Gizmos for Babies

Hello and Hola! Are your kids ready to “Shake Their Sillies Out” with these adorable maracas?

With these LeapFrog Learn and Groove Counting Maracas, little movers and shakers can move to a learning groove. Sing, dance and count with these colorful maracas that engage your child and encourage interaction. Lights, sounds and music accompany your child as she learns counting, colors and music in both English and Spanish.

The music play mode lets baby explore and create music, which encourages creative interaction and open-ended play. The counting mode introduces baby to counting 1 - 10 in both English and Spanish, which helps promote an understanding of number order. And the color mode introduces the colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple, also in both English and Spanish. Aside from getting an early start on important skills, this learning tool also offers a traditional favorite for kids: making noise!

Recommended price $11.99 at Amazon.com.

Take a spin around this musical globe and unearth a wonderful world of learning! The Spin & Discover Globe is designed with your little explorers in mind. It spins easily with tiny hands and keeps baby learning with animals that press, turn and spin on their home continents. Bounce with a kangaroo. Swing with a monkey. Or, fly around the world again and again in baby’s own airplane! The Spin & Discover Globe gives little globetrotters lessons in colors, animals, animal sounds and music.

Recommended price $24.99 at Vsmileshop.com.

Who doesn’t love a teddy bear!V.Smile Baby’s interactive learning gets huggable! The Bailey Goes To Town Plush Accessory works with the V.Smile Baby Infant Development system so that baby explores and learns with a loveable friend. The Bailey Goes to Town Baby Smartridge is included and teaches body parts, matching, letters, opposites and motion. Your child will also discover things at the park with baby sign language. The Baby Bailey Bear also features a play-alone mode for on-the-go play.

Recommended price $24.99 at VSmileshop.com.

Your kids will have loads of fun in this adorable Elmo Chair!Your child can enjoy Elmo in a whole new way with this fun and interactive chair that spins and sings. Sit on Elmo and squeeze his right thumb and he sings the “Elmo Says” song; Elmo also gives directions such as “Spin around”. A turntable spinning mechanism in the seat lets your little one gently spin with Elmo. Weight capacity is 100 lbs and it is for ages 18 months and up.

Recommended price $28.89 at Amazon.com.