I love all of the smaller, mom run stores that have opened to meet the shopping needs of us green and natural moms and dads. Not only do you get wonderful products that are safe and healthy for your family, you are supporting another family directly when you make a purchase. If you buy that Foogo cup at Target for instance then Target gets the profit from that product but if you buy it from another mom then the money goes directly to them. In this economy we need to do that as much as we can…because let’s face it…corporations are not hurting for our money but people are feeling the pinch. This is why I love to support small, family owned and run businesses and one that has really impressed me is Euphoria Baby. It is based in South Carolina and run my a mama named Rachel.
This great online store has everything you need for a natural, green, organic baby or child….toys, clothes, cloth diapers, baby carriers, feeding gear, etc. If I had to pick my favorite thing about this store it would be their selection of Plan Toys. I absolutely adore these toys and Euphoria Baby has showcased some of the best. Like the:
Plan Toys Spin Bell – A gorgeous wooden bell that you can hang from a car seat or a stroller causing a swirl of color and sound as the colorful wooden balls clack together.
The Plan Toys Water Blocks – These are wooden blocks with see-through sides that have colored water inside. Most children are fascinated by watching water move around inside the Water Blocks. They are also great for pretend play.
The Plan Toys Musical Band – A high-quality wooden drum set that kids are sure to adore.
Plan Toys are usually made with sustainable safe materials and painted with safe, non-toxic dyes and paints. They really entice children with their textures and vibrant colors and they encourage creative play and the development of fine motor skills. You can just beat many of the ingenious toys offered by Plan Toys.
You can read reviews for the products on Euphoria Baby too so that you know what previous customers thought and you can leave reviews of your own.
Rachel and Euphoria Baby are offering one lucky ducky reader a $100 gift certificate on Plan Toys purchased from the store! Yes $100!!! I am ecstatic to be able to offer that to a reader because I think Plan Toys are the best and I think many families can use the help right about now. You may want to start thinking about Christmas…
And don’t forget to stop by their other store Euphoria Maternity and subscribe to the Euphoria Blog, which by the way, has a great article about the safety of Melamine dishes. Thanks so much to Rachel and her team at Euphoria Baby for sponsoring this giveaway. :)
The winner of the $100 Plan Toys Giveaway is….. commenter #39…amom. She was chosen via random.org. Congrats!!!
I love the Plan Sorting and Stacking toys and the Plan Pull-a-long toys. I just love seeing safe wooden toys over the usual plastic.
I’m expecting my first baby in January and we’d love to have more eco friendly, non toxic toys for it to play with, so the Plan Toys would be great. I love the first block set, as well as all of the hanging toys and the rattles, and the soft flipkin multi sided baby toy. They would all be great for our Baby B to have! I feel like we’re focused so much on the necessities we may not be able to buy as many fun, eco toys for it as we hope to, so this giveaway is great!
I adore the Kathy Kruse dolls they are all so precious! The $100 Plan Toys GC would be helpful to me, in order to keep supplementing our natural and green toy selection. I have slowly been weeding out plastic, replacing it with wood, felt, wool or silks as often as I can.
I’m sure like most everyone we’re feeling the pinch. We’ve already told everyone in our families that Christmas will be a lite one this year. Not only the economy but we’re adding another baby to the family right after Christmas and it’s going to cost us at least 4500 just to have him…IF he is born before January. If not…add another grand to that. We had to buy a van to fit this new baby and I was in the ER a few weeks ago due to this pregnancy. We’re strapped and 100 bucks would be a huge blessing. My boys would love anything from the cars section http://www.euphoriababy.com/store/pc/Cars-City-Play-c112.htm or the blocks section http://www.euphoriababy.com/store/pc/Blocks-c111.htm
Nell
In the baby section I love the Haba Olli Tumbler Clown, the Roller Toy and the Baby Car. In the active toy section, the must have item is the Padella Duck Push Toy. It’s bright, colorful and full of fun details!
My family would be very lucky to win this prize. I am a young mother and my husband works full time. Even though money is rare around our house, I am not going back to work so that my son can get the full benefits of his mother’s time and breast. With just one meager income, I still buy only organic and natural products whenever avalable. To make this possible, I only allot myself $25 a month, so I can splurge on diaper covers and organic food for my family. If Conrad won these toys, it would give his mommy a little extra money to buy herself something nice.
