Green Toys for Kids
While you create an green lifestyle for your family, don't forget about your children. Today you can choose to provide your little ones with safe,
toxin-free, eco-friendly toys for play. That latest toy on the market that beeps and whistles with all it's electronic wizardry can have a negative
effect on the environment (and potentially, the health of your children). As you shop for green toys that are safer for your kids and the environment,
follow these simple guidelines:
Buy your kids crafted games that teach the eco principles involved in harmonious living.
Many sustainably harvested or salvaged wooden toys (trains, blocks, autos, and animals) are sold as excellent eco toys. Eco wood toys will be
unfinished or coated with natural colorants and materials like beeswax. If scented, check to make sure that natural essential oils were used in it's
production.
Buy kid's toys that do not require the use of batteries. If your child does play with some battery operated toys, buy one set of rechargeable batteries
and switch them from one toy to another.
Avoid buying toys for your child that will have a short playing life. During the manufacturing process, that newest cartoon character toy used a lot of
unrenewable resources. Your child will probably tire of it quickly as soon as he or she sees another new toy fad.
Choose toys that are quality made. There are few toys that are greener than those that are so sturdy that they have been handed down through three generations.
You can also buy second hand toys at garage sells or thrift stores that can be cleaned up and look just like new.
Explore the wide assortment of natural eco art supplies They feature things like plant and vegetable-based crayons instead of petroleum products, natural watercolors, and beeswax modeling clays.
