Baby Rattles

These are copies of the Nick Cook baby rattle. The neat part, and it doesn’t show on the photo, is that the rattle is turned from two pieces of maple that have been hollowed out, dried beans inserted and then glued together. Result is what looks to be one piece of wood that rattles. Depending on the person asking ‘how?’ a reply to some is that the wood is the very rare “bean maple” and finding some is very difficult.

These are easy to turn, meet US federal standards for size, and can be personalized with the name and birth date of the newborn.