the coolest green living placemats cum art kits for kids

I know we are not the greenest family in the country, but we are trying to do our fair share on recycling, walking, shorter showers (miss Anaïs so enthusiastically uses her water timer for everyone) etc. We also try to live a relatively healthy lifestyle by eating more local and organic produce, avoiding PBA and other chemicals and so on – and I recently also blogged about my quest for safer equipment in my start of the school year story. Basically we updated the kids school kits to these cute and eco-friendly lunch bags, food containers and water bottles (link here).

So recently we were asked if we wanted to test some environmentally-friendly products and the whole family was very excited to try some out. The kids selected these cool placemats from Modern Twist – made out of food-grade silicone (they are very flexible so none of those bent corners that normally happens to our plastic placemats). What is so cool about them is that you can colour them – and immediately I was thinking of long car journeys, sticking them to my handbag when going for restaurant meals (double benefits for being able to scrap all that falling food back to the place and entertaining kids as non-chain restaurants don’t normally have activity packs for kids and the waits time are long). We’ll see soon how all that works as we are heading on our Yosemite road trip!

Oh how they loved colouring these placemats – for once they stayed in the table eating the dinner and then colouring their pictures. Poor little Hugo got sidelined a bit as his rather artistic daddy wanted to also have a go too when enjoying his sushi. My tip would be to get one of these whiteboard erasers as it makes the cleaning of the placemats really quick. I also liked their colouring pens as they are child safe – and easy to wash off from clothes if an accident happens (unlike some other pens…)

My verdict all in all- we all love them, they are very cute and safe and can be used for many purposes – highly recommended!

Miss Anaïs is so concentrated on her arts journey

Pensive miss Celeste is wondering what to colour next

And daddy gave it a try too

And this is how far the kids got after meal one – and can one tell a difference between a 2-year-old girl and a 2-year-old boy? Or maybe he just has a very modern style…

Here are some of the placemats Modern Twist offers – I am thinking of getting the ABC one so that the twins can combine learning with art and eating (some multitasking tigermom thinking here)!

– As always all opinions are my own and I did not receive any money for writing this post