Exciting Announcements for Green Peas Baby!

GreenPeasBaby.com has some exciting announcements.

Local pickup and delivery are now available.

Local delivery is now available to locations between Kaysville, UT and 1300 South in Salt Lake City. The fee for delivery will be the same as the shipping charges. Please make a note during checkout to let me know you'd like your item(s) delivered, or if you use a method of checkout that does not allow for a note to be included, email me and let me know you'd like delivery. Items will generally be delivered the next business day, although same day delivery is sometimes possible.

Local pick up is free and can be arranged by emailing me at greenpeasbaby@gmail.com. Shipping will still be charged for local pick-up items if they are ordered through the website. To get around this, you may either email me your order, and I'll send an invoice (or you may pay with cash or check in person) or coming this spring, Green Peas Baby will begin offering in person diaper consultations, where you can learn about how to use cloth diapers and purchase them in person.

Now Available!

Toy Recalls

With all the toy recalls these days, parents may wonder what toys are safe for their children. Here's a link to the Consumer Product Safety Commission with information about all the latest recalls.

ImagiPLAY wooden toys are lead free, so no worries here!

Green Peas Announcement!

Now at Greenpeasbaby.com, free shipping on all orders over $80.00.

Baby Cubes

I've tried to stock my online store with items that I think are useful, high quality, and just plain cool. My favorite items are the baby cubes. I bought myself a set, but I think when the baby is old enough to be eating baby food, I'm going to have to get more. I currently have the small 1oz size, which will be great for my little one who is just about to start out on solids. I've also read that the small sized cubes are good for older babies if you want to feed them more than one type of food at a time.

I'm going to buy a couple of the larger 2oz size baby cubes soon, because I had an epiphany when I was packing my son's lunch for school. I use several small tupperware type containers to hold all his food, and I realized the 2oz baby cubes would work really well for making pudding and jello and things like that instead of buying the small containers of those things, plus they will be easier for him to open than some of the other containers I've sent him to school with.

I'm trying to think back and remember what baby foods I made for my last baby. I think his favorites were sweet potatoes and avacados (not together- and the avacados might have been my favorite, I can't remember). I steamed the sweet potatoes, peeled them, mixed them in the blender (sometimes adding some of the water from steaming them if it is too thick. I used to put the baby food into ice cube trays, then the frozen cubes went in a ziplock bag. The baby cubes will be better because I won't have to deal with cubes sticking together.

One word of warning, from my reading reviews on baby cubes, if you overfill them, the lids will pop open in the freezer.

(Oh- the baby cubes in the picture are the larger 2oz size- they come with 8 cubes. The smaller 1oz size comes with 10.)

Toys with Integrity

I love these toys (I'm getting the nativity puzzle before Christmas this year!) Here's more information about them, from the Imagiplay website:

Kids are the future! If we’re to create a brighter future for our world, we need to instill environmental awareness in our children. Green toys teach kids to think about where things come from and where they’ll go—an early lesson in environmental responsibility and responsible buying.

ImagiPLAY is committed to the development and distribution of open-ended educational toys and children’s accessories that inspire their imaginations, introduce them to the wonders of the natural world around them, and nurture their sense of discovery. We are equally committed to producing only high-quality products using materials and processes that show respect for our planet and all the people and creatures upon it.

Every toy we produce is earth friendly, child safe and people kind. That is our commitment to our children and their planet.

Child Safety
Child safety is our highest priority. We test every material and paint in our products to insure it meets or exceeds US and European standards.

Our Toys are Made from What?
Everything we produce is made from renewable, sustainable materials.
Rubberwood
Our solid wood toys are made from plantation-grown, chemical-free rubberwood. Rubber tree plantations have existed for hundreds of years in tropical countries. Rubber trees produce a sap that is used to make latex products. At the end of their latex-producing years (generally 25-30 years) the trees are harvested and new ones planted. The wood used to be burned, until people realized these wonderful trees had one more gift to give, that of their beautiful hardwood, which we use to make our hardwood toys.
MDF (medium density fibreboard)
Some of our toys utilize MDF, which is an engineered wood product formed by breaking down softwood particles (sawdust) into wood fibres combining it with wax and resin, and forming panels by applying high temperature and pressure. In other words, compressed sawdust. Again we are utilizing the byproducts of another industry. MDF is similar to but denser than particleboard and we use it in some of our playsets to create play structures that are thin (lightweight), yet rigid. The MDF we use is formaldehyde free and tested for child safety.
Bamboo
Bamboo is a fast growing wood-like grass that is fast becoming popular in products ranging from cutting boards, bowls and plates to wood flooring. The beautiful natural look of bamboo is ideal for creating lovely keepsake storage boxes for some of our toys and our designers are busy developing it for use in children’s toys, for which it is ideal because it is lightweight, flexible and strong. Best of all, it shows our children that there are creative alternatives to ravaging our forests.
Other materials
We are constantly on the lookout for other environmentally friendly materials to develop into high quality toys. If you have any suggestions, please contact us at info@ImagiPLAY.com

Minimal carbon footprint
Every step of our toy production from seed to shelf is carefully thought out to minimize impact on the earth. Most wooden toys distributed in this country are made from Pine and made in China. The raw Pine is primarily produced in Canada, shipped to China where the toy is produced then shipped back to North America as a finished product! We see this excessive shipping as a senseless waste of natural resources. We select factories that are close to our raw materials to avoid this needless expenditure of gas, oil and greenhouse gases.

Our Toys are Made Where and by Whom?
We are proud to contribute to the growth of many developing nations by crafting our toys in small, mostly family run factories around Asia.

The rubberwood used to make our toys is grown in Southeast Asia, so our rubberwood toys are crafted in Sri Lanka, Viet Nam and some carefully selected factories in China. We have several factories in and around Colombo, the capital city of Sri Lanka. Our factories are placed close to the neighborhoods where our workers live. The majority of our factory workers walk or ride their bikes to work each day.

Bamboo is primarily grown in China, which is where we craft our bamboo boxes and toys and some of our Rubberwood toys.

We visit every factory to insure:
There is no child labor
Workers are paid a fair, living wage
Workers are provided with a clean, safe environment to work
Workers are treated with respect and dignity
Only local workers are utilized

Get Thirstie

I love Thirsties diaper covers. They fit well, contain my baby's newborn-poop explosions and look adorable. I need to buy him some more t-shirts because the onesies hide the cute covers.