New Baby Products: Fisher-Price Brilliant Basics Baby's First Blocks

Product Features

Baby can sort and stack and learn to identify and match shapes
Shape-sorting lid and 5 different shapes help build early identification skills
10 colorful blocks are easy to grasp, hold and store inside bucket
Carry handle for take-along fun
Interactive learning aid

By : Fisher-Price
List Price : ~~$9.99~~
Price : $9.90
You Save : $0.09 (1%)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Ten colorful blocks for infant to sort, stack drop! Filling the bucket with blocks, dumping them out, and starting more than is superb for eye-hand coordination and other early skills. Then infant can move on to stacking and matching, and sorting the 5 diverse block shapes by means of the shape-sorting lid. All ten blocks fit inside the bucket, with a carry handle for quick take-along! Developmental Benefits for Infant - Aids baby learn through everyday experiences: 1) Helps baby learn to identify sort shapes colors. 2) Enhances difficulty-solving abilities with put take play, stacking sorting. Motivating Imagination: 1) Encourages creative thinking as baby discovers new methods to play with blocks. 2) Vivid colors interesting shapes intrigue infant. Encourages Building Motor Expertise: 1) Putting blocks in bucket strengthens eye-hand coordination. two) Grasping sorting blocks develops finger hand dexterity.

Ten vibrant blocks are prepared for child to drop into the open bucket or by means of the shape-sorting lid. Infant will adore filling the bucket with blocks, dumping them out, then beginning over once again. Outstanding for eye-hand coordination and other early skills. Then infant can move on to sorting and stacking and studying about identifying and matching shapes. Contains plastic shape-sorting box with take-anyplace manage and ten colorful blocks.

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Product Details

Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 5.5 inches ; 15.5 ounces
Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
ASIN: B000LSZVKA
Item model number: K7167
Manufacturer recommended age: 6 months - 3 years
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: 34 in Toys ; Games (See Top 100 in Toys ; Games)
1 inToys ; Games Baby ; Toddler Toys Blocks
1 inToys ; Games Baby ; Toddler Toys Shape Sorters
7 inToys ; Games Learning ; Education

Costumer Evaluations

My son received this toy as a gift for his 6-month birthday. At the time, I remember hearing about how some plastic toys (typically made in China) include dangerous chemical substances that are known to cause cancer and feeling concerned that this toy may possibly be one particular of them. I did not do anything for awhile, seeing how my son enjoyed playing with the toy and thinking (stupidly) that if this toy had been certainly damaging, it wouldn't be sold in the U.S.
One particular day, I came across this toy on Amazon and noticed the warning to CA residents beneath "Item Particulars." I couldn't think it when I read this toy is created with damaging chemical substances known to "cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm." I bet a lot of men and women who are giving this toy 5 stars are not conscious of the warning.
UPDATE TO Evaluation ON 10-28-09: Amazon has removed the warning about the harmful chemicals, and in response to an inquiry I sent them told me "Item specifics from the item detail is added or deleted upon producers details." Amazon suggested I contacted FP, which I did, and the FP rep mentioned he couldn't get anything in their records indicating the toy's manufacturing had been altered. The toy's production has not been altered given that 2007. He suggested that perhaps the warning wasn't accurate, and that is why it was removed. That may very well be, but it seems like a pretty big mistake for Amazon to make on multiple FP toys. I see now that none of the FP toys that previously had this warning have it now.
As for my son's reaction to the toy, he liked to bang the pieces together and put them in his mouth, but he by no means bothered to attempt to sort the shapes due to the fact the leading doesn't remain in location, as other people have mentioned. My son usually removed the prime and took out all of the pieces, no matter how a number of times I showed him how to sort the shapes with the leading in location. Talk about poor style! I should have given it 1 star for the "educational" rating in hindsight, but I figured that theoretically it could be of some value if a youngster didn't get rid of the prime. Also, Amazon wouldn't let me go back and transform my ratings.
I just got yet another shape sorter for him from Amazon (the Tolo Rolling Shape Sorter), and inside minutes he tried to put the shapes in the slots due to the fact he couldn't get rid of either the leading or the bottom of the unit. Now that's an educational toy!

This is a basic, durable, affordable toy. Nonetheless what I don't care for is the truth that the lid doesn't snap on. I'm confident this is that way so babies can take it off, but I favor the sorter that the child has to put the shapes by way of the holes. My infant figured out that it was less difficult to take the lid off! I like the Smartronics cookie jar sorter considerably far better.