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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program With a variety of sounds and 'activities', this toy seems most appropriate for 6m-18m age, instead of upto 36m as stated by the manufacturer. The toy is incredibly easy to set up and has intuitive settings for volume control and learning modes. The fairly short stature of the toy may make this unsuitable for most kids over 1 year old. My 18 month old now uses this as "strength training" equipment trying to lift it and walk around.
One may need to compare it to Baby Einstein Discovering Music Activity Table to see which size may be more suitable for your child. Regardless with a variety of interactions with the various animal characters a particularly verbal hippo and some catchy tunes, this is likely to be a good value for 6m-18m and an OK value for 18m-24m. I don't see the toy being able to sustain interest through 36m age group as the manufacturer recommends.
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This table toy is fun with seven activity centers. My daughter's favorite is the peekaboo Hippo. The table is smaller than it appears in photos and very short. It looks more stable than it actually is. The plastic legs are made of flimsy plastic. I rate it high for the activities and music but we will use it without the legs attached due to its height and instability.Pros:
-Cute zoo animals.
-Fun learning activities for colors, ABCs, Shapes, and numbers.
-Super easy assembly. Just attach the removable legs.
-Musical songs to help in learning shapes and colors.
Cons:
-Table is very short for children over one year old. Stands only 12" tall with legs attached.
-Must use on carpet since there is no rubber footing for use on wood or laminate floors it is unstable and slides around the room.
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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program This is a really sweet toy with lots of opportunities to play. One of the nice things about it is that it's so compact in size. The legs can be kept off (and also come off really easily), and without them it takes up a lot less space than some other toys.From the write-up online, it might be difficult to tell what the toy does, so I'll try to explain some of the things that it does. First, there are two settings that the entire toy can be put on--either music or ABC (verbal learning). There are several features, though a couple are not connected to anything electronically. The features are:
1) An open plastic "book" with two page spreads. On the music setting, these do the ABCs or 123s songs. On the ABC setting, they talk about things like favorite numbers or letters. From this part of the board, it seems that the speaker (when using the toy) is the giraffe pictured by the book.
2) Going clockwise, next there's a hippo's head. Open the mouth--and there's a mirror! On the ABC setting the hippo does things like opposites--saying "open" and "closed," "hello" and "bye-bye." The music setting does a song about hippos, and various sounds.
3) Next is a tiger with a trumpet. The musical note is the action item here--it can be slid left or right. The trumpet on the ABC setting says opposites--"right" and "left," "loud" and "quiet," etc. On the music setting, there are things like trumpet sounds.
4) Next is a non-electronic guitar. This can be turned by grabbing the knob or sticking a little finger in the hole. As it turns, it makes a clicking, cranking sound.
5) The piano-like buttons are a favorite. On the music setting, they do short little beats. When the toy is set on ABC, they active a voice that says their numbers or colors.
6) Here comes another non-electronic part! The fish roller is really cute. It has a clear roller wheel in it. The wheel contains little plastic balls that make sounds when the wheel is rotated.
7) The center drum is the main attraction. It lights up and interacts with certain parts on the rest of the board (including the piano keys and book feature). It contains four lights: orange is a circle, red is a square, green is a triangle, and yellow is a star. It's touch-activated and thus has its own features, as well. When tapped on the music setting, it encourages drumming a slow beat to music. On the verbal learning setting (ABC), there are lessons about colors, shapes, and lights being on or off.
From a baby's point of view: The most fun feature is the three buttons (which look like a piano, but don't really play musical notes) set on the music setting. They are easy to push. The center section is also interesting. The music setting is more fun than the learning one (of course!).
