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Baby Einstein - Baby Santa's Music Box

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Baby Einstein's Baby Santa's Music Box
One of the earlier releases in the now popular Baby Einstein video series, Baby Santa's Music Box is an unpolished version of the wonderful videos to come later in the collection. Relying more on music and visuals as the sole entertainment than some of the others, Baby Santa began the formula of the Baby Bach and Baby Beethoven videos with stimulating visuals set to music. Unlike the more advanced videos in the Baby Einstein series designed for older babies and toddlers, this one is entirely non-verbal and will appeal to infants as young as one month of age. Visuals rely heavily on the Baby Einstein Puppets albeit the earlier versions, visuals of ornaments and Christmas decorationas, animals playing in the snow, and lots and lots of children. The soundtack is holiday instrumental musical tunes from different countries around the world such as England, Ireland, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, and the United States yet all rendered in similar orchestration by the Baby Einstein Music Box Orchestra. Appropriate for ages 1 month and up, the simplicity of the video combined with some more engaging puppet visuals will likely entertain your baby until around the 18th month. The video is short, but you have the option to "repeat play" as well as play the music without the video.

Like most of the other videos in the Baby Einstein series, this one is designed as a `video board book' for your baby and offers you the opportunity to interact with your child in the same way you do with books as well as act as a distraction for that deeply needed parental bathroom break. Most of the DVDs in the series have the option to "play" or "repeat play" and are about 20-30 minutes in length -- the repetition being very stimulating and comforting to the younger set.

While I don't think viewing Baby Einstein DVDs will make my infant "smarter" she sure does enjoy them! They give me a great way to interact with her as well as a few minutes here and there to get a few things done around the house. Their ability to calm her when she's fussy is already legendary in our household.

Here is information on all the current 21 Baby Einstein DVDs including suggested times to introduce them to your little one. This information IS NOT available with the DVD sets but I gleaned it from several sources for my own use. You may like to print this out for future reference.

Note: All the Baby Einstein DVDs are "region 1" which means they only play on machines in the U.S. and Canada.

Information on each video is divided into categories of age appropriateness:

From Birth and Up
* Baby Bach
- A multiple award-winning DVD
- Engages your newborn/infant through sights and sounds
- uses colorful real-world objects for visual scenes
- Appropriate from birth and up
*Baby Mozart Music Festival
- An award winning DVD
- Introduces your baby to the classical music of Mozart with visually stimulating real-world objects on screen
- From birth and up

Age 1 month and Up
*Baby Beethoven Symphony of Fun
- An award winning DVD
- Featuring the compositions of Beethoven
- Appropriate for ages 1 month and up
*Language Nursery
- A multiple award-winning DVD
- Exposes your baby to sounds of seven different languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Hebrew, German, and Japanese
- Appropriate for ages 1 month and up
*Baby Santa's Music Box
- Joyeux Noel! Feliz Navidad! Buon Natale! Merry Christmas!
- Celebrate with holiday musical sounds from around the world
- Appropriate for ages 1 month and up

Age 6 Months and Up
*Baby Monet
- An award winning DVD
- A musical introduction to the four seasons
- Features the music of Vivaldi
- Appropriate from 6 months and up

Age 9 Months and Up
*Baby da Vinci From Head to Toe
- A multiple award-winning DVD
- Baby's first introduction to their eyes, ears, hands, feet, and more.
- Features Spanish, English and French language tracks for added learning.
- Set to the music of Vivaldi, Bach and Handel
- Appropriate for ages 9 months and up.
*Baby MacDonald A Day on the Farm
- A multiple award-winning DVD
- A fun-filled introduction to the sights and sounds of a farm
- Features live-action images and engaging visuals of puppets, children, toys, and real-world objects
- Combines traditional nursery rhymes with the classical music of Schubert, Schumann and Strauss
- Appropriate for ages 9 months and up
*Baby Galileo Discovering the Sky
- An award winning DVD
- Baby's first introduction to the sky and solar system
- Features captivating footage of the sky, planets, and galaxies
- Features musical scores by Mozart, Chopin, Strauss and Tchaikovsky
- Appropriate for ages 9 months and up
*Baby Neptune Discovering Water
- An award winning DVD
- Baby's first introduction to water
- Features the melodic scores of Handel's Water Music
- Appropriate for ages 9 months and up

