Plush toy, is made of plush fabric with polypropylene cotton and other textile materials as the main fabric, filled with a variety of filler and made of toys, can also be called soft toy, stuffed toy, China's Guangdong and Hong Kong and Macao called "plush doll".
Plush toys have the characteristics of realistic and lovely shape, soft touch, not afraid of extrusion, easy to clean, decorative, high safety, and widely applicable to the crowd. Therefore, plush toys for children's toys, decorative houses and as a gift to others are very good choices.
Plush toys, one of the most popular toys for children and young people, however, seemingly beautiful things which may also contain dangers, so we should have fun and be happy while thinking that safety is our greatest asset! It is especially important to choose a good plush toy product, the following is the insight of the ESSACHINA team in their work and life.
1. The first clear is which age group needs, and then according to the different age groups to buy different toys, the main consideration is safety and practicality.
For example, 0 to 1 year old children should not buy toys with printing or paint coloring, organic substances in the dye may cause skin allergies; children under three years old can not buy toys with easy to fall off small objects, because children do not have a sense of danger, may bite off small objects eaten in the mouth to cause choking hazards; all the toys purchased can not have a rope ring over the baby's head to avoid the danger of snapping the neck, if any, can be fixed with a needle.
2. The appearance of the cloth and velvet material is careful and sanitary, to the raw material high and low grade division, long and short plush (divided into special yarn, general yarn) velvet, brushed velvet Tterylene cotton, etc., which is an important factor in determining the price of a toy, some sellers are second best, deceive consumers.
3. Look at the stuffing of plush toys, which is another important factor affecting the price of toys. Good filler cotton is all polypropylene cotton, like the supermarket's nine-hole pillow pistil the same material, feel good very uniform.
4. Whether the fixed accessories are solid, whether the moving parts are too small to prevent children from playing accidentally into the mouth, the danger, the same color or the same body position raw material hair direction is consistent, otherwise there will be different colors in the sun, the opposite hair direction, affecting the beauty.
5. Good workmanship is one of the important factors in the quality and value of toys, it is impossible to imagine how good the shoddy toys will be. Look carefully at the toy stitching line is fine, handmade is beautiful and firm, observe whether the appearance is beautiful, the left and right body position is symmetrical, hand pressure is soft and fluffy, the parts of the stitching is firm, whether the toy accessories have scratches, defective.
6. Check whether there are trademarks, brands, safety signs, manufacturers' mailing addresses, etc., and whether the binding is solid.
7. Check the internal and external packaging, whether the logo is consistent, moisture-proof performance is good, the inner packaging for the plastic bag, the size of the opening must be opened beyond a certain range of air holes to prevent children from accidentally set the head suffocation.
8. Details of the purchase of knowledge.
The eye of the toy
Quality plush toys have very bright and deep eyes, very divine, using high-grade crystal eyes, feel able to communicate with them. The eyes of poor quality toys are dark and rough, lusterless, godless, and even some toys.
The toy's nose and mouth
In the plush toys, animal nose is divided into several kinds, there are wrapped leather, hand-stitched with thread, and plastic made of it. Good leather nose is made of good leather or good artificial leather, made out of the nose is rich and delicate. And poor quality nose leather is very rough filling is not full enough. Noses made of thread are padded and unpadded, with silk, wool and cotton threads. Good thread sewing nose is very fine workmanship and neatly arranged. But there are a lot of small workshops, workers are not formally trained to do a very poor job. The difference between good and bad plastic nose. It depends on their workmanship and the mold is good or bad. Because the mold is good or bad directly affects the quality of the nose.
Palm and foot material
The palm of the hand, the palm of the foot material is also very careful, in the purchase of special attention to its sewing method, that is, whether its workmanship is fine, the palm of the hand, the palm of the foot used to match the material and the main body is coordinated.
