Baby Toy Reviews

As a teacher, we have heard over the past few years how classical music helps stimulate the brain. My son recently turned 2 and we bought this for him. Yes occasionally, he likes to stack the blocks, but he loves changing the order of the blocks to make various melodies. The bright colors are great for teaching colors. I will ask him where is the blue block...and so on. Each block also has 6 shapes. In time I am sure he will learn his shapes from this toy as well. He is already calling the circle a "ball" and pointing to the other shapes asking, "That?" To which I will name the shape. Daddy also loves this toy. They will sit together making different sounds and melodies. They also like that they can hear a beat when the put the block in and try to match the melodies together before they play the whole line of blocks. I liked this so much; I ordered 2 more for our 2-year-old and 3-year-old nieces!!

My daughter had the original Music Blocks toy and enjoyed playing with it, although the toy didn't get the attention of some other toys. There are only so many times that one can hear the same 10-15 seconds of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik or Bippity-Boppity-Boo before it gets very old.

It seems to me you could expose your child to classical (or another genre of) music with a well-chosen CD; and you could allow him/her more musical freedom by buying them a child's set of percussion instruments. The combination (CD/instruments) would be cheaper than the Music Blocks toy. My daughter still plays with her percussion instruments -- they're not as pleasant for adults, perhaps, but she has a LOT of fun.

Also, not to be pedantic, but I don't see how arranging the five blocks can lead to "over a million" compositions. There are 5!=120 ways to arrange the 5 colored blocks into the 5 holes, and -- unless I'm mistaken -- only 6 ways to arrange each block.

This leads to 5! * 6^5 = 120 * 7776 = 933,120 ways.

Our 2 year old received this for Christmas and he loves it. Actually my husband and I get a kick out of it too. You can also teach colors and shapes just using the blocks. Composing your own music is lots of fun. We've not had any problems with this toy not being durable. I am now shopping for more cartridges...

this may be my favorite baby toy. I love hte music and I love the colors. and easy for baby to hold

We bought this befor our daughter was born. She has been playing with it sence she was 2 months old. She smiles and makes all kinds of noises as she gets so excited. The turning of the ends surprises her and makes her squeal. at 4 monts its one of her favorites. I wouls recomend this even for you babies as it is soothing as well as engaging...

my son loves this toy. wind it up and it plays music, has a gentle clicking rattle noise from the cascading beads. It also slowly revolves as to stimulate baby's depth perception and work on thier motor skills of grabbing moving objects. the best thing about this toy is that my son crawled for it (his 1st crawl he is 6.5 months) just hours after we bought it. This is a wonderful exciting toy for your baby!

I got this for our daughter when she was 6 months...and she absolutely loved it and so did I. All she wanted to do was stand at it and play. The soft cube is perfect for learning to stand. She recognizes the rhymes now and gets excited whenever and wherever she hears them...I definitely recommend this toy starting at 6 mths, it is without a doubt worth the money. You will not have any regrets!

What a great toy! I gave this to my daughter when she turned 1. She loves it.. all she needs to do is bang on the cube and whatever side is up, that song will play. Each side of the cube is interactive and so much fun! This toy even has a memory! It remembers which stanza of the song it left off at the last time the cube was used! Now my daughter is 14 months and the fun hasn't stopped. We have tons and tons of toys, but I always have this one available for her. Fun, educational and durable! My 4 1/2 yr old son is a bit hard on the cube, but it still keeps working perfectly. My fave toy and I have told all my friends!

My daughter received this for her first b-day. She loves it. Sturdy enough for her to climb on it and when she wants to see another side she pushes it over. Loves the interaction and the songs to go along with it.

Anyone who buys these should have a 24 month old AT LEAST, (or at least a not a baby whos going to chew them apart) It says right on the manufactors recommended age 24 months and up. A child could choke or get hurt teething on these things if he has teeth and can tear them apart. They're for older kids!

My kids have recieved these and the numbers ones. They love them but I don't allow them around the baby because he could choke.

Sorry to be a downer but it's the truth.

I bought these a few months ago for my son, who is now 9 months old. I was looking for something easy to clean, that wouldn't mildew and would be easy enough for a 6 month old to grab. The fish have been perfect. He has 6 teeth now and some of the fish are severely battle scarred, but none of them have come apart -- not so much as a tip of a fin is missing. It's easy to shove a handful of them into a suitcase for trips, which helps make a strange place a little more comfortable during his bedtime routine. I only wish they came in bolder colors.

My 20 month old daughter just got these for Easter, and loves them. She likes just carrying the container around and scattering a trail of octopus, fish, sharks and dolphins everywhere. I don't know that these would be durable enough to be teethers though. She wasn't that fascinated that they stick to the sides of the bathtub, but did like sticking them to herself, and moving them back and forth from the water to making piles on the sides of the tub. I think she enjoys the colors, and it holds her interest and keeps her busy, both in the water and out. This will be a future gift for the 18 month plus crowd, great idea!

My daughter (now 8 months old) seems to like this toy. She still isn't able to pull the lines through the knot block by herself yet but she definitely enjoys chewing on it and throwing it around. Caution to parents with infants with "spastic arms": This toy can land a pretty good blow to the noggin so be careful. :-)

I bought this for my baby's car seat because it has a lot of things on it but doesn't take up as much space as other car seat activity packed toys. My baby loves chewing the star, the "entrails" on the ball (that jingles), and the rings. It has many textures that are also fun to mouth and the triangle crinkles and the other star squeaks, but my baby hasn't figured that out yet. It doesn't captivate her as a floor/play time toy, but it keeps her happy and entertained enough in the car seat where there isn't much else to do.

