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Nature-Based Toys, Temecula, CA (2026)

06/04/2026

🌞 BYE BYE SCHOOL, HELLO SUMMER GIVEAWAY! 🐠🪸

To celebrate the start of summer break, we’re giving away a little ocean-themed surprise! 💙

✨ 3 lucky winners will each receive:
• A $50 gift card to my shop
• 1 Coral Reef Sensory Bag from Vicki (shipped by me)
• Extra ocean creatures to build your own coral reef small world play 🐠🦀🐚

How to enter:
💙 Follow our account .based.toys
💙 Like this post
💙 Share to your stories
💙 Comment below: What are your summer plans?

✨ More tags = more chances to win!

If your account is private, please send me a screenshot showing you shared this post to your story.

⏰ Giveaway ends Sunday at midnight.
🎉 Winners will be announced Monday evening.

Must be 18+ and located in the USA.

This giveaway is not sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with Instagram.

Wishing everyone a summer filled with sunshine, adventures, and lots of play! ☀️💙🐠

06/03/2026

Happy Tuesday, friends. 💙

I always try to post earlier in the day, but somehow it’s evening again before I get a chance to sit down and write. 🫣

I am so proud of what my little family has built, though some days it would be nice to slow down for a moment. Life keeps getting more expensive, and it feels harder and harder to keep up with the bills and live a “normal” life these days. We are truly grateful that we can keep creating and doing what we love. ❤️

Hopefully in the next day or two, I’ll upload some new goodies to the website (like this 5-section base for the letters and numbers cards, banana split dish, ice cream bowl, and more). ☀️ And if you have a 3D printer, we’ve also started releasing individual STL files. 💃🏼🖨️🏠

Thank you for being here and following our journey. My little family is forever grateful for your support.

Love,Eni 💙

05/30/2026

This mama really doesn’t have a dull moment lately. 🥺

While I was taking pictures of some of our new summer-themed goodies that will be arriving next week, I got a phone call from the school. My sweet girl and one of her classmates accidentally bumped into each other during recess, and she split her lip open. One or two of her teeth are a little wiggly too. 🥺

After a visit to the dentist, we are home now, taking it easy, cuddling, and hoping everything will heal nicely. If you could keep her in your thoughts, I would really appreciate it. ❤️

I’m also running a little behind with orders after my hospital visit and the Memorial Day weekend. Please know that I’m doing my very best. Many orders will be packed and shipped tomorrow and Monday.

As a small family business, sometimes life happens all at once, and the last 2 weeks have definitely been one of those weeks. Thank you so much for your patience, kindness, and understanding. It means more than you know.

I won’t be adding a huge number of new products, but every single one was created with love, and I’m so excited to share them with you. I have a feeling you are going to love what’s coming. 💚

P.S. The Banana Split Bowl was inspired by a sweet mama, Heather , and yes… 🧲banana is coming too! 🍌✨

05/24/2026

I know World Turtle Day and Sea Turtle Day are celebrated on different days, but here is my little turtle post anyway… 🐢💚
Because turtles deserve to be celebrated any day. 😊 Ty for being here, friends.

05/22/2026

Some days are loud, messy, exhausting… and some days are filled with tiny beautiful moments that remind me why we started this journey in the first place. 🤍

18 printers running, coffee getting cold, little hands testing new designs, and our family doing everything together behind the scenes. Every order, comment, share, and kind message means more than you know to this small family shop.

Thank you for being here, supporting dreams, and growing with us one layer at a time. 🌿
Love,
Eni

05/20/2026

Happy World Bee Day 🐝🍯

Today I reposted one of our old little sensory setups we made together with Em years ago… one photo is already 5 years old, the other 2. Looking back at these pictures makes my mama heart so emotional. Sweet memories as honey… and a reminder how fast childhood flies by. 🥹

So many of you have been here since those early days, watching Em grow up beside NatureBased Toys and WooBeWee. Thank you for staying, supporting, sharing, commenting, ordering, and loving our creations through all the seasons of our life. This little shop is not backed by a big company… it is just our small family working day and night with our whole hearts. 🤍

If you would love to support our small business today, our THANKFUL4U code is still active. Every single order truly helps our family more than you know right now.