Age 1 Year +
*Baby's Favorite Places
- A playful introduction to words and sign language - my street to main street
- 12 Months +
*Baby Einstein Meet the Orchestra - First Instruments
- First Instruments introduces your toddler to musical instruments that make up an orchestra and the different sounds that they make.
- Features multi-language viewing options in English, French, and Spanish for added learning
- Uses real-life images with classical music by Beethoven, Brahms, Joplin, Haydn, Mozart, and Strauss.
- Appropriate from 1 year
*Baby Einstein On The Go -- Riding, Sailing, and Soaring
- An award winning DVD
- A musical introduction to transportation and "things that go."
- Features multi-language viewing options in English, French, and Spanish for added learning.
- Uses real-life images with classical music by Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart, and Rossini.
- Appropriate from 1 year
*Baby Wordsworth First Words - Around the House
- A multiple award-winning DVD
- A musical introduction to baby's first words and communication
- Features bonus language learning with Spanish, French and English tracks
- Includes the music of Bach, Bizet, and Schubert.
- Appropriate from 1 year
*Baby Noah Animal Expedition
- A multiple award-winning DVD
- A musical introduction to animals around the globe
- Features bonus language learning with Spanish, French and English tracks
- Includes the music of Beethoven, Mozart, and Strauss
- Appropriate from 1 year
*Baby Newton Discovering Shapes
- A multiple award-winning DVD
- Introduces your toddler to five shapes
- Features many of Vivaldi's favorite compositions
- Appropriate for ages 1 year and up
*Baby Shakespeare World of Poetry
- An award winning DVD
- Poetry in Motion with real world images
- Features award winning Baby Beethoven soundtrack
- Appropriate for ages 1 year and up
*Baby Van Gogh World of Colors
- An award winning DVD
- Exposes your baby to the wonder of color through Van Gogh's artwork
- Introduces your baby to classical music selections from Van Gogh's era
- Appropriate for ages 1 year and up
*Neighborhood Animals
- An award winning DVD
- Meet animals that live in and around the home
- This DVD compliments the Baby Einstein Animal Discovery Cards
- Engaging music from the 19th and early 20th centuries
- Appropriate for ages 1 year and up
*Numbers Nursery
- An award winning DVD
- A playful and interactive introduction to the numbers 1 through 5
- Uses familiar, real-world objects to show what numbers mean
- Features the melodic scores of Haydn, Chopin, Strauss, and Schubert
- Appropriate for ages 1 year and up
*World Animals
- Discover animals from the jungle, savannah and ocean
- This DVD compliments the Baby Einstein World Animal Discovery Cards
- Features music from the 19th and early 20th centuries
- Appropriate for ages 1 year and up

Grandson has ALL the Baby Einstein DVD's. Although I purchased in April, he saw it advertised on one of his other DVD's and kept asking for this Christmas DVD. He has learned SO much. At 4 years old, he can recite the alphabet BACKWARDS. All babies should be introduced to the Baby Einstein DVD's. Brady watches all of his Baby Einstein DVD's over and over and over.....

My son Loves this video. He received this movie on his 1st birthday and he is just thrilled with it. When we pop it in our video player he is in a trance. He sways with the puppets and pays very close attention to the swirling images and the sweet faced children. I was so happy with Baby Santa that I went out and bought baby Monet. I would recommend this video to any parent who is interested in buying a lovely, soothing form of entertainment for their young child.

I read negative reviews on this dvd on another site as well, but my 10 mo. old LOVES IT! it keeps her attention just as well as baby mozart. I love it too, it is soothing and the clips are great!! I recommend baby einstien to everyone!! my 10 mo. old dauther started baby mozart from day one and has always loved it. we keep it as background music while she plays. without it she is clutched to my legs, hips, crying at my feet. with it she plays peacefully. when she was 5mo. old we put it on with her in the high chair with the zwiback toast. she was mesmorized and ate her toast happily. She was a very colicky baby who has always had to be on our hips 24-7 I don't know what we would have done without baby einstein.
Baby santa is as good as baby mozart. We love it and give it 5 stars!! everyone needs baby einstein!! :)
I also feel safe letting her watch it because of the classical music, i have heard it is good for brain development. So thank you baby einstein for your peace and quiet, and your piece of mind!!! :) :) :) We now have the 15 disc collection. so far she really loves the more musical ones. the ones for 9mo and up we are saving for later. :)

My daughter was bored by this one. It just didn't seem to flow like some of the other Baby Einstein videos. Also, the music didn't seems especially Christmas-y or festive. I would not recommend this one. Buy Baby Mozart, the First Moves or First Signs videos instead.

We originally found Baby Santa after our son's first Christmas... but bought it anyway, as we were afraid we would not be able to find it again. We played it for him for his second Christmas, and while he was older than the usual ages for these videos- it was a great way to introduce him to the sights and sounds of the season. This year was our daughter's first Christmas and I started playing the DVD in November for her. Like her brother before her, she loved the Baby einstein series- particularly Baby Mozart and Baby Santa was certainly no exception to the rule. She's 9 months old- and sat quietly watching the video- with her 3 year-old brother at her side- pointing out things to her and interacting with her and "teaching" her about Christmas. Whoever said this video was a disappointment was not looking close enough... These videos are meant to be seen through a child's eyes... and my children loved it.

It was time to get a Christmas special DVD, great product as usual with Baby Einstein

I didn't open this dvd for months just because it was a christmas dvd. One day when my son was particularly fussy, I popped it in, and it has been his favorite Baby Einstein dvd yet. He loves it more than the rest, so it has been baby einstein christmas year round for us.

I just bought this dvd for my 7 mos old son, despite bad reviews on another site. He loved it, he would not even drink his bottle the first time watching it because he was afraid he would miss something. From the moment I put it in the DVD player it held his undivided attention. He really seems to like the video alot and this morning my husband let him watch it twice and he was laughing and dancing along with the music. If your child likes the Baby Einstien videos I am sure they will like this one as well. Highly recommended.

The baby loves it. We watch it together. I laugh because she laughs at different parts. Great for anytime of year.