I wanted to share some new items that are available at Sprout Baby for January. If you are looking for eco-friendly toys and art supplies for your little ones be sure to check out the following items:
- Lana Organic plushed toys
- Eco-kids Gluten Free Finger Paints
- Melissa & Doug toys and puzzles
- PlanToys
Don’t forget to use discount code SBBL055 to save 15% off your first order.
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Here are a few deals and steals that I’d like to share with all of you! Great eco-minded companies!
Franklin Goose- Start a wishlist or gift registry during the month of December and share it with friends and family. Franklin Goose will randomly selected winners to receive one item from their list! Maybe they will grant your wish! Great wooden, soft, and recycled toys for the babies and tots! Coupon code 15077b61 for Free Shipping on all orders over $50. See full review HERE.
Sprout Baby - Use coupon code SBBL055to save 15% off your first purchase. Sprout Baby sells organic baby food, cloth diapers, and much more! Only 7 days left to register to win $2500 cash in their First Birthday Bash! See full review HERE.
aden + anais – Great organic cotton muslin swaddle blankets and more! Lil B doesn’t go anywhere without hers.
From Dec. 3 – Dec. 18th you can save 15% off anything on their site with coupon code celebrate. See full review HERE.
Dittany Baby: Save when you shop at Dittany Baby with the following codes! ***Be sure to enter theecochic@gmail.comin the comments box at checkout so I can receive my “Refer A Friend” credits. (THANK YOU!!) See full review and enter the giveaway for a Mei Tai baby carrier HERE. (Giveaway ends Dec. 10, 2009)
”10off20” for 10% off of a $20.00 order
“20off50” for 20% off of a $50.00 order
“35off100” for 35% off of a $100.00 order
Picnic Basket Crafts on Etsy: Etsy is a great place to find homemade items when you don’t have the time to make it yourself. PBC makes homemade spa and body treatments along with other cool items. Coupon code Eco Chic Blog for 10% off your next purchase. See full review HERE.
Rockin’ Green Soap: Use coupon RockinHoliday and receive 10% offyour purchase. Great eco-friendly detergent formulated especially for cloth diapers. Scents I’ve tried…pumpkin crunch, peppermint cocoa, cherry lemonade, and buttercream. Next on the list to try…Mango Sorbet! Yummy!
Giveaway Alert! Win a Labyrinth Balance Board from Challenge & Fun. ECO-ngratulations Cindy! You win!
Do you suffer from video game and television addicted kids? Give them a Labyrinth Balance Board this year and you may want to play it with them. The board is made here in the US from wood certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). It includes three small balls that fit on the boards maze. Place the balls on the board and try to maneuver them from the outside to the inside (or vice-versa). Just be sure to keep the balls away from the younger babies and tots…chocking hazard!
Challenge & Fun has two different sized boards. We have the full size board and our almost 7 year old can manage it quite well. The Jr. board would work well too but I like the challenge of the full size board myself. Shhhh…don’t tell him I’ve been playing with his toy!
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Where to Buy:
Museum Tour
Win It! One lucky reader will win their own Labyrinth Balance Board from Challenge & Fun. To enter visit Challenge & Fun and tell me one thing you learned from their site. Leave your response below (this is a mandatory entry).
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Giveaway open to residents of the continental US over the age of 18 yrs old. Must leave a comment for each entry with a maximum of 10 entries total for this giveaway. Giveaway ends December 10, 2009 at midnight (EST). Entrants must leave their email to be contacted if they are selected.
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Giveaway ended! ECO-ngratulations Cindy!
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Giveaway Alert! One lucky reader will win an I Cherish Planet Earth Book and Memory Game from Challenge & Fun. ECO-ngratulations Jennifer T! Check your email!
Challenge & Fun is a great online store that features eco-friendly gifts for babies and kids. Since I normally write about the ba
by stuff I’m super excited when I get the opportunity to write about eco-friendly products for my older child. I think he might get a little jealous with all the baby stuff!
