Dedicated Email: Natural Rubber Ducks, Dolphins and Dinosaurs, Oh My!
Filed Under Dedicated Emails | December 7, 2009
Do you have any goals for the holidays? Why not choose to gift greener and bring less toxins into your home? Which is easy thanks to Nova Nature, a Canadian company specializing in all-natural, child-safe and environmentally-friendly toys from Lanco Toys and Ecowoods.
Get started with an all-natural rubber duck. Lanco Toys, a third generation family business, designs and manufactures brightly coloured, eye-catching animals made from 100% natural rubber that’s harvested sustainably without pesticides and hand-painted with non-toxic, certified lead-free paints. Made in Spain since 1952, , all Lanco toys are water-resistant and PVC-, BPA-, Phthalte- and Nitrosamine-fee which means they’re one thing you don’t have to worry about your baby putting in their mouth!
And safe is good, but they have to appeal to tots too, which this fun selection of ducks, fish, dolphins, turtles, frogs and teethers definitely do. Designed for newborns on up they’re soft and flexible with a lightweight texture that makes them easy for tiny hands to grasp and explore and play with everywhere from the bath to the stroller. Plus when squeezed they make a cute little squeak that’s bound to make your baby smile. Oh, and when they’ve had their day they biodegrade easily.
And if your child’s at the puzzle stage, then be sure to check out Ecowoods wooden 3D animal puzzles. Hand made in Bolivia of leftover wood chips from sustainable forestry and finished with all natural finishes such as linseed oil, eucalyptus oil, sunflower oil, almond oil and beeswax, these aren’t just ecological, they’re incredibly creative and fun.
Their puzzles run the whole gamut of the animal kingdom from whales and dolphins to rhinos with calves, owls with owlets and even dinosaurs. And each puzzle is ingeniously created with a small dowel for eyes and only once it’s removed can you pull the other pieces apart. Recommended for kids from three on up they also make great desk décor.
And despite their far-flung origins, you can find Lanco Toys and Ecowoods puzzles at lots of local stores making it easy to dream of a green Christmas.
Nova Nature: www.novanature.ca
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Let us know what you think or share your great finds with us so we can share them with other Vancouver mothers!
The Granville Island Toy Company has these lovely Natural Rubber toys in stock now! If you already have Sophie the Giraffe, the Lanco toys are very nice alternative. The price points for a natural rubber toy are excellent as well.
By the way, in case you haven’t heard, the Toy Company’s Main Street location is open until 9pm in December (6pm on Sundays).
Happy Holidays!