Today, more and more parents are gravitating towards wooden train sets for their children. Wooden train sets are really a ton of fun and highly educational. Wooden train sets allow children to exercise their creativity and imagination! Moreover wooden toys are generally seen as safer compared to its plastic counterparts. But we’ll get into the safety topic some other time.
Wooden Train Track - Thomas & Friends Water Tower
The wooden tracks are the key components to why these wooden train sets are so fascinating. Even with the very basic sets, you can do wonders with the layouts. I found that out first hand with my 2-year-old daughter when we brought our first set home.
My daughter’s first train set contains very simple track styles. They include several pieces of the following:
- 6” wooden straight track
- 6” wooden curve track
- 4” wooden straight track
The first thing I did was to put together the track exactly like what I read in the instruction sheet and what I saw on the box; thinking that’s how kids can get the most out of the train set. But very soon, I discovered the “default” way of laying out the train track was the last thing on my 2-year-old’s mind.
The next time when we take the train set out to play, I let my 2-year-old do some of the assembly. I was giving her guidance on the side so that the layout would look like what’s shown on the box again. When I had to leave her for a few minutes to do some work in the kitchen, she managed to put all the tracks together in her own way.
Instead of looking like what it’s shown on the box, the tracks are laid out mostly in a straight line, where the two ends do not even meet. Not only did that not deter my daughter from playing with it, she was having a lot more fun. She felt a sense of accomplishment for being able to connect all the track pieces and run her train on top of it!
The moral of the story is, let your kids explore! The wooden train track really allowed my kid to use her imagination to have more fun. I was even taught a lesson, that is our kids might know a few more things than we do 
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