eco-friendly play kitchen

Green cooking with kids: teaching eco-friendly skills in the kitchen

November 22, 2010

Most kids I’ve known adore whipping up meals, snacks or baked goods in the kitchen. Translation – the kitchen is one of the best place to introduce eco-friendly skills to your kiddos because they’re already hanging around with interest. Introducing your kids to green living and cooking skills usually starts outside of the kitchen. The [...]

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Eco-Friendly Cooking & Baking Gifts for Kids

November 22, 2010

Play cooking is super fun for kids, but it doesn’t usually beat the real deal. Most kids love to cook with their parents and cooking is an excellent way to teach green living skills. If you’re looking for long-lasting and useful gifts for the holiday season, cooking and baking gifts can’t be beat. I love [...]

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Amazing Eco-Friendly Felt Food Fun for Kids

July 5, 2010

Felt food pretty much rocks. It’s safe for little ones, easy to handle and play with and a lot of felt is eco-friendly to boot. Felt food makes a great addition to your child’s play kitchen. Below are some great places to pick up eco-friendly felt food. Twinkle Kids handcrafts all products from the finest [...]

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20 DIY Eco-Friendly Summer Toys

June 6, 2010

You don’t have to spend a lot of green on cool eco-friendly summer toys. You, along with your kids can make a whole slew of eco-friendly toys all on your own, with low-cost eco-friendly or recycled materials. Following are 20 eco-fun, summer toy projects. Really neat rock dominoes (shown above) – one of those I [...]

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Adorable Kid Sized Backyard BBQ Set

May 16, 2010

We were just looking at eco-friendly grilling here the other day, and then today (strangely) I came across this totally cute play BBQ set for the kiddos. This looks like a really fun summer toy for the younger set. This realistic-looking My Backyard BBQ Set comes with a hood that really opens so chefs can [...]

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Wonderful & Fun Ideas for Green Families

April 30, 2010

This week I’ve got an array of cool green links for you to check out – since I’ve been ranting all week about hyper serious stuff I tried to pick some fun links. Nothing too serious allowed today just neat-o green treats for families… Petite Planet has the most adorable eco-friendly watches for kids on [...]

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Eco-Friendly Play Kitchen Dishes & Accessories

November 15, 2009

For the last post in our eco-friendly play kitchen guide we’re going to look at eco-friendly dishes, pots & pans, and a few other cool extras for a play kitchen. However, before you spend money on items for your child’s play kitchen, you should know that you can make many of these items yourself in [...]

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Eco-Friendly Play Kitchen Food

November 13, 2009

If a green play kitchen set is on your child’s wish list this holiday season it’s smart to snag some super cool play kitchen food to go along with it. If you missed the kitchen play set posts you can read the following: Green Holiday Gift – Ultimate Eco-Friendly Play Kitchen Guide Nine DIY play [...]

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DIY Play Kitchen Food & Dishes

November 12, 2009

Lately we’ve been looking at play kitchens as an ultimate holiday kid gift. They’re perfect for boys and girls, can be very eco-friendly, and are loads of fun. So far we’ve looked at… Green Holiday Gift – Ultimate Eco-Friendly Play Kitchen Guide Nine DIY play kitchen options Now, if you’re giving a child a play [...]

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Green Holiday Gift – Ultimate Eco-Friendly Play Kitchen Guide

November 11, 2009

Read other popular Growing a Green Family posts! Subscribe to Growing a Green Family to get even more green family tips. *UPDATED FOR THE 2011 HOLIDAY SEASON Eco-friendly play kitchen sets are, in my opinion one of those must have childhood toys. Kids LOVE them and they serve multiple fun and educational purposes. When I [...]