We should not be indifferent to the materials that surround our child. It is important, I think, that beauty should be one of a toys attributes, however simple that might be. Colors should be delicate, not the bright, un-real colors of plastics. My children are surrounded by beauty and soft colors, and we let nature indoors for them to play with. Our silks, wood blocks, hand-made dolls, felt dolls, rocks, coral, wood castle, wooden cars, our wooden kitchen with wood food, silk marionettes, wool balls we made ourselves, shells, corks, nuts, acorns, tree stumps, an old fashion wood marble maze toy, cotton bean bags, etc. are everywhere in our home.
Wood always has something about it that is warm and alive.
When you pick up a wood block or truck, it is heavy- as heavy as it looks. Really, think about it. We learn how easily we are deceived by outer appearances, by outer clues. We learn that we have little or no effect on them. We learn that natural laws do not affect them.