Is there a love more fleeting than a child’s affection for a fast-food meal toy? One minute, it’s the coolest thing in the world. An hour later back at home, it’s stuffed between two couch cushions, ...

McDonald's is taking steps to ensure that its iconic Happy Meal toys are made with both kids and the environment in mind. On Tuesday, the fast food chain announced that it will be drastically reducing ...

Waiting in a check-out line a few days ago, my children started begging for toys and trinkets hanging on the impulse-buy racks. Rather than replying with the usual “Not today” euphemism, I found ...

When Jess Castaneda was a kid, she got her toys when her abuela took her to garage sales. It turned her into a lifetime thrift shopper. As an adult, she became a customer at the Green Bean, a kids ...

While company’s like Melissa & Doug have built empires on wooden toy alternatives, other companies have been looking for ways to make plastic toys non-toxic. Kids Preferred, one of the world’s largest ...

Kids will get paper games, trading cards, and bio-based toys instead. For forty years, fast food chain McDonald's has been serving Happy Meals to kids. These special boxed meals are known for the toys ...

For many who grew up in the 1980s and 1990s, those little toys from kids’ fast-food meals are a nostalgic part of childhood. But today, many parents — and even their children — are hoping restaurants ...