It can be challenging going from play dates to visiting relatives to home with a baby.  When my kids were little, I would stuff a backpack with toys and a blanket, as you never knew what you would need when you are a busy mom with a little one on the go.  A clean blanket is essential, as you want to protect your child from dirty floors or pet hair or a lawn outside.  Toys, of course, are necessary for play so mom can enjoy a cup of coffee or tea while visiting.

2 Red Hens Studio Toy Nanny is a unique item that doubles as both a play mat and a fashionable toy tote:

• The most ingenious thing to hit the baby market since disposable diapers!
• This floor blanket quickly cinches up into a toy tote
• 8 mesh pockets to keep small pieces in place
• Soft velour interior and water resistant back
• Hauling toys from Grandmas, to play dates, to the back yard has never been easier

Well, I don’t find disposable diapers ingenious, and I actually take offense at that part of the product description.  I also wish the fabrics were more eco-friendly.

The outer fabric of the Toy Nanny  is made from PEVA cotton, a safer alternative to PVC with the same sort of shiny, easy to wipe up, water resistant qualities.  This fabric is used in safer shower curtains.  The Daily Green explains:

Enter PEVA (polyethylene vinyl acetate). This is a chlorine-free vinyl that’s starting to be used in lots of products like toys and baby bibs as a replacement for PVC, along with EVA, PVA and PVB. Its lack of chlorine doesn’t make it (or the others) perfect — they are still petrochemical products full of untested chemicals — but it’s a step in the right direction in the attempt to find green polymers and PVC alternatives.

The interior is 100% polyester.

I like how the straps cinch up to become the toy tote, but I could not figure out how to easily just fold it and use the loop in button the way the product came. I was reminded of folding a map 🙂

Zullily has identified this as a “must have” for moms, and I can see its practicality, as well as its “vintage chic for modern mamas”.  You can find 2 Red Hens on Facebook too.

disclosure: The products described above were sent to us as free samples. Prior assurances as to the nature of the reviews, whether positive or negative, were not given. No financial payments were accepted in exchange for the reviews. The reviews reflect our honest, authentic opinions.