Children's Educational Toys Birth to Six Months - What's Available? Part 2

This is part 2 in this series of articles in which I will provide you a review of a variety of the educational toys for babies’ birth to six months available now. You can find these toys in toy shops and online nationwide.

Manhattan Toy – Whoozit Activity Spiral

This toy is appropriate from birth to 18 months. It consists of an adaptable spiral that wraps around most stroller and carrier handles for on-the-go fun. The Whoozit Activity Spiral measures approximately 7” long, and extends to 11”. Educational benefits include:

• A baby safe mirror that promotes self-discovery
• A hidden rattle that reinforces cause-and-effect play
• Pull-and-release ball that makes a jiggling motion and encourages developing motor skills.

Manhattan Toy – Wimmer Ferguson Stim Mobile

This is an award-winning mobile that features vivid color and bold black-and-white images that are on interchangeable cards. It measures approximately 13 inches. The mobile includes:

• One sturdy, easy to adjust upright to fit most cribs and change tables
• Ten reversible black-and-white cards
• Ten reversible color cards
• Instructions and fact sheet

Educational benefits include:

• Simple-to-complex images to stimulate early visual activity and pre-reaching movements

The Wimmer Fergson Stim Mobile has won the Gold Seal from the Oppenheim toy portfolio, the 3 star highest rating from the Canadian Toy Council, and the Mother’s Choice Award from Baby Talk Magazine.

Baby Einstein Flash Cards: Baby Webster

Baby Webster is a set of 29 flash cards that can be used alone or in combination with the Baby Einstein, Baby Bach and Baby Mozart videos. The flash cards use the same objects that appear in the videos which give you the opportunity to help enhance your child’s vocabulary and word recognition. The flash cards are translated into 7 different languages.

Baby Bach CD

This is a 17-track, 28-minute all-Bach program that features excerpts from the Brandenburg Concerto and more. Babies can discover all the melodic and harmonic movement and energy of J.S. Bach’s best-known compositions articulated by mallet percussion instruments (vibraphone, marimba, Celeste and glockenspiel, orchestral instruments, modern keyboards, flute, 12-string guitar, recorder, toy piano and music box.

Baby Mozart CD

Is a 15-track, 28-minute all-Mozart program that features excerpts from Symphony No. 41, Piano Sonatas. There is some research that suggests a relationship between exposure to Mozart’s music and increases in spatial reasoning abilities and intelligence. In general, studies have shown relationships exist between listening to classical music and a positive affect upon health. Those benefits include:

• A boost in the immune function
• Regulates stress-related hormones
• Strengthens memory and improves coordination

Baby Beethoven CD

Baby Beethoven CD is a 19-track, 35-minute all-Beethoven program. Studies reveal a relationship between listening to classical music and an affect upon:

• Verbal ability
• Spatial intelligence
• Creativity
• Intuition
• Memory

Continued in Part 3

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© 2007 Connie Limon All Rights Reserved

Written by: Connie Limon To learn more about Children’s Educational Toys, the benefits to children, and choices available in the year of 2007

Children's Educational Toys Birth to Six Months - What's Available? Part 1

In this series of articles I will give you a review of a variety of the educational toys for babies’ birth to six months available now. You can find these toys in toy shops and online nationwide.

The Manhattan Toy – Winkel

This toy is suitable from birth to six months of age. The Manhattan Toy was created to captivate your baby’s imagination with bright colors, and fun loops. The stunning colours in this toy make it a perennial favorite. Babies will be engaged and amused by the responsive rattle. You can safely refrigerate the pliable plastic toy to produce a teething device. The clever teether can also be frozen to soothe painful gums. Educational benefits of this toy include:

• Develops fine motor skills

• Encourages gross motor activity

• Helps develop eye-hand coordination

• It is visually stimulating

The Corolle Miss Grenadine Doll

This is an interesting looking doll measuring 4.5” in diameter. Colors vary. Miss Grenadine is a soft doll for babies. She has a soft face and body and a soft scent of vanilla (very soothing scent for little babies). She mainly wears an orange, pink and red dress; with a hood and pink shoes to match (colors may vary however, but will always be matching color combinations). Educational benefits of this doll include:

• To delight baby and encourage emerging senses

These first dolls created by Corolle conform to all applicable safety standards and are easy to care for. They measure approximately 10” long, are machine-washable on a gentle cycle. You can wash these little dolls right along with baby’s other washables.

