Activity Toy Reviews

Santa brought this for my 3 and 6 year olds for Christmas. Although they both enjoy playing it, the age for it should be lowered. It is not at all challenging for my 6 year old. I wonder now if ANY of the 6-8 games will be a challenge for my oldest. It's great for the 5 and under kids, but I will be have to upgrade to Leapster L-max or something for my oldest next Christmas.

If you've got a "Princess", then she's gotta have it!

I purchased the v smile system as well as this game and my children
love it. They have played it about every day since Christmas. They are learning as well as having fun. It is a excellent choice.

Not what I thought it would be..once you open up the doors that are unlock that is it game over..not hard to do..the only thing I can say if you can not spell well it might be ok if you can spell really well I would not buy this game.

It makes spelling a lot more fun.
Great job!

My son has been a spiderman nut now for over five years so this game is one he really enjoys.

It's not challenging enough though for the grade suggested on the packaging. He is almost through the levels and has only had it since the New Year. He also wishes it had math since that is his favorite subject.

Received the Get-up Clippity Clop Horse two days before date stated by Amazon so was highly thrilled and excited. Excitement was short-lived when the 'press to activate' button on horse's head didn't work. The problem was the product is shipped with the batteries activated (presumably so potential customers in stores can hear the snorting and neighing before buying the product. After replacing the three dead AAA batteries, the horse neighed and snorted as advertized. The batteries in the horse's hooves are a different story. They were sent activated also (turned on rather than off). I don't understand this because no potential customer can hear the clippity clop without tearing the container apart to access the hooves. No amount of slapping the shoes on a floor activated any sound except the slapping on the floor. I hope my three-year-old granddaughter has better luck since I would certainly hate to replace these six-cell batteries before a clippity clop is heard. May I suggest that the batteries in an online shipment be deactivated or packaged separately insuring fresh rather than totally dead ones. Leaving them activated as done would seem to promote corrosion as well as disappointment. (But....perhaps I am beating a dead horse in my review....no pun intended.......) If replacing the batteries make the hooves work also, it will probably be worth it since my granddaughter is very special to me. A last comment......I have found no store anywhere in the Raleigh, N.C. area that carries the Big Boing in stock. I had no choice but to order it online. If that is the only way to obtain one of these noise makers then why activate the batteries if they can't be tried out in a store. Walmart, Target, and ToysRUs only offer them online....WHY?

My little daughter loves horses. When I saw this item on Amazon's features I bought it. It is a fun toy that two months later she still plays with. My only complaint is that the feet stopped making sounds after the first day of use. I changed the batteries (which are round photo-type batteries) but it did not help. It looks to me as though the feet can't take the beating of a four year old. Other than that it is a good product.

very cute. Daughter loves it. The sound in the hooves do not always work.

My son is reading at a 3rd grade level and loves being read to but doesnt care much for reading on his own. He has really enjoyed this book. Certain passages are read aloud and then the child must read on his own. You can click on any words you have trouble with to find out what the word is and if you click again you get a definition of the word, which is a great way to build vocabulary. It is a chapter book and the material is a bit on the younger side. The story is engaging enough that my son wanted to find out what happened next.
I would recommend it for 2nd graders that are ahead in reading to 4th graders that are behind.
I do wish Quantum would come out with some more advanced chapter books like the Lemony Snicket series.

This one is very poor compared to the farmer version. Elmo is hard to understand and squeeky. My kids mimic the farmer version animal sounds but not the elmo one.

I have a 5 year old and 2 year old. This product has brought my husband and I moments of sanity and peace(and quiet).

My daughter was 17 months old when we purchased this tent and she loves it! Putting it together and taking it down is extremely easy, so we have had it both outdoors and even indoors on occasion. Also, it folds up very small and is easy to store when you aren't using it. She drags her toys in and out of it and has the best time!

We ordered this for our daughter who is almost 2 for Christmas. It was easy to set up, although I didn't realize how much room it would take up! It's big enough for an adult and a child, and an adult can even fit through the tunnel. Our cats love to play in it, too!

I bought this for my 2-year-old and he likes it a lot (I keep the markers in a safe place, though....markers and 2-year-olds are a dangerous combination). I especially like the reverse side of the workspace; you can put paper over it and lightly rub the crayon to see images come through. I like it as much as he does. I think it will be used for a long time.

The only thing I don't like is the price....I got it on clearance. I don't think it's worth the full price.

We got this for my son for Christmas (We ended up giving it to him early) He hasn't stopped playing with it since.. A great toy. In fact I ordered another.

My son got this for his 4th birthday. He is very big on construction vehicles and I thought it was a good alternative to the old Colorforms sets that we had as kids. He loved it! But since he is extremely active, he could not really sit still to make pictures on the frame. He liked the magnetic board for a little while, then he simply pushed the magets around the floor like they were real vehicles instead of magnetic cut-outs. Most of the magnets now reside on our refrigerator - which is just fine with him!

I purchased @ least 5 different titles of the magnetic playsets - create a scene playsets. Each one has given my children hours of imaginative and creative enjoyment. Without a doubt many of them are thematic in nature with pleasant graphic content. [...]