8 Tips for Choosing Christmas Christmas toys

New Year is coming - and it's time to not just look for the Christmas tree, but also pick up for her toys, garlands and tinsel. How to dress up your Christmas tree and do not hurt yourself or others? What are the principles to choose New Year's toys and what is / is not worth buying - this we'll talk.

1. Try to take less breakable toys

If you have cats in the house, young children or those and others - try to make it easy to breakable toys on your Christmas tree was smaller. Or, at least, hang these glass balls and figures higher to your child or pet before them not reached. In general, glass toys are kept much smaller than plush, plastics or articles made of polymer clay. If you choose glass balls on the Christmas tree, take a small number of large to create the overall effect, and decorate the Christmas tree primarily of smaller toys are not such fragile materials.

2. Pay attention to the painting and the presence of "chemical" odor

"Rain" tree balls and garland figures should not emit a pungent smell, the paint from the surfaces should not stick to hands, glitter laterally must not crumble or stick. In addition, high-quality glass balls covered with a layer of silver plating on the inside, not outside. Lasting fragrance of "chemistry" and hands, like a chameleon after contact with toys - a sure sign that your Christmas tree for Christmas decorations such has no place. Unless you want to earn an allergy or chemical poisoning.

3. Check the hinges and fastenings

Poor-quality fastening and delicate clamps can lead to the fact that from falling garland with lights a fire breaks out, and at the slightest touch to the tree, glass toys fall down and be broken. Unfortunately, a lot of nameless Chinese brands, which are filled up stalls and supermarkets eve New Year, not too careful in the selection of fasteners and hinges for balls, figurines, Electrogarlands.

4. Garlands and lanterns to choose not only the principle of "beautiful / ugly"

Even if the risk to buy electrical decorations and a variety of illumination without certificates and any guarantees, make sure that the bulb does not fall out of the socket, the plug and the power cord is securely connected and can not be on kink. It is also desirable to include a garland before you buy and check that after a minute or two Garland did not begin to publish a sharp "Burnt" or "chemical" smell, not too warm, flashing as intended by the manufacturer, and not as it want.

5. Avoid low-melting materials

Do not overdo it with the "rain" and other flammable decorations, if you use candles, garlands of lamps or decorative lighting as elements decorate the Christmas tree and the room in which the tree itself is. Most of the fires and fires in the New Year's holidays are associated with incorrect placement fusible decorations in the rooms and buildings - near electrical appliances, light garlands and heating systems.

6. Do not forget about the "eco-toys»

Toys made of environmentally friendly materials are more expensive, but you certainly will know that your child is not earn chemical poisoning, "communicated" with New Year's decorations in the process of preparation for the celebrations or New Year.

7. Make part of the decorations with your hands

Paper applications, polymer clay, colored cardboard and decorative materials and sold in shops and retail outlets offline. Give your child (and yourself) the joy of creating toys, garlands, figures and other jewelry with their own hands: it will make to prepare for the holidays and will add a good touch of warm memories.

8. Remember durability

Spending every season of the family budget to buy all the Christmas decorations again - not the best idea. Try to keep the toys and garlands "experienced" at least a few Christmas seasons. To do this, it is important not only to accurately use the decorations for the Christmas tree, but also initially to acquire high-quality products that have indicated manufacturer, have certificates of quality and met at least the minimum mandatory requirements for durability and safety use.