If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to the general newsletter to receive periodic updates and news. If you sign up as a member, you’ll be added to the member only mailing list.One of the biggest shocks which more »
Safety Eyes
Safety eyes…are they…safe? Safety eyes can look lovely on toys, and in short, yes when correctly attached, they do live up to their name! Where can I get them? There are a fair few brands of safety eyes (and noses!) more »
CE marking shaped Crayons
I’ve moved this over from the wiki to get it a bit more love! If you’re looking for paperwork for your technical file for your crayons, they can be found in our guide here Wax crayons that are shaped do need more »
One of a kind toys/design your own toy
Fairly often one of a kind toys come up, they’re always much loved and these nothing better than a toy which really is one of a kind, especially designed by little ones themselves! CE marking as usual puts a tricky more »
Variations
Due diligence is a pretty difficult thing to grasp at the best of times, you in no way want to under-test your toy, as its important that you have a whole toy tested as par the regs. However sometimes you more »
Charity Toys – Octopus
2018 A1 UPDATE: please see updates to en71-1 – cords with potential to tangle We’ve seen these charity octopus posts lately and its all rather safety vague, So I thought a clear guide on making them safe may be helpful. I more »
Cords
All the technical info for the cords is described in our loops and lengths wiki (for members only) However its come to our attention that we need to clarify a little on the cords front to be clear. I’d like to thank more »
International Toy Safety
We quite often get questions asking about selling outside of the EU, so hopefully this link-fest will help with this 🙂 The CE mark enables you to legally sell your toys in the EU, but outside of the EU there more »
Peg Doll Problems
Peg dolls are wonderful personalise-able little things, they’re so fab* that they have their own little section of the EN71-1, called Play figures. *by fab, I mean difficult. Being wood, first of all they need to pass a host of more »
Equipment – what is needed, and where to find it
Physical and Mechanical testing The first steps into testing is finding the things you need, thankfully most things needed for soft toy testing can be found fairly easily by raiding your cupboards and sheds! However testing fancy dress does get more »