Peek Inside the NY Gift Fair

The great thing about offering home, lifestyle and gift items in your store is that most can be displayed without regard to time or season. To ensure they are a selection of new products, buyers will swarm the New York International Gift Fair^® January 26-30. Drawing an estimated 35,000 attendees from all 50 states and 80+ countries, the NYIGF is produced twice annually. Held in January and August in New York City, the Fair hosts about 2,800 exhibiting companies showcasing brands across the home, lifestyle and gift spectrum. The Giggle Guide^® has culled the list of exhibitors to preview a selection of interesting children’s items, including Zipit, Pure Play Kids, Greenpoint Brands and Buzzworthy Baby.

Zipit Clothes Make Dressing Baby Zippier

New parents will relate to Ruth Waddingham’s dilemma of having to wrestle getting clothes over a wobbly baby’s head and fumbling with snaps and buttons. Drawing upon her extensive graphic design background, she invented Zipit –– a smart, fuss-free babywear collection with only easy zipper closures.

Zipit includes rompers, dresses, hats and blankets that have full-front openings and zippers that unzip at the ankle for easy diaper changes. One genius innovation is its exclusive Pooper Peeper™ to check diapers without having to undress the baby, which is most appreciated, especially in the middle of the night.

Zipit Scamper Pants even include double knees for extra cushioning for crawlers and a reinforced bottom for tumbles. Along with an ergonomic design using a covered zipper placket to ensure clothing lays comfortably and snuggly up against a baby’s skin, Zipit incorporates whimsical accents in every detail. The color combo palette is bright and modern, including pebble (an urban grey), new leaf (apple green), rich chocolate and giggle pink. All garments are 100% soft cotton and feature images of treats like milk & cookies, popsicles, apples and raspberries.

Zipit garments are housed in darling little suitcase-style boxes and coordinating colors.

Open your doors to www.zipitbaby.com

Pure Play Kids Knows Fun Doesn’t Need Batteries

With the holidays behind us, parents are sure to be exhausted by toys requiring batteries that light up and make sounds and generally drive kids and adults alike to distraction. As an alternative, Pure Play Kids offers battery-free, creative toys with a made in the U.S.A. focus, featuring wooden toys and organic stuffed animals.

These toys fuel the imagination of babies, toddlers and big kids. Pure Play Kids is an exciting company that grew out of Mike and Tania Grant’s personal quest to find the best toys for their own children. After examining every aspect of the children’s products industry, it became evident to them that improvement was needed in the way children’s products are designed, manufactured, marketed, sold, used, and especially discarded.

Pure Play Kids stands for toys that are kid-powered (not battery operated), open-ended (not pre-programmed), and will grow with kids (allowing parents to buy better, not buy more). Best sellers include classics like push-toys, board games, dolls and capes. Help parents encourage creativity with make-your-own kits like lip balm and sidewalk chalk, perfect for the summer season. New items include puzzles, bibs, dress-up clothes and sand art.

Come and play with www.pureplaykids.com

Naturally, Greenpoint Brands Are Eco-Friendly

What if you could offer your customers safe, healthy and durable products that are also eco-friendly? Go green with Greenpoint Brands and their My Natural Soft Comfort Teether, the perfect choice in teething and sensory stimulating infant fun. This teether features a plant-based bio-resin material made from corn, potato and sugar cane starch that is better for baby and the environment. With all the benefits, you may expect it to be on the boring side, but the teether comes in adorable animal shapes that are also easy for little baby hands to grip.

Greenpoint Brands co-founders, Serah Chae and Petrie Hahn, have years of experience in design and marketing. Beyond teethers, Greenpoint offers fairytale and storybook plush animals, most including hemp clothing for a stylish and green look. Greenpoint has also partnered with such well-known and trusted brands as Disney Baby, Dr. Seuss, and Jane Goodall. Each soft toy is filled with recycled fiber, ensuring it is soft and cuddly while promoting the re-use of existing materials. Each toy collection uses packaging crafted from recycled materials, and the gift boxes are also meant to be reused.

Be generous to the environment while offering a high-end look at www.miyim.com

Buzzworthy Baby Heralds Baby’s Stats

As mainstream products land on baby registries, parents and families are craving something more personalized. Go beyond offering your customers just a monogram, by showcasing Buzzworthy Baby artwork that includes a colorful and versatile collage with the baby’s name, weight, time and date of birth, siblings, parents, and other personal information. Buzzworthy Baby ensures unique information about precious princes and princesses can be preserved forever in a pictorial.

Buzzworthy Baby, formerly known as Baby Art, was started by Kris O’Neill in 1986 in the tiny back room of her house. Kris loved the idea of a fun, colorful, personalized baby gift that people could hang in their child’s nursery. She began her creations as gifts to friends and when word spread, she got her own studio. Facing the age-old problem of wanting to spend more time with her two sons, Kris put the company on hold. 18 years later, one of those sons, Devin O’Neill, got things buzzing again. As the company grows, nothing is off limits as mother and son work to build a company that is known for its one-of-a-kind high-quality baby gifts.

Buzz on over and start offering customers the ultimate in customized service at www.buzzworthybaby.com