I bought this last Christmas when my son was 9 months old, as the product says it is for 9 months upwards. You put the 5 coloured balls in the top of the Octopus and they fall down in to one of the 5 coloured shoes below. You have to guess which one the ball has gone in to. It has a number or colour mode and has a button for playing a few different tunes. Although this says 9 months my son really did not grasp the concept of putting balls in the top and lifting the different shoes up to find them. He used to just put the balls in them get confused as they didn't re-appear. In the end we just removed the shoes so he could play with it. We moved house and I put it away for a few months and recently got it back out, and now he loves it and has great fun peeking under all of the shoes and bopping along to the music. Other friends with similar ages babies did not understand how this worked either so although it is a great toy now I would say it is far more suited to 12+ months.