Looking for a stocking stuffer that’s education and fun? Look no further than the OWI Frightened Solar Powered Grasshopper Kit ($15). This science kit is a build-it-yourself toy that’s easy for first time science experimenters. The grasshopper teaches how solar energy can be used to generate electricity to create motion. He’ll jitter and dance around the best when under direct sunlight.
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Monkey See, Monkey Do. Hopefully after playing the Balancing Monkeys Toy by Plan Toys ($21), your young “monkey” will do some eco-good!
Really cute in design, the toy aims to help develop math skills but teaching kids how to keep the tree balanced. Where you place the monkeys and how many you linked together will determine your success.
Teach your child that having fun can be definitely be done with eco-friendly products! The toy features recycled rubberwood that’s non-chemically treated.
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Save 79% – The Green Pieces Jigsaw Puzzle is on sale for a low $2.83 during REI’s Super Clearance. This jigsaw puzzle are backed with recycled paper and imbued with seeds from wildflowers. Once you complete the puzzle, you can grow wildflowers from the pieces.
Sleek, fast, and sporty. The HaPe International E-Racer is the perfect toy car for the eco-conscious Mom and her kids. With its stylish design, the E-Racer is begging to hit the race track. It’s made of renewable bamboo and finished with non-toxic, water based paints.
Looking for a simple yet fun game for your kids? Look no further than the Rapelli game by Bamboo Collection. Just pick your favorite brightly colored Caterpillars to start. Rolling the dice lets the players know which caterpillars to move in or out of the board. Part strategy, part luck – if your Caterpillar is the last one left, you win! This 2 to 4 player game is made from sustainable, eco-friendly bamboo.
Save 40% – Amazon.com has the Live Butterfly Garden from Insect Lore on sale for $15.08. The kit allows you and your kids to see larvae transform into butterflies.
The Green Start In the Rainforest Book & Puzzle by Innovative Kids is a perfect way to start your kids’ education on the environment and being eco-friendly. Featuring bright and colorful images, the book teaches about about eight exotic creatures and their habitat. The cute puzzle helps stimulate spacial recognition while reinforcing the book’s lesson.
The Green Start book also teaches the lesson of reusing our waste. The book is printed on 98% post-consumer recycled materials and uses only eco-friendly inks.
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New Black Friday Promo – Save 40%, Discovery Channel Store has their Discovery Paper Recycling Studio on sale for a low $14.99. This eco-friendly toy teaches your kids that reusing and recycling paper products can be fun.
Here’s a great game for your kids…or for yourself! Eco Tycoon: Project Green is a SimCity-like where you’re goal is to balance a nation’s economy, natural resources, energy usage, food supplies, and more. You also must reduce CO2 levels and keep everyone happy. Sounds like a very timely simulation game to have your kids to start thinking about our earth’s problems.
If you and your family enjoy Jenga, you’ll proabably also enjoy this natural bamboo balancing game called Pandabo. Featuring uniquely shaped bamboo sticks, the premise of the game is simple. You want to be the last one to place a stick before the stack tumbles. As more sticks are added, the bamboo panda becomes more and more unbalanced.
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