One of the reasons imagination is so important is that it helps children to understand and interact with the world around them. Imaginative play allows children to express themselves verbally and physically, act, react and interact, and try out different roles and scenarios within safe boundaries of their own making.

From beautiful, sustainable wooden toys to tried and trusted Happyland sets, great for mixing and matching and making your own little scenes, check out the range of imaginative play toys below. All available to order online for next day delivery from Dublin based, Irish owned retailer Kaliedy.com.

Get ready for some hammer time! Your little one will have hours of fun, while developing their fine motor skills as they hammer the colourful pegs through the holes in the woodlets hammer bench. Best of all, they can simply turn it over and repeat the action again and again.

With five fun activities to discover the wooden activity cube offers hours of endless fun and learning. There is also plenty of room for others to join in the fun, encouraging social and communication skills development.

Children will learn about shapes, movement, colours, sounds and how to tell the time as they play. While all the time they are strengthening little fingers and improving hand-to-eye coordination. When it’s time to put the activity cube away, the bead maze can be lifted up and stored inside the cube itself, neatly saving you storage space too.

The woodlets rainbow stacking rings offer endless playtime fun that are perfect for developing hand-eye coordination, colour and shape recognition and motor skills.

Your little one will love staking the rings and knocking them down before starting all over again!

Do you have a budding musician in the house? The cheeky monkey shaped wooden music set has five fun instruments for little ones to hone their talent! The handy carry handle means it is great for musical fun on-the-go!

With a built in storage drawer, the wooden train table comes with over 100 pieces for your little one to enjoy rail adventures with their friends. They can journey over or through mountains and bridges, use the turn-table to change direction, stop at the station and ring the clock tower bell. The brightly painted table can be used for other adventures too, just let their imagination take over.

It’s time for a lovely afternoon treat with this Wooden Afternoon Tea Set from Early Learning Centre. The perfect accessory for all budding hosts and bakers! Teddy bear picnics will never be the same again – cakes, tarts and cute little sandwiches, lots of choice to be had. A great toy for inspiring free play for kids.

With 3 wooden cars and a colourful stacked track, children will have hours of fun setting off the cars to click-clack down the track one after the other. This is the perfect toy for developing hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills as well as offering fast moving fun!

The ELC Wooden Spaceport is the ideal gift for budding astronauts! The set includes a scientist, astronaut, furniture, a moon buggy and a space rocket with motion activated sounds. It will get them counting down 5, 4, 3, 2, 1..before blasting off to explore new planets in our solar system.

Part of the Happyland range, little ones will love rushing to the rescue in their fire engine with sirens blaring! Brave firefighters can be placed in the extending bucket ready to rescue anything from cats to people! Once everyone is safe, they can drive back to the fire station for a cup of tea. Nee Naw Nee Naw.

The Happyland Stables set offers hours of imaginative play with a stable, horse trailer and vehicle to pull it along, horses and riders, pony, jumps and even a winners cup for when you have races with your friends. Characters from other Happyland sets can be used too and you can create you own mini village for hours of fun play and adventures.

A story we all know and love, Little Red Riding Hood wants to go on a walk through the forest to bring her sick granny some treats. This Happyland set includes birdsong sounds and of course Granny’s door bell rings too. But is that Granny in the bed? It really doesn’t look like her! This set inspires your child to use their own voice to sing along with the birds and to talk in the characters voices. It is the perfect set for friends to play together and encourage each other’s imagination too.

All these beautiful toys to inspire imaginative play can be found on Kaliedy.com along with other toys and games covering everything from space to medicine and cooking to driving.