From an adult's point of view, there's just one thing I don't like about this toy, and that's that it interrupts itself. I can understand this being a setting/option (though it's not), since it might be annoying if you have to listen to the ABC song a million times in a row and not be able to stop it if a baby keeps using the same feature over and over. But the way the toy works, it's almost like it's fighting with itself, for lack of a better way to explain it. Babies like to bang on things, and the toy generally doesn't play out a whole song or statement if it gets interrupted by another touch or hit. So, for example, let's say that the ABC song is playing. A baby doesn't know not to hit a different button, and thus likely won't let the song play in full. Playing with another feature on the toy can cause the previous one to stop. It's still a really nice play set, though, and I most appreciate how they fit so much into a small size!
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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program I love many of Leapfrog's products, but definitely not this one. First of all, the claim that it has over 100 songs and activities is sorely overstated my estimate would be that it has about 10 songs and 7 activities. The only activities it has are turning the guitar strings by the monkey, sliding the music note back and forth to hear opposites/horn sounds, lifting the hippo's face to see the mirror, turning the page on the 1 page book, spinning the fish wheel, pushing one of three piano keys, and tapping the drum in the center.The drum in the center where they can tap a shape to hear its color and shape name was nice but at 7 months my daughter doesn't have the strength required to make that work. As an adult, I have to smack the drum really hard to get it to work which is obviously a con and even when you tap one shape, it lights up a different one than you tapped. I was expecting more activities and was disappointed.
It has 2 modes which are music and learning and I do like the bright/attractive colors with the jungle theme. I did like the use of teaching the opposites. It was very easy to put together since you only have to attach the legs, but there's no way this toy could work for up to 36 months old as it claims. My daughter at 7 months already has to bend down to do the activities on the table so it's way too short. Also, it's not made very sturdy and the legs are very wobbly so you have to sit with your child while he or she stands to use it otherwise they could easily fall and take the toy down with him or her.
Given all of its drawbacks, which I was surprised about since Leapfrog always has great products, I wouldn't recommend this to a friend...or an enemy. Let's just say it's not worth the $35 it cost.
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We love LeapFrog products and one of my favorite toys from my first son is this LeapFrog play table he got for his first Christmas. He played with that table probably every day and then my second son did and recently it has been Olivia. Well LeapFrog has just come out with a new table for kids 6-36 months.The Animal Adventure Learning Table is basically a new and improved table than what we had. It features bright colors with just enough fun to keep kids entertained (and secretly leanring) and it comes in a round table format. Since Olivia is 14 months we started it out on its four legs but you can snap off the legs and use it on the floor, which is perfect for kids 6 months old. Actually our old LeapFrog table helped my little guys learn to stand and build up their confidence to walk since we started with them on the floor and then after awhile I snapped on the legs making them stand up with it to play. The legs on this table are seriously easy to snap off or take off (no tools required.) I wish I would have had this table before Olivia started walking, although I definitely see her playing with well into 3 years old (my 4 and 5 year old boys are even intrigued by it!)
Like I said earlier the table is round which to me gives it a modern design and the size is really big enough for two kids to play at. There are activities around the table but my daughters favorite is probably the drum in the center. She bangs on that thing like there is no tomorrow! The other activities involve tapping, turning, flipping, spinning, patting and pressing lots of playing basically! The table also goes to sleep after a period of one minute of inactivity and can be woken up by pushing any button.
About the different stations:
Giraffe: Flip the page for ABC or 1-2-3 activities
Hippo: Lift mouth for songs, mirror fun and peek-a-book play
Tiger: Slide music notes to learn about opposites and hear silly sounds
Monkey: Spin the guitar for motor skill fun
Piano: Explore music notes, melodies, numbers and colors
Fish: Bat the spinner to see it rattle and roll.
Drum: Tap for a musical light show and learn about shapes, numbers, colors and more!
Overall, this table has been a hit with my little one, she plays with it multiple times a day, everyday. She will play for a little bit, do something else and then go back to it. I love hearing all the different sounds and songs, much better than having the same old songs over and over! Oh and it does come with the required batteries so it is ready to go right out of the box.
I was sent this product to review in exchange for my honest opinion.
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