I Cherish Planet Earth is a great eco-friendly book that teaches kids how to respect the Earth. It comes with a matching game with images from the story. This is a great gift for both preschool and elementary age children alike. I think the classic memory was one of my sons first board games at about 3 yrs old and he stills enjoy playing it at almost 7 yrs old.
Website: http://challengeandfun.com/index.php
Twitter: http://twitter.com/challengeandfun
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Challenge-Fun/
Where to Buy:
Amazon
Three Sisters
MyToysMart.com
Tree Hollow Toys
My Little Green Room
Win It! One lucky reader will win their own copy of I Cherish Planet Earth from Challenge & Fun. To enter visit Challenge & Fun and tell me one thing you learned from their site. Leave your response below (this is a mandatory entry).
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-Enter any of my other Eco-Holiday Gift Guide Giveaways (Leave a comment telling me which one’s you’ve entered.)
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Giveaway open worldwide to anyone over the age of 18 yrs old. Must leave a comment for each entry with a maximum of 10 entries total for this giveaway. Giveaway ends December 10, 2009 at midnight (EST). Entrants must leave their email to be contacted if they are selected.
LEAVE YOUR COMMENTS HERE TO ENTER!
Giveaway Ended! ECO-ngrations Jennifer T!
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Giveaway Alert! Franklin Goose is giving one loyal reader a $25 gift certificate to use at their online store. ECO-ngratulations Alysia! Watch your email for details on how to claim your $25 gift certificate from Franklin Goose!
Franklin Goose is an online retailer that sells just about everything you could want for your babies, tots, or kids. Franklin Goose specializes in environmentally friendly toys, rattles, art supplies, organic plush, organic clothing, cloth diapers, feeding, furniture, books & CDs. One of my favorite items is the Fruit Stained Stacker by TickiTackiToys. Made from wood certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and stained with fruit and vegetable juices you can be sure that this toy is safe for your little ones. 
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Holiday Savings! Free shipping on all orders over $50 from now through Dec. 1st, 2009. Coupon Code 15077b61.
Win It! Want to win a $25 gift certificate from Franklin Goose to spend on that special eco-baby or tot?
Giveaway closed! Eco-ngratulations Alysia! Watch your email for details on how to claim your $25 gift certificate from Franklin Goose.
Mandatory Entry: Visit Franklin Goose and leave me a comment telling me what you would buy if you won.
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Giveaway open to all residents in the US over the age of 18 yrs old. Must leave a comment for each entry with a maximum of 6 entries total. Giveaway ends November 30, 2009 at midnight (EST). Entrants must leave their email to be contacted if they are selected.
LEAVE YOUR COMMENTS HERE TO ENTER!
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*Franklin Goose sponsored this post.
Like most parents our house is littered with kids toys that require batteries. You can’t celebrate a birthday or a holiday without obtaining a few more of those e-toys that are suppose to make your child smarter. My baby alone is sleeping with 3 stuffed animals that require batteries to send her off to sleepy town more peacefully. We have a special basket in our pantry that stores all of those excess batteries so that we never have to deal with ‘dead’ toys. I even have 2 battery chargers and about 8 rechargeable batteries…however they are always dead when I need to use them! My son hates it when a toy actually dies because he knows it is usually months before I actually replace the batteries. Seriously…he has a set of walkie talkies that have never had batteries…and he uses his imagination to make them work! Shocking I know…but we survived this way as kids, so can he!
Inevitably we all require batteries in our home to make things work. From the Wii remotes to the digital cameras; there isn’t much that doesn’t need batteries. What is the most eco-friendly way to deal wtih batteries? I’ve been on a rechargeable battery kick for a few years now but like I mentioned earlier they are always dead. I’ve either used them until they run out of juice or they loose their ability to hold a charge. After all, even rechargeable batteries are only made to be charged around 100+ times. Well we all have a new option available…
Most batteries (even rechargeables) contain heavy metals such as cadmium, lithium and mercury which can be poisonous to our health and very harmful to our environment. The Environmental Protection Agency even classifies batteries as a Universal Waste (a type of hazardous waste) and requires that they be disposed of properly (and not sent to the landfill). The company I work for actually has a battery recycling program in place to ensure that we act responsibly.
