Grimm's Restocks

Why is Grimm's always out of stock?

On 17 June, Grimm’s closed their order books for the remainder of 2025 following unprecedented demand that they simply could not keep up with due to the nature of their handmade manufacturing process.

They are continuing to work through the orders already placed, but rather than fulfilling them strictly in the order they were received, they are currently sending parts of orders according to what is being manufactured and becomes available.

This means there isn’t a predictable pattern to when deliveries will arrive or exactly what each delivery will contain. Our existing orders remain in the queue, and we’ll continue to add Grimm’s stock to Little Acorns to Mighty Oaks as it arrives, is checked and prepared.

Have I missed a restock?

We’ receive lots of lovely messages asking whether a Grimm’s upload has happened, so we thought we’d take a moment to gently explain how Grimm’s restocks work here at Little Acorns to Mighty Oaks.

We know that some of you wonder whether you’ve missed an upload, particularly when you don’t see lots of new pieces appear at once. We promise you, we absolutely are adding new Grimm’s stock - regularly and in quite large quantities!

The difference is simply that we don’t do a single timed upload. When a Grimm’s delivery arrives, we carefully unpack and check every individual piece before it can be added to the website. We then gradually add the stock in smaller batches, at different times throughout the week, aiming to upload at different times of the day each time.

We also currently have a limit of one of each Grimm’s product per customer when new stock is released. This is an important part of how we try to keep our restocks fair and give as many individual families as possible the opportunity to purchase the pieces they would like. With popular Grimm’s pieces often being in very high demand, limiting each product to one per customer helps prevent a small number of orders from taking several of the same item from a new delivery, allowing more of our stock to reach the children and families it was intended for.

Our hope is that, by spreading stock throughout the week and keeping quantities fair, we can create a calmer and more thoughtful way to shop — one that doesn’t depend one specific drop time, setting an alarm or being online at exactly the right moment. We know this approach is a little different from what you may be used to, but it’s important to us that shopping with Little Acorns to Mighty Oaks feels as calm and intentional as possible, including for those who are working, caring for little ones, or simply aren’t able to be online at a particular time.

So, if you’re wondering whether you’ve missed the Grimm’s upload, please don’t worry - there isn’t one single upload to miss. Thank you as always for you understanding as to why we choose to do things a little differently.

Something I want says 'Coming Soon' - When will it be back in stock?

We have lots of orders placed with Grimm's, and we are always looking forward to seeing what will arrive with each delivery. At the moment, Grimm's are sending us items as they become available in their production cycle, so unfortunately we do not know exactly what we will receive until we are sent a shipping notification.

Because of this, we are unable to give specific time frames for when individual items will be back in stock. However, if an item is marked as ‘Coming Soon’, this means that we do have it on order and it will be restocked as soon as Grimm's have it available and ready to send to us.