Is It Safe to Use Human Food Coloring on My Birds Wooden Toys?

Many toy-makers enjoy using easter egg dye!

1. Is it safe to use human food coloring on my birds wooden toys?

You mean like HUMAN food coloring? "Want to have some fun with your bird? Get together for a toy making session! Of course, if you want to get much actual work done, it will probably be best if your feathered partner watches from a playstand. And by keeping the bird at a distance, you also ensure that it wo not get its beak on any scissors, needles, or material packaging."

2. What can we buy our kids now days that isn't made in China with lead in/on it?

Boy, that's a tough one. Wooden toys (like blocks) that have not been painted should be safe. This epidemic is just now coming to light, so I wonder how many of the toys we've bought over the last 5-10 years contain lead

3. my sister wont use the nappies?

We are all full of great ideas before our babies are born. Yes, we will use cloth nappies. No, pacifiers wo not come into this house. Oh, definitely organically dyed wooden toys all the way. And then the baby is born and life happens. The pacifier does not seem so evil after you've spent two weeks with your arm hanging over the edge of your bed all night because your baby wants to suck your finger or scream. That plastic toy your in-laws bought is your baby's favourite. And you can barely handle the extreme amount of laundry such a little person generates without ALSO having to wash cloth nappies. She's not being ungrateful. Things just did not work out the way she expected. That's life.

4. When did the LEGO company begin?

The history of The Lego Group starts with Ole Kirk Kristiansen, a Danish carpenter.After the global economic downturn, spurred on by The Great Depression, Ole found that his carpentry and joinery business in Denmark was failing. This started in 1929 and by 1931 he had to let his only remaining employee go. In 1932 he was commissioned by a Jens W. Olesen to make toys. Until then, his business primarily made wooden products that were ready-for-market, such as ironing boards, step ladders and Christmas tree stands. However, once his toy business started it really boomed.Around this time, the yo-yo was a very popular toy, and one of Ole's most successful products. However, once the fad of yo-yos died down, the warehouse stores were converted to a new purpose: wheels on the infamous wooden duck toy.It was not until Ole started making toys his primary business and decided he needed a new name for the company. In order to come up with a new name, he held a contest. The winner of naming contest would win a bottle of Ole's own homemade wine!Of course, Ole ended up the winner, and got to keep his wine. He decided on the name LEGO, which a portmanteau of the Danish words for "Play Well", LEG and GODT. This is when LEGO was born, and Ole's legacy as a toymaker truly started. To this day, the ideal of playing well guides the company.Reports vary, but the founding of The LEGO Group was said to have happened either in 1932 or in 1934. I am inclined to believe that the company name was actually created in 1934, as the later resource shows. Besides yo-yos and ducks, LEGO made a variety of wooden toys. Their line-up included cars, trains, boats and planes. Like now, LEGO was known for their quality products. Today, LEGO only uses the highest quality ABS plastic pellets for their products, and injections molds accurate to 2 micrometres! Then, LEGO used beechwood that was air-dried, kiln-dried, polished and given three coats of paint. Once, one of his workers, his son Godtfred even, only gave a line of toys two coats of paint. Ole made him go back to the factory and give them all their third and final coat. Only the best is good enough. There is more history involving their wooden toy line, and how they fared during World War II. However, the next most notable event was in 1942 when a fire destroyed the entire factory in Billund and its contents. Nothing survived, and the factory had to be rebuilt. Then, in 1946 Ole invested in a plastic moulding machine, and the next year started producing some plastic toy products. It was then that they started producing "Automatic Binding Bricks" or LEGO Bricks, based on the Kiddicraft product, "Kiddicraft Self-Locking Building Bricks".Plastic toys, however, were not nearly as popular as the wooden toys they were already making. It took a few years until a more popular product was created, the "Town Plan" building system, in 1955. Based on the limitations of that product, new bricks were designed in 1958. This is when the iconic tubes on the undersides of LEGO bricks were first introduced. Later that year, Ole died and his son, Godtfred took over the company. Previously, he would resigned from LEGO, but had come back. He continued to produce both wooden and plastic toys until another warehouse fire in 1960 that destroyed most of their wooden inventory-but not their plastic inventory!Godfredt decided then that the plastic toy line was successful enough to continue alone, and wooden toy production was discontinued. This was not a popular decision, and other family members that were big parts of the company left, just as Godfredt had left a few years ago when he disagreed with his father.Nevertheless, Godfredt continued in the production of LEGO bricks and building systems.These days, The LEGO Group is one of the top 3 largest toy manufacturers in the world, and run by Ole's grandson, Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen. They are still headquarted in Billund, Denmark, but have facilities around the world. They've set themselves apart with their "play well" ideals. Their system of play of proven wildly successful, although the company has faltered at times. They've learned through trial and error that they are best at making quality toys that have value in helping children play better. Attempts to make clothing and jewelry (Clickts) failed.While "Play Well" may seem to just mean good to play with, it actually represents more than that: There is so much more to talk about for this company, and there are many books and websites that do just that. What I've written for you here has been sourced from The LEGO Group's websites, but also comes from my time as a customer service representative for them. Much of what I learned about the history of the company actually came from training documentary videos, and has only recently been published in as much detail on their website.What I've provided here should answer your questions about who created the company and why: Ole Kirk Kristiansen created the company so that children could play well.