Wow! You are right, it is a great website! I really liked the blue Truck rider. I’d love to have a collection of these toys as only a few of the toys we have in our home are what I’d consider ‘safe’. My husband and I are in the process of looking into adopting a 4th child, so getting a $100 GC would be a great blessing (for us and the kids!)
I love the bamboo dishes!!!!!
Oh and it would be helpful (helpful if I followed directions, lol) to us as we need “big kid” stuff for our older son (the dishes, bedding, ..and of course toys!) ;-)
My husband and I are in the process of adopting our first child, a baby boy. Money is tight since it is all going toward the adoption expenses, so this would be a huge blessing to us to be able to get some nice things for our little one. We don’t really have anything since this is our first child, so this would be a great little extra for us!
I love so many of the little things, like the ring teether (so nice to know it is safe for him to put in his mouth!) and the water blocks. I also LOVE that sweet little rocking horse! So cute.
My favorite thing on the site is the Haba Petite Rose Black Forest Cake – soooo cute!! The gift certificate would be great for the holidays! I’d love to get some of the toddler toys for my twin 2 year old girls. They’d love the Miracle Pounding toy and the Blue Truck Rider. Thanks for the choice and for encouraging the support of small businesses, especially mama run!
I love the Blue Truck Rider for my active 2-year-old son. The gift card would help me replace the toys we had to sell or give away when we left our home country to move to Canada 7 months ago. Some of those toys were newly received from birthdays and Christmas. The kids miss our family, friends and, yes, toys. The gift card sure would help fill that gap.
Oh how fun! My sister and her hubby just adopted a little boy and a little girl. The wooden roadway systems would be perfect for them! They’re working on sharing (they could build together) and both of them love to build and play with cars. What a wonderful gift that would be.
I like the kitchen toys. Kids are always putting “play food” in their mouths so its nice if they are safe and non toxic!
I love the Natursutten baby teether that I read about on your BPA pacifier/teethers post. My firstborn (now 6!) teethed easily with two teeth sprouting per month, starting at 4 months. My daughter, nearly 6 months has been in misery for weeks despite my best efforts to make things easier on her. I also love the Kathy Kruse dolls, and the Sakura sling…..my little girl is pushing 18 lbs and becoming quite heavy in her Moby Wrap!
My favorite for my boy are the Plan Toy cars and trucks sets. He loves playing with his cars but I worry about the lead in the paint even if they are name brand and not dollar store ones. Even the glue is a special non-toxic version! The gift certificate would help me replace all the cheap plastic and unsafe toys we have, something I can’t justify with our current shaky financial situation. It would be a great gift for all of us! Thanks for offering this chance!
Wow. What a site. I just got a Beco carrier a couple of months ago. I have a back spasm from carrying my daughter around and the Beco helps distribute her weight evening now.
Love the kitchen food items and the stacking and sorting toys!
I love the Kathe Kruse Mini It’s Me Baby Blond. I love anything that is fairies! As a mom of 4 with my newest one the only girl we are slowly replacing all the boy toys! That prize would sure come in handy!
I have to say that my favorite would be the Plan Toys Parking Garage Set. It is so refreshing to see a garage set that isn’t made of bulky plastic. My son would love this set! I dream of someday getting the whole PlanCity but alas that is a pipe dream due to the cost and having three little ones five and under plus one on the way! I’m slowly, slowly working to try to get rid of most of our obnoxious plastic toys in return for more educational and eco-friendly toys.
By the way, thanks for your blog. I’m new to a lot of green concepts and have been learning a lot!
I am raising my 6-month daughter to be green. I would love to purchase a couple of toys for her to use now that she is trying to walk and getting into things. I would love the plan toys creative blocks for her to play with. She would love these!
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I would love some of the creative blocks for my kids!
Oh those knit animals are soooo cute! When we realized how non-eco-friendly stuffed animals can create all kinds of problems for kids, we swore to only purchase items that do not give off fumes or will fall apart the moment the kids get hold of them, and support small businesses, and that will be played with long term. Believe me, our grandchildren love the types of toys Euphoria offers. Thanks for spreading the word.
I would love to get my son an organic, non-toxic baby mattresse. They look wonderful!
What a great give away! My son loves the few wooden toys he has and we have chosen his Christmas list very carefully this year to try to be as eco friendly as possible. I loved the play food and the pull toys at Euphoria! This would really help out with the Christmas list after the baby explosion we had this year!
I think my daughter would really love the Click Clack. I remember my younger siblings loving similar toys. I also remember using my push toy as a vacuum or a lawn mower or just for fun. I think my daughter would use the Walk n Roll for a long time.
