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Avoid synthetic food dyes this holiday season

December 11, 2010

Synthetic food dyes are seriously everywhere and it’s very hard to avoid them, especially during the brightly colored holiday season. Case in point, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) notes that manufacturers pour about 15 million pounds of synthetic dyes into “kid-friendly” foods annually. When you buy neon colored breakfast cereals, candy, [...]

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Affordable Green Gifts for Kids – 2010 Holiday Season

November 29, 2010

Affordable green gifts for kids are very easy to find nowadays. There’s no reason to spend a lot of cash for eco-friendly gifts. Here are some excellent green gifts for kids – all under $25. Natural Amber Kaleidoscope Find & Make a Robot Kit Find & Make a Dollhouse Kit

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Green Gifts for Crafty & Creative Kids

November 27, 2010

You very rarely can go wrong when you give crafty gifts for the holidays. Most kiddos love arts and crafts of all sorts, and nowadays there’s a fairly amazing array of eco-friendly art products out there. Here are some excellent green arts and crafts gifts for inspiring creativity this holiday season. If you’re looking for [...]

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Green Consumer Tips for Kids & Teens!

November 10, 2010

Kids and teens are major consumers in the United States. For example, kids under 14 years of age spend about $40 billion annually while teens spend about $159 billion. And that’s just the tip of what’s a very large consumer iceberg. Parents can help make a huge impact by simply trying to avoid consumerism, but [...]

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Green Halloween Non-Edible Treats for 50¢ or Less

October 3, 2010

The other day we looked at edible green Halloween treats. If you don’t want to hand out candy there are some affordable options you can choose from. A word about baggies. If you go with non-edible Halloween treats, it’s way cheaper to buy in bulk and divvy items up. Some items don’t require baggies, but [...]

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Natural Hardwood Ramp Blocks ‘Wedges’ for Eco-Friendly Toy Cars

August 3, 2010

As the eco-minded mama of a little boy, you know what’s annoying? All those plastic pieces of car tracks and ramps around the house! Five years ago when my son was still REALLY into hot wheels it was hard to find anything but plastic ramps. Sure, we’d make homemade ramps with recycled goods, but a [...]

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Parents need to avoid commercialism along with kids

July 13, 2010

It’s true that we live in a super hyper commercial culture. It’s also true (IMO) that commercialism makes it more difficult to raise green kids. BUT not impossible. As I noted previously, many health and child-advocacy organizations feel that we should avoid commercialism at all costs. Turn the TV off, skip junk food, never buy [...]

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Commercialism Makes Growing Green Kids Harder

July 12, 2010

One of the hardest things about raising green kids is that we live in an increasingly commercial culture. Some problems related to eco-friendly living and our current culture include: Excess stuff is not eco-friendly but excess stuff is pushed in our culture. It’s very hard to impress eco-friendly living skills upon kids when all they [...]

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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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Winner of the KidsCraft Playhouse!

June 8, 2010

Ok folks I’ve got the winner rounded up for our current giveaway. Just to recap, the winner of this cool KidsCraft summer giveaway will win a KidsCraft Playhouse of their choice. We recently reviewed the rocket ship but we’re guessing the play cottage will be super fun too. I put all the comment numbers in [...]