Abstract:

One of thousands of usage areas of solid wood material is toy industry. The use of renewable, natural and harmless materials in production, in terms of human health, has gained an increasing value. There is a cutthroat competition among countries in production of wooden toys, which constitute an important market in the world. It was reported that the number of toys import in Turkey exceeded $ 3 billion in last 5 years.  Majority of toys are made of plastic materials with development of industrialization today. However, the use of plastic material in toy production has discussed in terms of health. Considering these factors, parents try to choose as much natural material as possible when choosing toys for their children. In this context, important issues related to use of wooden materials that are often used in toy industry from past to present were mentioned. Literature related to the subject was investigated. Within this scope, it was given information about definition and importance of toy, reasons of preference of wood for toy making, main tree species used in toy production. After that, information about quality symbols and issues to be considered in production of wooden toys were given. Finally, issues to be considered in purchasing for users were mentioned and suggestions were made by evaluating the study in result section.

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