Manhattan Toy – Mini Whoozit Plush Toy

This toy is a friendly looking creature, makes funny noises and surprises. The toy includes a peek-a-boo mirror under its nose. It can be put on the stroller, the crib or a high chair. The changing creature is many toys in one and small enough to take along anywhere.

Manhattan Toy – Whoozit Water Mat

This is an eye-catching mat that makes the most of tummy-time play. The mat is easy to fill with water and features floating foam pieces that move when baby touches the mat. Educational benefits include:

• Cause-and-effect learning

• Encourages baby to watch and touch while developing gross-motor skills

The Manhattan Toy – Tizoo Baby Whoozit Plushy Toy

This toy has a friendly looking face that will make you giggle! It is a whimsical character that gives babies a lot to do. The Whoozit is pink with yellow flowers, a big purple nose, and yellow smile and shaped like a heart. It attaches to highchairs and strollers with the Velcro strap and measures approximately 5” diameter. Educational benefits include:

• The bright colors and high-contrast patterns provide visual stimulation

• Hidden noise makers that include rattles, squeakers and crinkle paper delight the ears of little ones

• A variety of textured fabrics keep busy hands occupied

Continued in Part 2

This article is FREE to publish with the resource box.

© 2007 Connie Limon All Rights Reserved

Written by: Connie Limon To learn more about Children’s Educational Toys, the benefits to children, and choices available in the year of 2007

Playing And Learning With Educational Baby Toy

Want to develop your child’s basic skills? Gift your child with an educational baby toy and witness the development of your baby. The baby educational toys can be great tools for encouraging your baby to learn and at the same time play and have fun.

The educational baby toys are for the children who fall in the age group of 0 to 3 years old. It is necessary to stimulate the senses of the babies when they are playing, and the educational baby toys just do that. Gradually this will help the baby to be smarter when they grow up.

Some vital factors you must know when selecting an educational baby toy

Fisher-Price and Leapfrog are famous manufacturers for baby toys. Always give your child toys that make noise of some sort and are brightly colored. It is a great joy to personally choose toys that will make your baby happy and at the same time help your baby to develop. Remember, well-chosen toys can help your baby in their total maturity and overall growth.

Speaking about the color of the toy, it is worth mentioning that your baby will find the colors red, white and black more interesting and appealing. So, give your baby toys with such colors – it will easily get their attention and also stimulate their sight. Furthermore, it also creates among the babies an urge to grab the toy. Good educational baby toys must always appear to be attractive to sense of sight, touch and hearing.

The babies have a tendency of putting the toys in their mouth. So, beware, do not buy toys that have sharp edges or are small enough to be swallowed.

The best learning and educational toys

· Ocean Wonders Aquarium: This educational baby toy has a range of soothing sounds and motions that will put the baby to sleep. The calm sounds will include the falling rain, ocean waves and the soft brook sounds. It is attachable to the crib and the baby press the blue button at the base to begin the lights and sounds. It is for the just-born babies and upwards.

· Learning Drum: A great cause and effect toy, which enables your baby to keep banging on the drum and the drum in turn either plays music or recites numbers or alphabets. The baby hits the drum encouraged by the interactive voice.

· Peek-A-Blocks Incrediblock: This baby educational toy has lights, sounds and lots of entertaining action that your baby will simply love. Your baby will pile the blocks, put the blocks through the holes and watch them vanish or enjoy seeing the blocks spin to the lights and music. It is for the babies above 9 months old.

· Brilliant Basics Rock-A-Stack: For developing the problem solving skills and eye-hand co-ordination of the baby, this educational toy is ideal. The toy also helps the baby learn about sizes and colors. The toy is inexpensive and appropriate for babies above six months old.

· Lamaze Octotunes: This toy has eight legs, which make eight different musical sounds when squeezed or pulled. It enables your child to make some music. It is appropriate for the babies above 6 months old.

· Lamaze Grip n Grab Rattle: This is a bright-colored rattle that is capable of making interesting sounds. This educational baby toy entertains the baby greatly during long trips. It is good for the babies above 3 months old.

Len Jacob is a successful writer and publisher of Educational Toy