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Green Gifts For Kids: Guide Offers Fun, Eco-Friendly Presents For Children (PHOTOS)

First Posted: 12/12/11 12:31 PM ET   Updated: 12/12/11 12:58 PM ET

With all the latest video games and toy trends, choosing gifts for your kids or other children in your life can be difficult. But with some of these gift ideas, giving an eco-friendly present doesn't have to be hard.

For more children's gift ideas, check out some of these eco-friendly toys.

When purchasing gifts for friends and family, it is also important to consider how those gifts are packaged and wrapped.

Recycle Works explains that half of America's paper consumption comes from wrapping and decoration on consumer products alone. In fact, the U.S. generates a reported four million tons of trash annually just from gift wrapping and shopping bags.

Images and gift ideas courtesy of Organic Spa Magazine.

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With all the latest video games and toy trends, choosing gifts for your kids or other children in your life can be difficult. But with some of these gift ideas, giving an eco-friendly present doesn't ...
With all the latest video games and toy trends, choosing gifts for your kids or other children in your life can be difficult. But with some of these gift ideas, giving an eco-friendly present doesn't ...
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02:46 PM on 12/13/2011
These are some really fun and great gift ideas! There definitely needs to be some additions to this green gift giving guide > http://www.skinnyscoop.com/list/organicchildcom/some-eco-friendly-organic-gift-list
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08:54 PM on 12/12/2011
1 very large cardboard box, the kind used for appliances or furniture.
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