We are Szilvi and Juli, the parents of Bubu Toys. Our wooden toy shop in Barcelona that was born in August 2022. We are also the parents of Laia, who was born one year and two months after our beloved project.

Szilvi is an early childhood educator and Juli is a sociologist and social integrator, so it seems obvious why we are opening this shop. As an educator, Szilvi has experience with Montessori, Waldorf and Pikler materials, so we were looking for a place where children could find the things they love. Juli, who has also worked with children as a social integrator, loves to play, make jokes and laugh with people.

Szilvi was born in Hungary and knew a very cool toy designer there, these were our first treasures, the 3D wooden puzzles. They are toys with a unique design and bright colours, they filled our first shelves. We like to sell toys that we could give to our daughter, we always think about the wellbeing of the children and how our products could influence them before we choose them.

We must confess that some of the toys in our shop we have only for nostalgia or for our own amusement, we look for those pieces that made us vibrate when we were kids and we bring them back so that the little ones fall in love with them just as we did in our time. An example of this are the spinning tops we have, something that Juli loves and of which he has his own, he says they are to show customers how they work, but the truth comes out when he gets to play alone in the shop.

Juli manages the shop, Szilvi helps with his ideas and proposals and Laia is our inspiration. We are a team of three people who imagine, create, transform and give life to this beautiful project that is currently putting all its efforts into strengthening its presence on the Internet so that our philosophy reaches all the people who love children and their free way of playing and learning.

We were born from the idea of providing quality and beautiful toys that help children in their developmental stages and that serve to colour their imagination.

It was a very nice experience to find this shop, to transform it into what it is now, to choose colours, to look for wooden pallets to build the shelves, to reuse all kinds of materials, even the fact of choosing the suppliers; everything has been and continues to be a great adventure. At the end of so much effort we have a shop that makes us feel proud and happy, that surprises people who pass by and encourages them to come in and get to know us and marvel at the result of so much effort. Many times people come in just to see the shop because it is so beautiful and they compliment us on it, something we are very grateful for. Who doesn’t like a bit of praise!

In our physical shop we try to make sure that our customers take the product they really need, we like to explain the characteristics of the toys we have and that’s why we are very grateful when they come back and tell us how their experience with the toy has been, it is something that makes us richer as toy makers. We started in the world of toys because we are still a bit of children inside and we love to look for and try out new products and also to listen to the recommendations of our visitors, who give us great ideas.

Our shop is aimed at the public that appreciates quality and empathizes with the care of the environment, we are a small wooden toy shop in Barcelona and we offer hundreds of items based on sustainability, learning through fun and playful tools made of materials that respect life.