by Fünchkins
As children most of us pretended to go chasing after robbers and marauding armies on our wooden rocking horses. They served as vehicles for our flights of fancy that transported us to the wild west where we served as honourable sheriffs for troubled towns.
Now our own kids can have the same opportunity to save the galaxy with these ultra modern versions of the rocking horse. [Read more...]
Spring is here and Summer is just around the corner, and in that spirit Nordstroms has released a range of shoes for babies to big kids for the new season. The range of shoes is from various designers like Kenneth Cole, Michael Kors, Toms and Nordstroms themselves. The shoes include sandals for play and for that occasional wedding that allow children to attend.
I could have used one of these Hugglepods when I was a kid, they are hanging canvas chairs that can be used inside or outside, either to sit and read or just daydream about all the adventures they have gotten into during the summer.
Available from Hearth Song for $89 each, they come in four colour combinations to match the décor in most children’s rooms.
Hugglepods can be purchased through the Hearth Song website
Hoerbert is a wooden Mp3 player especially designed for children, with adults more and more familiar with technology, it’s no surprise that children are becoming familiar with using Mp3′s at a very early age. So how do you protect your own expensive electronics from slobber and suspicious stickiness? You get them their own Mp3 player, and that is what the Hoerbert is.
Minakani has a wallpaper range that is out of this world, the images are giant and fun enough for kiddies’ bedroooms but modern enough to grow with them. The wallpaper would even be fitting for an accent wall in a lounge or kitchen. In some of the designs, you can even pick your own colours!
Minakani wallpaper is available for order through the Minakani website
Now that Valentines Day is past, we can look forward to more candy, Easter!. These Easter theme chairs for children are adorable. The chair is made in children’s size, but can safely hold an adult.
Get more information on ordering the Iichi – Handmade in Japan
Childs Own studios was started by a lady that wanted to make an instantly recognisable soft toy for a little boy, but couldn’t find a company that made toys from drawings and that is how her business started. She now receives thousands of child-drawn pictures from children and parents around the world, asking her to transform each imaginary picture into a soft plush toy that the child can cuddle in real life.
There is such a demand on the Childs Own plush toys that her production time of four to six weeks has grown impossible to stick to. So she has asked, in the interest of getting through her current waiting list, that we refrain from sending her anymore drawings, just until she catches her breath.
If you are having trouble finding a nightlight that your kids will love, look no further that the Glo Nightlight. It consists of a stand that charges balls of light so that you can pick them up and set them anywhere you want, like a bedside table or a shelf. The Glo Nightlight can also change colours, which can be selected or you can allow the balls to cycle through the different colours available.
The Glo Nightlight measures 8.2 x 8.5 x 9.8-inches, is BPA-free, Phthalate-free, PVC-free. There is also a 9v power adapter and the low energy LED base.
Don’t have enough space for a proper green house, or even a DIY green house? Try having a green house on your windowsill. If you aren’t able to get the bigger soda bottles, how about getting a glass cloche, a bell jar or even a mason or canning jar?
Take a look at this really easy DIY green house on Disney Family Fun
After losing his mother at sixteen and his father at twenty three, both to cancer, Daniel Patrick Helmstetter had an idea for a book to help children deal with death. The book tackles this difficult subject in ways that parents will feel comfortable, without religion to muddy the water. Daniel created a Kickstarter page to fund the printing and distribution of Bodies of Water, the realization of encounter with a snowflake while looking after his father during his illness. $25 dollars will get you one of the first hardcover pressings, hand numbered and signed by Daniel and Box Brown, $50 will get you two and so on and so forth.
