Customer Reviews

Baby Einstein Lights & Melodies Discovery Center

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This is the first toy our daughter was able to play with on her own. At two months she learned to kick the green hoop and start the music on her own. She loved seeing that her actions had a reaction. This toy can be adjusted for many uses as well. I picked this toy, because I thought the hard plastic would be easier to keep clean than similar toys made of fabric, and it really has been. It's easy to put anywhere, even in the crib (only when I'm with her, monitoring, though.) My daughter is now 9 months old, and she still loves this toy. She can sit with it as well as play with it as she works at pulling herself up. Honestly this has been the best toy we could have picked. Every infant needs one!

The best feature of this toy bar is the rattle tether ball. When baby is first learning to use his hands, he can bat at this (almost like punching a speed bag) to work on hand-eye coordination. My son would do this for several mintues at a time when he was 3months old. There were few other toys he could manipulate well with his hands at that point so this was a favorite. The music is great and it's a very sturdy product. The down sides are that it's not as easy to adjust to the different positions/heights as I would like but at least you can adjust it as baby changes. The music note that baby is supposed to push to turn on music isn't that easy to do since little babies usually pull on things instead of push. However, you can put it on continuous play and there are other ways of getting the music started. I'm sure in a couple of months my son will love putting the tether ball through the hooop instead of just batting it - what a neat feature.

My son initially tried this at a neighbor's house when he was only 6 weeks old...he LOVES this toy. I went out to buy it immediately. He is now 11 weeks old and this is still his favorite toy. It keeps his attention (which is hard to do at his age) for sometimes up to 30 minutes. I definitely recommend this toy!

I bought the caterpillar when my son was 2 and a half months old. I wanted something that would entertain him even though he wasn't capable of interacting with a toy just yet. We would lay him in the boppy underneath it and he would watch the lights and listen to the music. He really enjoyed it. We joked that it was his first playstation. He would kick at the ball and star. When he got a little bigger, and was reaching for toys, he would grab at the toys and turn the music on with his feet. Then he got bored with it for a while. Now he is 7 months old and sitting up unassisted. I pulled it back out for the first time in about a month, and raised it up. Now he sits in front of it and is enjoying it at a whole new level.
So, we've had the toy for 5 months now, and it was unused for 1 month. For those 4 months, he played with it on a daily basis. And you know, I have never changed the batteries on that thing! Overall, we're pretty happy with it.

My 5 1/2 month old baby girl loves this contraption! She is just starting to be able to sit up on her own and this toy really encourages her to keep her balance. It distracts her from concentrating on trying to balance and lets her play. She loves all the colors and sounds, she can't keep her hands off of it!!

I bought this when my son was around 4 months & he loved it! I used it a lot when he got old older & more difficult to change diapers & it kept him entertained. Just pulled this out of the attic to use with our new baby.

This is one of Baby Einstein's best toys. My son loved this toy. The music was quality, classical music not annoying like other children's toys. The ball and the start that hang down are the perfect entertainment. When my son starting pulling up it was still alot of fun for him.

I rented this toy from Toygaroo rather than buying it, which worked out great because my little man grew out of this toy after a couple of months.

Baby love it, but be careful when your baby learns standing and when holding on to it. Not stable.

Bought this for my son when he was 2month old. He didn't care much for it. Light flashed no reaction. Didn't really play with it for a while then when he reached 5-6 months he started to play with it. He can't put the basketball in the hoop to make the song play but I stick plush football, baseball, stuff animals (purchased separately) and he would pull it out and loves it. He slowly began to notice the other features and not his favorite toy but he seems to like it.

My daugher used this from about 4 months to 10 months. As she got older and we adjusted the legs, she would push it like a walker. The music sounds a bit like a slot machine's and we all wished that there was more to interact with besides the dial of animal noises and the songs for the rest of it. My daughter never really played with the basketball, star, or spinning swirly things, so if it had sounds associated with using those parts, I think she would have gotten more use out of it. This fits perfectly into a Pack-n-Play, so we often used the Boppy to prop her up to play with the caterpillar.