Woodland Pals Plush - Squirrel

A velvet-and-silk acorn detaches from this squirrel by design, and its eyes are recycled plastic safety eyes rather than embroidery. This line carries ASTM F963 and EN 71 toy-safety certification and is tested against the governmental safety standards of the US, Australia, Canada and Europe, the regime that sets pull-strength and small-part limits for soft toys, and the acorn is assessed here as a deliberate feature of a certified design rather than a defect. Seam strength, attachment tension and fill containment for the tail, eyes and acorn are not published for this toy on its own.

All Apple Park toys are mandatorily tested and adhere to government safety standards in the US, Canada, Australia and Europe, and the toys carry ASTM F963 and EN 71 certification, with the safety eyes tested to those standards. No Children's Product Certificate or accredited-lab report is published for this plush. We queried the CPSC recall register and the only entry for the brand is a 2013 recall of children's loungewear for a federal flammability violation — nothing against the toy line.

The shell is 100% GOTS certified organic cotton coloured with a GOTS-compliant low-impact, azo-free dye, the fill is hypoallergenic corn (PLA) fibre rather than polyester, and no flame-retardant materials are used. Independent organic-toy guides carry the same organic cotton and corn-fibre composition for this plush line, while no certificate number accompanies the GOTS claim and no stuffed-toy burn-rate testing is described.

This squirrel comes with a detachable velvet-and-silk acorn, a piece designed to leave the toy. Its copy describes the acorn's materials and calls the plush thoroughly tested without stating whether that piece clears the small-parts cylinder, and no minimum age is printed alongside it.

We queried the full CPSC recall corpus — 9,944 records spanning 1973 to August 2026 — and found a single entry for this brand: a 2013 recall of children's loungewear for violating the federal flammability standard. That was apparel rather than toys, thirteen years ago, and nothing has been filed since against the plush or doll lines.

Sibling plush and dolls from this maker are sold as baby toys from 0 months, and this squirrel's own copy makes no crib, sleep or bedtime claim of its own. A minimum age printed for the squirrel, which comes with a detachable acorn, and a bare-sleep-space note, are what is not stated beside its material and construction detail.

The care guidance for this plush conflicts with itself: soft toys without a waggling, musical or wood-ring mechanism take a cold machine wash and low tumble dry, while the general guidance for the organic cotton and corn-fibre toys calls for spot cleaning or hand washing followed by a low tumble dry so the toy keeps its shape. The squirrel also carries recycled plastic pellets in its base, and neither instruction says how to clean a pellet-weighted body.

This squirrel is made with 100% GOTS certified organic cotton and a GOTS certified low-impact, azo-free dye, and the plush line carries ASTM F963 and EN 71 safety certification, including the safety eyes. The same GOTS organic-cotton and EN 71 description of Apple Park's plush is echoed in independent organic-toy guides, but no licence or certificate numbers are published for either the GOTS or the toy-safety certification.

Every component of this plush is listed — organic cotton shell, hypoallergenic corn fibre fill, GOTS certified low-impact dye, recycled plastic safety eyes and recycled plastic pellets in the base — and the toys are designed in San Francisco and manufactured in China. The manufacturing partner is not named, and no warranty or repair provision is published for the plush.