Merino wool textiles have some fantastic characteristics that makes them the perfect textile for children.

Merino wool textiles are stretchy, soft, comfortable, it absorbs moisture, stays warm even when it’s wet, is cool in summer and warm in winter, it’s odor resistant, naturally fire retardant and environmentally friendly.

In short merino wool textiles are natural, very comfortable and safe. What more can you want from the textile you put next to the skin of your children?

Here’s four companies who makes merino wool products for children:

• Baby Love Merino makes beautiful and colorful clothing, wraps, beanies, blankets and sleeping bags for babies and children.
• MaM makes a nice merino wool line of essentials like booties, bodysuits, elephant hoods, mittens, long sleeve shirts and leggings. MaM distributors.
• Zee Zee Merino makes merino wool clothing for children. All grown, designed and sewn in New Zealand. They have clothes from 0-10 years, in modern fresh designs.
• Disana also makes children’s products from merino wool. To mention a few of their products: diapers, clothing, nursing pads, blankets and sleeping pads. My favorite is their beautiful thin, knitted merino wool blankets. This blanket is sold in the US by Flowering Child, amongst others.

There are many more products and producers out there, so if you’ve tried a great merino wool product, please share in a comment!

Check out these beautiful wooden wall decals from Spot On Square. I just love the simplicity and the cute carved out characters.

Each wall decal is available in Orange (55,00 USD), White (55,00 USD), Grey (55,00 USD), Birch (65,00 USD) and Bamboo (75,00 USD), and all decals are the same size – 15.5″L 15.5″W .75″H.

Spot On Squares products are eco-friendly and the paint they use are non toxic, so you can buy their products with a good conscience!

P’kolinos wooden Baby Puzzle Stacker combines the developmental benefits of the infant toy classics, the stacker and the puzzle, to offer them in one toy.

The Puzzle Stacker helps the child fine tune it’s motor skills, develop spacial logics and learn color and size recognition.

Besides contributing to the child’s development this wooden puzzle stacker toy is also very aesthetic. It has a simple clean design and fresh colors combined with natural wood.

The P’kolino Baby Puzzle Stacker costs 38.50 USD at P’kolino.

Good news for those of us who are fans of music from bands such as U2, Metallica, Nine Inch Nails and The Beatles and want to introduce this music to our children.

Rockaby Baby! transforms punk, metal and timeless rock into instrumental lullabies by trading guitars and drums for soothing mellotrons, vibraphones and bells. The music becomes soft enough for the little ones, yet the melody stays the same.

When I first heard about the idea I found myself with an expression of disbelief. Wouldn’t this ruin the music?

I heard some short bits of music provided at the Rockabye Baby! website and two albums that was sent to me – More Lullaby Renditions of The Beatles og Lullaby Renditions of Tool.

I was pleasantly surprised, as they seem to be able to stay in tune (no pun intended) with the soul of the songs whilst changing it radically in order to make it sound just like a lullaby. What they do really works and it is music I would recommend to any music loving parent.

Rockabye Baby! has made 28 lullaby albums until now, with music from bands like U2, Metallica, Rolling Stones and AC/DC.

All Rockabye Baby! albums can be bought through their website for 16,98 USD.

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Looking for a simple, beautiful and different heirloom christening gift?

Matt Pough Design makes these wooden owls, which can be used as decor in the nursery, the kids room and anywhere else around the house.

The wooden owls never become “childish”, and can follow the kid throughout his or her life. They are handmade in England and are available in neutral-, girlish- and boyish colors.

Matt Pugh Design Owls are 10cm x 5cm x 5cm, and costs 25,00 GBP each.

Babies just love to pull, bite and suck on jewelry, and thus wearing jewelry while holding a baby can be potentially dangerous for both baby and the jewelry.

But is it any wonder that babies become interested in your bangle or necklace while sitting on your lap? It’s all straight in the babies face screaming “come and get me!”

This is why I think the concept of teething jewelry is simply brilliant, as it replaces all those potential dangers with safe teethers.

SmartMoms Teething Bling is a series teething jewelry consisting of teething bangles (12.75 USD), teething pendants (19.10 USD) and teething keychain charms (15.90 USD) in many fashionable colors.

The teething jewelry is made from a food-safe, phthalate-free and federally-approved silicone, making it completely safe for the baby to chew on.

There are gift boxes available, containing color matching teething jewelry. These gift boxes cost between 28.75 USD and 36.00 USD, depending on what’s in them.

You can buy SmartMoms Teething Bling at the SmartMom website.

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Linen Kids have a charming selection of good quality hand made linen- and woolen products made from natural materials.

Most of Linen Kids products are hand made, or has hand made details. The rest is made in limited editions, and all are made with great attention to quality.

As the name Linen Kids might suggest most of the products are made of linen, which is a very comfortable and cool natural textile. The autumn-winter collections features some garments made of pure wool.

In the Linen Kids store you’ll find clothes, toys, towels, bedding, christening gowns and christening cloaks, amongst other products. It is possible to have name and date embroidered on several of the christening products.

Linen Kids offers A Life More Interestings readers a 10% discount when using the code LK-ALMI-T10P during checkout.

Muddy Cloud’s colorful plush toys are so simple, cute and colorful, they make me smile.

The simple shapes, contrasting colors and texture, of these plushies, gives them developmental value, and their sizes and shapes makes them perfect pillows for the little ones.

At the time of writing there are four different plush toys available, and they all have matching hats and mittens!

Dolls are 18.00 USD, sets (containing hat and mittens) are 32.00 USD, hats are 22.00 USD and mittens are 14.00 USD at Muddy Cloud.