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As a mother of a toddler I want my daughter to be surrounded by natural toys that I know are safe and have been made ethically and in an environmentally conscious way.

I want this for all children, so they will value the beauty of the natural world. By giving a child an eco toy you are helping to protect the child’s future.

Feed you childrens’ imagination with our fantastic range of eco toys and recycled stationery. We’ve got fun cardboard playhouses, made from recycled cardboard, to build your own eco adventures, and the fantastic new range of Sprig eco toys.

Completely battery free and made from an innovative new material, Sprigwood, which is created from recylced plastic and wood. For outdoor fun we’ve got a great horse garden swing to delight your green kids.

For indoor times check out our craft kits to try and knit your own cheeky monkey or build your own space explorer, or pick up one of our great eco games like our bamboo version of kerplunk or our eco board game Play Rethink.

There’s also fairtrade toys made from sustainable wood and a gorgeous range of hanging mobiles made in Denmark by Flensted mobiles.

Baby Entertained:

Keeping a baby entertained is really quite easy. They enjoy exploring almost everything and love to take things out of a purse, or from drawers.

See things from a baby’s point of view – as if for the first time…

Household tip type: Baby

Babies are like little sponges for information – things like colour, sounds, different textures – all of these are intriguing to your little one and can keep them occupied as well as help them to develop important skills too.

Baby toys, swings and vibrating bouncers all go a long way in keeping your baby occupied, but there are also everyday household items that can come into play once your child is old enough to need a bit more stimulation.

Place the baby on the floor on their stomach or back or place them in a bouncy seat. Make sure with this that there is a toy or an on object in front of him so he could focus on that and play with it.

  Find a set of keys and jingle them in front of the baby.

Animal friends from around the planet twirl and smile down at baby as music plays and a fascinating light show dances up above.

The delicate canopy keeps images close, so it’s easier for young babies to focus.

As baby grows, you can remove the mobile and project the show on the ceiling, with sweet music or sounds playing along.

Mobile requires 4 D batteries; remote requires 2 AAA batteries.

3 musical settings
1) Long-playing, continuous music
2) Music with motion
3) Music, motion & projection

Safety Information:

Instruction Manual

Notice: In an effort to provide our customers with the best products, we periodically make product modifications and improvements.

Therefore, the product you have may not be an identical match to the product in this online manual.

Calcium for your Baby:

Why your baby needs calcium

Contrary to popular belief, calcium isn’t JUST good for the bones – it actually plays an important part in lots of functions of the human body. In fact, it is the most abundant mineral in our bodies, with over 99 per cent stored in our bones and teeth and the rest stored in other parts of the body, including muscles, blood and the fluid in between cells, where it acts as a ‘messenger’ for the central nervous system.

Throughout life, our bones undergo a lot of changes! From birth, then throughout childhood and adolescence, a great deal of bone formation takes place.

Calcium and dairy food

Australians receive most of their calcium from dairy foods. If milk is removed from the diet, it can lead to an inadequate intake of calcium. This is of particular concern for children and adolescents, who have high calcium needs. Calcium deficiency may lead to disorders like osteoporosis (a disease of both men and women in which bones become fragile and brittle later in life).

Eat Healthy, Be Active

Eat Healthy, Be Active, it should be your motto to keep your Baby Healthy.

The activities in this unit are designed to teach young children basic concepts of healthy eating and exercise. They will learn about a variety of foods, find out why eating breakfast is important, discover that drinking water is important for good health, and practice exercise and stretching.

Early childhood teachers may choose to conduct only a few of the activities, or they may choose to conduct all the activities.

Allowing babies to feed themselves from a selection of foods, including bread, means they learn to regulate their own food intake.

Babies who self-feed with solids are also more likely to prefer carbohydrates than spoon-fed babies, who tend to favour sweet things, the study found.

Researchers analysed two methods of weaning – baby-led weaning with finger foods, versus traditional spoon-feeding by parents.

