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Hape Toys: Our Top 12 Picks

Hape Toys: Our Top 12 Picks

Posted by Aileen Cuaresma on Sep 16, 2024

Hape Toys are famous around the world for being high quality and sustainable. Hape was established in the 1980's in Germany by their current CEO Peter Handstein. The company produces essential, developmental and green wooden toys for birth to six years old.

The hallmark of Hape toys is their safe design, craftsmanship, and quality natural materials. They apply a German approach to managing their business and innovative techniques in manufacturing to provide consumers with toys of excellent quality.

Hape manufactures with social and ecological responsibility in mind. They are one of the few toy companies today that showcase an exceptional understanding and passion to our planet and children's well-being, from design to sourcing natural materials and packaging.

Learning is always at the heart of Hape toys. Their toys are created to inspire play, learning, and exploration of the world we live in by helping children in the development of the following skills:

  • Imagination and creativity
  • Social skills
  • Self-discovery
  • Problem-solving
  • Physical skills
  • Fine motor skills

The company offers a wide range of wonderful toys for children. Our Top 12 Hape toy picks are: 


1. Hape All-In-One Delicious Memories Wooden Play Kitchen

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Kids will love playing with this multi-functional Hape All-In-One Kitchen Playset with adorable appliances. It has fun features including a controllable range hood lamp and authentic microwave “ding”. It has a fresh design with vibrant blue and red accents. Ask your child to prepare you a sumptuous three-course meal or let them invite their friends over for some role-play fun! The set also comes complete with a pretend coffee maker, sink, oven, storage cupboards, a microwave, dishwasher, cooking utensils, smoke detector, light, recycling area, and so much more.

2. Hape All Season Wooden Dollhouse

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The Hape All Season Dollhouse comes with all the essentials your child needs for their dream house. It's expertly and beautifully crafted with bright colours and even comes with a solar-paneled roof that can be flipped or removed for winter or summer-themed playtime. This lovely dollhouse will help stimulate your child's growing imagination and creativity. It also encourages interactive role-playing and creative play that will help stretch children's mind and teach them to dream.

3. Chunky Clock Puzzle

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The Hape Chunky Clock Puzzle encourages fun learning through its numerous unique features. The little fingers of your child will not have a hard time putting the chunky number pieces that come in different shapes and colours. Kids will enjoy fitting the right shape to the to its corresponding place to complete the cute insects. The toy also features a movable clock face so for children to learn how a clock works. It's a fun way of learning how to tell time, recognizing shapes and colours, and develop problem-solving skills.

4. Hape Country Critters Play Cube Activity Centre

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Hape Country Critters Play Cube Activity Centre is a five-sided activity centre that includes mazes, shapes, levers, and lots of flying, swimming, and croaking creatures. This activity hub is a shape sorting puzzle, a ball roller coaster, rotating maze, and a tracking panel rolled into one, and all topped with a brightly-colored, unique floating wire maze. All of the cute little shapes and animals are adorably painted with large, animated eyes that kids will surely love. Your toddlers will be busy for hours exploring the different activities that encourage imagination and storytelling.

5. Hape Double Flavoured Birthday Cake

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Bring out the Hape Double Flavoured Birthday Cake cause it's time for a birthday party! Blow out the candles and have delicious strawberry and chocolate cake. This beautiful cake toy is a favourite among boys and girls. Your kids will enjoy playing pretend birthday parties with it. They can cut, slice, decorate, and share it with their friends and dolls. It even comes with a birthday card for the celebrant while guests are served in style. This yummy cake is perfect for math play. Count the slices of cake, the number of fruit toppings and candles.

6. Hape Doll Family Mansion

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Most children dream of a dollhouse of their own, and this wonderful Hape Doll Family Mansion that comes complete with moveable lamps and doorbell is as realistic as it gets. It's an all-inclusive doll mansion that makes an excellent home for your child's doll family. They can make their doll family feel at home by rearranging their furniture and acting out their daily routines. This mansion offers two bedrooms, two outdoor decks, a real ringing doorbell, a master bath, staircases, a family/living room, kitchen, dining room, garage, an outdoor pool and patio, and not a to mention a place for the furriest member of the family to sleep soundly! It's a home sweet home indeed!

7. Hape Flexistix Eiffel Tower

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Build one of the world’s most famous landmarks with this fun Hape Flexistix Eiffel Tower kit. This vibrantly coloured construction set offers so many creative possibilities. Your kids can also use the bamboo sticks and flexible connectors to create your own fantastic structures! The toy set develops imagination, construction skills, and inspires young architects to create their own masterpieces.

8. Hape Grand Kids Piano

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The masters never had the advantage of the Hape Grand Kids Piano. Your budding concert pianists and musicians will easily scale the 30 keys of this eco-friendly wood grand piano, made for small hands and big sounds. This finely crafted children’s piano is made from high-quality materials which include maple, Baltic birch plywood, and rubberwood. The graphics are screen-printed and finished in child-safe black paint. It also includes a stool for extended performances.

9. Hape Mighty Mini Band

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The beat goes on and on with this 5-in-1 Hape Mighty Mini Band percussion section. When your little one's concert is over, you can store everything together until it's time for their next gig. Young musicians have everything they need to get the rhythm, play some percussion and make a melody. This all-in-one melody-making music machine features a xylophone, a drum, a cymbal, a guiro, a clapper, and drumsticks. All art is screen printed on for durability and easy cleaning. Not only does it promotes dexterity, hand and eye coordination, and manipulation, but it also introduces logic, matching, spatial relationships, critical thinking, and an understanding of cause and effect.

10. Hape Wooden Toy Cash Register

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Cash or credit? This sturdy Hape Wooden Toy Cash Register lets kids scan a card or pay with money. It is beautifully crafted from maple wood using nontoxic, and water-based paint. This multi-function toy cash register includes an opening drawer, pretend scanner, EFTPOS machine as well as play money and a credit card. It also features a mini abacus and space for holding little squares of paper which can be used as receipts drawer. Your kids will have endless fun scanning items, pushing buttons, costing each product, announcing the purchases, giving change, and charging credit cards just like at a local shop! It's a lovely toy that encourages real-world imitative play and helps kids to develop monetary skills.

11. Hape Solar Powered Circuit

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Let your kid step into the future with the Hape Solar Powered Circuit rail set. The engine has its own solar panel that generates enough electricity to power its lights. Push it through the spirals to the station where the serviceman is waiting. Your kids will have everything they need to construct a mighty railway station powered by a rooftop solar panel including a train, tracks, station, and accessories. The train station is brightly coloured, and comes with a clock, different wooden tracks, and height stilts to create slopes. Wonderfully detailed and exceptionally made, this set will quickly become your little one's favourite. A fun way to introduce to your child about power and alternative energy sources.

12. Hape Rocket Ship Toy

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Blast off to another world with this four-stage Hape Rocket Ship Toy complete with planetary lander! Your child can conduct his very own imaginary deep-space voyage and have an adventure of a lifetime. They can play with their friends to come with a spacefaring story. This awesome rocket ship comes in three levels for your space crew to exercise, sleep, and control their spacecraft. The top section can be detached and land your little astronaut safely on the newly discovered planets. Listen as they explain to you what their astronauts and aliens can do in all the different levels of the rocket ship! The perfect toy to develop storytelling and role play, and to inspire your child to imagine and grow.