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Eco and vegan stickers, toys and art materials
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Plant based kids art materials
Natural and plastic free and non- toxic, vegan children's art supplies. Keep using things you have until they run out; noone expects vegan to change your household overnight.
Toys
Gifts with animals in their natural habitat, as opposed to a farm, zoo, aquarium or safari. This is educational, as children learn about natural ecosystems. However, my child tends to prefer to pretend to be the animal themselves, rather than picking up a little wooden one. This is also cheaper.
Vegan play food
Healthy, wholefood playfood, including: plant based proteins, vegetables and fruit.
Vegan food games for children. You can find more activity books on the vegan books page.
Kids sustainable stickers- eco reusable, biodegradable/ compostable
Baby Vegan used to get through through one animal themed Usborne Sticker book a week. Their favourite nature sticker books comprised friendly, smiley faced animal stickers, and pages with background scenes of their environment to stick the animals onto. When sticking, Baby Vegan often likes to arrange creatures into interspecies cuddle parties. The animals sometimes bounce around or eat bits of our dinner before settling on the page, or carpet. You do not need to put the sticker in a particular place, just find the right (or wrong) habitat. (Edit: now aged 2, Toddler Vegan prefers there to be a right place to put the sticker).
I was initially pleased to see Baby Vegan learn concentration and fine motor skills, while studying environmental science (like me!) but then realised sticker books are not recyclable. Since it is a bit embarrassing to have an eco website which promotes single use plastic, I set out to find an alternative. I am now the world's leading authority on stickers. I made myself this shopping list of titles which show animals in their natural habitat. For green reasons, I've found out about reusable, sustainably sourced stickers, and magnetic and felt sticker alternatives. We also avoid books about cars so as not to set a bad eco example.
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Magnetic Sticker Books
animal and nature magnet play scene sets
Animals in their natural habitat
Magnetology publish a range of magnetic play scene books. The Ocean one looks good, but may include a fishing boat, Waterstones.
We have Baby Animals, in which you match the baby with the parent. We bought this, it's great fun, but a bit ugly. Baby can use them without help, and can stick them on radiators. The card pictures are starting to peel from having drinks spilt on them.
Learn About Animals, part of the 'Magnets to Use Again and Again' range, Foyles.
Other topics
The full Magnetology range includes: Homes, Construction and Dinosaurs, Waterstones.
The Magnets to Use Again and Again range also includes: 'Learn to Tell The Time', and 'Learn About Our World', Foyles.
Household Objects Magnetic Board, Etsy
Space magnetic play scene from Petit Collage, John Lewis
Letterland letter magnets, The Book Depository
We were recently given some magnetic letters by a teenager who used them as a toddler- which demonstrates their durability. They could be stuck around the house as well.
I'm waiting to receive our first magnetic sticker book. My hope is that they will stay sticky for a long time, but not stick to my feet. One benefit of magnets over felt is that the animals can be more detailed.
I don't know how that metal is sourced.
reusable Sticker Play Scene cards
ponds and rivers/ garden birds/ garden wildlife/ seashore/ woods and forests/ minibeasts
Sticker Play Scenes series (reusable at first) and Stick and Play Books (not reusable) series by (Car Buckingham and Andrea Pinnington, Fine Feather Press- publisher specialised in nature books).
These compact and light cards could be good to play with on a train. Baby finished their pond in one afternoon in the Muddy Puddle cafe. We also combine the set with the Red Bubble stickers below. The Ponds and Rivers edition includes: Mallard ducks, Mandarin ducks, Swan, Coot and Heron.
Mark Making
Early years science activity books
Sustainable reusable children's stickers books
eco nature and animal sticker scene books
Reusable stickers are environmentally and financially better than single use stickers, but do not last forever- especially in our house. Once carpet fluff/ food/ dribble gets to them they lose stickiness. Where the stickers are not paper it is possible to wash them and regain the stick. One benefit is that they are sometimes a bit thicker than normal stickers, and so easier to pick up.
Friends of the Earth's Planet Protectors Pack contains sustainability stickers and other activities, available by donation.
Baby Vegan currently currently gets through one animal themed Usborne Sticker book a week. Baby Vegan's favourite nature sticker books comprise friendly, smiley faced animal stickers, and pages with background scenes of their environment to stick the animals onto.You do not need to put the sticker in a particular place, just find the right (or wrong) habitat. (Edit: now aged 2, Toddler Vegan prefers there to be a right place to put the sticker). I was initially pleased to see Baby Vegan learn concentration and fine motor skills, while studying environmental science (like me!) but then realised sticker books are not recyclable. Since it is a bit embarrassing to have an eco website which promotes single use plastic, I set out to find an alternative. I am now the world's leading authority on stickers.
I made myself this shopping list of titles which show animals in their natural habitat. We avoid sticker books with: farms, zoos, aquariums and pets for vegan reasons. For green reasons, I've found out about reusable, sustainably sourced stickers, and magnetic and felt sticker alternatives. We also avoid books about cars.
We're on our third copy of Nature, by Federica Iossa; which Baby Vegan has been known to take to bed. It begins with a British woodland, and then invites you around the world, visiting many different animals at home and learning their names. Baby Vegan was particularly keen on the coral reef. Baby Vegan also liked Seasons by Jean Claude, which has ducks.
When sticking, Baby Vegan often likes to arrange creatures into interspecies cuddle parties. The animals sometimes bounce around or eat bits of our dinner before settling on the page, or carpet.
