Tag: Toys
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Batik teddy bears raise money for clean water in Mali
These irresistible little batik bears will help Malian villagers build a well.
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Wooden LEGOs from Mokurukku: A non-plastic alternative
Detest plastic toys? Check out these natural, biodegradable children's building blocks from Japanese design company Mokurukku.
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100 Designers Each Create a Wooden Toy Car
These are too cute for children; 100 adorable wooden toy cars, each by a different designer.
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8 Artists Transforming Abandoned Dolls into Surreal Art
These artists reclaim and recycle orphaned dolls and their parts headed for the trash, and reincarnate them into new forms.
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5 Ways to Avoid Toxic Gifts that Could Harm Your Child
Not to be a Grinch or anything, but ... don't buy this stuff.
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Choose Toys with Staying Power This Holiday Season
More complicated gifts mean your kids will likely lose interest.
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Shipping Container Housing Fans Rejoice, There Is Now a Dolls House Version
Perfect for people who can't afford the real thing.
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B'Kid, the Balance Bike that Grows with your Child (Photos)
A wooden kids' bike with a cork seat adapts to the child's necessity as it learns how to cycle. First as a tricycle, then a balance bike and finally as a bike with pedals B'Kid is a longlasting and beautiful object.
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Areaware Designs Destined For Flea Markets, Not Landfills
Here are the latest products by Areaware that promise long emotional as well as technical lives and are likely to end up at a flea market rather than landfill. I spotted cute wooden robots and fair-trade recycled bins at the NY Gift Fair.
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Outdoor Games Created by Kids to Get Them Playing Outdoors
Outdoor play is important to the health and development of children. Use these free games to pull your kids away from the TV and outdoors.
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Has It Come to This? Solar Powered Toy Keeps Kids Playing Outside with Applause
The Son-X Octavia is a gadget attached to swing sets that makes noise to encourage kids to stay active and outdoors.
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The Avengers Assembled out of Repurposed Items for Target Ad Campaign
Creative ad campaign turns everyday objects into The Avengers for Target promo.
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5 Creative Ways to Connect Our Kids (And Yourself) to Nature
The author of The Nature Principle and Last Child in the Woods offers ways you can incorporate healthy outdoor time into a child's daily routine.
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Nine-Year-Old Creates Entire Arcade From Cardboard Boxes and Tape
There's nothing like hand-made toys, especially when they skip all the wiring and electronics and go back to the basics of cardboard boxes.
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Why Can't We All Just Get Along? 3D Printed Blocks Let You Connect Your Lego To Your MegaBlok To Your Lincoln Logs
It is less about what it does as a toy, and more about the meaning of copyright and the future of corporate control.
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The Perfect Green Tech Toy for Kids
Designer Endrit Hajno has come up with a design for a toy that teaches kids how to not only generate, but monitor renewable energy.
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Neat! Natural LEGO Blocks, Made From Cedar Sawdust, Coffee Beans & Tea Leaves
Japanese designers re-visit the time-honored LEGO block with natural materials, instead of plastic.
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Kid Builds Working Farm Equipment Made from LEGOs
Wow! Warren Seely is a mechanical genius. Not only does he build fully-functional replicas of actual farm equipment, by the age of 6 he had already rebuilt his first tractor engine.
