Natural toy love: Begone, big noisy pieces of plastic!
After all the numerous toy recalls this year I reached a boiling point a few weeks ago and started to clean out all the kids’ toys. We own lots of Elmo, Dora, and Thomas, all kinds of stuff that has just narrowly missed being recalled, and since we have many generous relatives we have TONS of toys in general. I am not, as a rule, anti-plastic — Legos are the greatest toy ever, in my opinion — but I started to realize that I am in control of all the beeping, singing, flashing, wailing, and mooing toys in my house, and if they are driving me nuts, I can in fact put them into forced retirement.
So I sorted through four years’ worth of big plastic baby toys and ended up with a few huge trashbags of toys to donate (still working on WHERE to donate them, but at least they’re out of the way). Now we’re left with things like blocks and duplos, stacking cups, pretend food, and bouncy balls, none of which sing “Let’s go riding in my car, it’s nice and BLUUUUE…” when held.
And now, with the holidays coming up, I am on a quest to add only non-obnoxious toys to our recently decluttered collection. In my search for non-obnoxious toys, I found many amazing websites with gorgeous old-fashioned toys. So, for my own reference as well as yours, here are:
Fabulous Natural Toy Websites
- Oompa Toys
- Magic Cabin Toys
- Fine Wooden Toys
- Blueberry Forest Toys
- The Wooden Wagon
- Maukilo
- Hazelnut Kids
- Island Treasure Toys
- Natural Pod
- A Toy Garden
- Willow Tree Toys
- Three Sisters Toys
- Hearthsong
- Joy’s Waldorf Dolls
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