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What’s for dinner?” is a common question uttered nightly by children with rumbling tummies. Savvy parents know that encouraging kids to help out in the kitchen is a great way to bond as a family and teach children about good food! Today there are several products available that take children from a “make-believe” kitchen to actually making delicious meals of their own. The Giggle Guide® presents Sassafras, Growing Cooks and Dressing Up Dishes… a hot three-course meal of cooking sets and activities designed especially for children. Bon appetite!

CHICAGO – (December 4, 2009) – The Chicago Market: Living and Giving® continues its mission to keep its buyers informed and enlightened with several not-to-be missed special events this January. Event highlights include a keynote presentation from Gordon Segal, chairman and co-founder of Crate & Barrel, Power Lunch Seminars and the ever-popular Speed Networking Seminar. These events can be found only at The Chicago Market: Living and Giving, January 21-27, with Temporaries, including Beckman’s™ Handcrafted Show, January 23-26.

Contact: The Chicago Market / (312) 527-7600

It is officially December and what better way to start the month than with the No Slippy Hair Clippy’s fabulous new Clip of the Month? See below and adore Smile

All pretty and dainty and just perfect for the holidays. You can choose from 14 colors.

Contact: No Slippy Hair Clippy, Inc. / (925) 846-8570

Children love creative play that imitates the activities they see Mom and Dad perform — like cooking! For generations, little chefs have dished up everything from mud pies to elaborate tea parties using realistic, make-believe toys. Kitchen play sets deliver an educational recipe for fun times that allows children to pretend they can cook, just like grown-ups! The Giggle Guide® has found some products to help kids cook up all kinds of make-believe adventures with pretend goodies! Add HaPe, Guidecraft and KidKraft to your retail product menus!

Did you know there is an estimated 5-6 billion pounds of pre-consumer cotton remnants being thrown into our landfills every year? Fortunately, as a nation, we are becoming more and more environmentally aware. Today we recycle our bottles and cans, plastic containers and cardboard — but isn’t there more we can do? Is it possible to recycle or re-use fashion? Yes there is, and yes you can! Here are some children’s wear companies that are making this change for the better, through passion and innovation.

7 W New York® Gift & Home Textiles Market Week®: - New York City, New York (1/29/10 - 2/4/10)

7 W New York’s first annual NYC Baby & Kids Fair, January 30 - February 1, 2010, promises to be an exciting new event with inspiring and business-enhancing keynote presentations from industry experts. The fair, on the building’s 11th floor, will coincide with three key days of the 7 W Winter Gift and Home Textiles Market®, offering an added value and mutual benefit to exhibitors and attendees of both shows.

Smooth lines, versatility, comfort, functional grace, and durability that promises to stand the test of time and toddlers — these all describe the HandySitt high chair system by Minui. This Danish design is a well-constructed seating solution that lets children to enjoy the security and comfort of a high chair, with the functionality and ease of a portable seat.

When Carol Yenne’s grandson was born prematurely, weighing only 2 lbs 11 oz, this San Francisco granny realized it was time to make hard-to-find preemie outfits readily available for other families. At her store, Small Frys, she now offers a variety of sweet clothing collections, designed for babies weighing 2 pounds and up. The preemie collections are from Coccoli, Kissy Kissy Preemie, Petite Bateau and Le Top. At Small Frys, they know that when babies come early, having comforting little outfits can make a big difference.

Premature infants benefit from an extra special dose of tender love and care, as well as some unique products to help with their special needs. In honor of Prematurity Awareness Month, and the The March of Dimes’ efforts, The Giggle Guide® recognizes the following companies who offer products designed to help small infants, with special attention to the needs of preemies: Mommy’s Little Helpers, Comfort Silkie,Itzy Ritzy, TummyTubs and AvaBaby’s.

Finding children’s products manufactured in the United States can be difficult. Luckily, the book Made Here, Baby!, by Bruce H. Wolk, does exactly that. The Giggle Guide® found five companies featured in the book that have been operating in the United States for more than 100 years: Fexible Flyer, Amana Woolen Mill, The Original American Kazoo Company, Johnson Woolen Mills and Whitney Brothers.

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