Just like the ones you used to know?

 

Tired of taking your children’s toys away from them and having to explain, “Now, now…I know you love your train set, but it’s full of lead”? Toddlers are so understanding of such reasonable explanations when you yank their favorite toys out of their hands. Ever had to pull a toy component out of your two-year-old child’s mouth and offer the placating statement, “I know you love it, but it’s coated with the date rape drug?”

 

Because I believe that any holiday season should be an e-commerce holiday season (who can stand retail stores nowadays and keep their sanity?), I’ve thrown together a list of companies (manufacturers and resellers) of all manner of green toys: organic toys, green toys, fair-trade toys, eco-friendly toys, and, perhaps most important, toys free of lead and GHB and, presumably, whatever the next horror substance to turn up in your child’s made-in-China toys, be it arsenic, animal feces, cocaine or polluted river water.

 

The following Web sites sell American-made Toys, European-made Toys, Organic Toys and Green Toys

 

A selection of soft organic cotton toys and organic wood toys.

 

Eco-friendly wooden toys

 

Safe wooden and plush toys

 

U.K.-based site for traditional, fair-trade organic toys, including personalized name train sets.

 

A selection of toys made in the U.S., plus other green and healthy toys

 

Natural, earth-friendly, wooden and organic cotton toys for children and babies

 

U.K.-based site for safe, environmentally friendly wooden toys

 

Handmade organic cotton dolls and stuffed animals, made in the U.S.

 

Includes 100 percent organic cotton huggable stuffed animals made in Vermont.

 

Ecological wooden toys.

 

Vegan baby products and green games, plus gifts and organic baby and maternity clothing.

 

A selection of organic soft toys; organic play dough

 

Organic soft toys.

 

Lead-free, Amish made wooden animal toys

 

Interesting natural wooden toys, arts, crafts and games, reasonably priced. Includes wooden bikes for small children, and lots of infant-friendly stacking toys.

 

Organic cotton toys.

 

A New Zealand-based site for eco-friendly soft and wooden toys, games and puzzles; will ship worldwide.

 

Organic clothes and toys from Europe.

 

Organic toys and children’s products from Europe.

 

A clearinghouse for all sorts of safe, non-toxic toys and other children’s items.

 

A selection of wooden toys made in the U.S., plus organic fair-trade toys and children’s clothing.

 

A collection of organic cotton toys.

 

Planet-friendly, eco-conscious organic toys and children’s clothing

 

Sage Baby

An eco-friendly baby store with soft organic cotton toys and non-toxic wooden toys made in the U.S. and Europe.

 

A selection of natural wooden toys, many made in Germany, and organic soft toys. Very reasonably priced.

 

Fair trade and organic games and toys.

 

Affordable, ethical, sustainable and non-toxic toys for babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers, U.K.-based site

 

Soft toys and baby clothing made from organic cotton.