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.

Girards wooden toys and games are the kind of things you buy because you just cant take your eyes off of it.

Except for the obvious uses of these toys, any of Girards toys would also work nicely as ornamental pieces. Exploring the wonderful detailed decorations of each toy and game could occupy a baby or toddler for ages, and the lovely colors and shapes will work nicely as decoration in any nursery.

The lovely colors and shapes makes Girards wooden toys something a toddler might wish to try and eat, so keep an watchful eye on any hungry toddler playing with them!

Having said that it should be mentioned that the materials used for all items are non-toxic, so a little gnawing would only be hurtful to your wallet, as each toy costs quite a bit!

The Alexander Girard Memory Game costs 320,00 USD, the Alexander Girard Puzzle costs 250,00 USD, the Alexander Girard Blocks costs 120,00 USD and the Alexander Girard Nativity Game costs 410,00 USD but they’re absolutely beautiful!

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.

These wonderful handcrafted wooden wall clocks are decorated with vintage styled artwork on the front, and signature gold finish on the back. They are 10 1/2 ” battery powered quartz precision wall clocks, of heirloom quality.

The clocks are available in four versions with different motifs of toys from the olden days  – the vintage toy airplane, the wooden pull-toy duck, the red metal wagon and the vintage toy car.

All four clocks cost $ 39.95 at Sassy Mia.

Via Kidpoop

The German web store Windelhelden has these cute sets of shirts and hats. Simple animal shapes adorn the shirts, while the hats are adorned with the sound of the animal.

There are three versions available – cat, bee and frog.

All three sets cost 35,90 EUR, and are available in baby sizes 3-24 months.

Via Babygadget