Natural materials, made to be mended

Room to make, mend and grow

Toys, clothes and rooms for children aged 0 to 6, plus hands-on workshops and garden play spaces where they get to build the real thing.

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Toddler playing at a small wooden play kitchen in a sunlit room

Fewer things. Better days.

We started with one low shelf and a stubborn idea: children don't need more, they need things worth coming back to.

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Toddler playing with a wooden house and blocks in a calm room

Knitted children's clothes on wooden hangers

Two children planting in a garden bed with small tools

More than a shop

Four ways we spend time with families: in the workshop, in the bedroom, in the post, and out in the garden.

Young child painting with a brush at a craft table

Workshops for little makers

Saturday mornings of sawdust, glue and paint. Toddlers and young children build, mend and make something real with their own two hands, and take it home.

Calm neutral child's room with a low shelf and baskets

Bedrooms made to measure

We design the whole room around your child: a low bed they can climb into, shelves they can reach, and space left over for the floor games that actually happen.

Toddler playing on the floor with a small wooden car

The year-round play subscription

Four deliveries a year of stage-matched toys and equipment. Everything they've outgrown comes back to us to be cleaned, repaired and passed on.

Wooden log climbing frame in a woodland playground

Garden play, built outdoors

Timber climbing frames, mud kitchens and growing beds, made from local wood and set into your own garden, designed to weather beautifully.

Child's hands painting a cardboard model

Small hands holding smooth wooden rattles and rings

A slower kind of childhood

Fable & Fern began at a kitchen table, sanding a stool for a two-year-old who wanted to help with the washing-up. That's still the whole idea: give a child real work, real materials and enough time, and they'll show you what they can do.

Everything we sell or build is made to be handed down. If something breaks, send it back. We'd rather mend it than make another.

Wood we can trace

Responsibly grown timber and organic cotton. Materials that came from somewhere real and go back gently.

Made for small hands

Simple, sturdy and the right size for a child doing a real job on their own.

Repaired, not replaced

Plastic-free packing, water-based finishes, and a promise to mend or rehome anything we've made.

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Add anything you like to your basket and send it over as an enquiry, and we'll come back to you personally with availability, timings and a quote.

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