First, touch with hands. Most wooden toys are handmade, so the more smooth the toy surface shows the more exquisite workmanship. Parents should choose toys with smooth surface, avoid thorn and sharp corners.

Second, smell with nose. Generally, wooden toys more or less have smell of the wood itself. If the smell is too strong, the toy might have been packaged too strict or has surface paint problems. Under normal circumstances, paint of wooden toys should be non-toxic and harmless toy special paint. But there are some using toxic paint containing a large number of excessive lead, benzene, which might lead to lead poisoning in children.

Third, wipe with cloth to check whether it fades. Generally, wooden toys is the result of complicated process of polishing, grinding, chamfering, painting, drying and other processes before appear on the market.

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