1. The first hand touch pure polypropylene cotton touch up like touching down, feel very soft and very uniform, there will not be any foreign body feeling and hard feeling, if the two hands in any part of the bear on the pressure, the basic can two hands together will not have a foreign body feeling, only uniform soft cotton.
2. One of the easiest ways to ask the store directly, is not all polypropylene cotton.
1. Keep the room clean to minimize dust, and diligently use clean, dry, soft tools to clean the surface of the toy.
2.Avoid the sunlight for a long time, and keep the toys dry inside and outside.
3. Cleaning can be taken according to the size of the necessary measures, small can first use the tape to fear of wear and tear accessories parts stained, directly into the washing machine soft wash, tumble dry, hang in the shade to dry, and intermittently pat the toy, so that its fur, padding fluffy soft. Large toys can find the filling seam allowance, cut the stitching, take out the filling special (eye cotton) special parts can not be taken (better to maintain the appearance) with tape to fear the wear and tear of the accessories department stained. Wash and dry the outer skin, then put the filler into the toy skin, shaping, sewing.
4, Equipped with highly intelligent electronics, pistil, sound wool / cloth or dolls, before cleaning must be electronic components (some are not waterproof) or batteries out to prevent on water damage.
5. After the cleaned toy is dry, use a clean comb or similar tool to comb neatly in the direction of the fur to make the fur smooth and beautiful.
6. For health, should be regular consumption of plush toys, cleaning treatment.
7. Simple and easy to sterilize, disinfection methods, available power steam iron in the lint gently reciprocating whole ironing, also has a certain sterilization and decontamination effect.
8. Washing plush toys at home the key: for small parts less toys can be used 30-40 ℃ warm water hand wash or machine wash, wash with neutral laundry detergent, for long plush toys, with cashmere detergent will be better.
9. How to make the toy is not easy to get dirty and extend its life, when you first bought the toy, whether it is a cardboard box or plastic bag do not discard, in order to prepare for storage when the packaging rung dust. Humid climate in the region, in order to prevent toys from moisture, can be placed in the preservation of desiccant, filled toys in the preservation of avoiding backlogging, so as not to deformation damage.
Plush toys have a broad market, whether at home or abroad have great prospects for development, especially plush stuffed toys and Christmas gift toys. China's production of plush toys, plush toys base a lot, the south has a wide, Zhejiang, Suzhou area; the north has Shandong region. International consumer countries and regions are mainly concentrated in Europe, the United States, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and other places. Domestic export ports are mainly concentrated in Shenzhen, Shanghai, Qingdao and other ports. Each year to the country to create a very substantial foreign exchange earnings.
China's per capita toy consumption level is low, but with the rapid development of China's national economy and home living standards continue to improve, the amazing potential of China's toy market will gradually show. According to a foreign survey: plush toys are the first choice of European parents to choose toys for their children, Europe's per capita spending on toys ($ 144) is much higher than China and even Asia ($ 13) and other developing countries, becoming the second largest toy consumption market after the United States ($ 340), while the per capita consumption of toys in Asian countries is less than one-tenth of Europe. According to a survey conducted by the China Toy Association and the China Social Survey Office, China has 286 million children and adolescents under the age of 14. Their per capita annual toy consumption is only 20 yuan ($2.4) to 30 yuan ($3.6) yuan, far below the $13 per capita annual toy consumption of children in Asia and $34 per capita annual toy consumption of children around the world.
If China's toy consumption reaches the average level in Asia, the market size is expected to exceed RMB 30 billion. In addition, the comprehensive survey report "China Toy Market" published by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council predicts that the mainland toy market will grow at an annual rate of 40% in the future, and by 2012, sales will exceed RMB 100 billion.
According to relevant information, China's children and youth under 16 years of age amount to 380 million, of which only children account for 34% of the total number of children, reaching 129 million. In the total consumption of children, children's toys grew from 5% in 2011 to 8% in 2012. These data show that the domestic plush toy market is promising and has great potential.
