(sheri)
Part of the mission for Franklin Goose has always been to promote American made products. We do this with our Made in the USA page online, and by guiding people in the store to our Made in America products. This month while we are focusing on America we knew we had to talk about Green Toys.
Green Toys is synonymous with the American sucess story. We love them for their dedication to creating great toys in America. What we also love is their dedication to our planet. They use 6.9 lbs of recycled material for every 1 lb of toys they create. That is a lot of waste being reused, plus many jobs created in the recycling process! Jobs like the one that converts the bottles into plastic pellets that are then used by Green Toys to make the toys.
We love that Green Toys makes trucks, and boats bcecause they open up dialogue with kids about the jobs that are so necessary in our country. In our house we had long discussions about what ferry boats are, what they do, and where you can find them when I brought home the new ferry boat toy. When we went to visit firemen at the fire station it was imperative to my niece that the Green Toys firetruck come with us. That was her reference point for firetrucks and she wanted to show the firemen her truck when we visited. So many toys focus on race cars, airplanes and helicopters but we don't often find recycling trucks, ferry boats and tug boats.
Green Toys has proven that you can make quality, affordable, environmentally responsible toys that are fun and functional! Green Toys are great outside, inside, wet or dry. They are great for girls, boys, kids and adults (yes, you can find me playing with the ferry boat and cars when I am helping at bath time).
Green Toys also make great snack plates and bowls, which I have used as great prep bowls for cooking!