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.

View the stickers page, toy principles, or Bookshop.

Gifts

Cotton soft toy vegetables

Petit Mushy Pea

Crocheted

Not on the High Street

Wooden food

Ibby&Me

Wooden fruit box and wooden fruit and vegetable basket, Kidly

Not on the High Street

Fuzzy Felt Sticker Picture Boards

Various

Preloved

Oxfam Online

I Love Felt Under The Sea, Waterstones

Animals and Space play scenes, Slovakia, Etsy

Wall Scenery, Ukrain, Etsy

Many things, Russia, Etsy

Boards and wall scenery made in part with recycled materials (USA), Etsy

I bought some plain Fuzzy Felt shapes on eBay, and Toddler Vegan has found any imaginative uses for them, such as cooking soup for the dinosaurs, and using them as soil for a digger (ladle) to pick up.

Nature and animal felt play sets and books. Blogger 'doing my eco best' muses that fuzzy felt may be the oldest and most eco-friendly toy. They found out that fuzzy felt is made from synthetic fibre (oil), and that a box they bought in a charity shop was made in 1967. Since it lasts so well, fuzzy felt has the potential to be recycled by passing it down. It seems possible to get rolls of felt which are made from: recycled plastic, cork or bamboo. However, beware! Some felt is made from sheep's wool.

eBay

Crayons

Goober

Peanut or brick shape, made from natural bean wax in cardboard packaging, Korean

Kidly

Magnetic play scene toys

Janod

3D tree

Vegetable garden

Emotion faces

Letter easal or suitcase

Magnetibooks: four seasons, alphabet,

Kidly

Fruit cutting puzzle

Classic World

Kidly

Vegan children's party

Various

Ready Made Vegan Cakes and Cake Mix:

The Vegan Kind have vegan caterpillar cake, normal cake, cheesecake and a gluten free cake and cake mix.

Natures Healthbox have vegan cake mix, including gluten free.

Veo have vegan, allergen free cake mix.

Reusable Party Kit Hire

Single use plastic free tableware to rent: Party Kit Network

Vegan Party Bags: Plastic Free Party Bags- vegan

Vegan caterers near me

Vegan Catering and Cakes made to order are advertised here:

Vegan Original Weddings

Ask about their vegan birthday cake offerings.

Or try a local cafe

Make your own birthday cake

Vegan cake recipe roundups

Raising Vegan Kids- throwing a birthday party

Megan the Vegan- party examples

Vegan Family Recipes- finger food

Various

Dragon litter picker

Graptor

A favourite toy of ours.

Keep Britain Tidy

Clothes and stickers with ducks on (and other motifs)

Cosmic Esoteric

As an avid fan of ducks, my child wears their duck t shirt as much as possible, and also loved their duck stickers. Cosmic Esoteric also made my faerytale wedding dress.

Redbubble- children's clothes and masks, and stickers with ducks and other pretty things

Zazzle- baby bodysuites

Etsy- handmade art

Reusable vinyl stickers- sold individually

Baby has interests in: ducks, stickers, and new vocabulary. Therefore, I set out on a mission to combine these hobbies; in order introduce the correct terminology for fresh water bird species from a young age. I'm still uncertain how to pronounce 'pochard'.

I bought a sticker for each of the birds found in Clissold Park from Red Bubble (made from plastic, carbon offsetting for delivery only). They remained reusable for a few days. We have been sticking these onto: household appliances, ourselves, and a map of the park.

Here is where to find the stickers:

Cosmic Esoteric: Male Mallard, Team Coot Uniform, Rock dove love, Swans in the lake, Bird in flight stickers. I'm a regular customer at Cosmic Esoteric canal shop, having also acquired a wedding dressand some children's bird t-shirts. The designer lives on the canal and is neighbours with the ducks. Follow her to hear about floating and cyber markets.

Pochard duck sticker. Mrs Foxy: Little Grebe sticker. Jessamy83: Egyptian Geese sticker. elaine pearson: Canada Goose sticker. David Knowles (Owl Occasions): Greylag Goose sticker. Robert Carr: Moorhen sticker.

The park map was made by Clissold Park Users Group, and can be purchased from the park cafe. It tells you the names of some birds, and has a picture of the lakes and the river, which we lay the ducks out onto. I baby-proofed it with sticky tape.

eBay- handmade art

Children's duck and Puffin gifts