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!

Toys for the soul is a set of three wooden toys hand-crafted from beautiful rosewood and mahogany. These beautiful wooden toys are made in an Indonesian farming village, after sustainable principles. The set consists of a yoyo, a spinner and a hole-stick-toy.

Toys for the soul wooden toy set is designed by Singgih Kartono, and is available at Wannekes (EUR 37.50 ~ $50 USD).

Tying shoelaces comes easy to some children and for others it’s quite difficult.

We adults often forget how much it means to learn things like tying your laces, and how hard it can be for children that are having difficulties learning it.

Shoes and Laces Wooden Toy is meant to make shoe lacing fun, and might be the exact thing some children need to make them want to learn.

The Shoes and Laces Wooden Toy is available at Linen Kids for 7,50 EUR.

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!

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!

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.

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.

HaPe’s Pandabo balancing game is easy to learn, decorative and made of bamboo which is a sustainable material. The game is recommended for age four years and older, and works after the same principles as Mikado. Everyone tries to balance the sticks on top of the panda, and if the sticks fall when you are building, you lose the game. The last one still stacking wins.

The game includes one panda, 24 sticks, of three different shapes and a dice.

Pandabo has received the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Seal Award 2006 and the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Seal Award 2006. You can buy it at Amazon.com (AL) for 14.95 USD.

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The little YOLO are environmentally responsible paints in fresh colors. The paint is made by borrowing some of nature’s natural elements and combining them with the environmentally responsible paint, which results in a VOC free paint that is safe for the environment and people. little YOLO paints are certified by Green Seal™.

I can’t think of a better paint to use if you are going to paint the nursery in preparation for a new baby, and want a big sister or brother to take part in it.

little YOLO paints can be purchased at a retailer near you.

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