Eco Christmas Shopping

The team here at MoreEco know how hard it can be keeping the kids entertained during the Christmas holidays. So we have found the top 10 eco-games for the whole family to enjoy!

Eco-plunk

Suitable for children age 4 and above.
Featured in Junior and Prima Magazine

A great way to keep the kids entertained, this eco game could be compared to the classic game of Kerplunk, but with a twist!

See how steady your hands really are as you carefully remove the colour coded sticks to eliminate your opponents marbles, making sure you don’t let your own fall through.
Parents weary of plastic toys will appreciate this eco toy: made from bamboo, the world’s fastest replenishable natural resource – bamboo grows wihtout the use of pesticides making it sustainable and environmentally friendly.

Contents: Bamboo frame, 20 bamboo sticks and 16 bamboo balls in four colors

>>> Available from Eco Centric

>>> Price £19.00 + earn £1.33 cash back with MoreEco

‘Play Rethink’ – eco design game

‘Play Rethink’ is a fun eco game which promotes creativity, idea generation and lateral thinking. Perfect for Christmas, schools, or any creative group.

Players are asked to rethink existing, everyday products through the lens of environmentally friendly design. For example, redesign a chair using locally sourced materials or come up with new functions for an old shopping trolley. The goal of the game is environmentally friendly thinking and eco-design creativity. Spin a wheel ingeniously integrated into the box and select a task card based on the wheel result. Players then draw new ideas and apply eco-strategies based around the object on the card. Share, dicuss and debate you ideas. After playing you can upload your inspiring ideas to their website and you can even win a prize!

Made in the UK using recycled paper and card, vegetable inks and environmentally friendly processes

>>> Available from Eco Centric

>>> Price £24.99 + earn £1.75 cash back with MoreEco

Bioviva Mission Antarctic Game

Be the first to recover all the clues left behind by the mythical Jonah explorers’ expedition! Set out across the Antarctic, confronting puzzles, challenges, trials and tribulations as dealt out by the Expedition Cards, and be the first to find the Top Secret Envelope to uncover the crucial clue.

Each game can be played independently, but complete the Biovviva Mission Game Trilogy to discover the ultimate truth. These highly entertaining, family adventure games will give hours of fun for young and old. Printed on recycled, recyclable materials.

For 2-6 players, suitable for ages 7+

>>> Available from Ethical Superstore

>>> Price £14.95 + earn £1.20 cash back with MoreEco

Bioviva Board Game

Winner of all thirteen international competitions it entered, Bioviva has become the world-wide reference for board games about nature. As an adventurer thirsting for knowledge, you travel the world discovering the incredible and fascinating story of the planet Earth. An original, entertaining and instructive game, offering hours of entertainment for both family and friends.

Game Objective:

After drawing a “Destination” card at the beginning of the game, each player rolls the round dice, lands on a square of the planet and tries to answer the corresponding question correctly. For each correct answer, the player earns a “+” card, in the hope of collecting an “Eco Points” card. The winner is the player who manages to collect the necessary points for each of the natural regions listed on his/her “Destination” card. Simple and lots of fun!

>>> Available from Mimi Myne

>>> Price £34.99 + earn £2.10 cash back with MoreEco

Operation Survival

Can you make your way back from the edge?
Operation Survival is a strategy game for budding adventurers as well as experienced explorers. And no matter what happens, you’ll be sitting on the edge of your seat, laughing your head off!

Game Objective:

Your plane crashed in a remote land, and now you have to survive in this hostile territory. You and the other survivors from the wreck face extremely harsh conditions, but only one of you will come out of this alive…. It’s the survival of the fittest! Your best allies – courage, toughness and the ability to hit the ground running – will get you through the trials and tribulations Nature has in store… and help you outsmart your unlucky companions!