Fuji EnviroMAX is different! The contain NO poisonous cadmium, lithium or mercury! They are packaged in recycled paper and recycleable PET plastic. They can be harmlessly disposed of with your normal waste. None of the ingredients are harmful to the environment. They are landfill safe. Lastly, they perform equal to (if not better than) traditional batteries so you don’t need to purchase them as often.
I’ve mentioned ISO 14001 in a previous post. ISO 14001 certification ensures that a business operates in an environmentally friendly manner and that they are regularly audited by an outside company to ensure their conformance with the ISO 14001 standards. The Fuji EnviroMAX manufacturing facility is ISO 14001 certified. They strive to achieve a zero emissions manufacturing process and currently recycle waste at a 93.3% rate. You can read their full Social and Environmental Report HERE to learn more.
How do they work? I received two sets of Fuji EnviroMAX batteries, the AA and AAA digital alkaline batteries, for review. I put some in our Wii remotes (because they are always dying) and the rest went in Lil’ Bs bedtime toy (it plays sleepy music and has a soft light) about a month and a half ago. I really wanted to see if I could tell a difference in these batteries compared to traditional batteries and rechargeable batteries. Let me tell you…they are still working today! My boy plays the Wii like a crazy addicted crack addict…and they still have juice! Every night Lil’ B goes to bed with her little lullaby toy…and it still has juice! I’m a believer and on our next trip to the store I will stock up on the Fuji EnviroMAX.
Where can you buy them? Starting over the summer Fuji EnviroMAX can now be found at Target stores nationwide. You can also purchase them at Amazon.com, just click on the link on the Fuji EnviroMAX website and make your purchase. They retail for $3.99-5.99 MSRP.
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Picking toys is not easy and there is a toy website called ebeanstalk, dedicated to selecting good, safe learning toys and baby gifts. BUT they need help from moms like me to help pick the toys. The toy they sent is called Click-A-Roni from International Playthings, who makes great baby toys. Here is a cute little video of Lil’ B playing with her Click-A-Roni.
It looks like Lil’ B likes her Click-A-Roni. To me it’s just another rattle toy but I’m not the one who has to be impressed with it…she is! ebeanstalk is a great website that uses regular moms to review their products before they add them to their store. You can shop for great developmental toys by age and also find expert advice from a group of Child Specialists. Be sure to sign up for their newsletter to receive their promotional offers.
Ebeanstalk is dedicated to a baby’s development. And they select the best baby toys matched to a baby’s development. To see great information on how a baby grows up, check out the info on their baby toys page.
Picking toys for a baby is not as simple as it sounds. Here are some quick baby facts:
Ebeanstalk offers a small collection of organic and wooden toys for babies. For all my readers, here is a 15% discount on any first purchase at ebeanstalk — TGS345 — just enter the code at the shopping cart.
I found a new website today that I wanted to share with you all. It’s eBeanstalk.com. They sell a wide variety of developmental toys for children from newborn to age 7. The cool thing about this store is that each toy or product is tested by a panel of over 700 mothers. What better way to know that a toy is not junk than to know that it has been tested and approved by moms like you.
Here are a few of the products that I have on my wishlist:
Magic School Bus Going Green: This is a cool science kit for ages 6+ that teaches kids about the water cycle, how to make compost, how to shrink plastic, recycling, and more. I think in honor of Earth Day I might treat Big B to this cool activity kit.
Organic Mini-Pig: Little B would love to have another organic stuffed animal (or stuffy as we call them) to add to her collection. She already has a monkey and a giraffe. I won’t feel guilty if she decides to start chewing on the arm of this cute little pig.
Nipple Nurture Butter: This one is a little treat for the breast feeding mommy. The Nipple Nurture Butter is lanolin-free (did you know lanolin came from sheep’s wool??) and paraben free. Only plant derived products are used to make this soothing butter.
SPECIAL OFFERS:
Use code SAVE$10 this week only to save $10 off any order of $75 or more.
Use code TGS345 from now until June 30, 2009 and save 15% off your order.
Happy Shopping! Tell me what your favorite product is.
