Customer Reviews

Chicco Shapes and Sounds Tambourine

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I work with children and this toy provides a fun opportunity for them to practice their eye hand coordination, simple shape recognition and also just play some music (which all kids love). A good toy for the toddler to preschool set.

My daughter loves this drum. It has fun sounds and songs and the little drum beats are great! I like the fact that this is a shape sorter, musical instrument and rolling toy. My daughter loves to dance to this and instead of dropping the shapes into the sorter she likes to bang them together in time with the music. I did step on the shape sorter lid and it did crack along the bottom "seam" but hasn't affected the toy at all; I used a little super glue and it's good as new. Overall a great education and versatile toy!

My son received this toy for his first birthday and he loves it. He started grooving to the different tunes the music side plays, and he plays the drum pad, too. The shape sorter is great too, and we used it a lot to teach shapes. He was so excited when he would get it right (triangle block in the triangle shaped-hole) he would clap for himself, then pull off the top, dig out the blocks, put the top back on again and start over. I would definitely recommend this toy for a one-year-old.

My son recently had his first birthday and this Chicco Shape Sorter and Drum was one of the presents. One side works as a shape sorter. My son shows no interest. When placed on the side, it will roll like a drum. It gets a modest amount of rolling. If the other end is placed up, then it becomes something of a musical instrument. It has a face on a yellow circle which receives a modest amount of bashing and responds as a drum. The other smaller buttons will respond with a variety of tunes, programmed drum rolls or assorted sounds. My son likes these the best. He has several such musical toys and loves to compose segments of different tunes and sounds into one long concert. This Chicco toy has quickly become one of his favorites compositional tools. I can easily recognize the different sounds made by his different toys, and this toy has been receiving a lot of play. I expect the interest to taper off as the novelty decreases.

One part of the toy is an odd-shaped club, which supposedly is to be used as a drumstick. It gets a lot of use, on the drum and everything else. All in all, I would regard this toy as cheap plastic junk, but the kid enjoys it.

Gary Peterson

My son really liked the shape sorter...in the beginning. He now likes to put everything in there...and if they don't fit through the holes, he knows he can just remove the top piece. The drum is OK. It plays 3 different sounds and has a couple songs that play. It's very upbeat. My son mainly uses it now as a toy bin....but he has had fun with it.

I was disappointed in this product, because I bought it for the the shape sorting aspect, and the sorting side of it is pathetic---you can't twist and lock the round yellow shape sorter, you just pull it out, so any smart kid is going to do just that, and lose any shape sorting play they might have had if the top stayed on. The other side of this toy is an annoying and very loud "drum" (which doesn't really work as a drum either; take a look at the red barbell-type thing: that's supposed to be the drumstick) with buttons and songs. My children have played with this toy a lot, but probably only because it's noisy. I wouldn't recommend it as either a shape sorter or as a drum, even for the great price.

I was thrilled to receive this in the mail for my seven month old. She was on her belly and excitedly reached for it the minute I set it in front of her. She pulled the drum toward her and it slammed into her head. She burst out crying. This toy is much too heavy to be a child's toy. The plastic is thick, hard and HEAVY. This toy is meant to be turned on its side so it can roll but I can't let her play with this again because she will naturally want to pull the toy toward her, only to get hurt again. Chicco, being a good toy company, should have had the foresight to pad the surrounding rim. Not recommended.