Children's spade

Enthusiastically digging around the sandpit, devotedly digging the trench around the sandcastle on the beach or turning over the earth in the garden - give your child a spade and they will swing it happily. After all, children are born diggers, burrowers and diggers, and their eagerness to playfully search for treasure and fossils could even impress qualified archaeologists. Excavation work is definitely more fun for the little ones when the spade reliably follows its instructions.

This lightweight children's spade comes from the Westphalian forge Turk, which you know from our iron pans. However, unlike the pans, the spades are not drop-forged, but punched and stamped from the steel (slit strip). Turk thus relies on a simpler production process, but takes the care for which we value the manufacturer and enables us to offer you a sturdy, functional children's tool at a reasonable price. In order to keep the beech wood handle and the powder-coated steel blade firmly together, the handle is not simply clamped in the spout, but also firmly screwed together. The beech wood is sanded to a velvety smooth finish so that your child not only experiences the solidity of the natural material but also the characteristic, pleasant haptic experience.

Entire treatises have been written about the sandpit and its educational value for children's development. A sandpit is hard to beat: on the one hand as a freely designable space in which fine motor skills, perception and creativity are sustainably promoted. On the other hand, as one of the first training grounds for social interaction among their peers, when the children share a sieve and shovel, bake their first sand cake together or pile up a winding marble run. And let's be honest: building in the sand, digging in the sand or making mud with water - sorry: sculpting - is simply fun right into adulthood, as the sandcastles and sand sculptures on many beaches impressively testify.

Use under direct adult supervision.