Customer Reviews

Little Tikes Discover Sounds Workshop

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3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(6)
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This workshop is absolutely PERFECT for our 11 month old son. He received it on Christmas morning from Santa and has LOVED playing with it!

His favorite thing to do is bang on the nails with the hammer. Once hit they will light up and make silly noises! He LOVES doing this. He also likes to drop balls in the opening at the top and watch as they fall down - which makes it play music! He gets so excited playing with this - it keeps him entertained for a good period of time (maybe 20 minutes... pretty good for an 11 month old boy) and he will come back to it many times throughout the day!

This workshop has been a great buy for us! My son absolutely has a blast playing with it!

This was the first real toy we bought my son (other than real baby toys), he was 6 months at the time. From the moment we brought it home, he LOVED it! It comes with three balls that you drop in a slot and they come rolling out - he never got into that part even to this day but he loved and loves hitting the different parts of the workbench with the hammer and hearing the sounds and seeing the lights flash. It also has a winding crank and some other great little features that kids love. Now he is 20 months and although it's no longer one of the main toys he plays with I do see him go over and give it a whirl here and there and I still see the same excitment in his eyes just like the first time. I don't know if I'll ever be able to get rid of this toy not because my son is so attached but because I am attached to the memories of his very first toy and would hate to see it go!

My 11 month old son received this for Christmas. He loves it, and goes to it more than all the other toys he got for christmas. Easy for little fingers, entertaining, and great for practicing fine motor-- pounding, pushing, turning. Little Tykes really hit the mark on this one! Much better than the kitchen that my daughter had.

My son received this workshop at about 8 months & still plays with it all the time at 19 months. He mostly enjoys dropping the balls through the chute & cramming things into the overhead compartment. We also bought the Discover Sounds hammer that is sold as an accessory, but it was really too heavy for him to use at first. He still doesn't pay that much attention to it. The light-weight hammer that comes with the workshop is just fine. The workshop is durable also. My daughter sits on the nails, & so far it has held up well.

My one year olds twins received this for Christmas along with the Discover Sounds Kitchen. My daughter sticks her hand down the ball drop hole to pick up a ball instead of getting a ball from the side pocket. Once she has the ball in her hand, she cannot get her hand back out and hasn't figured out to drop the ball. This has happened three different times. Once, she walked off dragging the workshop behind her until I caught up with her. She was not injured, but was very upset. I sit right next to her when she is playing with the workshop, or put it up. My twins use the Discover Sounds Kitchen more often and we have not had any problems with it.

Just wanted to write a quick review. We have the older version - we purchased it for our daughter when she was 9months and that was in 2001!! And at 4 she was STILL playing with it! It has always been a favorite of hers. Sometimes we have put it away because I thought she wasn't interested in it anymore, but when she discovers it or it comes back out, she won't stop playing with it.

I actually have the previous version of this toy. I bought it at a yard sale for a few dollars and brought it home just to see how he would react. My son was probably 17 months old or so at the time. Thought it would be to young for him and was going to give it to a grandparent or somebody. Well, that did not happen! Even with a couple pieces no longer intact when I bought it (missing phone and buckets), this toy is a fixture in our room. It is a independent play toy. He sits and just puts the shapes in the designated spots, he loves to drop any ball that will fit into the tunnels and tubes. He winds down with this toy. He loves to play with his Little People stuff, puzzles, legos, etc with us and interract with others. But this is a one toy of choice when he plays by himself. Well worth keeping! Although I do not have the newer version to testify to, the older version which made few sounds is a hit as he has aged. Now the end of the summer he still plays with it. We have the larger Little Tikes workbench and he plays with that too. If you bought this at a younger age, I suggest giving it some time. I think the age Little Tikes suggests of 12 to 36 months is probably right now with 12 months even being a little young. Maybe take it away a month and then give it back with more balls! He uses the ones from the Little People construction set and from other Fisher Price toys like the ball blast that fit too. When toys don't seem to fit - don't quit! Put it away for a few weeks or so and you may be amazed at what happens.

My 8 month old son's favorite part of this toy is the hammer and the balls that come with it. Its a very cute toy, the only thing that we have to worry about is it tipping over when he tries to stand up at it. He loves it though!

My son (12 months) is very interested in his father's tools, so we thought that this would be a great toy for him. Sadly, it's kind of a glorified, upright exersaucer. It seems well made, and the tunes it plays are not annoying, but other than dropping the ball through the slot (and we have other "ball toys") and pushing or pulling the other three attachments (and we have LOTS of toys like that!) there's not much else to do. The hammer is too big and chunky, not enough like a "real hammer." In short, it's fine if you don't already have lots off bright plastic in your house, or if your child is young enough to still just want to spin and push without much effect. Otherwise, skip it!

We gave this toy to our son for Christmas when he was 7 months old and he just loved it and still does at almost a 1 year old. It was fun watching his motor skills improve while using this toy. At first he mostly banged the noise making nails and did really grasp the ball dropping, storage compartment, crank or spinning ball. Little by little he added what he could do with this toy. Soon he was able to get the balls out of the compartment and drop them in the bottom hole, then soon in the top hole. He now wails with the little plastic hammer on the nails and just loves it. We haven't had to replace the batteries yet. I highly recommend this toy for developing motor skills.