Such wonderful simple toys, I have bought stuff from them before and just love them!
The wooden kitchen and cars are wonderful! My son loves to “help” cook.
Hi,
Loved the whole site. I spent tons of time reading up on all her info on cloth diapers. We have twin boys and if another baby were to come we are considering going cloth. There was tons of great info on that. Plan toys rule. Just bought our first plan toy last month and love it. My favorites are the whole “plan city” and how much fun pretend play kids can have with it. Hope to win and thanks for another great resource in addition to your blog! Be well, Heather L.
What a great giveaway and a great website! I am expecting my 3rd baby this February – I have a 2 year old and 1 year old. I really liked the Adiri bottles and the Natursutten Phthalates, BPA-free Pacifier featured on the website and would be very interested in buying those for the new baby: ) I am trying very hard to buy only organic and safe products for my babies – which as you know – in these times can get very hard on only 1 income. Thanks!
I just blogged about this giveaway and did a myspace bulletin. Thanks a bunch!!
I have a question, but my email is not working for some reason. I was wondering what the difference is between something being certified organic and something labeled Oeko-Tex but not organic? I’m trying to buy sheets for my girls and I see things labeled Oeko-Tex but I’m not sure if that is good enough or should I just look for organic. Can someone explain this to me? Thanks!
WOW, so many wonderful things! The items that caught my eye first was the parking garage and fire station sets. My son is so into cars! Everything is “car” “car” ‘car”! He loves to push things and make vroom noises. Immediately after, I checked out the kitchen sets. My daughter loves to put things in bowls/cups. She likes to feed others, etc. I hope to give her kitchen stuff for Christmas.
I am a babywearing, breastfeeding, cloth diapering, earth conscience mom. Why would this gift certificate be good for me? I have twins! I use to teach, but now I can’t afford to, and I would much rather be the one teaching my kids and helping them explore and grow. This gc would give me the chance to give my kids some nice toys that are environmentally friendly, when otherwise I couldn’t afford to get them.
Thank you for putting this together!
I love Plan Toys, and my daughter has one of their doll houses. But, she’s into cars at the moment so the gift certificate would be helpful for adding to her dramatic play with a road system or garage set. Plus, I know a few babies that would love one of their baby toys as a holiday gift!
Yes, definetly thinking about Christmas coming up in a little over 2 months. The GC would be helpful to buy a few toys for my toddler. Anyway, I really like the Plan Toys Miracle Pounding toy and some of the Plan Toys play food.
I love the bpa free pacifiers!! We would not have made it the first 6 months without a pacifier and these are great! Also, love the swaddle blankets. My son spent the first few months of his life swaddled and these would have been great! And the kitchen play stuff is fantastic. We need some of that now as my son loves to “help” in the kitchen. lol
I love the colorful bamboo bowls and the toys for babies too!
I love the selection of wooden cars! As a mother of a 2 year old boy, it is hard to avoid all the plastic in toy cars. Euphoria has a great selection and even better, the prices are reasonable. I especially likes the fire station and road construction set which I think will be under our tree this year. In fact I think Euphoria will be a good choice for my green holiday shopping!
Wow! There is so much on there that I love. I love the parking garage set and I know my son would love that so much. The bamboo dishes are darling and I would love to have those for him as well. Monday is his 2nd birthday and we waited 5 long and painful years for him. Finally he was brought into our lives through the miracle of adoption. This would be a wonderful gift for him to celebrate the amazing 2 years we have had with him.
Thank you!
Love the click clack……………very cool site. I so love my plan toys – but I especially love the fact that I got them at a garage sale…………tons of wonderful toys and products at this store.
I’d like the Plans Toy Toaster because my daughter loves to get in our cupboard and play with ours. This gift certificate would be a HUGE help for holiday shopping during these tough times. Also, my 30th bday is on Oct. 26th so winning this right before would be a special treat! Thanks for the chance!
I’d love a chance! Love the website!!
I would love to be able to get the kitchen play toys for my daughters. We have 2 birthdays coming up right with the holidays, so we are in even more of a crunch than usual. It would take a huge burden off of our budget and we would know that the gifts were safe for them. Thanks for the chance!
I love the caterpillar hanging toy! The gift card would be so great because the prices at Euphoria Baby are so fabulous. This could by my child’s toys for a year!
