Leading infant toy producer, Lamaze, has improved its Soft Chime Garden toy to make it even easier for your baby to operate and ensure it lasts through more developmental stages.
Why Lamaze?
Most mums know the brand Lamaze, they come up again and again in lists of recommended toys and with good reason. Lamaze is probably the global market leader in high-quality, educational yet fun toys for babies and toddlers. Pregnancy and parenthood magazines love them and reviews from parents are consistently high. Designed by experts not sales manager, their toys all form part of the Lamaze Infant Development System and are professionally designed to give your child the best start in life. Their toys help your baby develop physical, cognitive and social skills through play and are beautiful to look at as well as the highest quality you could want. You needn't worry about them breaking through being dropped or chewed - all of ours have survived numerous throws out of the pram (isn't it hilarious making Mommy pick it up repeatedly?!) and been through teething!
Why this toy?
I adore this toy partly because it's so cute! It's aimed at children from six months ("moving and doing") but much smaller children will love it too and can be enchanted by it.
It looks like a bunch of five colourful flowers, each one has a smiley face that lights up and each can be played as in individual note or used to make songs play. It is made from a selection of gorgeous soft fabrics and features crinkle areas and ribbons too. It is really multi-functional in aiding your child's development.
Development
It's very easy for baby to hold its enticing and enthralling nature encourages babies to reach for it, pull on it, kick it etc. It responds easily to a child's touch and the reward nature of this toy in terms of lights and sound means that they learn about cause and effect and develop hand-eye co-ordination. In this way it builds general co-ordination and by encouraging grabbing/kicking and so on builds general physical strength. Continual and multi-sensory fun encourages that 'two-handed-and-also-my-feet' type of play which is great for physical and co-ordination development as well as adorable to watch! For younger children you can hang it from an arch of your play mat and let them kick it - it is sensitive enough to respond and reward their efforts with sound.
Visually it is very appealing - children love strong contrasting colours and simple prints and, like all Lamaze toys, this is embodied in this toy. From a very early age (almost from birth) infants love to watch flashing lights and because this has an attachment strap you can hang it from the handle of the infant carrier/car seat and let them be mesmerised. Following the lights will help their focus develop. Another interesting feature about Lamaze toys is that if you look at them you'll see that all the faces have disproportionately large eyes - this is deliberate as it helps babies learn about the importance of eye contact. They naturally focus on the toys eyes because of their dominance and thus develop better eye contact skills with real people.
Aural skills are bound to develop with such a well thought out musical toy. It has three different modes of music to help develop auditory awareness - the idea being that you are teaching the child to distinguish and listen. While it is sensitive enough to respond to the gentlest babies touch, adults will also like the fact that the music is not too tinny and not obnoxiously loud
Interestingly, I took one to a mum and tots group I volunteer with for special needs children and they were also very impressed. One mum commented that the music was good for her visually impaired child, that once it was placed in his hands it was responsive enough for him to play with it and be entertained. She commented that some toys require very specific 'button' pressing to get a sound so this was better for him. Another mum, who was there with a disabled 3 year old agreed, saying that her child's physical problems also meant he sometimes struggled with this as he lacked the co-ordination and that a musical toy he could manage was definitely a winner.
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