Green Toys - Cookware & Dining Set
Since we’ve got all four sets of Green Toys available to win in our summer fun contest, I wanted to take a closer look at each over the next few weeks.
My favorite toy set is the Cookware & Dining Set. As a kid, I had a toy kitchen and it was one of my favorite toys ever. I played that toy to death. It encouraged me to do all sorts of other things like create pretend menus with old magazines, open pretend restaurants with my siblings, and bake up fancy clay cakes. Really I think every kid needs a toy kitchen and this cookware and dining set is the perfect accompaniment to any imaginative and green kitchen.
The set comes with:
- Stock pot & lid
- Skillet (I love the skillet)
- 4 place settings including silverware, plates, cups, and bowls.
My mom just gave me a mismatch of old dishes for my kitchen set - which was good, but I would have loved a matching set like this. The colors of this set are just beautiful too.
Eco benefits of this cookware and dining set (like all Green Toys) include:
- Easy open 100% recyclable packaging made from recycled corrugated boxes with no plastics, cellophane or twist-ties.
- Made from plastic made from recycled milk containers.
- Locally produced - as in, every step in the process, from milk container recycling to toy production to final assembly, occurs in one place (in this case California).
- Contain no traceable amounts of Phthalates or BPA.
- Designed without any external coatings - non-toxic, no lead, no icky paint, etc.
Enter to win this cookware and dining set from Green Toys.
By the way, if you’re looking for a good green kitchen to go with this cookware and dining set, Plan Toys a leader in greener toy options has the most beautiful new children’s play kitchen sets available in July.
Check out the refrigerator, kitchen center, and dishwasher! Amazing right.
[Image via Green Toys & Plan Toys]
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5 opinions for Green Toys - Cookware & Dining Set
Peggy
May 10, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Those appliances are rad. Do people still say “rad”?
Jennifer
May 10, 2008 at 5:34 pm
No, Peggy, but we could try to bring it back. Maybe hit some college campuses and start saying, “Rad this” and “Rad that” - who knows it could be sweeping the nation soon! They are rad though, if we were to say that.
I want to get some for my best friend’s little girl. Cedar is over his play cooking stage :( He does like to really cook though.
Hans
May 12, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Hi there,
I hate to point it out, but PlanToys are made in Thailand. You say that we should look for locally made toys, but effectively are promoting toys that are built in Asia.
I build toys in Ontario Canada, and must say that it is very hard to compete with any Asian manufacturer. Hopefully more people will see the great benefits of manufacturing locally. It helps the environment and the economy alike.
I really like PlanToys, and they’ve got something really good going, so please do support them. If you are interested in wooden blocks that are made in North America, please check out my webpage at Ukunto ukunto.com. all my lumber is sourced from lumber within a 200 mile radius, and the lumber used for the blocks are the cut aways from a large production facility, effectively saving it from becoming fire wood.
Best Regards, Hans
Jennifer
May 12, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Hey Hans - it’s true, people should buy local when they can. However, you know how many local stores near me carry a good variety of healthy, non-toxic and also cool toys? One. And they don’t have larger items like kitchen sets. We buy small toys and books there, but overall, people options are limited.
Even though I really wish we could all buy local all the time, I tend to show toys that are from all over because we can’t all buy local - that option is not there.
Also we have readers from all over, not just North America. So local to you is not local to someone else.
If I tell people in my town to buy in Ontario or London, or anywhere, that’s not my town, you still end up with varying degrees of shipping issues.
You see all my issues?
But agreed, buy local when possible. In fact, I’d almost go with hiring someone to build a toy kitchen - if you see the kitchens above, it’d be easy to show them to a local carpenter.
Hans
May 12, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Agreed :-) Thanx for acknowledging. I’ve realized that it’s not easy. Currently I’m trying to find out what the best couriers are to ship my wooden blocks from Ukunto, that put an effort in reducing their carbon footprint as much as they can. DHL seems to be really good.
Best Regards, Hans
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