I really like the site! I’d love to be entered. We are expecting #2 in a few weeks and I wanted to ditch our plastic teethers and other plastic baby toys that I am now leary of and actually have some of the Haba and Plan Toys on the new baby’s and my 2.5 year old’s Christmas list! I really like the kitchen items for my toddler and the teething toys for the new baby. In fact, I have linked to some of these products on my safe toy list on my own blog! Since starting the list and going really green, I have not had a chance to get many “green” toys, so this would really help me out! I will have to add a link to her site from my post as well (extra credit, right?? LOL)
OMG! I love many of the wooden toddler toys…. the Plan Toys Creative Blocks are awesome… and the push/pull toys, adorable! Thanx for sharing!
BTW, I “stumbled” this entry! :-)
I’m digging the Plan Toys car and truck sets. Little brother loves to put big brother’s matchbox cars in his mouth…ugh. These would be great! And $100…talk about a nice jumpstart to the Christmas gifts! I’ll be able to worry a little less about going over budget :)
I love the Bambu tableware. The giftcard would be helpful, well, because the holiday season is rapidly approaching, as is the birth of a dear friend’s second baby. I’m sure the $100 would be well spent.
I absolutely adore the palomino rocking horse. I so want to buy my daughter one of these, and I love the entire Plan Toys line, so I’m sure this one would be fabulous!
Not Plan toys, but I think the License Plate USA Maps are super cool! I’d love to have one for my sons’ bedroom.
Like many others, I’m a stay at home mom. We live on one small income and I have to find great deals on amazing toys where I can. I’d like to buy some new toys for my boys that they get to be the first to play with.
These all sound great! My son would LOVE the water blocks!
So many fun things on this site! I recently bought a Foogo Straw Thermos for my daughter and she loves it – she’s drinking twice as much water as she used to. The Plan Toys Lacing Sheep is truly adorable. My family would love to win this toy giveaway. My husband is out of work due to the downturn in the housing market and we’ve been giving up the “fun” things to stretch our money. The toys would bring lots of joy to our house. My daughter LOVES Plan Toys!
wow ever thing is realy nice and i well like a lot of things one of them is the kicthion cook where play set its realy cool
wow ever thing is realy nice and i well like a lot of things one of them is the kicthion cook where play set its realy cool
I love that she has a great selection of mattresses! I just went through an exasperating mattress search a few months ago. Plus, she carries the Foogo water bottles, which I love!!
WOW!! This is too cool!! I seriously want everything off the website, but a few things that stick out to me are the BPA free pacifiers, water blocks, and of course the plan toys. Gosh, so much to choose from. My husband and will be expecting our first child and both of us at age 24, don’t have a lot of money espeically to go green, so this giveaway would be perect. I am praying hard on this one:)
My granddaughter’s first birthday is coming up and we are all pretty frugal + being concerned about what she is chomping on and where it came from. Love this site – The cat stacker soft toy is totally adorable, and I think the bear cave would get play… all the soties are soooo cute.
I love the little wooden drum; it’s so hard to find high quality wooden musical toys. All the toddler drums I’ve seen elsewear are plastic. I’m a HUGE fan of Plan toys. We have several and my 3 and 1 year old LOVE to play with them.
Love the food container, bamboo bowls, and eco clothing. We’ve gotten a couple plan toys and they are the greatest!! The gift certificate would be great just as it would ease the budget.
i love the plan toys kitchen center. i have a 2 year old and a 9 months old and my 2 year old loves to play with his friend’s kitchen set. we just redid the basement and that would be the best christmas gift for them. we have a ton of plan toys and my kids love them. i definitely found a new website to shop from! thanks!
The Zebra is cool along with everything else on the website. Plan Toys are so much fun. I am really glad to find another blog that is interesting!
I would love to wrap up some of these gifts for xmas!
I love the Plan Toys Cooking Utensils & Pot Set and the Plan Toys Food & Beverage Set. Plan Toys are great. I love how they encourage creative play. My 5 year old son has the Parking Garage Set and he loves it. Winning this would be helpful because I need fun toys for my daughter. She is getting tired of hand me down toys from her big brother.
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I love the Klean Kanteen sippy cups and water bottles as well as the bamboo toddler bowls. I am trying to weed out the plastic junk that we have been using prior to what I call my plastic awakening and yet I am not ready for my 2 year old to use ceramic dinner ware. Winning this would be wonderful b/c in one sweep I could economically replace the dinner ware my children use.
