Plastic-free Playsets from Petit Collage

In a world where 90% of toys for 3 year olds are still made from plastic* meet your new Petit Pals, Tilly Tortoise and Hugo Hamster! Plastic-free Playsets made using recycled FSC wood and FSC paper.

Ready to be cuddled and cared for, Tilly loves exploring the outdoors and foraging for her favorite food: strawberries! When the day’s adventures are done, it’s time to settle Tilly down under her heat lamp for a snooze.

Hugo loves exercise, exploring the outdoors, and foraging for his favorite food: blackberries! When the day’s adventures are done, it’s time to tuck Hugo back into his house for a snooze.

Perfect for ages 3+, Tilly’s house includes six chunky wooden pieces: a strawberry, a carrot, a salad leaf, a water bowl, a heat lamp, and, of course, the sweet tortoise herself! Inside Hugo’s house you’ll find six chunky wooden pieces: an exercise wheel, a water bottle, a flower, a blackberry, a salad leaf, and of course, the happy hamster himself!

Designed to encourage independent play, these wooden play sets develop fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination, and caring for Tilly and Hugo deepens emotional awareness and empathy.

Small steps create big changes. Some small steps you can take when buying toys.

- Make a choice to buy a plastic-free toy

- Check for an FSC logo on the packaging to ensure the trees used to make the product and packaging are sourced from responsibly managed forests.

- Look for products made from recycled materials.

- Buy toys that are made to last, treasure them, and hand them down so they last generations.

- Recycle the packaging, and make sure there are no acetate windows or plastic trays. Cardboard  is one of the most recycled materials in the US. Plastics can be recycled but the process is energy-intensive and the majority of plastics collected for recycling are still not actually recycled. Plastic can take centuries to disappear, whereas card naturally decomposes and can even be composted.

It’s never too early to teach children about how they can make small decisions that impact the health of the planet for their future. A valuable lesson to teach children is that there is no such place as “away” so when you throw something in the bin it doesn’t disappear. Recycling habits can become like all other daily healthy habits we teach children … brush your teeth, make your bed, recycle your waste.

*(source: Generation Plastic, Children’s Environmental Health Collaborative, Unicef, 25 November 2024)