green kids toys

Design Your Own Kamibashi String Doll Contest

If you love Kamibashi’s Fair Trade String Doll Gang then now is your chance to design your own. Kamibashi is holding their annual “Create Your Own String Doll Contest” this month, which gives you a chance to dream up your own String Doll and have it created to become part of the String Doll family. [...]

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Eco-friendly and Affordable PlanWood Toys Hit the Market

PlanToys has a newly updated website, new materials and some awesome new lower prices on some nifty new eco-friendly toys. That’s a lot of new goodies. Read my PlanToys company review What’s new in materials? For years, PlanToys has utilized clean, natural rubberwood from rubber trees which no longer produce latex to make their toys. [...]

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Melt-free Eco-friendly Popsicles for Kids

Real, icy cold ice pops are the best. However, sometimes a different sort of popsicle fun is in order. Here are some sweet, mostly melt-free choices for the kiddos. Le Toy Van makes the most adorable play Ice Lollies, part of their amazingly cute Honeybake range of toys. Le Toy Van makes their toys with responsibly [...]

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20 magical & creative DIY cardboard toys

I read a while back that while toys are a major seller in the U.S., green toys aren’t so much. In fact, the research I read said that green toy sales make up just 1% of all toy sales. That seems nuts considering all the problems with conventional toys. Still, in some ways I get [...]

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Green Toy Review: Tegu Pocket Pouch Prism

Review summary: A more affordable, but still fun Tegu magnetic block travel set. Perfect for tinkering on-the-go. Product: Tegu Pocket Pouch Prism from Tegu. We tested the jungle colored set, although we have an inkling that other sets, in different colors may be available soon. Cost: $30.00 Basics: The brand new Pocket Pouch Prism is the perfect little [...]

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Green Toys 101 at Growing a Green Family

Green toys are a popular search topic here at Growing a Green Family. If you’re interested in learning more about green toys and green toy safety, below is a round up of some of the best green toy posts of the past… DIY green toys – know what goes into your child’s toys! DIY Green [...]

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Founders of Sprig Toys Launch New BeginAgain Green Toy Company

The 2012 NY Toy Fair kicks off today in New York, and among the exhibitors is a fresh new green toy company, BeginAgain, born out of a great established toy company, Sprig. Sprig Toys founders Chris Clemmer and David Bowen kicked off BeginAgain in small steps this summer, but now the new company is coming [...]

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Adorable New Organic Cotton miYim Plush Disney Toys

miYim always has the sweetest toys for tots, but this holiday season they’ve outdone themselves with an organic plush Disney character collection that’s too cute for words. *Note – stay tuned to Growing a Green Family if you’d like to win one of these beautiful organic plush toys. A cool giveaway is coming up soon! [...]

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Green Company Review: PlanToys

PlanToys is an excellent family-friendly, green and ethical toy company with almost zero cons. BASICS: I’m always talking about PlanToys, so I figured it was high-time I did a full company review. PlanToys was founded in 1981 and notes the following, “We create toys that inspire children’s imagination as well as promote their physical and [...]

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Frequently Asked Questions About Plywood in Toys

I try to update both my Ultimate Green Dollhouse Guide and my Ultimate Eco-Friendly Play Kitchen Guide annually. This year though, I’m trying to cover all the safety issues parents are concerned about – read how to choose a safe and eco-friendly play kitchen set or dollhouse for more info. One of the common materials used in [...]