Wooden Japanese Maple Tree – Small Waldorf Toy – Handmade

The Wooden Japanese Maple Tree Figurine is a small, precisely carved wooden tree made from a single piece of solid ash wood. The form is clean and characteristic — immediately recognisable as its species while retaining the warmth and simplicity of a Waldorf object. Painted by hand in layers, finished with olive oil.

Made from solid ash wood, finished with olive oil. No plastic components. Water-based, non-toxic paint. Sanded to a smooth surface with no sharp edges. EN71 certified. Small variations in colour and grain are a natural characteristic of handmade production.

Small wooden tree figurines are the essential landscape pieces of Waldorf and Montessori play — they mark territory, provide shelter for animals and anchor the scene. A forest of three or four different species tells its own story before a single figure is placed.

Part of our Trees & Flowers collection. Works alongside our Waldorf animal figurines, realistic animals and playscapes.

Height: 18.5 cm ; Width: 18 cm ; Depth 1.8 cm (7.28 x 7.09 x 0.71 inches)

Solid ash wood. Hand-painted with water-based, non-toxic paints in multiple layers. Finished with olive oil. No plastic components. EN71 certified. Small variations in colour and grain are a natural characteristic of handmade production — not defects. Each piece is unique.

Trees are the architecture of imaginative play. A wooden tree transforms a collection of figurines into a living world — giving animals somewhere to perch, shelter and gather. In Waldorf education, nature elements are considered essential to meaningful play: they ground stories in the real world and teach children to think about habitat, relationship and ecosystem. A child who arranges a woodland scene learns something about where animals live and why — not from instruction, but from the logic of play itself.