Le Toy Van TV416: Wooden Haycroft Farm

Released in 2007 but since retired, this Le Toy Van Haycroft Farm existed in their collection for more than ten years, and one of the first self-assembly toys that was widely available. Now no longer available to buy only or in-store, Le Toy Van still have a large selection of wooden farm sets to choose from that are bigger and brighter than this one.

Hayloft Farm

The Le Toy Van wooden Haycroft Farm is what we might call a complete wooden toy farm set, use as the focal point of all farm play inside and around it.

The farm buildings act as the areas to keep animals and accessories, well it's all contained on a baseboard that also acts as a boundary for all play.

Farm play can happen outside this space but kids love to stay on the board, which is helped by using a set of three pence panels.

Barn with Working Winch

Most interesting thing about this wooden Haycroft Farm is probably the tall barn with enough space below for animal play, and a hayloft above for storing animal feed and hay.

The space at the bottom is accessed using an hinged door, with enough height for a horse to pass through. The divides inside allow you to keep the animals in there own private stall.

Well you can gain access to the bottom and top section through doors and windows, a nice touch is the working winch located on the front and used to winch heavy loads to the top hayloft.

Farm Animal Shed

Simple yet effective toy farm animal shed for use with Papo, Schleich or Safari Ltd farm animals or horses - Bullyland and Collecta animals are a good fit too.

Simply slot the single side panel and back section to the wooden frame, then pop on the roof panel into the correct slots to create the shed.

This is an open front building therefore not self-contained, so with a little imagination use the fence panels or something similar to create an enclosed shed. There is a divide in the center with side door.

Baseboard

Like the barn and animal shed, the wooden farm baseboard is also painted then printed bright with a lot of color.

Not only is there grassy sections with a pond, play with be limited mostly to the stone wall effect walkway. Here it leads from the designated front of the baseboard to the barn and farm animal shed.

This baseboard will get dirty so is covered in a laminated like surface for easy to cleaning. The base comes in two separate sections and needs pushing together before completing setup.

Slot-together

Smaller than usual wooden farm set, here you only have to slide in the thin cut wall sections into the corresponding natural wooden frames to build the barn with hayloft and the smaller animal shed.

Line up the 9mm walls with the slots and use any screws to secure any panels that need securing.

Before then it will be an unstable wooden farm, so complete the assembly before judging how stable it really is. Once assembled pop on the roof panels by lining up the slots to the holes.

Colorfully painted

Bright and colorful as it is, its designed to appeal to children 3 years and up, and the way its finished should get there attention.

But that's not all, being bright and colorfully is not enough to keep them occupied, so its half painted, half printed. What we mean is there's an undercoat of paint before its printed on using a machine.

As expected, the roof panels are printed with tile effect, the side sections have wooden panels with grain effect - with the lower half stone effect.