Like every dadu, this one is completely unique. We won't ever make another one exactly like this one. Even if we tried to, we wouldn’t be able to, because we don’t use templates. We hand draw all of our designs directly onto the wood. Every Dadu is as much a completely unique work of hand-crafted art as it is a developmental toy.
Dadu puzzles are open-ended, developmental wooden toys that can be used in very versatile ways. The first, most obvious way is for the child to put the picture together by juxtaposing the shuffled elements, but this is a challenge only for smaller kids. Or for older ones with the more complicated, multi-item puzzles, just for the first few times.
It is much more exciting when kids use their own imagination and creativity to utilize toys for something completely different than what their designer had in mind. Children are unsurpassed in their ability to create characterful little figures, beautiful flowers, silly vehicles, castles, landscapes, with the dadu elements. They ‘cook’ them, use them for role-playing games, for board games according to their own made-up rules, and build anything and everything their imagination dreams up.
Dadu will help small children develop fine motor skills and spatial vision, all in a playful way. Older children will find it challenging to create the most exciting, bizarre structures possible as they practice the art of balancing objects.
