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Importance of Eco-Friendly Toys - Go green with Zimpli Kids!

2/26/2020

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We believe that in today’s modern world everyone should be doing their best to help save the environment one tiny step at a time. At Zimpli Kids being green is very important to us and we believe that creating a fully eco-friendly range is the new frontier to making those small steps which will eventually help to save our planet.
What does Eco-friendly mean?
The simplest definition of eco-friendly is something that is ‘not harmful to the environment’.
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In depth, eco-friendly means being friendly to the earth and changing the way we use our resources.
We can do this by being more conservative with our water and energy, basically living a greener lifestyle.
Also, by making more products eco-friendly this prevents harsh pollutions to water, landfills even to the air around us.
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Eco-Friendly Toys
Today most retailers and manufacturers are guilty of majorly misusing plastic materials by ‘over sizing’ and ‘overusing’ plastic packaging due to the easy accessibility of it.

Due to the many years of overusing plastic materials it has had a massive effect on many businesses carbon footprints and the pollution of plastic materials being dumped into landfills, rivers and oceans causing nano and micro plastics to damage our wildlife. It is imperative that we imprint an example onto the next generation of how crucial it is not to misuse plastic materials!

More and more companies and parents alike are starting to understand the importance of this issue and are realising the fact that, ‘Plastic is not fantastic’, and that other materials can be used.  

We are determined to make a difference and save the planet one Gelli Baff at a time by becoming more and more driven to do our part in saving the environment! All of our packaging is 100% recyclable, made from recycled board and all our powders are certified biodegradable.
Going Green with Zimpli Kids
Our fabulous Zimpli team put their heads together to create our super-duper Eco-Range with our bestselling Gelli Play and Slime Play!

Recyclable Box, Leaflet and Bags
All the boxes, leaflets and bags in our Eco range are fully recyclable. We have moved from plastic bags to paper bags which can be recycled with the retail box & leaflet, in your standard paper/card recycling.

Minimum sized packaging 
We use a box that fits exactly the size of the bags, therefore, creating no excess waste materials.

Packaging made from recycled board
We have chosen to change all our retail and CDU boxes to recycled board and have a plain white background on four of the sides of the box to reduce our environmental impact.
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​Certified Biodegradable Toy

Our Gelli and Slime are certified Biodegradable. Gelli Baff and Slime Baff have both passed the Bio-degradation Test OECD 301B as tested by Intertek!

Zimpli Kids’ products are made in the UK! 
At Zimpli Kids, we manufacture 95% of our products in our ISO 9001 accredited UK factory. We have also just been accredited with ISO 14001; the coveted environmental certification awarded to companies who prove they minimize how their operations negatively affect the environment.

Of 2020, we have become eco-warriors as we have been working our socks off to create a collection of fully eco-friendly products. We have also re-branded our educational range, to make it eco-friendly too! – click here to check it out!
Super Cool Eco-Friendly Play
If you love our products and love being eco-friendly, then you can get your hands on our Eco Range very soon (Keep an eye out)!

​Also, don’t forget to keep sending in your images of you using our products for a chance to feature our Zimpli kids Instagram! 
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The Benefits of Sensory & Messy Play for Child Development

2/19/2020

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Sensory Play with Gelli and Slime Play
What is Sensory Play?

Before we start to talk about the benefits of Sensory Play, here is a simple explanation of what it is. 

Sensory Play is an activity that helps to stimulate the children’s senses of touch, hearing, taste, sight and smell. It is the perfect opportunity for children to explore all five of their senses and use them to explore the world around them.

The sensory market has become extremely important for Zimpli Kids and really has opened up a new audience for us. Parents are now starting to introduce sensory play to their children from a really early age, even as young as 12 months – as it has been proven to help with child development.

Due to the unique goo like texture, bright colours and sweet scents of Zimpli Kids best selling products Gelli Baff and Slime Baff, it has been used in multi-sensory and messy play all over the world. This has encouraged us to delve into the world of sensory play, to learn how these activities (and our products) benefit your little ones.  
 
Benefits of Sensory Play
Slime Play Sensory
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​Social & Emotional Development

Through sensory or messy play activities children learn to
​co-operate and it provides them with the opportunity to work together as a team. Gathering round a sensory table gives them opportunity to express themselves and to feel good about their decision-making skills.

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Cognitive Development

Sensory play is fantastic for cognitive development, to allow children to explore and figure new things they might never have experienced before. Whether it’s changing the colour of water, magically transforming water into goo or slime or making the water crackle and pop! This all helps children see and understand that if you add ‘this’ to ‘that’ you can create something new and unique.
Creative Development

Using creative thinking skills and expressing creativity are important self-esteem builders and can be developed through sensory play activities. Gelli and slime provide the perfect base for your child’s imagination to run wild and develop their creativity. Why not give them a go…
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  • Add Dino figures into green Slime Play to create a sensory swamp.
  • Have a go at Gelli Modelling and get creative; building shapes, characters or even Gelli sandcastles!    
  • Try picking up the Slime Play with Sieves and colanders to create a slimy waterfall!
  • Use our SnoPlay and some artic animals to create a snowy, artic adventure
  • Click here to view more sensory playtime ideas
      “This Slime Baff must be the most popular sensory play invitation we’ve had ALL year! I set up an ocean themed tuff tray with the slime, sand and shells which has encouraged lots of mixing and
exploring the changing of textures. Half of one packet made 3 full tanks, so it’s definitely a fab investment”
Physical Development

Sensory play is really important for developing children’s physical skills as most activities require multiple muscles to work together. Especially with our products, children reinforce and practice their small motor skills while pouring water, measuring powder, stirring and manipulating the goo or slime. They learn to control and give their bodies directions to accomplish tasks as they explore the new, unique texture.
       “This was actually the first time we had explored Gelli and Little was amazed, diving her hands straight in to explore! Little did lots of scooping and pouring, filling, used her imagination to bake a cake and make a smoothie and had lots of fun as the cups slipped and slid everywhere!”

​Should you start integrating sensory play into your child’s everyday life? 

Of course! Sensory, Messy, tactile play are popular phrases at the moment and it will only increase as more research highlights the importance further.  
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Putting some time aside for your child to develop their senses is important and can be made simple with Zimpli Kids products. Just add water to our Gelli, Slime or SnoPlay and you have yourself a unique sensory activity -  that keeps kids quiet for hours!

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