Sending love from our little bee hive to yours 🐝
Love,
Eni

05/19/2026

Hi friends, so good to be here again. 🤍

Unfortunately, my health is still not the best, but I’m back on my feet and doing my best. My hubby has been such a huge help lately — he printed so many of your orders while I was resting, and I packed them all today. And honestly… I’m so proud of him, because every single print came out with the same quality standards I’m picky about. Not a patchy print or faulty surface anywhere. 🙌🏻

As we’re getting ready for the June ready-to-3D-print subscription final samples, I started thinking about this magnetic spinner we designed last year and wondered… why the heck didn’t anyone buy it? 😂

Well… guess what? Because I completely forgot to make the listing active. Yep. A draft product will not magically show up on the website, right? 🤦🏻‍♀️ This is what happens when I have a million things on my plate.

This spinner was designed to work with our loose parts, and the fun part is that the middle section is magnetic — so if you want to use it with printables, worksheets, or laminated activities, it keeps everything nicely in place. Easy peasy. ✨

Perfect for summer learning and play:
• math activities
• pattern building
• letter matching
• picture matching
• storytelling
• sensory invitations
…and honestly so many more ways to play.

I’ll take some new photos tomorrow and finally upload it properly to the website. 😂

Thank you for being here and supporting our small business through all the ups and downs. It means more than you know.

And don’t forget — THANKFUL4U still saves you a HUGE discount. 🤍

At the end of May, many products will officially fly off the shelves as we simplify the shop, so grab your favorites while you still can.

Love,
Eni

🤎 Tuff tray from the amazing

05/15/2026

Hi, lovely people!

Our second month (June) Ready-to-3D-Print subscription package is slowly coming together… and oh my heart, we LOVE working on these monthly themes so much. 🖤 Every single subscriber means the world to us, and knowing some of you are already waiting excitedly for each month’s launch makes this journey even more special. 🥹

Little reminder — our May theme will become available as a one-time purchase after the last day of May ends, so if you missed the subscription, you’ll still have a chance to grab it. ✨

More June sneak peeks are coming on Monday, and we are also working on adding individual files + full themed packages for one-time purchase too. This way you don’t have to be a subscriber to enjoy our designs… you can simply grab the files you love most. 🫶

We truly can’t wait to grow this new chapter with you. Blog is coming next week too! 🫶🏼📝

And one more thing… last night I couldn’t sleep, so I started adding MANY old products back to the website (they will be up until the end of May), while also working on the list of designs that sadly need to leave. Honestly… that is the hardest part for me, because I love every single design we created over the years. But simplifying things is a necessary step for us to stay organized, healthier, and more efficient behind the scenes.

Take a little peek through our shop all collection and see all the magic we created over the years. Thank you for being here and supporting our small family business through every chapter. 🤍

Love,
Eni

05/13/2026

Please, read this post… 🙏🏼

Happy Wednesday lovely people 🤍

So many changes are happening over here lately, and I wanted to share a little update with you. We are currently working on one-time purchase ready-to-3D-print packages, and hopefully we can launch them very soon. This means you will not just be able to subscribe for monthly themed packages, but also shop different themes through the year. 👷🏻🦖👩🏻‍🌾🧚🚀 and many more are coming.

After a long and very hard decision, we decided to let go of a lot of products from the website. Managing over 450 listings while production is happening in the background became… a lot. 😅 Running 18 printers honestly feels like a tiny factory at this point, and this mama probably needs a little bit more sleep at night. 🫣😂

The market changed so much in the last couple of years, and we have to adapt and make things smoother for our family, for our business, and honestly… for my mental health too. And school ends in 3 weeks, and I really want to spend more time with my daughter this summer.

This shop is currently our only income, so every single like, comment, share, order, kind word… it all means more than you probably know. 🤍

May 31st will be the last day you can shop the full collection currently available on the website. After that, I will only keep our best-selling and educational resources.

And if you still reading this… thank you. Truly. During some of the hardest periods of my life, this little shop and this community kept me going, kept me busy, kept my mind occupied. Thank you for choosing us, supporting our little family business, and being here through all the highs and lows. ❤️

Love you,

Eni

Ps.: THANKFUL4U discount code is still active 🤫😉

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