Dikids Scooper – Paper Scooter Sculptures

The Scooper is a mini version of what all kids want – their own scooter. These little paper pieces of art are made by Dikids, headed up by Dadik Triadi, a graphic designer and paper toy creator based in Jakarta. For the Scooper, Triadi collaborated with his cousin, using recycled paper goods to form the scooters. While tiny, compared to a real scooter this paper …

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DIY: Organize Your Child’s Toys with Toy Bin Tags

Your children probably have a whole bedroom full of toy cars, trains, dolls, blocks, balls, dinosaurs, and games. By organizing the toys into bins with tags that name and show a picture of what goes inside, you can teach your child how to keep their toys organized all on their own. We love the simple and straightforward DIY tags created by the stationery designer behind Lily Jane. This idea makes for easy clean up, and if you find the right bins, they will look fantastic when placed on a shelf, too.

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NEW! Multi-Solution Shape Puzzles from P’Kolino

Baffled by how quickly your tot seems to master every puzzle you put in front of her? P’Kolino‘s new multi-solution puzzles up the level of puzzling perplexity by providing a slew of different outcomes in one puzzle board. Available in owl, bug, robot and spaceship varieties, each features myriad combinations that enable tots to tune their motor …

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Oeuf Mask & Tail Sets for Halloween

No stranger to Halloween goodness, Oeuf has introduced us to beautiful, sustainable costume ideas year after year. From their lovely angel wing sweaters to their Where the Wild Things Are minded animal hats and booties, Oeuf is always coming up with minimal, yet sweet costumes for tots. This year Oeuf offers an adorable line-up of creative Mask & Tail sets that will easily turn your little one into the animal of his or her choice. Best of all these fun mask and tail sets can be used all year for creative play.

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NEW!: Hot & Cool Color Citiblocs

When we last reviewed eco-friendly Citiblocs, we gave them a big thumbs up. However, they only came in a basic natural wood color – not great for color-loving kids. Now, just in time for the holiday season, Citiblocs has two new …

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Vintage Toy Car Collection by Ko Verzuu for ADO

Brighten up your child’s bedroom with colorful wooden vintage toy cars made by Dutch designer Ko Verzuu and his team at ADO. They made a fantastic colorful collection of wooden toys back in the 1930′s-1950′s in the Netherlands. However, Ko Verzuu’s team was much different than most toy companies,  since most of the workers were patients in the sanatorium, Berg and Bosch. The workshop was part of a program designed to help patients transition from the sanatorium back into mainstream society and these beautiful handmade toys are the result.

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Link Roundup: Party With Elephants, Hop On a Horse Bike, and More

Hostess with the Mostess creates an adorable and modern elephant party theme that works for either a baby shower or a first birthday.

Design Boom shares a genius concept that has us wondering: What would your kid do if her bike looked like a horse?

Kids Vancouver offers news ideas for packing school lunches.

Ohdeedoh finds new wood and hand cut …

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Non-Toxic Car Seats & Safety Tips for Child Passenger Safety Week

Child Passenger Safety Week is an annual event that focuses on parent education surrounding safe car seat use. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), motor vehicle accidents and their consequent resulting injuries are the leading cause of death among children in the U.S. In fact, about four children per day die due to auto-related accidents.

The worst part is that many of these deaths could be prevented if parents and caregivers would simply take a moment to make sure their child’s car seat is installed correctly. A survey released this year by AAA and Dorel Juvenile Group shockingly found that as many as 75% of infant and child car seats on the road today are not installed correctly. Making sure your little one’s car seat is installed correctly is an easy fix. Keep reading to learn more and to get some tips on safer, greener car seats as well.

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Fluf Organic Cotton Lunch Bags for Back to School

Playing off the simplicity of brown-bagging it or taking home a doggy bag, FLUF‘s 100% certified organic cotton lunch sacks are functional, simple, and easy for kids to tote. Inside the bag you’ll find a removable snap-in EVA insert, which helps keep the bag clean from day-to-day spills or stickiness. Then, at the end of the week you can toss the outer portion in the washing machine. Their designs, which range from the literal “LUNCH” to …

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MASSIVE RECALL: Beetles Found in Similac Infant Formula

Abbott Labs just announced that they are recalling certain Similac brand powder infant formulas in Guam, Puerto Rico, the USA and some parts of the Caribbean due to a “remote” possibility that it is contaminated by a common beetle. The risk was discovered when the presence of the insects in formula from one production area in a single manufacturing facility was unearthed during an internal quality review. Read on for details of the recall.

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ABChairs by Roeland Otten

With young children in your family, perhaps part of your decor scheme has included seeing ‘the writing on the wall’ — literally in your home. Now designer Roeland Otten’s prototype series of ABChairs enables kids and adults alike to practice the power of prose via cleverly designed chairs shaped like each letter of the alphabet! Otten offers, what’s “fun about these chairs, is that you can not just buy a set of chairs, but you also need to think about what word you would like to form, what you want to communicate with the chairs in your environment.”

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Eco Hand Painted Cardboard Playhouses from This Little Piggy’s House

If your tot’s favorite line of the popular toe-tapping nursery rhyme, “This Little Piggy” is the one where he “stayed home,” then these 100% recyclable, hand painted cardboard playhouses from This Little Piggy’s House will make for a fitting and charming play area for her. Created by a father of a toddler to encourage his child’s …

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WIN IT WEDNESDAY: Poppy’s Closet $150 Gift Certificate

Calling all pint-sized eco fashionistas! This week’s giveaway will give one lucky family a special “key” to Poppy’s Closet, a favorite kid’s clothing retailer of ours. We’ve teamed up with Poppy’s Closet to give away a $150 gift certificate to shop the site. Whether you’re looking to refresh your six-year-old’s fall wardrobe or outfit your six-month-old to look even more adorable than usual, you’re sure to find some amazing and unique clothing to ooh and ahh over. You can even search by style like bohemian or preppy. The latest pieces to arrive in Poppy’s Closet include itty bitty blazers, upcycled scarflettes, fall hats for boys, graphic tees, sweet dresses, and more. We, of course, especially love the organic section, which includes wooden toys like the silly, yet irresistible, Wee Wood Moustache Teether. Find out how to enter to win after the jump.

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Twisty Critters Blocks Let Kids Create Fun & Wacky Animals

Before you ever even heard of a Labradoodle, you probably devised a few creature amalgamations of your own as a kid, via a classic flip book or set of blocks featuring assorted animals you could combine on a whim. Twisty Critters Blocks are a modern twist on a classic toy — a clever concoction of wooden …

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Recycle Kids Halloween Costumes at National Costume Swap Day

Last Halloween your toddler dressed up as a monkey, but this year he wants to be a pirate — and even if he wanted to be a monkey again, he doesn’t fit in last year’s costume anyway! Even so, you probably hate the idea of buying a Halloween costume every October, only for it to never be worn again. Here’s an idea you will love: Costume swapping. Green Halloween and KIWI magazine are teaming up this year to launch the very first National Costume Swap Day on October 9. Swaps, big and small, will be held across the country so kids and adults can trade in their lightly used costumes from Halloweens past for a costume that’s new-to-them, saving money and the planet all at the same time.

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FEED Trick-or-Treat Bag Benefits UNICEF to Nourish Children in Need

We recently told you how to make your child’s school lunch a little less ‘scary’ by purchasing a FEED USA bag to help improve the nutrition and quality of school lunch programs. And now your kids can tote a FEED Trick-or-Treat Bag this Halloween to benefit UNICEF and help eliminate the horror of world hunger …

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