Green Toys Salad Set Offers a Healthy Play Food Option for Tots

by Jennifer Chait, 02/21/12

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The Green Toys Salad Set is the perfect yummy and healthy accompaniment to a delicious slice of play pizza or a play build your own sandwich. This “greenest” salad on earth is made with and packaged in eco-friendly recycled materials. The 20-piece set helps encourage healthy habits in the youngest of tots and includes a serving bowl, salad plate, two serving utensils, three lettuce leaves, three sets of cucumber, two tomatoes, two red peppers, onions, mushrooms, and fold-your-own oil and vinegar and salt and pepper. The entire set is free from BPA, phthalates, PVC and external coatings. Plus, it’s dishwasher safe. This new eco toy set just debuted at the NY Toy Fair 2012 and it’s coming to a store near you soon. We think it’s a great toy for any play food enthusiast.

+ Green Toys Salad Set – coming soon – $19.99

+ Green Toys

Six Fun and Fantastic Toy Downloads from Timothy Haugen

by Jennifer Chait, 02/21/12


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Teach Baby Sign Language with Amazing Natural Blocks

by Jennifer Chait, 02/18/12

From rattles to safe baby teethers to amazing toys that go, Little Sapling Toys continually charms us with both their imaginative designs and commitment to child safety. Now they’re offering up a new natural wooden block set that allows you to teach your baby sign language and have fun building at the same time! This natural ASL Alphabet Blocks set is perfect for parents interested in teaching signs to their babies. Each set includes 26 blocks with an upper case and ASL hand of the same letter engraved beautifully on each block. The blocks are available in Walnut, Maple and Cherry wood and each is lightly finished in local beeswax and organic jojoba oil. The blocks arrive in a useful cotton drawstring bag. Plus, as always, each purchase you make through Little Sapling Toys helps them plant trees through Trees for the Future.

+ Natural Sign Language Blocks $45.00

+ Little Sapling Toys

14 Favorite Green Toys from the 2012 American International Toy Fair

by Julie Seguss, 02/16/12

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Would You Buy a VBAC Baby Doll?

Would You Buy a VBAC Baby Doll?

We’ve seen sweet mama and baby doll sets, Waldorf inspired birthing dolls and even a breastfeeding doll that admittedly freaked some people out, but we’ve yet to see a doll like this. The VBAC Doll collection from MamAmor is a collection made to show various birth situations, from vaginal birth to c-section birth and yes, even a VBAC birth. This doll is as realistic as you can get and made with natural materials, including cotton interlock for skin and each doll’s hair has a combination of soft merino yarns. The baby doll, which is included, comes with placenta, cord, diaper and receiving blanket. Other accessories for this mama and baby doll set, such as a sling or diaper bag may be purchased separately. MamAmor makes truly beautiful dolls, although they’re a little steep in price for the average family. However, the real question is – do kids really need a VBAC education?

Would you buy the VBAC baby doll for your child?

  • 34 Votes Yes, what a great idea!
  • 33 Votes No - this is too much information for most kids.
  • 5 Votes I'm not sure.

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P’kolino Traveling Art Sets Make Drawing on the Go Easy

P’kolino Traveling Art Sets Make Drawing on the Go Easy

P'kolino's crafty art supplies previously scored a place on our favorite green art supply list - both for their non-toxic qualities and innovative, child friendly designs. Now, your child can take P'kolino art supplies on-the-go with the brand new traveling arts and crafts collection. Each of these creatively smart sets makes it easy for your child to carry art to play dates, on road trips or even to school.

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P’kolino Playful Rubberwood Xylophone Makes Sustainable Melodies

P’kolino Playful Rubberwood Xylophone Makes Sustainable Melodies

This fantastically fun xylophone is brand new from P’kolino. Made with sustainable rubberwood and metal with a bright, yet non-toxic water based finish, this playful and fun melody-maker helps your child develop an early interest in music and teaches shape & color. This unique xylophone breaks down into individual pieces that can be rearranged to create new sequences. Plus, when …

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Turn Boxes Into Play Spaces with MAKEDO Find and Make Shop and Space Pod

Turn Boxes Into Play Spaces with MAKEDO Find and Make Shop and Space Pod

We're always amazed by what you can do with a little imagination and a cardboard box. MAKEDO makes the process easier, and opens up possibilities to craft even more fantastical creations by providing clips, hinges and pins. Their latest Find & Make kits go big, providing kids tools and inspiration to build awesome kid-sized play spaces - a Space Pod and a Shop.

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Banana Eco Felt Tree Offers Tropical Fun

Banana Eco Felt Tree Offers Tropical Fun

A while back, LittleFruits Feltery blew us away with their amazingly creative, adorable and fun play felt tree. We never thought we’d see something as cute again, and yet… Now LittleFruits Feltery has added some …

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Wee Blossoms Felted Flower Hats for Fairy Loving Tots

Wee Blossoms Felted Flower Hats for Fairy Loving Tots

If you’ve got a little one who is overly enchanted with fairies, then how perfect is this sweet hat idea! Little ones will adore these charming flower blossom hats, and you have to admit, they’d look super adorable on a baby. Great for birthday parties, a photo opp (just add wings or some fairy-minded clothing) or use them for costume play. Each soft …

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Keep Your Tot Crusin With Manny & Simon’s Train Push Toy

Keep Your Tot Crusin With Manny & Simon’s Train Push Toy

 

If your tot is in the crawling and cruising stage, push toys are perfect for playtime. Manny & Simon recently added this four-car train to their already amazing array of sustainably made wooden rolling toys. Their collection of push toys is made from 100% post-industrial recycled wood residuals and painted with non-toxic, zero-VOC paint. This colorful toy is sure to keep your tot moving and groovin. Choo choo!

