Modular wooden building toys
Round. Square. Point. Build.
Plinthwork Toys makes three kinds of wooden piece, cut on one grid and painted in three colours. Every piece fits every other, so a set bought this year still fits the set bought in five.
Three pieces, endless buildings
Rounds
Wheels, domes and half-moons. Every round piece has the same peg hole, so a wheel can be a window tomorrow.
Blocks
Cubes and long bars cut to one five-centimetre grid. Stack them, bridge them, line them up as a wall.
Points
Roofs, ramps and arrows. Lay two together and they make a square again, which children find out on their own.
One grid. Five centimetres. Every piece, every set.
The sets
First Plinth
32 pieces · ages 2 and up
Big rounds and blocks for small hands, in a lidded crate that becomes the first building.
£38
Town Plinth
84 pieces · ages 4 and up
Enough blocks and points for a street of houses, a tower and the bridge between them.
£72
Workshop Plinth
160 pieces · ages 6 and up
Every shape we make, plus pegs and axles, for machines that roll, tip and turn.
£124
From the workshop
- 01
Cut from one board
Each set starts as beech boards from managed woods, cut on a single grid so every piece agrees with every other.
- 02
Sanded by hand
Edges are eased until they feel like pebbles. We check each piece with a thumb, not a machine.
- 03
Painted in three
Red, yellow and blue, in water-based paint safe for teeth. The rest stays bare wood.