The objects to decorate and paint are :

maple wood for the figurines,

in ash or beech wood for the towel racks and puzzles,

in spruce for the hearts and decorative objects.

Maple, a hard and white wood, with a homogeneous fiber, allows a good solidity, even of the fine parts, and a good rendering of colors.
Very little diffusion in the wood fiber. These figurines can even be decorated with markers, an advantage for children who are not always very skilled with a brush.
The maple is very pleasant to fire (homogeneous structure: no alternation hard fiber, soft fiber).

Very light, these figures in thickness 3mm can be transformed into magnets or be glued with "patafix", in thickness 7 mm they hold upright and can be put on shelves or other.

The ash, a hard wood with fairly pronounced veins, can be white or brown. It is difficult to fire (hard wood and alternating fibers).

The metre, a hard wood, slightly brown, sometimes with more marked brown spots, pyrographs well.

These 3 woods by their hardness, ensure a good resistance, even of the thinner parts, and little diffusion of the colors in the fibers of wood.
The maple and the beech are well burned.

Subjects to decorate for your children's manual activities
Some examples of realizations, subjects painted by children with felt pens.