Children’s activity gifts that spark wonder at any age.
A puzzle brought out above the clouds, colouring pencils for the drive south, a game that comes home and still delights: our bespoke children’s activity gifts travel with every journey. Given by a brand or handed over by a hotel, each is designed for the child who receives it and for the parents.
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Activity sets, colouring pencils, puzzles, playing cards, travel backgammon, beach bats, pencil cases and children’s bags: we create the objects that keep the very young busy, from the back seat of the car to the aircraft cabin. For a brand, they become children’s welcome gifts opened at home or in store, alongside the one meant for the parents. For a hotel, they make up a welcome kit handed over on arrival and taken home at the end of the stay. Each set is designed to measure, from the box to the smallest pencil.
Each of our creations embodies care for detail and complete mastery of our craft. It is this constant rigour that turns a simple creation into an exceptional promise, kept.
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Capacity tailored to each project, whatever the format, the object or the variety of pieces.
Ideas of our own
Creativity serving every project, to imagine beyond the brief.
The same standards
The same care, the same rigour, whatever the project.
Assemble
An animal to piece back together keeps small hands busy through a whole flight, on the tray table, then travels home at the bottom of a rucksack. We gladly redraw the creature, the cut or the pattern so that it tells the story of your place, your brand or one of its icons. Slipped into children’s welcome gifts or sent to your clients’ children, it becomes the first toy they associate with your name.
Draw
In a waiting room, in the back of a car or at a restaurant table, a few colours are enough to turn idle time into play. Around these pencils we compose a complete activity set: a colouring book illustrated for you, a pouch of felt tips, cards to draw on, a box that later finds a home in a drawer. The drawing that comes out of it often ends up pinned to a bedroom wall, back home.
Share
A deck of cards can be played wherever a few people sit down together: the table of a train carriage, a chalet terrace, the living-room rug on a rainy Sunday. We design the backs, the court cards and the case as a small edition in your name, and can pair them with a memory game or storytelling cards. Tucked into a welcome kit or a matching children’s bag, it sets off on holiday and comes home again.
Challenge
Backgammon calls for one-to-one games, a parent facing a child: on a picnic rug, on a hotel bed, in the sitting room once everyone is home. Leathers, stitching, the colours of the points and the case are decided with you, and the same spirit can extend to draughts, chess or travel dominoes. Offered in a welcome kit or as a gift from a brand, it becomes part of family life for years.
Play
They leave the car boot the moment the lake comes into view, then carry on playing in the garden at the end of summer. From this pair we imagine a whole kit for outdoor play: a matching ball, a carrying sleeve, a kite, garden skittles, all attuned to your identity. Left by a pool or sent as a summer gift, they stretch the holidays well beyond the journey home.
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Objects designed to carry and reflect your brand at its best.
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Fine leather craftsmanship shaped for your brand.
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A child is never wrong about an object: they pick it up, turn it over, adopt it or abandon it within seconds. Designing for them demands the same rigour as for the most discerning adult. We start from the moments when it will be in their hands: a flight, a long train journey, the wait before an appointment, an evening in a hotel, then the return home, where the object still has to please. For a brand, these pieces open a relationship with its clients and their children; for a hotel, they extend the welcome amenities offered on every arrival. Games made for the road sit naturally alongside our travel accessories, and every project follows our bespoke approach, from sketch to prototype.
The rigour behind children’s activity gifts
A bespoke children’s activity gift must be as well considered as it is beautiful. Materials, finishes, colours and the size of each piece are chosen with the small hands that will hold them in mind, and the places they will take them: an aircraft tray table, a car seat, a bedroom floor. Every object is tested on a prototype with the artisans involved, then approved by you before any run. The requirements of an object made for children are established for that object, never assumed. Play should remain a pleasure, for the child and for the parents.
Craftsmanship and rigour
A set for children often brings together several disciplines: wood for games to assemble and beach bats, board and paper for cards and boxes, textiles for pencil cases and bags, leather for a travel game. We orchestrate them so that every piece belongs to the same story, true to your identity. Illustrations are drawn for you and colours matched from one piece to the next. Formats follow the child’s journey: compact enough for a cabin bag, sturdy enough for the car, beautiful enough to stay at home. For a brand, welcome gifts for children extend the world it offers its clients.
A sustainable vision of children’s gifts
A well-made toy is passed on. We favour wood, cotton, board and other fine, durable materials, chosen with care, over short-lived objects left behind on a train seat or at the back of a room. Quantities follow the real number of your recipients, and production is managed to limit our impact, without compromising on quality. Even the presentation is made to be kept: a box that becomes a home for pencils, a pouch that goes back in the suitcase and is still used at home.
Every project deserves undivided attention. Let’s talk it through, and orchestrate the unforgettable together.
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