>>> Available from Mimi Myne

>>> Price £19.99 + earn £1.20 cash back with MoreEco

Green Cards – an eco twist on a timeless game

These beautifully designed eco friendly playing cards feature unique court card characters from original illustrations, and are the first playing cards to be made using only sustainable and recycled materials.

They are produced entirely in the UK so you can buy with the confidence of a low carbon footprint.

A fabulous gift that can be played with over and over again.

>>> Available from Nigel’s Eco Store

>>> Price: £3.99 + earn £0.32 cash back with MoreEco

Puppet Theatre

Made from recycled corrugated cardboard, this fabulous Puppet Theatre is sturdy and environmentally friendly.

Supplied flat packed, it’s a wonderful blank canvas for children to get creative with. Decorate with crayons, paints, stencils, fabrics, whatever you choose.

Easy to store too. Simply fold back down after use.

Supplied in a sturdy corrugated cardboard outer for storage when not in use.

>>> Available from Love Eco

>>> Price £29.99 + earn £2.40 cash back with MoreEco

Rainy Day Box

A box packed full of fun activities and materials to keep you busy on a rainy day.
Great for holidays too!

Awarded the overall winner in the Practical Pre-School Awards 2008, Toys and Games category.

Included in the box are 25 sheets of recycled sugar paper, 5 sheets of recycled card and several sheets of wallpaper. There are activity sheets to make a mobile, make butterflies, make a pom-pom pet and make puppets. There is a box of beeswax crayons, made without the use of chemical wax. There are four paints which are water based, biodegradable, and phalate free. A pot of washable glue, which like the paint, is wheat, gluten and nut oil free (ensuring that children with these allergies can play safely). A paint palette, paint brush and glue spreader is included. There are 3 spoons, 3 pegs and 4 lolly pop sticks. A bag of pom poms, feathers and sparkles. A pair of scissors* and a roll of tape. Some scraps of material and a pot of glitter. A recycled pencil and sheet of star stickers. A window mount to present your finished art work, and a stencil to practice writing letters and words. There are 3 paper doilies and 3 paper plates. A kids apron made by a woman’s cooperative in the Philippines from recycled juice packs is also included, which will protect your clothes and can continue to be used for future art & craft activities.

>>> Available from Ecotopia

>>> Price £29.35 + earn £1.17 cash back with MoreEco

Mayan Magic Chocolate Making Kit

The Mayan Magic Chocolate Making Kit is a brand new concept that gives you the finest raw ingredients, together with simple instructions to create exceptional chocolate from your own home. Raw Chocolate is made using unprocessed cacao powder that contains more than double the antioxidants of the processed variety.
The kit puts the fun and honesty back into chocolate, with no compromises on quality, flavour or health benefits.

The kit contains:

• Powders mix – Finest raw cacao (Nacional Arriba beans from Ecuador), Lucuma fruit powder, Peruvian carrob powder.
• Butters mix – Cacao butter, coconut butter
• Natural sweetener – Agave nectar (Low G.I. diabetic)

Together this makes 153g of very special chocolate to which you can add your own flavours – create a masterpiece that friends and family will never forget!

>>> Available from Ecotopia

>>> Price £12.95 + earn £0.52 cash back with MoreEco

Giraffe Puppet Kit

Included with this craft kit is everything you could possibly need to make one Giraffe Puppet including brush, glue, brown and yellow paint and full instructions.

Each kit comprises of custom made recycled cardboard & wooden parts. Once all the parts have been glued together and painted, they can easily be threaded together. Multiple colours of paint are also included with the kit so the creative part can be left to the recipient!

The Giraffe Puppet stands 47cm/19 tall when assembled. The Giraffe Puppet Kit was Shortlisted in the 2008 Gift of the Year Awards Eco Friendly Category.

All the cardboard used in these kits (in the tub and the body parts of each puppet) is made from recycled post consumer waste paper and cardboard. These parts can also be easily recycled once finished with!

>>> Available from Eco Outlet

>>> Price £12.00 + earn £0.96 cash back with MoreEco