Fab Mums

Cardboard is quickly becoming very popular with kids toys and furniture. Environment friendly and safe this extremely durable and versatile material has captured the attention of many artists who constantly come up with the most amazing designs for children. French architectural designer Marie Compagnon has created these large scale construction pieces called Habitadule, which is [...]

I love educational toys so I couldn’t help getting excited at the sight of this wooden jigsaw puzzle where each piece represents a different county in Britain. What a fantastic way to learn geography this is. Each jigsaw is cut and painted by hand in a rural part of Sri Lanka in a fair trade [...]

Eco friendly products and ways to green up our lives and our kids by being kinder to our planet is one of the hot topics at the beginning of 2010. I read a very interesting post on Inhabitots about the Green Parenting Predictions for 2010 with the views of 8 established green bloggers who all [...]

I am a supporter of play and learn so when I saw the recycling board game at the Natural History Museum’s shop I just had to share it with you. What a lovely gift it makes.  Kids will learn all about recycling rubbish items and how to separate them having fun! They will acquire environmental [...]

The Handpicked Collection has very generously offered a £20 voucher to spend on their site for a lucky winner. Let me tell you they have a great selection of gifts for kids and adults alike. Every item is carefully picked by the 20 panel’s members and is presented with a reason behind its selection, which I [...]

I get so excited when I find new toys that are educational, stimulating and safe for the kids as well as  the planet, environment friendly, produced within a fair working environment and distributed in total respect of fair trade.  If you add to that an affordable price you have a winner.
Happy Mais eco bricks are [...]

I have been looking around for crafts ideas for more Halloween decorations to add to the hanging bats we made last week and I found two very good projects. Both involve recycling, which makes them that little more fun and educational.
The Pumpkin Jar ornament from Craftbits.com is very easy to make using an old [...]