Travel with a baby:

It’s great fun taking your baby on holiday, but it can be a little nerve-racking, too. We’ve got all the information you need to make your family holiday a safe and happy one with articles on how to cope with flights, deciding what to pack and choosing the perfect family-friendly holiday destination.

 Like all the child car seats that Which? reviews, this ‘Group 1′ car seat had to undergo tests that exceed the standards manufacturers have to meet by law.

Among other things, we crash test child car seats in a side impact, while manufacturers have to ensure only that they’re safe in a head-on crash. Group 1 is the category which covers toddlers up to 18kg in weight.

Keep your infant in a rear facing infant safety seat which is correctly installed and your infant can be protected in the seat beside yours.   In order to make safer air travel with your infant, take pacifier, teething ring, stuffed animal, toys, and special blanket along with you. If your infant feels little bit fussy in the night, go for a walk up and down the aisle.

Soft Toys for your Soft Baby:

There are many brands of soft toys, including Beanie Babies, a line of stuffed beanbag animals, that was started in earlier years.

Several marketing strategies, such as keeping them at a low price, introducing a wide variety of Beanie Babies, giving them names, birthdays, and personalities, and retiring certain Beanie Babies after a while (thus giving them collector’s value) made them widely popular for years after they were introduced.

The Leap Frog (one toy company) offers hours of educational fun. Personalize your child’s learning with his or her name, favorite food, animal and colors.

Enjoy five pre-loaded songs or select and download learning tunes and lullabies online. Simply press a paw to play music, learning songs or games. Your child will love singing, learning the alphabet and practicing writing letters along with Violet. Your child can immerse himself or herself in counting games and activities to learn number names and number order.

Newborn baby care involves helping your baby whenever he is sick, you should call the doctor immediately. Note that even though some of certain illnesses appear to be mild, they can be a sign of serious disorder.

Here is the list of possible symptoms that your newborn may encounter during his or her early age: 

• Poor feeding
• Loss of consciousness
• Hysterical crying or unusual excitement
• High fever
• Extreme sleepiness
• Paralysis of any part of the body
• Extreme chilling
• Sudden loss of hearing
• Earache
• Discharge of fluid from the ear
• Severe headache
• Convulsion
• Sudden weakness
• Discolored and bad-smelling nasal fluid
• Diarrhea
• Poor coloring
• Vomiting

It is never too soon to make certain that your baby’s vision is developing properly. Baby eye problems are not just ignorable. There are always signs and symptoms for the odd chance that your baby may have a problem. Most infants have no serious or detrimental eye problems, but there are a few situations where you may need to have your baby’s eyes checked. There is no certain age a baby has to be to receive a full eye exam, so do not wait for your baby to get older.

As always, the sooner a problem is discovered the sooner it can be treated.

Infants eye problems -baby eye care

Your baby will actually get his first eye exam in the hospital nursery, by a doctor who will check for unusual abnormalities, eye infections, malformed eyelids, cataracts and glaucoma.

Your baby’s eyes are still weak and immature. They are sensitive to the sun and too much light. Snow blindness, cataracts … are dangers which may befall his/her eyes.

Eye exams to more than 1,000 kids between the ages of two and a half years and six years.

Cognitive development for your baby it exactly means the learning process of memory, language, thinking and reasoning.   Your baby i.e. infants under 0-1 is learning to recognize the sound of your voice. So, you have to focus your vision from the periphery or the corner of your eyes to the center. Language development is much more important than uttering sounds (“babble”), or mama/dada.

Listening, understanding and calling the names of people are quite common things that all will do for the language development. During this stage, your baby is also developing bonds of love and trust on you. The way you cuddle, hold, and play with your baby will set the basis interaction with you and others.

During the first three months of your baby’s life, your child is emotionally sensitive to the moods of others. They communicate their hunger, fear and discomfort through crying . Yet they are also programmed to turn towards their mother’s smell and voice.