weighs nothing, and goes in a bag for a long weekend at someone else's house.

🎁 The gift it's actually best at

This is a grandparent's toy, and we mean that as a compliment. It costs little, it lives on your fridge rather than adding to the pile at home, it works for a two-year-old and equally for a four-year-old, and it gives you something to do together at the exact height a small person is standing. If you keep a box of things for when the grandchildren visit, this earns its place in it.

🇫🇷 Designed and imagined in France

Vilac have been making wooden toys from the Jura in eastern France since 1911. This set is designed and imagined there and manufactured in China. It carries UKCA and CE marking and has been laboratory tested to the EU Toy Safety Directive 2009/48/EC.

What we like about it

• Twenty pieces that build a whole farm scene, not just a row of animals
• Magnets embedded in the wood rather than glued discs
• Buildings, a fence, a tractor and two fruit trees as well as thirteen animals
• Packs flat, weighs nothing, travels well
• Designed and imagined in France by a toymaker going back to 1911
• UKCA and CE, laboratory tested to EU Toy Safety Directive 2009/48/EC

Specification

• Suitable from: 2 years
• Contents: 20 wooden magnets — horse, sheep, dog in kennel, rooster, rabbit, house, farmer's wife, goat, chicken, cat, second horse, barn, pig, fence, duck, cow, apple tree, tractor, donkey, pear tree
• Magnets: embedded in the wood
• Pack size: 15cm x 6cm x 14cm
• Material: wood
• Designed in: France. Made in China
• Safety: UKCA and CE, laboratory tested to EU Toy Safety Directive 2009/48/EC
• Care: surface wash only

❓ Frequently asked questions

Twenty small magnets and a small child — how worried should I be?
This deserves a straight answer rather than reassurance. Swallowed magnets are not an ordinary choking risk: two or more can attract through the gut and cause serious injury, which is why loose magnet discs are a genuine hazard. In this set the magnets are embedded in the wood, not glued to the back, so there is no separate disc to come away. It's rated from 2 years and carries no under-threes warning. That said, twenty small wooden pieces and a crawling baby don't belong in the same room — this is a fridge-door toy at standing height, and if there's a baby in the house it wants putting away at the end rather than left on the floor.

Will they stick to my fridge?
Most fridge doors are steel and will hold them. Some aren't — a few stainless finishes and most integrated or clad doors won't take a magnet at all. Worth testing with any magnet you already own before you buy, and if yours is one of the non-magnetic sort, a steel baking tray propped on a shelf does the job surprisingly well.

What's actually in the twenty?
Thirteen animals (horse, sheep, dog in its kennel, rooster, rabbit, goat, chicken, cat, a second horse, pig, duck, cow and donkey), the farmer's wife, and the setting: house, barn, fence, tractor, apple tree and pear tree. It's the buildings and the fence that turn it from a collection into a farm.

Is it just a fridge toy?
Mostly, but not only — they work on any steel surface, and plenty of people use a baking tray as a portable farm for the car or a cafe table. They're wooden pieces first and magnets second, so they get played with off the fridge too.

How do I clean them?
Surface wash only — a damp cloth, and don't soak them. Wood and water are a poor combination, and these are small enough to warp.

🔍 More farm, and more magnets

• Chunky Wooden Farm Puzzle — seven standing farm animals from 1 year, so it works for a younger sibling
• Touch & Feel Puzzle — Farm Animals — a simpler farm puzzle for smaller hands
• The whole Jumini Farm range — a chicken coop, a pig sty, dominoes and more, if the farm theme has taken hold
• Wooden Magnetic Drawing Board — the other magnetic toy we sell, for drawing rather than scene-building

❤️ From our family to yours

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