Make Your Own Advent Calendar Filler Ideas
I've never personally, been a fan of giving my sons chocolate everyday of December for Christmas Advent, so have always sourced...
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Susan Luxford
- Oct 25
- 5 min
Our Top 10 Bestsellers in 2023
Are you in need of present ideas for Birthdays and Christmas. Here we highlight our bestsellers in store to help guide you for what is...
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Susan Luxford
- Oct 21
- 3 min
How to have an Eco-friendly Kids Halloween Celebration
Halloween is scary enough without the horrifying levels of waste it creates. Halloween waste is definitely the scariest monster of them...
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Susan Luxford
- Oct 13
- 4 min
Innovative Toys Using Recycled and Waste Materials
Every year, Recycle Week takes place across the UK from the 16-22 October with the purpose to encourage us all to recycle as much as we...
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Susan Luxford
- Aug 16
- 3 min
Sustainable Swaps to REFUSE Plastic toys in your family life
You may have already heard of the 4 R's of sustainability that are often widely promoted: Refuse, Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. In Week 2 of...
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Susan Luxford
- Aug 16
- 3 min
Sustainable Swaps to RETHINK Plastic toys in your family life
Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle are often promoted as the 4 R's of sustainability, but there are many more R's we can undertake to lead a...
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Susan Luxford
- Aug 16
- 2 min
Sustainable Swaps to REDUCE Plastic toys in your family life
The theme for this year's global movement Plastic Free July (2023) was, "small steps make a big difference". When we talk about our...
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Susan Luxford
- Jul 12
- 3 min
Top 8 Best Sustainable Toys for Camping
The summer holidays are approaching and camping is booked. Here we offer our sustainable and plastic-free alternatives for children's...
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Susan Luxford
- Mar 10
- 4 min
The Importance of Story Sacks, Story Stones and Audio Stories for Children
World Book Day celebrated last week, is about a love of books and reading for pleasure. I was delighted that the Yoto Player was the...
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Susan Luxford
- Mar 8
- 2 min
Building Creations with Grimms Wooden Toys
Even if you have not been fully lured into the wonderful world of wooden toys, you have still possibly seen or heard about the stacking...
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Susan Luxford
- Nov 17, 2022
- 3 min
Why Toys Need to Be Part of The Conversation on Climate Change
Last week I spoke at a Climate Nature Emergency Event held in Hove. It was wonderful to see over 200 people attend. I spoke about why...
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Susan Luxford
- Oct 5, 2022
- 5 min
The problem With Toys Aimed At Girls
I am very particular about what I stock at Timeless Toys. Not only ensuring everything is sustainable, ethical, natural and plastic-free,...
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Susan Luxford
- Aug 31, 2022
- 2 min
Observing Your Child In Play... A Montessori Way
152 years after Maria Montessori was born, her educational studies and observations on the way children learn naturally, and her...
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Susan Luxford
- Nov 20, 2021
- 3 min
How To Encourage Open-Ended Toy Play
The idea of buying open-ended toys for your children can be a rather daunting one. In this blog post I want to show how I encouraged...
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Susan Luxford
- Jul 29, 2021
- 2 min
Pikler Frames: The importance of open-ended toys
There has been growing awareness of the value of unstructured open-ended play yet these toys are commonly overlooked and disregarded by...
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Susan Luxford
- Jul 10, 2021
- 3 min
Easy Toy Swaps For Plastic Free Parenting
Plastic Free July is about encouraging and supporting individuals and families in reducing their plastic waste. The belief that small...
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Susan Luxford
- Apr 30, 2021
- 2 min
Brio Versus Bigjigs Railway Train Sets
Bigjigs Rail are often viewed as the second choice when it comes to wooden railway play sets. Here we myth bust about this quality UK...
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Susan Luxford
- Mar 30, 2021
- 4 min
Toy Decluttering & Rotation
With charity shops about to re-open and Spring arrived bringing longer days, now is a good time to sort through the toy cupboards and...
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Susan Luxford
- Jan 29, 2021
- 3 min
What's wrong with plastic toys?
There is a thriving secondhand market for them, they are not single-use and quality brands like Lego last for generations, so what is the...
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Susan Luxford
- Jan 8, 2021
- 2 min
Is This Toy Safe?
Some might call me overzealous. But being able to trust the toys you are buying and knowing how and what they are made from is important...
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