Eco toys are now all the rage with parents and young kids. They’re fun, they’re safe, and they don’t contain toxic materials. They’ve absolutely blitzed the kids toys market, and that’s not easy to do. Eco toys are like home insurance for your peace of mind. You know they’re there to help, and they cover the important things in your life.

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Eco toys, explained

Eco toys started off as crafts-based toys. They were made by workshops, social groups, and artists. The real breakthrough came with the rise of the environmental movement and the consumer movement, demanding safe, sustainable toys for kids.

There was some strong logic behind this development. Product safety and kids toys are supposed to be inseparable, but low quality toys were doing a lot of damage. Mass-produced garbage is still garbage. Brittle plastic could do a lot of damage, and those weird alloys for some toys were like knife edges when they broke.

Parental fury, disgusted consumers and some almost equally infuriated toy retailers and toy manufacturers who were left holding the legal baby by substandard contractors, went looking for better options. They found the eco toys. These are actually in many cases modern versions of ancient toys, made with safe, strong organic materials.

Eco toys are nothing like the safety minefield of “modern” toys. Good production methods remove hazards like sharp edges. A blunt, well turned wooden horse is a lot safer than an eye-gouging plastic monstrosity. The youngest kids could play with these toys safely.

Eco toys also aren’t fire hazards, don’t contain toxic compounds, and don’t get covered in other emergency-ward fodder like lead paint. They’re very strictly quality controlled by manufacturers. If they break, (almost impossible unless you run them over with a truck) they don’t produce shrapnel for the kids to play with, either.

Perhaps most importantly, eco toys are fun. They attract young kids. They’re kid-friendly like the big wool teddy bear or the cute little cotton kitten or the strange furry organic something or other which only young kids recognize as friends.

Eco toys and value

When it comes to dollars, it’s no contest. Eco toys are durable. They’re also washable, and don’t involve the sort of parental horror story which arises when kid and toy decide to explore the big clay puddle in the back yard. They can last for generations, where the mass produced easy-break crud might (or might not) last for minutes.

They’re even pet-safe, another big value issue. A mass produced toy might not survive an encounter with a puppy. Nor might the puppy, which could choke on Styrofoam filler or other hazards. Eco toys are tough, and even if Fido’s natural hunting instincts involve figuring out ways of removing Teddy’s head, Teddy can easily be repaired and Fido won’t be pushing up daisies in the yard.

Eco toys are like contents insurance for the toy box.  The more you have, the safer you’ll feel about possible situations.

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