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LeapFrog Leapster Learning Game Disney Princess

January 22nd, 2010

LeapFrog Leapster Learning Game Disney Princess



User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars We Love It!
My daughter & I love this game!!! It’s fun for her and I love the fact that she is learning to write letters, numbers, and shapes. It’s a must have for the Leapster 2.

5 Stars Outstanding Game!
I read the reviews before I bought this and they were not that great. I bought it solely because my daughter loves the Disney princesses. Well, this turned out to be her favorite game and I love it too! It teaches so many great skills and the best part is it is so encouraging even when mistakes are made. My daughter tends to give up when she makes mistakes but with this game she just keeps plugging along because it never makes her feel bad it just keeps guiding them forward. The games are very cute and very educational. She is learning the correct way to write her letters, gaining lots of hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills. Definitely a must have for the princess fan!

5 Stars Great buy, my niece loves it!
Great product, my niece loves it. Amazon delivered it on time! The external cartridge games are great but it also comes with few games/paintbrush type programs that keep the kids busy for hours learning colors and shapes.

4 Stars Leapster games make learning Fun!
My girlfriends daughter enjoyed this game. Leapster games apply learning concepts to games. Good graphics and sound.

5 Stars Fabulous game for girls!!
I bought this game for my daughter’s 5th birthday. She loves princesses, so this game was perfect for her. She loves all of the characters and learning activities that it comes with. I like that you can choose which level you want to play each game, so it can be played at many different learning stages. Right now she is just learning how to put letter sounds together to read simple words, but eventually when she can read more words she will be able to do the more difficult levels. This game really is so fun for girls and I love that she is actually learning something while she’s playing instead of just staring at a screen or playing with something that isn’t very stimulating. My 3-year-old daughter loves to play around with game on the Leapster too. She doesn’t really know how to play the games yet, but she loves the princess characters and she is quite entertained by it as well. We have only had our Leapster for a few months, but it has been such a great learning tool and fun activity – I just wish we bought it and the Disney Princess game a long time ago! I would definitely recommend this game to anyone!!

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Tolo Rolling Shape Sorter

January 8th, 2010

Tolo Rolling Shape Sorter




Your child will love opening and rolling the different colored shapes in the Rolling Shape Sorter by TOLO. This brightly colored Rolling Shape Sorter will entertain your young one for hours. It will also stimulate young minds to learn and develop with sound and pitch, colors and shapes, gripping and release, sorting skills, touch and feel. Includes six colorful rattle shapes.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars My daughters favorite toy!!!
This is my 10 month old’s daughters favorite toy. She studies it very hard to figure how to put the shapes into the sorter. She had even started putting the shapes in without any help. She will play with this toy for a good 30 minutes before getting bored with it. That is a lot longer than any of her other toys. LOVE LOVE LOVE this toy!

5 Stars Favorite Toy!
She is 11 months old; I enjoy her company once a week, (friend’s baby).

We have had the toy for a couple of weeks, and this is the first toy baby tries to get. Bright colors, gentle rattles are the perfect size for little hands. Like others have mentioned, the yellow round shape does fall out, but no worries. This is a high quality baby toy that can be passed on. Sure beats the old Tupperware shape sorter, and their price! Very pleased with this purchase—I will definitely be buying this toy as gifts for family and friends.

P.S. I signed up for Amazon Prime and paid $3.99 for overnight shipment. I have been making a lot of Amazon Prime purchases—love it! Ssshhh—I think Amazon may be losing money on me!

4 Stars Great shape sorter but missing one key thing
I searched high and low for a good shape sorter after learning that the Fisher Price one my infant son was given is made with harmful chemicals known to cause cancer and birth defects. I learned this from Amazon’s note to CA residents. (Thank you Amazon!) This one from Tolo is terrific in so many ways.

First, I like having 6 different shapes, each of a different color. So many sorters have just 3 or 4 shapes and/or every shape is the same color. Both of those characteristics lessen the educational value of the toy, and the lack of different colors also makes it harder for a young child to distinguish the shapes from one another.

The toy is well constructed, and while some may not like that the top and bottom (or sides, depending on your perspective) cannot be removed by a baby/young child, requiring adult intervention, I think this helps force the child to shape the sorts.

My son never tried to sort the shapes with the Fisher Price Brilliant Basics Shape Sorter. He always removed the top, took out the shapes, and banged them together. With the Tolo shape sorter, he immediately tried to fit the shapes into the slots. I felt ecstatic. Finally, he’s learning something!

My only complaint is that there is no square included. I can’t understand why the company thought it was more important to have a flower (at least, that’s what I assume it is– the dark blue piece) than a square. The square is a fundamental shape that every child will have to recognize in school. It really irks me that it’s not included here. If it were,the toy would be perfect. As it is, it’s currently the best shape sorter I can find.

5 Stars Great toy
This toy is so low-tech, and yet it is one of our son’s favorites. Just goes to show that you don’t need uber-fancy toys with lots of bells and whistles to entertain children. Highly recommended.

5 Stars High quality, great toy for different stages
My son received this toy when he was about 6 months old. At first he enjoyed watching it roll by and all of the noise it makes. As he’s gotten older (he’s 13 months now), it’s one of the few toys that he still gets enjoyment out of. He loves to sort the shapes, shake them (they are filled with varying amounts of plastic beads) and especially likes to take off the cover and twist it back on (both sides open up). The quality of Tolo toys is really excellent and I haven’t bought one that hasn’t been a hit!

