ELC Animal Puzzle Cubes

My little boy loves this toy and has played with it off and on for the last 6 months. It has two play modes one for younger babies, where you put the cube in and push down to hear the name of the animal, and one for older babies where you have to find the animal. The animals themselves are well chosen, recognisable favourites, divided across the cubes into farm animals, pets, sea creatures, jungle animals and insects. It works by each animal having different cut outs along the cube which depress points in the bottom of the base to trigger the animal name. Here in lies it's fault. If you do not press the cube squarely on the top it gives you the name of ...  Read the complete review

Another little winner from the Early Learning Centre. My son received this a a gift when he was 10 months old although the ELC recommendation is 12-36 months. It comes packaged in a cardboard box with a plastic window, as usual it had a bit too much packaging but most of it was cardboard and therefore recyclable. The toy comprises of five cubes with an animal on each of the cube's sides and an audio base. The cubes each have a theme, one is insects (caterpillar, spider etc), another is sealife (dolphin, whale etc), there is a farmyard (cow, hen) and a safari theme (lion, elephant) and lastly "usual" pets (cat, hamster). ...  Read the complete review