Busy Zoo Activity Center
From the Manufacturer
The Busy Zoo Activity Center offers your child hours of educational fun, colorful and movable objects promote hand and eye coordination, recommended for children 12 months and older.
The Parents Magazine Battat Busy Zoo activity cube is a fun-filled learning experience. The activities are simple enough for one-year-olds to understand and large enough for them to manipulate with ease. On top, they can move animals along tracks or twirl wooden shapes along looping wire. Choices around the four sides include rotating picture blocks until they form a picture of a variety of animals; turning any one of interconnecting gears to make them all spin; opening and closing a door and window. For the future, reversible alphabet blocks show a picture and its initial letter on one side, and the upper and lower case letter on the reverse. The various finger and hand manipulations will develop the muscles later used in learning to write.
… >>> Special Offers and Product Promotions
Our 10 month old daughter loves this toy, she’s been playikng with it since we got it at 9 months. My only complaint is that the paint is peeling off in some areas–one area was clearly damaged and then repainted, without any sanding or proper treatment. So I have to keep a close eye to make sure she’s not getting any in her mouth–I will probably try to repaint those areas myself.
This toy has been great for our 7 month old. Not only does it give her all sorts of knobs, doors, and balls to play around with, but it also has helped her to gain her balance, since she often plays with it while standing next to it.
I gave this to my nephew for his first bday and he loves it. He plays with it by himself for a very long time! He stands up using it for support. His 5 yr old sister plays with it too. It is not too daunting in size and is not an eyesore to have sitting out when company comes. It looks good and is very good for his overall development. It is sturdy, stimulating, attractive and well worth the cost. I will gladly give this to another one yr old in the future!