This is a great and fun toy for kids/toddlers, 24 Aug. 2014

This is a great and fun toy for kids/toddlers. To tell you the truth, i found it better than those usual ball popping activity playsets. Not only creating endless enjoyable play with the balls but also teaching them the shapes and colours, thanks to the monkey's hat. Place the balls inside the monkey's hat and they pop out of the bottom and if you are lucky will roll into the convenient side pockets, which i must admit that sometimes they don't. Instead of that, they end up all over the floor but that only happens 40% of the time. Add the sound effects that do get irritating after an hour for any parent and you have a joyful toy for the kids to play until the batteries wear out. There are two ways they can play this. Use it as a simple ball popper or play hide and seek with the monkey. Just input the balls, press his nose and monkey will retreat into itself, as it squeals the balls fall out and then he's ready again. The monkeys seems to be well built and should last a long while.

This review is from: Bright Starts Hide and Spin Monkey (Baby Product)

A bit of fun monkeying about!, 4 Sept. 2014

First off when this toy arrived in my office it was greeted with much affection from my colleagues. They all wanted to press the buttons you can see through the packaging to see what noises it made. Funnily enough this is exactly what our toddler wanted to do too so it seems big kids and little ones alike are initially attracted to this toy!

The Bright Starts Hide n Spin Monkey is aimed at children aged from 6 to 36 months. Our toddler is now 26 months so is heading towards the upper age range, but this does not mean he does not enjoy it – he loves it and I suspect he will for a long while yet. One major thing to note is that this is a pretty large toy and while I had an idea this was the case it is useful to know it actually stands (when assembled) at about 50cm high. This has positives and negatives – if you lack floor space you may find this is a bit too large for you, but play wise it means it can be used either standing up for toddlers, or sitting down for...

This review is from: Bright Starts Hide and Spin Monkey (Baby Product)

Bright Starts Hide and Spin Monkey, 21 Feb. 2015

My 14 month old son has played with this toy consistently for nearly 3 months so I can confidently give it 5 days and has withstood a lot of rough handling.

The on/off switch is located at the back of the monkeys neck. There are 3 modes which include off, on with low volume and on with high volume. When switched on you are greeted with music, monkey noises and the monkey asks 'lets have a ball and play'. There are 3 function buttons on the monkeys hat, Yellow coloured with a square in the centre, blue with a triangle and red with a circle. When one is pressed, the monkey names either the colour or shape and plays a little tune which last for around 10 seconds and all the buttons light up and flash.

The monkey comes with 6 balls. Each time a ball is dropped into the monkey's hat, it counts and plays a little tune whilst the lights flash. To release the balls, press the monkey's nose. His head will lower into the barrel, the circular base will spin and the balls...

This review is from: Bright Starts Hide and Spin Monkey (Baby Product)