Originally published at: https://ethical.net/creative/inspiration/sustainable-kids-toys/
Choosing sustainable toys for kids is a great way to lead by example and move towards a more eco-friendly and ethical way of life. As parents, it is vital to teach your children the importance of caring for the planet and for people. Toys can enrich children’s lives – but we don’t necessarily have to…
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I love all these ideas. I have four children so when people buy them toys, it adds up to a lot of plastic and to be honest, the novelty of new toys wear off easily. The best toys especially when they were younger? Cardboard boxes.
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Brings back memories! Puddles - great - loads to play with in winter.
Chairs, make good tunnels and entrances to table igloos.
Slopes and hills - fantastic for roly-poly.
Ah! - exploring woodlands, shaw’s (similar to a coppice), thickets, groves and copses.
fishing with sticks and string.
Tickling for fish.
building and sailing rafts.
Train rides in quarry trains
cardboard boxes and milk crates, for cars, vans, lorry’s, trains, canoes, boats, planes, camps, so much can done with these.
Daisy chains and bracelets for my daughters.
When I worked as a wildlife ranger I use to make dolls/action men from grass for the younger children, so as to help them get involved in the pre-school groups activities.
What does anyone else remember playing, with what was ethical?
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I love all these ideas. …Last year, we bought toys for kids which are very much liked, if you want to see your kids happy, then gift them toys so that your children will be happy and healthy too.
I found a really interesting idea that I hadn’t seen before the other day, this particular company is in Lithuania, so the website is in Lithuanian - https://zaisluklubas.lt/
But essentially, it’s a toy subscription club. They have educational and fun toys that get delivered to home and then collected and replaced when your kids get bored of them or just they outgrow them. The toys are then cleaned, fixed and sent to someone else to play.
Kids don’t play with things for very long generally, and they often end up getting broken, thrown away or just
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With the focus being on “eco-friendly everything”
would you like to know what others think about ECO Toys ?
Participate to see results > https://rebrand.ly/ECO-Friendly-Toys-Survey
Mattel launched an interesting program a few months ago, where they will allow people to freepost (in some countries) old toys back to them to be recycled.
Haven’t read much about it so don’t know how useful or how greenwashey it is, but it’s an interesting idea.
https://corporate.mattel.com/news/mattel-launches-new-toy-takeback-program-called-mattel-playback