Sticks, hand-held pieces, tubes and coils

Sticks

Flat, held between fingers, textured on every face. The most versatile shape we make and the one with the widest spread of bands, so it is the right place to experiment.

The weakness is that a stick is easy to put down and lose. If a chew goes missing at school by ten in the morning, that is the shape, not the child.

Hand-held pieces

Sized for a closed fist. These stay in a hand between bites, which is the point: a child who needs something to do with their fingers gets that along with the chewing.

They also read as less babyish than a brightly coloured teether, which matters more than adults expect once a child is old enough to notice what their classmates are looking at.

Hollow tubes

Our only soft option, and the only one that goes in the freezer. The forked versions solve a grip problem for babies who cannot hold a flat object yet.

Not the right buy for a school age child with a strong bite. Thin walls open up fast under real pressure, and we would rather sell you a stick than a replacement.

Coil necklaces

Worn, so never lost, and the hardest silicone we mix. That combination is why they get bought for older children who chew heavily through the school day.

The cost is the risk. Something round a neck needs rules: off for sleep, off for climbing, off when nobody is watching. If those rules cannot be kept, buy a stick and accept that it will get lost.