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Melissa and Doug Primary Lacing Beads

January 3rd, 2010

Melissa and Doug Primary Lacing Beads




Keep busy for hours with this bright, vividly painted assortment of wooden beads. Each bead comes with oversized holes, and the included laces are longer for smaller hands.

This classic collection of beads and laces helps children with hand coordination, dexterity and color recognition — all while inspiring creativity. Convenient wooden case makes clean-up and storage a cinch. Comes with 30 painted beads. Case measures 8″ x 10″ x 2″.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Spectacular!
Use beads with typical and special needs children in regular and adapted form. Kids just love them (starting at age 2).

5 Stars More than lacing..
Purchased for my 2 year old…..we have not only used it as suggested but found many other ways to play with the beads. We roll them across the table to each other, separate them into color groups, shape groups, etc and we stack them.

5 Stars A classic for good reason
My two year old son loves everything Melissa and Doug and the lacing beads did not disappoint. This toy has many educational uses; he loves making patterns and stacking the beads like blocks. He is building his fine motor skills and working on problem solving (how to get the string through the hole without it falling out, which even led to a discussion on gravity.) The beads are well made and the wooden box they come in stores everything very neatly. A great product at a great price!

5 Stars Lacing beads
The lacing beads can be used to improve sequencing skills, to promote recognition of colors and shapes and to increase fine motor coordination skills. Is an excellent investment for everyone!

5 Stars Engaging, Simple Toy – But NOT for Under 2’s!
I love this toy – and my 22-month-old twins do as well. I would just caution that the two smallest beads, while the size of very small plums, are still just small enough that they could get lodged in your toddler’s mouth if they were inclined to try to get the whole thing in. I wouldn’t trust my kids with this toy unsupervised for at least a few months yet (or will only let them play with the half of the beads that are substantially larger.

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Hot Wheels 10 Car Pack Styles May Vary

December 16th, 2009

Hot Wheels 10 Car Pack Styles May Vary




Hot Wheels Gift Packs deliver ten of the raddest, baddest die-cast vehicles around. Each package contains a fun unifying theme, giving you an instant collection. Vehicles not for use with some Hot Wheels sets. Each vehicle is in 1:64 scale and measures 3″ long. Vehicle styles and models may vary.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Hot Wheels 10 car pack

These cars re wonderful! The colors and shapes are fantastic and the size is just right to fit in any toddlers little hands. We bought both our 3 year old grandsons these and each loved them. The are made to last and be used daily.

5 Stars Great!
The quality is great and it is an awesome gift to give to the little ones.

4 Stars These cars are a great toy. My grandson loves them and takes them everywhere.

I ordered these Hot Wheels for my grandson. They are one of his favorite toys because he can take them with him wherever he goes

4 Stars ok product, s-l-o-w in sending…
My son loves cars and loved the product. One of the cars broke after the first hour of play (not the sender’s fault).

Too bad the sender isn’t more on-the-ball with the mailing of the product! It took over 3 weeks to receive. That’s a lot, even for Alaska. If you can find some one else who ships promptly, buy from them!

5 Stars Race Cars!
We got this so our two year old would have a selection of cars to go with the track we got him. He’s not very picky about what the cars look like so the random selection in this pack worked fine for him. Our pack was about half conventional classic cars and half futuristic/imaginative cars. Works well with the track.

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Fisher Price Brilliant Basics Babys First Blocks

December 15th, 2009

Fisher Price Brilliant Basics Babys First Blocks




Ten bright blocks are ready for baby to drop into the open bucket or through the shape-sorting lid. Baby will love filling the bucket with blocks, dumping them out, then starting over again. Great for eye-hand coordination and other early skills. Then baby can move on to sorting and stacking and learning about identifying and matching shapes. Includes plastic shape-sorting box with take-anywhere handle and ten colorful blocks.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Educational Toy
My daughter loves this toy. It helped her learn five colors and shapes, and we also used it as a therapy toy when she was young (fine motor skills).

4 Stars entertaining
My 9 month old is more interested in chewing the shapes , tossing them in the bucket and pouring it out than to shove and sort the shapes into the correct mold. Overall, it’s a fun toy and he enjoys it.

4 Stars Serves its purpose
It is a simple toy that gets the job done and serves the purpose. It is nice that there are 2 pieces for each shape. I’m sure we will continue to use as language skills are acquired.

3 Stars Not Impressed
I don’t like it. It’s small and the lid comes off way to easy. I know that babies play with it and they should be able to get their shape blocks back out but in the process of her trying to put the shapes in there she knocks the top off.

I’m looking for a better shape sorter.

1 Star This toy contains carcinogens?
I bought this for my baby months ago, and he has never had much interest in it. I’m glad of that now, since I saw the Prop 65 warning to California residents on Amazon’s description of the toy. I’m offended that Fisher Price seems to think that it is okay to sell toys that contain dangerous chemicals to children. Plus, the toy isn’t that great!

As other reviews mentioned, the top easily pops off of the toy giving babies no incentive to use the shape sorter function of the toy. My son would usually just grab the lid and knock the thing over. Then he would go on to the other toys that were more interesting for him. I would not buy this toy again or recommend that anyone else do so.

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