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play Together, play好 with Storgē

To you, doing your best, in big ways and small. To the ones figuring it out day by day, loving a child through it all. This one is for you.
There's a kind of love you felt before they were even here. Before names, before first cries, before you knew who they would become. The ancient Greeks called it storgē (στοργή) — the quiet, instinctive love we have for the children in our lives. Steady, certain, and always there for them.
This May and June, we're running one unified campaign — storgē — to celebrate the love that was there before the first cry, and stays long after. As part of that, we've curated a small, considered collection: play Together. Carefully chosen for the mornings you sit down beside them, the pieces that move between siblings, and the toys that earn a permanent place in your home long after the playing is done; so that they may play 好.
Here's what we chose, and how you can play with it together.
abel Mini Golden Ratio Wooden Curves
Slow down and look at the world together.

Nature hides its most beautiful patterns in plain sight: in the curl of a shell, the spiral of a fern, the arc of a wave. Abel Mini's curves follow that same ancient geometry. Stack them, balance them, arrange them side by side. Then ask your little one, "Where have you seen this shape before?" The answer will most likely surprise you both.
MAGNATILES Micromag 70-Piece Set (with ARTLINE Chalk Markers)
Build something. Then write on it.

Build something together, then write on it.
The Micromag tiles are magnetic, translucent, and endlessly combinable. But what makes this set something else entirely is the whiteboard surface that lets parent and child draw directly onto their creation. With our ARTLINE chalk markers, the possibilities are endless. Label the rooms of a house you built together, leave a secret message inside the walls, write "I love you" on a tile and leave it on the fridge door for them to find. These are wet-wipe erasable so you can leave a new message for tomorrow.
Construction, creativity, and connection in one session on the floor.
Cloud B Lovelight Buddies
Your voice, for the nights you can't be there.
A parent's voice is the first sound of storgē a child ever knows. Before words make sense, before the world makes sense, there is that voice. Lovelight Buddies, Finley Fawn and Billy Bunny lets you record a message, a lullaby, a whispered goodnight, and give it to your child to hold in the dark. For the nights when you cannot be there, your voice can be.
Cuboro Standard Sets
The game where both of you are genuinely needed.
Precision-carved Swiss beechwood cubes, channels on the surface, tunnels hidden inside, and a marble that follows whichever path you build for it if you've built it well together. One of the rare toys where a young child and a parent sit at the same table and both are genuinely challenged. A child places blocks and watches in delight. A parent thinks three moves ahead. Each contributes what they can. Each is stretched by what the other brings.
GRAPAT Together Set
A set that makes room for everyone.
Look closely and you'll notice something quietly remarkable — no two figures are the same. Different shapes, different colours, different sizes. Every one of them distinct, every one of them belonging. When a child plays with these figures, questions arise naturally: about what makes each one special, about difference as something to celebrate. These are not conversations you plan. They happen in the quiet moments of play — and this set creates exactly that space.
Ostheimer Family Animals
For the stories they'll carry long after the animals are put away.
Before children can say the word "family", they understand it through play. Each hand carved Ostheimer figure has its own quiet, distinct character inviting little ones to arrange their own version of the world. A mama and her young. A father standing watch. A whole family gathered. Parent and child play side by side, each telling a story the other will hold onto long after the animals are put away.
GRIMM'S Inmotion Mini Magnetic Puzzle Set
The one where you try to look ridiculous together.
Two magnetic figures. Thirty-two colourful wooden pieces. One player strikes a pose — arms up, leg kicked out, mid-tumble — and the other tries to mirror it exactly. Then swap. The Inmotion set turns looking at each other into the game itself. A parent trying to recreate a child's sprawling, impossible pose is storgē in its most joyful, undignified, irreplaceable form.
SENTOSPHERE Art & Creation Sets
Something that has both of you in it.
There is a difference between following instructions and making something. The steps are the same. But somewhere between the first fold and the last piece placed, decisions happen. This colour, not that one. A little more here. Hold it just a second longer.
The Arts & Creations sets are built for both at once. The technique is learnable, and the choices are genuinely yours. A child discovers what their hands can do. A parent remembers that they can still be surprised. Somewhere between the instructions and the instinct, something appears that neither of you would have made alone.
Keep it. It has both of you in it.
Every piece in this collection was chosen with one thing in mind — that the best thing you can give a child isn't a toy. It's yourself, showing up, day after day. These are just the things that make it a little more joyful to do that. play 好.
Cuboro: Tricky Ways
When Cuboro launched Tricky Ways in October 2013, we fell in love with it immediately.
We have worked closely with Cuboro since the earliest days of playhao, and from the start, known that their toys are real winners. We just needed to bring it to more people. So we have worked ceaselessly to bring down the pricing for this amazing range of toys to make it more accessible. There is an incredible amount of logistics, financing and planning that goes on behind the scenes! Cuboro on its end has played its part by developing new toys which are harder and harder to resist. First the Mystery Cube (which is deserving of whole blog posts on its own), and now Tricky Ways!
Tricky Ways is a marble track system board game. Each player takes turns to try to lead their marble to an empty finish field, passing as many cuboro cubes as possible in the process. If you think that sounds simple, try considering that there are surface and tunnel tracks to take into account, as well as 12 finish fields and only three changing actions allowed per turn. The tricky thing is, the little kids find it really easy to grasp the game, whilst the adults fumble. You can imagine the squeals of laughter and how thrilled the kids get.
As it turns out, Tricky Ways shares many of the same traits as the other members of the Cuboro family. It gets little kids to PLAN. Yes, actually plan their next move and consider the consequences. The tactile feel of the cubes make planning concrete for the kids. Then the marble is the proof. Did your plan lead to the desired result? i.e. Does the marble roll to the finish field you intended for it to reach? If not, what do you have to do to debug the process?
The children don’t even realize it, but they are actually learning the basics of computer programming as they play. Each cube constituting code, the marble rolling over the proposed route being running code, and adjustments made constituting debugging.
Enuf' said, let’s get down to playing!

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