Gift Guide - Eco-friendly Toys

What could be better than combining sustainability and fun? Offering many unique qualities, our eco-friendly toy range is a fantastic alternative to plastic toys.
 
These types of toys will enhance your child's senses and understanding of sustainability from a young age, all while positively contributing to the environment.  
 
With Christmas always just around the corner and many parents, present buyers and guardians looking for toys to buy their children, we have gathered a range of unique eco-friendly and wooden toys:
 
Little Dutch Vanity Table
Price: £42

Made from FSC wood, this Vanity Table from Little Dutch is perfect for your mini makeup artist. Designed to encourage imaginative play from age 3+, this sweet vanity table comes with a rotating mirror and an array of pretend play beauty products, including a hairbrush, perfume, lipstick, eye shadow, nail file and nail polish. The Vanity Table also has a storage drawer to keep treasures and trinkets safe!

Little Dutch Wooden Toaster Set
Price: £22

A good breakfast starts the day off perfectly, and with this fun wooden toaster set from Little Dutch, breakfast just got even more fun. If you press the lever, the bread will jump out of the toaster. Suitable for ages 2+, this 18 x 8 x 18cm set contains a toaster in mint and a full breakfast set including a plate, knife, two slices of bread, butter, a slice of cheese, fried egg and jars of honey and jam.

This set fits perfectly with the Little Dutch wooden play kitchen, or you could combine it with the Little Dutch wooden coffee machine for the ultimate breakfast experience!


TickiT Touch & Match Board
Price: £14

The TickiT Touch and Match Board does not disappoint when it comes to stimulating the senses through fun, tactile play. Ideal for sensory play and encouraging or developing language and communication skills, this 22 x 17 x 3.5cm TickiT Touch and Match Board is perfect for ages 3+. It will also inspire exploration with all the exciting different textures of each counter.


Plan Toys Mini Balancing Cactus
Price: £10

The Plan Toy Mini Balancing Cactus is the ultimate fun, mini, challenging, and stylish wooden game. Suitable for players aged 3+, this game encourages your child to plan and think ahead and also stimulates their imagination. Perfect for on-the-go play with mini measurements of 3.3x3.3x4.5 cm, the game aims to construct a cactus form by fixing the branches to the cactus stem. Successfully build the cactus without any of the branches falling, and you win!

Little Dutch Wooden Weighing Scales
Price: £17

Suitable for ages 3+, the Little Dutch Wooden Weighing Scales are perfect for imaginative role-play set-ups and are ideal as a toy on its own or as part of a larger play kitchen. Either way, children will love to weigh their pretend food and determine its price! These fun wooden weighing scales come in 42 x 34 x 50cm, incorporate cool mint tones and support the early development of maths and communication skills. Even better, this product is made from solid wood and water-based, non-toxic paints!

Little Dutch Noah's Ark
Price: £34

All aboard 2-by-2! Learn and play the story of Noah's Ark with this beautifully crafted play set. Decorated using water-based, non-toxic paints, your child can help each animal and their pair safely onto the boat, ready for their journey.

Perfect for ages 18 months+, this game will encourage role play and imagination, all while learning the story of Noah and his Ark full of animals. This set is 14 x 29 x 24 cm and includes pairs of lions,  elephants,  zebras,  monkeys,  pigeons,  crocodiles,  turtles,  giraffes, ostriches, cows, a chicken and a rooster, as well as Noah and his wife. All aboard!

Plan Toys Balancing Tree
Price: £14

The Plan Toys Balancing Tree is a fun wooden game made to improve your child's fine motor and coordination skills. Suitable for ages 3+, this set consists of 11 trees and 6 birds with a dimension of H15cm. Encouraging your child to concentrate and play with others, the player who stacks and balances the tree without the bird falling off wins! Go, go, go!

Little Dutch Xylophone Blue
Price: £15

We love the Little Dutch Xylophone and let us tell you why! This super modern, fun and sustainable musical toy is made from pine wood and decorated using non-toxic, water-based paints and perfectly decorated with delightful blue tones. Suitable for ages 12 months+ and sized at 3 x 29 x 14.5cm, this toy is a fitting present for any little one. Perfect for sparking musical development, you could have a little musician on your hands before you know it!

To explore our range of toys, please visit: https://www.thekidcollective.co.uk/brands.html

Prices correct at time of writing. Subject to change

Laura Davies is the founder of the The Kid Collective, the ultimate shopping destination for toys that support learning through play. Everything is consciously selected with the benefits of play in mind, ensuring that each toy inspires growth in children, for today and tomorrow. When it comes to play, we know what matters.

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