Oh, that plan toaster is looks wonderful! My girls love to play at cooking. They love to help me when I make big pots of soup or spaghetti sauce. This would help with Christmas. We are feeling the pinch just like everyone else.
I just posted it on myspace
love it all! plan toys is my fave
What a great early Christmas present this would make. My daughter is in need of new diaper covers so the Bum genius is looking pretty good right now.
I have 17 month old TWINS (Boy and Girl) and I know Ryan would go crazy for the Plan Blue Truck Rider, and both would love the water blocks. Those look so great. As a mom with twins, this giveaway would really be helpful for me, especially that I love natural toys. And Plan has a great reputation!
Loving the baby toys in general, since we have baby #3 coming along early next year. The cat stacker is really cute.
I love the Bambu mini bowls – not only would those be great for feeding a little one, but they’d make excellent prep bowls for cooking once they grew older!
Hello! Who couldn’t use this wonderful gift certificate with the holidays fast approaching?! Their site is great. I like the “BabySoy” Reversible Hoody Jacket, Slip-on Pant, and their “Year-Round Cardigan!”
Many thanks…..Cindi
I love that site .. what awesome stuff !! I love the plan toys but have never been able to get my hands on any .. the GC would help me get some safe toys for my 2 boys for Christmas . I love the teethers , all the toddler toys , the cars sets . they are all so cool !! … man i could use 1,000 for a shopping spree on this site .. thanks for the contest
Jenn
Oh man! that is funny I was just looking at this site the other day I think.
My son would love all the cars, the pot and pans – he loves to make soup. The blocks would be great. The giveaway would be great for us, one income homeschooling home – it sure would help our birthday budget for my sun for November, and help for Christmas.
I just love all the wooden toys – we are trying to had to get the plastic out of the house, and if we won this we can get some wonderful toys , and the grandparents can get clothes – so we don’t get plastic toys from them.
Thank you Rachel for a chance to get some safe toys for our kids.
I’m throwing my name into the mix. Thanks for the info.
I just wanted to add that I love the bamboo bowls!!! I also posted this to my blog!!!
Thanks again
I like the Beco carrier. That will be great as I didn’t have any carrier with my first two babies. Our third is coming soon, so this would be great ~ especially while chasing my other two.
KatherineJ
A year ago I thought I was being very frugal and eco friendly by buying most of my sons toys at thrift stores. Now, I’ve found out so much about plastic and the dangers and guess what most of the toys in thriftstores are? People’s plastic toys they got rid of for safety reasons. Well, I’ve been slowly finding replacement toys and making toys to avoid the plastic ones, but I hadn’t found a replacement for plastic balls that my 20 month old just adores. He constantly says “ball” and nearly always has one around in his hands. I think he would adore the Plan Toys Click Clack because it would be a fun developmental activity that includes balls! The $100 gift certificate would really help us get the toy collection safe without spending a lot of money and since we bought a house 6 months ago and the economy the way it is now, that would sure help. Plus, these toys would be heirlooms that not only would we use for subsequent children, but would be passed down to grandchildren and great-grandchildren because they are so well made.
I pretty sure everyone can say money has gotten a little tight this year, and though my kids aren’t “spoiled” I still hate the feeling of letting them down because money is tight. Not just with material things, but we have cut down trips to the zoo and chose a closer apple orchard this fall. But, if I did win I would have to buy the Plan Toys Parking Garage Set. Both kids would love it!
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Oh, where do I begin! Love all their stuff…especially the room decor. But lets get back to the “plan toys”. Love the water blocks, nuts and bolts, and miracle pounding. The parking garage is great too. Despite the fact that we have a little girl, we have been trying to find all types of toys for her. Especially environmentally friendly, wood ones. Most of her toys are hand-me-downs, since $ has been so tight and we try to reuse. Thanks for making me aware of such a great store. Even though we are in Seattle, mail order is so easy.
I’d love to win this since money is tight here as well, especially with adding a third child to our family any day now. Plan Toys are awesome; we love everything we have from them!
My son got the parking garage as a gift for Christmas last year and he still loves it. If I did win, I’d have to et some more of the cars for him as they’re his favorite cars (especially the cargo truck) and the plane that was out of stock last year. I really like the dancing alligator toy for smaller kids too, just could never justify the price, so I’d get that for the new one.
What a great site. I love that there are more and more options for the parents would what safe products for our children. The extra money would be great as I am currently design my son’s “big” boy room so it would be great to get the blue truck rider as it is going to have a cars/trucks theme to it.I also love the canvas art selection that they have, very cool!
