Customer Reviews

Lamaze Multi Sensory Soft Sorter

5 star:		(12)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

I love this toy, but my daughter (9 months old) is not quite ready for it yet. She plays with the pieces (the triangle, square, etc.), but she can't yet figure out how to put the pieces into the box. I love how soft the whole toy is though and I know that she will enjoy learning the shapes and colors once she is a bit older.

I love this shape sorter. My little guy is now 10 months and he understands that the shapes go into the box, and can do this with a little help as he hasn't yet figured out that the shapes are different and that they match the colour of the material on the corresponding side of the box. I also love that is does not take batteries, and is relatively quiet so I can take it on the plane when I go home to keep him occupied. It is all soft made of material and has 4 different shapes to sort. There are some small sounds. It is well made, well designed and very good value for money. Highly recommended.

I have to say this toy is great. It's the first thing she has really grabbed hold of and spent time playing with - at 3 months, she's not really doing much else except lying on her mat looking up at the lights on the ceiling. But... it smells SO STRONGLY! It's not like perfume, more like Glade Air freshener, the cheapest, nastiest smelling sort, or maybe some horrible bath salts your great aunt bought you years ago that you still have because you can't bear to give them away but that you have to hide deep in a cupboard because they smell so hideously bad. REALLY synthetic and really overpowering. And even if you wash it in the washing machine, as we did, it doesn't go away, it seems to intensify, like there's something horrible inside bit in there that keeps releasing its own Glade smell. In these times, when I worry about perfume and cleaning products and basically any excess chemicals that don't need to be around my baby in all her newness and purity, because we are a little doolally like all new parents and starting to worry about cancer and autism and god only knows what else.. it upsets me to be giving her something that so blatantly honks. That, for me, overrides the ingeniousness of the toy.

This toy is safe, fun, and cute. The fabric patterns are attractive and stylish (not as cheesy as in some baby toys) and it's one less hard-sided toy for baby to smack her head on when she falls. I had looked at the hard-sided sorters, but this one has another aspect. Each shape has a different "trick" or sound. One is crinkly, one has bell in it, one has a squeaker in it, etc. There are also textures on the box that the baby can feel, as well. The sides of the box also have a color that corresponds with the shape, so the child can match it by either shape or color. Since the sides are made of fabric, if the baby doesn't get the shape in JUST right, it still goes through. With the plastic ones sometimes it's hard for babies to get it in just right and they get frustrated. I was worried that the top velcro-open flap would be too difficult to open, but my one-year old figured out how to open it on the first try. She thinks it's also fun to put other toys in the top and take them out. With so many rattles and toys made of plastic, I think this is a great addition to any toybox, as it brings more variety of textures and materials for baby to explore.

Got this as a soft set of "blocks" for our baby to play with. Perhaps a 9 month old is still too young to get the most out of it. however, the purple and white blocks rattle to baby's liking and that is what it is all about :)

My 7 month old daughter loves this toy very much. She chases each piece of toy, which helps her do lots of exercise; rolling over, crawling, lifting and etc.

My son has played with this shape sorter from about 7 months old and until now (2 years). How he plays with the sorter has changed has he has gotten older. When he was younger, yes he had a hard time getting the shapes into the correct place. The sorter just collapsed when he tried to shove it in the wrong hole. However, he has played with it in other ways and loved putting any sort of toy into the sorter and emptying it (when he was younger). Also, before he could match the shapes, he just played with the various balls, which are colorful and each makes a gentle noise (rattle, crinkle, squeak). Now he just likes to throw the cloth balls (which I appreciate as they are not hard).

I remember reading a Victor Hugo novel when I was young and finding it so boring that I put it back on the shelf unfinished. There were too many characters, and I didn't understand why what any of them did mattered. Years later, I came back to the same book and loved it. I couldn't read the pages fast enough and when I finished I wanted to read it all over again!

In a way, a lot of six to nine-month olds might feel the same way when handed this multi-sensory soft sorter. Not yet at the stage where putting things into something and taking them out is its own form of ecstasy, they might look at this box of fun and think: "So what?" If so, don't knock this sorter just yet; simply hide the toy away for a few months and reintroduce it later.

The sorter has many features which make it a great one--for a kid at the right stage. The box has bright colors. Each shape has different sounds for your child's ears and different textures for his hands. It's completely safe. And the game of sorting itself is both challenging and fun! I'm rating this a five. For the price, it's proven a great value.

We got this for our first child three years ago. She never really played with it--at least not as a shape sorter. We used to look at the shapes and talk about the ball, triangle, square and the colors. It basically sat around collecting dust. We saved it because we wanted more children. Our second child does not play with it as a shape sorter either. We have played with it in a similar fashion, but this time we put other small toys inside which she likes to put in and take out. I love the Lamaze brand of toys. We have the Lamaze PeekaBoo Clutch Cube, Lamaze Pupsqueak, and a mirror which both girls loved. I highly recommend this brand, just not this sorter. There are better shape sorters out there.

I got this toy for my niece when she was 9 months old and it has been her favorite toy for a whole year! Her parents have to bring it along wherever they go! It's very good quality and will resist through many washes. It's also extremely soft and the colors are very attractive. My niece loves the different sounds that each ball makes. She also loves to peak through the openings and has recently taken to actually sort the different shapes (although she enjoyed the toy before she understood the concept of shape-sorting). I have since bought this as gift for two more kids.