+ Train Push Toy $48

+ Manny & Simon

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Spread the Love with a Natural Wooden Love Puzzle by Manzanita Kids

Spread the Love with a Natural Wooden Love Puzzle by Manzanita Kids

Your kids, and you, will fall in love with this sweet and lovable block puzzle set from Manzanita Kids. While it’s likely too late to get this in time for Valentine’s Day, this wooden puzzle set is still a great find for everyday play. It will even make a wonderful baby shower or wedding gift. The four puzzle pieces …

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Areaware Dovetail Animals by Karl Zahn Can Be Mixed and Matched to Create New Creatures

Areaware Dovetail Animals by Karl Zahn Can Be Mixed and Matched to Create New Creatures

Areaware has brought us several awesome wood animals in the past like Hanno the Gorilla, Ursa the Bear and Hugo the Wild Boar all designed by David Weeks. Now Areaware and Karl Zahn have teamed up to bring you a beautiful collection of Dovetail Animals. Each wooden animal comes in three parts that fit together thanks to dovetail joints.

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Studio Ditte Paper Robots Are Fun to Build and Play With

Studio Ditte Paper Robots Are Fun to Build and Play With

With Studio Ditte’s Paper Robots you can build six colorful robots. All you need is scissors, a ruler and glue – no tech skills required! Sure, these robots aren’t made from recycled paper (What a shame!), but they are super-lightweight to ship and easy-peasy to recycle once your child moves on to other toys. These aren’t the first paper robots to hit the scene though – a few years back we shared the cut-fold-connect PIPEROID paper robots from Takashi Tsunoda …

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Skip Hop Penguin Soapster Foaming Soap Dispenser is Extra Handy

Skip Hop Penguin Soapster Foaming Soap Dispenser is Extra Handy

Because parents only have two arms, the adorable Skip Hop Penguin Soapster Foaming Soap Dispenser comes in very handy. This cute soap dispenser allows you to grab some soap with one hand, while holding onto your slippery baby with …

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PlanToys Workbench is Fun for Industrial Kids

PlanToys Workbench is Fun for Industrial Kids

The PlanToys Workbench is perfect for kids who love to build. The set includes plenty of workbench items, including six handy tools, 27 cool construction parts and a removable storage unit to keep everything tidy. The various construction parts can be placed on both the table and back panel, and the back panel doubles as a tool holder. The wood clamp included in this …

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Bloofbird Plush Robots Are Made From Eco Felt

Bloofbird Plush Robots Are Made From Eco Felt

The simplistic, monochromatic,robot designs from Bloofbird are full of personality. The clever characters are hand screen-printed onto Kunin Eco-Fi felt which is made from recycled plastic bottles. The collection of robots certainly doesn't beep and bloop, but the powered-down plushies are sure to spark imaginative electronic noises and play that trump battery-powered ones any day!

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Green Your Tot’s Choo Choo With Plan Toys Recycling Train

Green Your Tot’s Choo Choo With Plan Toys Recycling Train

Is your kid crazy about choo choos? Give your child’s train set an eco upgrade by adding three cars that are on a recycling mission. The Recycling Train, which is compatible with all other Plan Toys rail sets, is made from recycled rubberwood and non-toxic finishes. You can use this train to help you explain recycling to your children and what types of items might go in each of the different colored bins aboard the cars.

+ Recycling …

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Reclaimed Mini Natural Wood Castle Blocks from Imagine Childhood Make Building a Palace Easy

Reclaimed Mini Natural Wood Castle Blocks from Imagine Childhood Make Building a Palace Easy

We’re all for open-ended natural blocks in square and rectangle shapes, but these Mini Natural Wood Castle Blocks from Imagine Childhood will add some really cool, royal elements to your tots building repertoire. Hand made from reclaimed local Walnut in Colorado and finished with mineral oil, the castle blocks are perfectly sized for little hands to maneuver. Each set comes with six blocks.

+ Mini Natural Wood Castle Blocks $55.00

+ Imagine Childhood 

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Revised Toy Safety Standards are on the Way in 2012

Revised Toy Safety Standards are on the Way in 2012

If you’re worried about toy safety – that’s good – you should be concerned. Thus far, toy safety has been widely overlooked in the United States. Hopefully though, in 2012, this will change. On December 15th of last year, ASTM-International sent a revised toy safety specification document to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) in hopes that new safer toy standards will be adopted in 2012. The new toy safety revisions mainly concern toys that may contain heavy metals and how to measure those quantities for child safety. Other issues covered include the stability of ride-on toys; jaw entrapment; toys with spherical ends; requirements for squeeze toys attached to rings; use of cords, straps and elastics; packaging film; and yo-yo tether balls.

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