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Green Ideas for Children This Holiday Season

The holiday season is fast approaching and there are many ways to spread the good cheer to our children by not only giving green toys but also teaching them green practices.

If you're children like mine ask every two seconds while watching a cartoon "I want that!" "No I want that!" "Wait, wait, I want that!" You are not alone. There are toys from crying babies that can eat and talk to full size robots that can move around with a touch of a button. Bikes and trikes, scooters, and mini toy cars. Lets not even mention the stocking stuffer toys that are itty bits of plastic that are used as filler that will soon get thrown away.

Also you soon realize that after giving all your children toys and gifts that after a week or two most of them lay in the toy room and not picked up again for months or never. Then the next Christmas comes along and more toys are added and more and more until finally there are so many toys with missing pieces, broken arms and ripped out pages that they get thrown away. It can be a never ending cycle of buying more and wasting more. Not just your money but also the earth.

I would like to offer some green present ideas and green gift substitutes for this holiday season. I think that the holiday season can be more memorable and enjoyable if we can take the time to focus on our families and our community. When we keep things small and simple we feel healthy in our minds and our bodies. Our community and earth benefit as well with less waste products filling land and air.

Green Present Ideas

Try to upcycle toys with neighbors and extended family. Most toys in your own home are in great condition but are maybe not age appropriate. If you have a neighbor who has a daughter a few years older than your daughter see if there are some toys that you could either trade for or buy to save money and landfill space. If you have a friend who's son is obsessed with trains contact her and let her know that your son has outgrown all his.

Look around your house for objects that can be made into toys. Try making a doll house out of a large sturdy cardboard box, take your time cutting out windows and doors, attach wallpaper from leftover wallpaper from your dining room, use extra fabric to make bed coverings and window curtains. Children love getting gifts from the heart not just from the toy store.

If you know how to wood work ask for free leftover wood at a lumber store or construction site. Check out the internet for instructions to build wooden toys like trains, cars, toy guns, and even action figures. Any boy would love to play and imagine with something that was made just for him.

Green Gift Substitutes

For older children who have grown out of toys a great idea to enjoy the holiday season while being green is volunteering at homeless shelters and soup kitchens either during Christmas season or even on Christmas day. Have them look for gently used toys and clothes that they have outgrown that they would like to donate. Or try a road side clean up activity where all cans collected could be exchanged for money and donated to a cause.

Another great idea for gift giving within the family is gifts of service. A foot rub for mom, doing dishes for one week for brother, shoveling snow for dad. Gifts of service often say more than a watch or new CD.

If you do buy toys try to look for toys that are made from recycled plastics. Check out Etsy for homemade gifts that are made in a more homemade green way.

There are lots of ways we can teach children green living and gift giving and the holiday season is a perfect way to incorporate both.

MOTTO: Building Children For Christ LUKE 1:37

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We offer retail and wholesale distribution of new or used toys, books, educational games. Out door and indoor toys. We service all of Nigeria and all of Africa. Our store, Toys R Lagos is one of the biggest and coolest toy stores in Lagos. We sell a wide range of kid’s toys, books, clothes, ride-on cars as well as house goods all in excellent condition. Most of our stock was previously barely used. The ride-on cars for children come in various brands and are among our top selling products. These include BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Jeep. The smiles of the faces of kids we see when they sit in these cars are priceless! Locate us on Ogudu Road, pass Ogudu round about Ogudu GRA, Lagos Nigeria and you won't be disappointed. We make thrift shopping an easy experience you will enjoy!

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How to Choose Gifts Toys For Kids

Provide something for children or babies should not be arbitrary because they are somehow not an adult who understands the rules in playing the toy so that the slightest mistake could be fatal. Parents must be keen in choosing toys for their children, do not just see a cheap price and then ignores all the risks.

Here are some rules to give toys to the children:

1. Note Age Players On Label Wrap Packaging

In the toy packaging is usually no information age / age of children who may play toy. Adjust to the age of our children. Do not provide toys for children 3 years for children under one year. But may provide toys for children ages two years to six years.

2. Read the User Information Toys

See the user manual or the information contained on the packaging of toys. See if there are parts or particles that can be dislodged so that it can make our children the dangers. Also read the other info we should be aware.

3. Toys That Use Batteries / Battery

If toys are used batteries, consider whether the lid firmly closed is not easy to open. Note also the battery is in it not to use low-quality battery that easily leak poison our children.

4. Beware Toys With Hazardous Materials

Sometimes the toys that come from outside the state there that do not follow government standards because it uses ingredients that are not appropriate toys for children. Note the plastic material, fabric, fur materials, paint materials, wood materials, metal / metal and other materials. not to use ingredients that are harmful to children because children love to bite and inserting toy into her mouth so that harmful substances can enter freely into the body.

5. Treat and Clean

Each toy requires good maintenance and cleaning to keep your child safe play our baby. Clean the toys in accordance with the material and also the basic rules and specific have to remove dust, germs viruses bacteria and other impurities. If there are broken toys immediately fixed or secured so as not to endanger our children.

6. Give Toys That Educate

As much as possible for the parents or others who want to give small gifts to children toys / baby, give toys which are educational even more expensive. A good educational toy will be able to develop skills and abilities of children, such as motor skills, logic skills, ability to remember, intelligence, faith is devotion, and others.

MOTTO: Building Children For Christ LUKE 1:37

Toys R Lagos in Lagos, Nigeria Allows You to Experience Different Levels of Fun Toy Shopping

We offer retail and wholesale distribution of new or used toys, books, educational games. Out door and indoor toys. We service all of Nigeria and all of Africa. Our store, Toys R Lagos is one of the biggest and coolest toy stores in Lagos. We sell a wide range of kid’s toys, books, clothes, ride-on cars as well as house goods all in excellent condition. Most of our stock was previously barely used. The ride-on cars for children come in various brands and are among our top selling products. These include BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Jeep. The smiles of the faces of kids we see when they sit in these cars are priceless! Locate us on Ogudu Road, pass Ogudu round about Ogudu GRA, Lagos Nigeria and you won't be disappointed. We make thrift shopping an easy experience you will enjoy!

Please find here more information toys for sale in Lagos Nigeria..