Hello and welcome! I'm Dee Featherstone, the founder of the multi award-winning The Little Sensory Box. My own sensory-play journey began back in 2018 when my son, Alfie, was born.
While attending Baby Sensory classes, I could see just how much Alfie loved the activities, and I absolutely loved the one-on-one time it gave us to bond while nurturing his developing brain. I felt inspired to recreate sensory-play experiences for us at home, but really struggled to find affordable resources and easy-to-follow guidance on which sensory toys and activities would best support Alfie's development.
As a first-time mum, all I wanted was the confidence to enjoy playing with Alfie, but all I found was a whole lot of overwhelm! I felt really frustrated, so I decided to learn everything I could about developmental toys for babies and create for other parents what I was desperately seeking for me and Alfie: sensory-play expertise, simply delivered.
We’re here to help you overcome the overwhelm with a carefully curated, easy-to-navigate collection of sensory toys and activities to ignite little senses and inspire play. The truth is, playing with your baby shouldn’t feel complicated. They don’t need a mountain of toys. And you don’t need a bottomless bank account or a qualification in early-years teaching! All you really need is a few age-appropriate, open-ended resources and some guidance to get you started. Your baby will take it from there!
Our award-winning Baby’s First Year subscription boxes are designed to give you all the sensory toys and resources you need for your baby’s first twelve months. I’ve done all the research and shopping around, so you don’t have to! (There’s already enough to think about when you have a new baby, right?).
The boxes are created as a quarterly series of four: you can join when your baby is newborn to receive all four boxes and a full year of play possibilities, or sign up to receive our sensory boxes from when your baby is aged 3-6 or 6-9 months.
Delivered straight to your door exactly when you need it, each box is tailored to your baby’s next milestones and accompanied by our downloadable Ways to Play guide, which is full of inspiration and ideas for exploring and enjoying the box contents together.
If you’re looking to add individual pieces to your toy collection, or you’re shopping for an older baby or toddler, our shop features a selection of sensory toys for children from birth to three years. From wooden toys and play mats to Pikler-inspired triangles, rockers and ramps, you’ll find something to engage your little one while encouraging their early-years development and inspiring imagination at every age and stage.
Shop by age to browse a selection of developmentally appropriate pieces, or navigate by product type if you know what you’re looking for. However you choose to shop, you have the complete peace of mind of knowing we only select sensory toys from the very best early-years toy brands, including Petit Boum, Rosa & Bo, Jumini Wooden Toys, Studio Circus, TickIt, Capikooa and many more. We’ve also road tested every item we stock for quality and play potential, which means they’re all baby-and-mum approved!
What's in the box? What could it be?
We love surprises here at The Little Sensory Box and our Surprise Toy Boxes are just that - a complete surprise.
Your child's surprise toy box will be catered for their age and will contain a range of either wooden toys, sensory toys, development toys, books or educational resources.
The Surprise toy box is an ideal gift for Christmas, Easter or for birthday's for your baby or toddlers.
It’s no secret that I love wooden toys. There’s a whole section devoted to them in my sensory-play shop, and you’ll often hear me singing their praises over on Instagram (come and say hi!).
But why do I love them so much? And why are they such perfect gifts to choose for babies and young children? Read this blog post to discover all the brilliant benefits of wooden toys.
I brought Artic Spy Bottle for the nursery that I run and the children loved it.
The children have really enjoyed playing with it. We have made our own but
it was nice to have something that looks nice and the children love.
children's age 18 months - 6+ years
I got the surprise £60 box for a combined birthday/Christmas gift for my 1year old. (Birthday Christmas Day) I love everything in it, the amount of toys in there was great, excellent quality and my little girl loves them! I’d definitely recommend, and very worth the money!
Looks lovely and is really good quality! We put it in my daughters Christmas stocking and she loves it! Delivery was really quick and price is very reasonable!
We loved our first box and just received our second! Our little girl loves all the toys! They are great to get her to calm down and interested to stop her from crying all the time! Especially when we are having our dinner so she can stay with us at the table! Lovely boxes!
Such a great little set - my toddler absolutely loves it. It contains everything she needs to play ‘chef’ but also compact and stylish to sit in our lounge. Highly recommend
We brought the £30 surprise box and honestly I was surprised by all that was inside my son is 11months old and the toys I can see will be used for a long time. I will be recommending to friends with younger babies and I looking forward to ordering more from you.
Amazing really good value our Grandson loved every toy and plays with them every day. I think we had about 8 items.
I got the 12 month subscription for my niece and the items in each box at the different stages of her development were beautiful and perfect for what she needed at the time. Not to mention that the toys from the little sensory box are often her favourite toys. The company is wonderfully run by Dee who is incredibly friendly and nice to communicate with. I will be using the little sensory box again and recommending it to anyone who will listen!
We have received all four of our boxes now and have loved every single one of them. I love the ease of not having to worry about what to buy, you just get a lovely selection of toys every few months. The boxes are great value for money and I have really appreciated the guides that come with each box, explaining how to use each item. This has been invaluable. I would definitely be interested if these boxes went above 1 year.
My little one loves putting the little creatures in and out of the boat. The fact it’s not stable is a really good challenge for her motor skills too.
Boxes purchased as a gift so not seen by me but have been very well received.
I haven't given this to my grandson yet but it looked so delightful I would like to play with it. I love the padded lion face on the front with the lolly. There are 16 activities. I can't wait to givve it to him at Christmas. He is 9 weeks old. I couldn't get toys like this for his mummy when she was his age
Absolutely love the product, a perfect gift this Christmas. Superb service too, seamless ordering process and fast delivery. Thank you Little Sensory Box!
These are really good quality and they fascinate my boy so I am happy with this purchase also delivery was fast and packaged well.
My daughter has an obsession with pulling tissues out of the box, and I stumbled upon this gem by accident. She is 10.5 months and loves it. I had a full 20 minutes of peace the other day while she happily pulled the organza tissues out of the box then rubbed all over her head! Just need to pop them back in every so often and back she goes. Can’t recommend the box and the little sensory box enough.
