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Around its usual price right now (R 485,00 typical).
Lowest R 485,00 · highest R 485,00 over 13 snapshots.
Tracked since 06 Oct 2026.
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Grow, stack and play with Le Toy Van’s Stacking Veggies, a trio of cheerful wooden vegetables for little gardeners and curious hands. A carrot, a beetroot and a radish each sit in their own natural wooden plant pot. Every vegetable is made of two interchangeable stacking pieces, so children can rebuild each one correctly or mix and match the tops and bottoms to make their own funny garden creations.
The pieces are chunky and smooth, sized for toddler hands, and the hand-sewn fabric leaves add a soft texture that contrasts with the wood. The set is made from FSC®-certified, sustainable rubberwood and finished in bright, non-toxic, water-based colours. It is a toy that will last, and it can easily be handed down to a younger sibling.
Your child can stack it at 18 months and later use it to “plant” and “harvest” in a pretend garden, sell vegetables at a market stall, or add it to the play kitchen. It grows with them. It is also a sweet, meaningful gift for a little one who loves helping outside.
This is one of those toys that looks simple but gives a toddler a lot to work on. Lifting the chunky pieces and lowering them onto one another uses a whole-hand grasp. It also asks for graded release, which means letting go gently and in the right place rather than just dropping. That controlled release is an important early fine motor milestone, and it is what later lets children place blocks, puzzle pieces and pegs with accuracy.
Building a vegetable is also a lovely bilateral coordination task. One hand steadies the pot or the bottom piece while the other lines up and places the top. That is the same stabilise-and-act pattern children later use for opening containers, threading and cutting with scissors. Lining the pieces up uses hand-eye coordination. Working out which top belongs on which bottom uses visual perception: colour matching, part–whole thinking and seeing how pieces fit together. The fabric leaves add a small tactile contrast and a natural spot for little fingers to practise pinching and pulling.
I particularly love the mix-and-match element. A radish top on a carrot bottom often makes a toddler laugh, and that playful “mistake” teaches that there is more than one way to play. Children can experiment and correct themselves without an adult stepping in. The toy also invites language. Vegetable names, colours, and position words like on, in, top and bottom come up naturally. As symbolic play develops, the set becomes part of planting, harvesting, cooking and shopping games, which support sequencing, storytelling and turn-taking when played with others.
The set has only a few pieces and offers easy success early on, so it works well for younger toddlers and for children who need a gentle, confidence-building activity. I recommend it for home play and as a versatile resource in the therapy room.