Garanimals Bath Ball It is basically a small ball inside of a bigger ball. It has easy to grip soft handles on the top and it floats in the bath. It also has holes on the bottom so the water sprays out. It rattles when shaken. Easy to clean, it keeps infant occupied. Age range from 6 month and up.
Durability: 5
Safety: 5
Attractiveness: 4
Source of stimulation: 3
Overall: 4
Well made, no sharp plastic edges. Fun and engaging infants can pushes it around while it's floating then takes it out of the water and it rains water down, also it rattles when shakes it. Easy to rinse the suds out of and drain the water so that it doesn't get icky. Great for rinsing the baby too as it provides a very gentle shower of water.
Shakira First Steps Collection Stack ’n Learn Alphabet Blocks Easy-to-stack and build blocks encourage development of fine motor skills and eye-hand coordination—with so much for the infant to discover as they play! The chunky square and circle-shaped blocks are easy for baby to grasp and hold, with big connectors on the top and bottom so there’s no wrong way for baby to stack. And alphabet letters from A-Z introduce the infant to letters and the alphabet, with pictures of familiar first objects that start with each block’s featured letter—all the way from A (for apple) to Z (for zebra)! Age range from 6 month and up.
Durability: 5
Safety: 4
Attractiveness:5
Source of stimulation: 4
Overall: 5
These are nicely made plastic blocks.They have smooth edges and fit together easily and firmly. There are 26 "alphabet letter" blocks and then 24 plain connector blocks. The alphabet blocks have an alphabet letter painted on one side and a picture of an item starting with that letter on the opposite side. The blocks can be used as an educational tool as well since they have a letter from the alphabet on them and a picture of an item that starts with that letter.
Bad Toys for infants
Rubber Bath Ducky Try to avoid to give an infant any toys that can ingest the bath water or mildew building up inside of them. Most of them didn't seem very hygienic and infants always wanted to put them in their mouth. Age range from 6 month and up.
Durability: 2
Safety: 1
Attractiveness: 4
Source of stimulation: 2
Overall: 2
When infants take a bath, the water and toys can become infested with bacteria from their bodies. Those cute toys with holes in the bottom of them allow the dirty water to get inside there and it becomes a breeding ground for bacteria, mold and mildew. Open one up sometime and see the black “gunk” that is inside and that leaks out when they are squeezed, gunk that ends up on your children’s skin and if they are blowing water bubbles inside their body. These bacteria can cause skin and stomach infections, vomiting and diarrhea.
Pull Along Zebra Potential for strangulation and entanglement injuries. This toy is dangerous because despite the industry's standards requiring strings on playpen and crib toys to be less than 12 inches in length, manufacturers permitted to market "pull toys" like the "Pull along Zebra" with cord measuring approximately 21 inches. The toy is intended for babies as young as 12 month old.