Eco-Friendly and Natural Children’s Toys

For Children, For Baby

I truly can not stand modern day toys for children. I personally think they are junk. The packaging itself is destructive. They are plastic crap, that after the initial five minute novelty of flashing lights and noise wears off, children seem to be bored with them and rarely play with them again. Unless you are one of my children, in which case you would attempt to do something fun with it, like take it apart (hoping it will do something new and exciting) and then completely destroy it altogether. Then I always feel terrible throwing all those useless parts out wondering how long they’ll sit in a landfill. Not only that, as two year olds, my twins had more interest in playing with the recycling! They loved the big plastic gallon jugs and going through the paper. Their favorite “toy” in the recent past was a cardboard box that was a “doghouse” and they would all take turns being the dog and they had a blast decorating it! I have bought my children very few toys, so the ones I am speaking of were mostly gifts. I love educational toys: puzzles, Leap Frog is cool, Candy Land and other kid friendly board games. Essentially, I want my kids to play with something which makes them think or use their imagination. And I think dolls are wonderful. As a child, I had hours of fun with my dolls and stuffed animals. I came upon some all natural toys that I hope you will find interesting and of course only ones I would buy myself.

Lincoln Logs were another one of my favorite toys as a child, I remember building my dream house over and over. These wooden farm and doll house sets reminded me of playing with my Lincoln Logs.

Wooden Farm

Wooden Doll House

Organic Dolls

Organic Doll with Two Outfits

Fair Trade Vegetable Rattles

Again, I would like to reiterate how important it is to know where and how something was made. It’s kind of like that old saying about how sausage is made, nobody wants to know. I think it would behoove all of us to be a little more conscious of what we are buying for ourselves and our children. If you saw where some of those plastic toys from China were made and who was making them, maybe you’d think twice about buying them. It’s just like sausage, if we all saw how it was made, I don’t think too many people would still eat it.

Debbie @ November 10, 2007