We just love the new "Skinny" range of baby toys from the Charlie Bears Little Organics range and we're confident that your baby or toddler will too!

All five friendly little Skinny characters are now in stock - choose from Jimmy Giraffe, Buffy Bunny, Milly Mouse, BoBo Bear and Pina Piglet.  Each of these toys are made with a thick short-pile, supersoft, organic cotton fleece, with the main seams edged with very soft tufted organic cotton fleece.  Whilst these little animals look rather rotund from the front, it's their slim (but still cuddly) side profile which gives these their "Skinny" name.  This clever consideration makes these toys a perfect size for babies and toddlers to cuddle, making it so much easier for little arms to reach comfortably round these sumptuously soft organic friends!

We are delighted to announce that following the fantastic success of the recent introduction of the new Charlie Bears Little Organics "Baby Safe" Collection, we have added some new characters and sizes to our range of these toys.

In addition to Larlie Bear, Poppa Dog, Fifi Bunny and Marley Mouse, we now also have sleepy Barley Lamb (shown above) and cheeky MeMe Monkey!  We also have an additional smaller size option (approximately 20cm) for these popular toys.  This baby version of each character is ideally sized as a little companion, in pushchairs or car seats.  With larger 30cm and the really cuddly, generously sized 40cm versions, there are ideal sizes for babies and children of all ages.  

All the toys, in every size, in this range are suitable from birth onwards, but the medium and large versions are great for toddlers or older children for whom it's sometimes a bit more challening to find larger organic toys.

If you're a fan of the Charlie Bears Little Organics range, do keep revisiting our site as Charlie Bears are planning to add more new characters to this collection for release later in the year.

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We are delighted to report that we have today lowered the price of all of the organic cotton fleece toys in our Charlie Bears Little Organics range!  The price of each of the 30cm and 40cm characters have now been lowered by £5 with the medium toys now costing £20 and the large ones now at £25.  

Although these toys have only recently been introduced to our range, we have already sold out of the medium Larlie Bear but the large Larlie Bear represents great value for money offering much larger cuddles!

If you've been waiting for this lovely soft brushed organic cotton Under the Nile giraffe to come back into stock, new stock has now arrived!  These lovely 100% organic cotton baby toys, inside and out, make affordable and adorable newborn baby gifts, for little boys and girls alike.

This adorable My First Toy giraffe by Nature's Purest has now come back into stock.  

This lovely character from the Sleepy Safari range (other My First Toy safari animals in this range are the elephant or lion) is one of our customers' most popular choices of baby toys as a gift for newborns.  So if you've been waiting for these to become available, we're now able to meet orders for these again.

Although we're best known for our organic baby toys here at The Organic Toy Company, we are delighted to now also be offering this fabulous Baby Signing Basics book by Lizzie Betts.  The teachings in this books are ideal for babies of between 5-18 months, although this is a guideline age and isn't rigid. 

We're huge fans and supporters of Little Signers Club (who provide expert classes in teaching baby communication techniques) and this easy-to-follow and beautifully illustrated guide is used in conjunction with all their baby signing courses.

Baby signing is becoming hugely popular as more and more parents recognise the benefits in being able to communicate with their babies long before their little ones are able to talk.  It's a common misconception that baby signing delays speech development, but in fact, evidence clearly shows that when signing is done correctly, the exact opposite is true.  Studies have also shown signing children to be significantly ahead of non-signing children at the age of 8 years old.

Click on our Baby Signing Book's page, for more information and to discover just some of the many benefits of showing your baby or child how to sign, made easy by this well-written and clearly illustrated beginners' guide.

After my post earlier this week about Minieco's fantastic website for creative ideas, my four and five year olds were very excited about trying out the recipes for making their own homemade and naturally coloured (mainly organic) playdough!  

Here's what's my youngest two made for today's menu after having lots of fun making several differently coloured batches of Minieco's playdough.  We didn't have all the suggested ingredients for the dyes so we improvised on one or two...

Chocolate sausages
Tumeric fishfingers and chips (vanilla scented)
(Beetroot coloured) tomato ketchup
Parsely coloured peas

Please note, we don't usually have sausages and fishfingers together for dinner, despite what what my kids have suggested here!  

If you do use the recipes on Minieco's website for this homemade playdough (links to a whole range of these and lots of other fantastic ideas by Minieco on my earlier blog post), please do be aware that although made with kitchen cupboard ingredients, this is not edible playdough, mainly due to the high salt content!)