I love the ice cream cones! My husband and I are adopting our first two children a toddler and an infant, so any extra help would be great.
I think the Bambu tablewear is great….my boys would love that!!!
I love your blog, I check it all of the time! I am a huge supporter of family busnesses, why not keep the money in the family right?!?!? I am loving the non toxic cleaning kits, as well as the wall stickers. Its nice to have an eco friendly way to decorate without all of the fumes of new paint! The plan toys are great, I have been picking some up along the way at secondhand shops when I see them (not offten though) and this gift certificate would certainly help us out for Christmas with money being tight and all.
My wife and I just started using cloth diapers and we are trying to be more green all the time. This gift certificate would be great to add to our green toy collection. My son would just love the Plan pull and push toys. And my daugher still at 6 loves the kitchen stuff and safe kitchen food would be super. Thanks so much!
I really love the soft toys and dolls! We just welcomed a new baby girl and have yet to buy her any toys – the GC would buy here some cute little dolls so she won’t be stuck with brother’s cars :) Also, our apartment flooded yesterday and while most of our things were spared, we lost a lot of the toys and anything near the ground :(
We have moved into a 500 ft2 home with our 3 children (3y, 20 mth, and newborn), and are living off a very small income, so every toy is precious and needs to be quality. My favorite find was definately the miracle pounding toy by Plan. It looks awesome! I think the fish castanet would be something all 3 of them could enjoy too!
My baby just turned one, and I am truly amazed at how quickly she has grown. The Growth Charts are sooo cute and it would be fun to keep track of baby on one!
The GC would come in handy to do Christmas shopping. Our budget is getting tighter and tighter… and it would be fun to shop for green healthy items, as a gift!
I love her site! beautiful colora and layout and great products! I really like the cars, firestation set, creative blocks and the drum. My daughter would just love this! Buying toys hasnt been a priority since our business is struggling right now, so it would be great to have a few new things for her!
I am so glad you shared this site! I have been slowly getting rid of my kids plastic, battery-operated toys. Fortunately, my son’s favorite toys are his train tracks; so he doesn’t notice much.
I love the kitchen toys; especially the Haba Biofino Tagliatelle Noodles- how cute!
I blogged about it, too!
My son would love the fire station! With baby 6 due in January winning would be helpful with buying safe toys for my children. It seems everyday you read something else is being recalled anymore.
I love their site! The plan toys are great! I love the wood verses plastic. I am pregnant with my first baby and always looking for healthy things for the baby. After all the toy recalls last year I would love to start our babies toy collection with these great toys! I also love the cloth dipers.
My boys love all their cars and trucks so they would really play with the Gas Station and Parking Garage. But we have already purchased a very cool play kitchen for our kids for Christmas. So I think I would first chose the play food and toaster to stock up the new kitchen!
What a great site! My kids looked at it with me and my son loved the “city blocks” (amsterdam blocks). My daughter thought the baby dolls were really cute too. I am trying to buy safer toys for christmas this year.
Love the first blocks set for my infant and the parking garage set for my two year old. My toddler is constantly “playing trucks” . He would love to drive cars on the elevator and the ramps. Fun !
I think the wooden rocking horse is absolutely adorable! I would love a good quality, wooden rocking horse for my 1-year old daughter. It would be so awesome to be able to pass it down to her children, too! That is what I love about the wooden toys; the heirloom qualities!
I love the vehicles and the dolls!
Come on lucky number 99. Thanks for this review! I am always looking for a one stop shop for organic toys and things. Love this site!! I am already making a Christmas list–especially for my little girl who needs her first baby doll :)
Oh – I love the airplane and helicopter pilots. They would be perfect for my girls. I have two kids one 15 months and the other 6weeks and my husband just got laid off. We would love to have the opportunity to splurge on great wooden toys for the babies.
As a mother of two girls (the first is 1.5 years and the second will be born in January) I am right at the stage where the Plan Toys would be so beneficial to us. From the teethers to the toddler toys I can use them ALL! I especially love the Click Clack toy and the Miracle Pounding toy. My little girl LOVES to see cause and effect, especially dramatic effects! =) I’d love to think that these toys might last through all my children and even possibly to my children’s children.
