Let's Play 2008: Infant/Preschool Toys

Stacking Clown™
BRIO®
BRIO's® most popular stacking toy since 1955, the Stacking Clown™ is fun to play with and helps develop grasping, sorting and sequencing skills. Includes a stacking base and eight colorful, wooden rings. Stands nine inches tall. Promotes tactile exploration and body awareness.
$14.99 / For ages 19 months+ / HI, LV

Image of a boy playing with the Hug-A-Bug pillow and detachable ladybugs

Hug-A-Bug
Edushape Ltd.
Detachable ladybugs that rattle, giggle, light up and vibrate. Hook and loop flower centers on pillow allow for each bug to be reattached to pillow when not in use. "The detachable flowers were easy for my baby to remove and taste." Promotes tactile exploration, encourages use of motor skills, stimulates available vision and promotes awareness of sounds.
$29.99 / For ages 12 months+ /PI, HI, B, LV, DD

Play & Sound Mat
Edushape Ltd.
This stimulating, textured play mat is much more than a soft mat for babies. It includes a push-button musical chip, a safe peek-a-boo mirror, puzzles and more. Ideal for enhancing color recognition and fine motor skills. Promotes exploration of environment and awareness of sounds. Stimulates available vision and hearing.
$49.99 / For ages 0 years+ / PI, HI, B, LV, DD

Image of a child playing with the peek-a-boo mirror on the colorful Play & Sound Mat

Image of a boy playing with the Rolliphant - the trunks of red, blue, and yellow elephants are attached to a wall and the boy is rolling a ball down the blue tube

Rolliphant™
Edushape Ltd.
This ball-track tub toy is ideal for developing fine motor skills. Three interlinking elephants' trunks provide a unique track for balls to roll down. Easily attaches to any smooth surface for stimulating fun in or out of the bathtub! Promotes exploration of environment.
$19.99 / For ages 2 years+ / PI, HI, DD

Rollipop
Edushape Ltd.
The best architects need to start young. Construct a colorful tower and discover how the ball rolls! The unique tracking sets are ideal for introducing cause and effect and developing and encouraging use of motor skills. Also promotes use of auditory tracking skills.
$28.99 (Starter) / $34.99 (Advanced) / For ages 9 months+ / PI, HI, LV, DD

Image of a boy playing with the Rollipop, a tower with different colored tubes and different colored balls

Image of red, yellow, green, and blue Sensory Balls

Sensory Balls
Edushape Ltd.
Infants can squeeze, roll, throw or kick these colorful, textured balls. Their bumpy surface offers tremendous sensory play value for young athletes. Set includes 4 balls — one in each color: red, yellow, blue and green. "Good for overall stimulation and easy to clean." Also promotes tactile exploration.
$11.99 (set of 4) / For ages 12 months+ / PI, HI, B, LV, DD

Tinkle Crinkle Activity Toy
Gund, Inc.
A 17" Tinkle Crinkle Rattle and Squeak caterpillar has bright primary colors that appeal to the sense of sight. Features: Tail — Tinkles, Flower — Crinkles, Bee — Rattles, Head — Rattles, Number Windows — Mirror accents. Promotes awareness of sound and stimulates available hearing.
$18.00 / For ages 0 years+ / PI, HI, LV, DD

Image of Tinkle Crinkle Activity Toy caterpillar

Image of colorful Playskool Busy Ball Popper with different colored tracks and five different colored balls

Playskool Busy Ball Popper
Hasbro, Inc.
Drop one of the colorful balls onto the track and the balls pop out of the top, roll down the track, and then pop out all over again. The Busy Ball Popper features silly sound effects and eight lively songs that add to the fun. This "great interactive toy" is "pretty neat!" Introduces cause and effect, stimulates available hearing and encourages social skills. Requires 4 D batteries, not included.
$19.99 / For ages 9 months+ / PI, HI, DD

Playskool Honeybee Hop
Hasbro, Inc.
This motorized toy consists of a base, designed as a cute beehive and an extendable arm with an adorable little bee that circles the hive at two different speeds to the tune of Flight of the Bumblebee. Kids jump over the rotating arm before it reaches their feet. If the toy's arm hits the child's leg, silly sounds are played, the music stops and the arm stops rotating. Promotes body awareness and use of motor skills. Requires 3 C batteries, not included.
$17.99 / For ages 3 years+ / DD

Image of a girl jumping over the rotating arm of the Playskool Honeybee Hop

Ultimate LEGO® DUPLO® Set
LEGO Systems, Inc.
Little builders with big imaginations will love sifting through the bricks and pieces in this new tub to inspire their inner creators! Includes building plate, wagon base and figure to promote role play fun. New storage container allows for easy clean up and storage. Encourages creative play and use of motor skills. Stimulates imagination and available vision.
$24.99 / For ages 18 months+ / PI, LV, DD

Steering Wheel
Publications International
Steering Wheel books feature a mounted telescoping base with a steering wheel that raises and locks into place. Sound triggers, including the horn button on the wheel, make realistic vehicle sounds to accompany the story. Each of the six spreads features a story with illustrations. Promotes tactile exploration and encourages use of motor skills. Requires 3 AG-13 button cell batteries, included.
$14.99 / For ages 18 months+ / PI, LV, DD

Image of Steering Wheel book featuring Thomas the Engine

Image of lamb, lion, and piggy Beginning Bites teethers

Beginning Bites
Sassy, Inc.
Beginning Bites offer teethers that baby can really sink his or her gums into. These soft terrycloth creatures have soft, smiling faces and chewy, teethable plastic rims around them. Choose a lamb, lion or piggy. They make soft rattling sounds when shaken. Beginning Bites can be washed in warm soapy water and air-dried. Promotes tactile exploration.
$4.99 (set of 2) / For ages 0 years+ / PI, HI, B, LV, DD

Me in the Mirror
Sassy, Inc.
This soft padded mirror can be hung so that a newborn can gaze into it while lying down, or it can be attached flat against the crib rails to accommodate a sitting baby. It stands on its own outside the crib, providing tummytime enjoyment or entertainment for sitting babies. Baby will love to touch and pull plush curlicues and will delight in the jingling bug and chewy ring tethered to the frame. Stimulates available vision and hearing.
$12.99 / For ages 0 years+ / PI, HI, DD

Talk & Touch Barn Activity Toy
Sassy, Inc.
This carry along activity toy is bursting with activities and words in three languages to keep children busy and entertained. Push the buttons and slide the levers to find five cute farm animals hiding behind the doors and windows. When a window or door opens, the name of the animal and its sound are announced in English, Spanish or French. The toy has a soft, padded back which makes it perfect for lap play. Introduces cause and effect and promotes awareness of sounds.
$19.99 / For ages 9 months+ / PI, HI, B, LV, DD

Stacking Family
Top Shelf Holdings, LLC
Learn to count "family-style" with this ingenious stacking toy. Mix and match the wooden blocks, or follow the colors to stack your way up to five. This is a "fun toy to teach stacking and children enjoy creating funny looking people." Promotes exploration of environment and body awareness.
$19.95 / For ages 2 years+ / PI, HI, LV, DD