My daughter absolutely loves this toy. We bought it for her when she was 2 months old. She is now 5 months old and she still loves to pull on it, touch it, and put it in her mouth. She is fasinated by each part of it. We keep it in her diaper bag and always make sure that it comes with us. It is a great toy to keep her busy. I highly recommend this toy to all new moms.

I am ten years old, but I loved this playset!! It is so cute,and fun to play with. I loved all the little fisher price accessories!!

As a midwife this toy scares me. What are we teaching our little girls about how babies are born??!! You just take your belly off and there's the baby. Then you have a flat belly again. I don't have a recommendation of how to have the baby born, but I don't think this one is right.

As much as I love the educational value and the fun, I think it has one too many little accessories. It is cute and fun to play with, but do you really need to make the parts that small. Also, the main piece falls backward a lot and ruins any placement of things on the shelves. But besides that, it was easy to put together and instant fun for our 6 year old next-door neighbor.

now you see that bailey is the party baby I know this will be a great toy for you because, bailey is green ( like taro )so it would be upseting if you didn't get it you see I think jasmine is cute her battires are dying !

My twin sister and I got two My Little Babies for Christmas. We loved them SO much (and so did our mom) that Mom took us out the day AFTER Christmas to buy three more! Now we only need one more to complete the set. It's like we have our own day care center! We have the little cribs set up for them all and have made lots of other things for them. This was one of our MOST favorite presents we got! They're wicked fun and just like a real baby!

Bailey is such a sweet little doll. I bought her for my eigth year old daughter, and my daughter adores her. Note that I got this doll in October and she is constantly playing with it, it keeps her attention, which is quite rare with most toys..

I think it's great for Little Mommies, it helps them with their language skills, because they have to talk clearly if they want the doll to respond to them. I purchased Bailey, and since it's Christmas tomorrow, I've also purchased Jasmine and Jordan, who are supposedely twins, they are little blonde haired, blue eyed My Little Babies, even cuter than Bailey. I'm sure my daughter will be thrilled tomorrow when she can be a mommy of twins and Bailey!

Our toddler loves her float! She's quite comfortable in it, and it (thankfully) gives our arms a break in the pool. However, we're about to return our second one to the store to give it a 3rd shot. First one, the steering wheel broke off before we even got it blown up (and left a couple of unsafe, sharp plastic pieces behind). Store swapped it out for us, no problem, except now the second one has a leak (blew it up last night, it's flat this morning). Guess we'll be taking it back again. Hopefully the third time's the charm as my daughter really seems to like it and (despite our experience thus far) it feels like it ought to be more durable than many of the alternatives.

3-stars for fun because he enjoyed it for about 5 minutes till he realized that he couldn't hit the water with his hands.

3-stars for educational value because there really isn't any.

5-stars for durability because we just bought it and he probably won't use it again till he is a better swimmer.

We bought this toy for our 18 month old son who is fearless when it comes to the water (but doesn't understand that you can't breathe underwater....so he has to be watched closely). He kept trying to dive out of it and then he would cry because he couldn't reach the water to splash-splash.

This toy is better suited for either a much younger child who is afraid of the water or one that is already a swimmer.

We got our "toddler racer" in the mail yesterday, and my two year old son was already honking the horn, turning the wheel and trying to climb in before I could finish inflating it. Our pool experience was a lot more fun as we could swim and play games with him without having to take turns holding him at all times. He had a blast, too. He's still obsessed with it and is actually sitting in it right now (inside the house). Highly recommended!

My daughter loves this bath toy. She loves Sesame Street, and this is just perfect. We ask her where each character is, and she picks them up and shows us. What's great about it is that the toys don't have holes in the bottom of them, so no water gets in them. She is also fascinated by the palm tree and the water that showers out of it. I use the palm tree to wet her hair down to wash it. Definetly a great bath toy!

My son, wo loves Sesame Street, has this toy and loves it. He gets so excited to take a bath with Elmo and the gang. He even hates getting out of the tub. I used the flotable toys in the pool, which he got a kick out of and only added to his creativity.

It's a great bathtime toy!

My son got this for his first birthday and we've had fun playing with it every bath since! He loves to put Elmo and Telly and Ernie on the edge of the tub and make them dive! It's a durable bath toy...doesn't get all coroded like some others. I would highly recommend!

My kids have this toy. They love making their names or words out of the letters.

I find it totally unexceptable for someone to attack someone else. This is for REVIEWS, not to attack people. Who cares if shes not who she says she is? She wrote a good review. She didn't use "their" instead of "there" anyway, and two exclamations is a common mistake. She was probably in a hurry.

Grow up and get a life.

I just wanted to let anyone who was thinking about buying this item that Amazon has the age recommendation listed incorrectly. Amazon states in the item description that their age recommendation as well as the manufacturers recommendation is 24+ months. I recently bought this for my son. When I received it I was very surprised and upset to see how small the pieces were. I didn't think it was appropriate for a 24 month old. I looked on the container and it says for ages 3 and up. I emailed amazon and after explaining what happend I was able to return the item and get refunded for my shipping costs as well since I was mislead by Amazon's description. However, I would have assumed that once Amazon knew they incorrectly listed the appropriate age for this item that they would have changed it.

I have been looking for new bath toys for my daughter and can't wait to buy these letters (and the animals). I found all of these reviews very helpful, especially the one from the teacher! I also believe that it is important for children to learn both upper and lower-case letters.
What I find "inexcusable", however, is the attack made on the teacher that took the time to write an informative review. I would think that someone with a "modicum of intelligence" would understand that these reviews are here for a parents' benefit, and are meant to help all of us buy the best products available for our children. Isn't THAT what is most important"!!!!!!"