What a great store! I know the gift certificate is specifically for toys, but what I like best about the website/store is that they carry such a nice variety of natural baby products. I am a CDing, BWing, BFing, APing, Mama and love it when I can find a variety of things that fit our values/lifestyle all in one place. My son is 6 months and is at the stage where he would certainly enjoy any of the plantoys Euphoria Baby carries (I particularly love the knit animals). We have a no-batteries/no-plastic rule for toys in our home and have yet to buy anything at all for Max (we have a playmat that was handed down to us and 2 stuffed animals) so we would love to win the gift card so we can purchase him some safe (for both him and the environment) and fun toys that we can play with together.
I like the kid baby carriers. My daughter loves to carry her baby around in her “sling”, so a baby carrier would be so wonderful for her. Being blessed with the gift of being able to buy toys for my children would be so helpful. Thanks.
Wow! what a cool site. I’m expecting my first baby and have been really picky about toys and I see so many on this site that I actually want! The stacking and sorting toys that Plan Toys makes would be great for baby and I’d love to get the natursutten pacifiers and maybe a beco baby carrier. So much stuff I’d love to get!
Plan Toys Blue Truck Rider! I love the cute toys, the gift card would go a long way towards getting the kids some Christmas gifts that are environmentally friendly.
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I love the Haba Little Amsterdam blocks. Blocks are one of those toys that provided years of unstructured play for kids. I’d love to do a bit of Christmas shopping here.
I love the wooden cars and trains, especially the play garage or gas station. My little guy LOVES to play with cars and the GC would come in handy not only because Christmas is coming up, bu because I’m really trying to buy him better, healthier toys.
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Oh awesome!!!! I love Haba.
I love all of this stuff…your blog has made being a “green mama” so much easier. I don’t have to do all the research myself…thanks!!
I love all the toy food catagories. The sandwich making would be fun for my 3 yr old
My favorite store in Madison, Wisconsin is Happy Bambino!
Hi, We love the plan toys garage. I’d love to win the price so I can buy nice and green toys this Christmas.
Love the Haba Dream Meadow. So sweet for baby. What a great store! Thanks for sharing it. I love, love, love stores you can trust to have great things for mom and babe that are safe and of good quality. We could use the gift certificate to make sure our holidays were filled with healthy things for our household AND be able to pass on such gifts to friends and family.
Thanks for a give-away opportunity! :-)
I visited the Euphoria toys, and my favorites are the Plan toy pot set and the Haba wooden foods. So cute! My 14 month old loves to pretend he’s cooking in the kitchen whenever I’m in there, so I know it would make his day to have a set.
Times are tight for everyone, and we could use a GC to get something for our son, and also my new nephew who will be undergoing surgery just before Christmas.
i like the roller toy, plus all the plan toy dollhouse stuff is great too, my baby girl is almost 8 months and starting to really move around
i like the bambu tableware, beautiful grow charts and many of the toys! My favorite toy is the click clank. I took my kids to the children museum and they had similar items in grand scale and the boys just loved it. I would use this wonderful opportunity to buy well crafted and educational toys for my kids for Christmas. One of my boys has his heart set on a nintendo wii and that will take up a very large part of our budget so, this gift would help spread the cheer and stretch our budget. Thanks so much!
I love Plan Toys – and not worrying about what my kid is ingesting when is “tastes” everything! Thanks for the info and links!
I’d love a chance to get some more cloth diapers. We’ve been using the same ones for almost 5 years now. A wool mattress liner/cover would be outstanding to protect our latex/wool mattress which is being protected by towels at the moment. Dream item would be the world rug, but it’s a bit steep for us.
I love the dolls and the beco carrier for the dolls! Too cute! My daughter would love to carry her baby while I carry mine in the Ergo!
EVERYTHING IS WAY SO CUTE.. I HAVE 4 BOYS SO ANYTHING!!! CARS ARE FANTASTIC
Wow, thank you for this post. I am always on the look out for great online, mom owned resources. I added Euphoria Baby to my favorites list and my reader. I just love the idea of having my baby engaged and play learning with toys that are made with love and concern. I like what I see, especially the knit animals – seriously, Mona the Cow and a mushroom rattle? There is all kinds of good times waiting to happen with those.
Although I plan on teaching my son the value of giving not just receiving gifts around the holidays, his first birthday and Christmas are only 3 days apart. I would love to get him something special. I am all about the Haba and plan wooden toys. I would love to be able to get him the plan blue truck rider. Without the certificate I dont know that I could. I would definitly try though. Also any of the plan or Selecta push toys would be great as well. We also use cloth diapers at home I love them but the bum genies look like they might be even better especially for toddlers who are really moving while diapering. Its all already put together. Euphoria Baby is an amazing site and I have already added it to my favorites!!
