What a Wooden Bear Teaches Hands That a Screen Never Will

sensory learning for toddlers — two-year-old sitting in carved wooden bear lap drinking from pink sippy cup

There is a carved bear in a mountain town we pass through, taller than I am, sitting forward on its haunches with its front paws curled like armrests. It’s carved from a single trunk, stained a deep amber-brown, flanked by a pair of carved birch trees so the whole thing reads as a forest scene, … Read more