I think my son (who loves pounding, but it’s so hard to find “appropriate” things for him to pound) would love the miracle pounding toy, also the wooden teether as everything goes in his mouth! I love the natural toys and would love to ditch everything I have and start over.
The Plan City Garage is AWESOME.
This giveaway would really come in handy because we’re in the process of really scrutinizing every toy we have. The old “well it hasn’t been recalled yet…” mentality just isn’t going to cut it anymore. We are looking at where things are made as well as what they are made of. Lots of things are going in the garage sale pile (it’s better than the land fill and, honestly, a lot of people aren’t that concerned about the make-up of their toys). My boys are incredibly okay with not having “toys with bad chemicals” around. They are loving their natural toys that we’ve been slowly (as funds allow) using as replacement toys. Now if we could only get the extended family gift-givers on board… ;-)
We added this giveaway to our “Free Stuff” page at http://www.ForMyKidsOnline.com/free_stuff.htm
I love the ‘knit animals’. There is something to be said for a squishy, loveable stuffed animal. I love the unique character of these. I have 2 children 4 and 1 and would love the extra toys for my dearest friend due any day with her second. I learned that it is difficult for a first child to see all their old toys going to the new baby and would love to get something new for their second especially when they are struggling financially.
THE INTEREST IN SCREENING OUT ALL TOYS FROM CHINA WITH LEAD QUALITIES, SILK SCREEN ATTIRE PRESSED TO THE BABIES SKIN PROVED HARMFUL, PLASTIC BABY FOOD JARS, TOXIC SOAP PRODUCTS, SORTING THROUGH FOODS WITH PESTISIDE APPLICATIONS AND MORE HAS BEEN THE GOAL TO KEEP OUR 16 MONTH TWINS AT LEAST IN THE BEGINING BEFORE THE REAL WORLD INFLUENCES SETS IN..
THE INTEREST IN SCREENING OUT ALL TOYS FROM CHINA WITH LEAD QUALITIES, SILK SCREEN ATTIRE PRESSED TO THE BABIES SKIN PROVED HARMFUL, PLASTIC BABY FOOD JARS, TOXIC SOAP PRODUCTS, SORTING THROUGH FOODS WITH PESTISIDE APPLICATIONS AND MORE HAS BEEN THE GOAL TO KEEP OUR 16 MONTH TWINS AT LEAST IN THE BEGINING BEFORE THE REAL WORLD INFLUENCES SETS IN..
I would be ecstatic (or, should I say, “euphoric”?) to win this so I could stock up on safe, fun, helpful little toys for our daughter due in February. I like the brightness and safety of these toys – today I noticed the Haba stroller toys, useful for dangling over the car seat, pack n’ play, or changing table.
Thank you for pointing me to this website. I went straight to the blog regarding melamine dishes. I have been asking others and trying to find out information about the safety of these dishes. I am always surprised when I see melamine advertised on sites as a “safe” alternative because they are BPA free. It is the same thing that killed those dogs last year when it ended up in dog food from China. We ditched our dishes and cups this year and are using glass, stainless and even our good dishes. My girls are 2 and 4. I love the Kleen Kanteen products and also buy my girls Plan Toys. We are passing out Plan Toys pencils to the preschool class for the Halloween party instead of candy. Thank you!
I love Plan Toys! Their products are great! My son would LOVE the cars, helicopter, airplane, construction set and parking garage (he loves anything that makes a rumbling sound). My daughter would love some new food for her kitchen.
I recently came across naturemoms.com,while searching all the blogs on BPA, I am starting to replace everything in my house and it would be a blessing to win the 100.00 Plan Toys GC for my girls.I have four girls 1,3,6 and 9 my girls love to play with kitchen gadgets and replacing their kitchen play toys made from organic rubberwood like the Food and Beverage Set from Euphoria Baby would be a great start, How green is that!
I really like the HABA splish spash play mat and the Klean Kanteen bottles. I’ve wanted to get one of those for a while because of the sippy feature. This certificate would go a long way for me as I have many nieces and a new baby to buy presents for this holiday season. Thanks for the opportunity. Love your blog!
The winner of the $100 Plan Toys Giveaway is….. commenter #39…amom. She wa schosen via random.org. Congrats!!!