VTech Alfie Bear

The Vtech Alfie bear is a well known interactive toy that has been around for a number of years. The advertising has died down a bit in recent times but most of you can probably recall the Alfie line ?I need a hug?. He is named Alfie, I presume, because he helps young children learn the alphabet but this is not the full extent of his talent. He also teaches numbers, colours, shapes, words and plays various tunes. THE BEAR Alfie is a teddy bear with a friendly face. His two arms stick up in the air and each hand has five numbers on it. His right shows the numbers one to five, and his left has numbers six to ten. He wears red dungarees and across his ...  Read the complete review

We were a little stuck this year as to what to get for our little ones at the last minute, you know how it goes, for a brief moment it is October and the next there is less than a week before Christmas. Well browsing though the catalogue and looking at all the toys suitable for our 10 month old daughter Rebekah, I was a little disappointed with the lack of items still in stock and as it was for Christmas, we had to have a re-think. So on with the page browsing until we get to the toddler section and spotted this cute, light colour brown bear named Alfie, sporting a bright red pair of dungarees and a whole host of shapes, numbers, letters and pictures for little hands to ...  Read the complete review

My sons were given this (second hand) recently and I have to admit to being rather dubious of it at first, but it's grown on me. This is a teddy bear with a difference! As well as being fairly cuddly he contains enough educational stimuli to keep your child occupied and elarning for hours. This bear is covered in soft touch buttons, including letters of the Alphabet (hence "Alfie") all with a small picture of something beginning with that letter, numbers, colours and shapes, which when pressed are said phonetically by the bear - in an English accent! There are different functions you can chose, depending on what level your child is at and ...  Read the complete review

This is quite a cute teddy, we bought this quite a few years ago for my step daughter and she loved it. She seems to have got bored of it the older shes got and now its just sat on the shelf but will come in handy once our twins are a little older. It has some great activities and is great for learning. On Alfies tummy is the alphabet, its also in English which is great as a lot of toys these days dont pronounce the alphabet as we normally would. Every time you press a letter it will say an object that begins with that letter. The circles on the top of his chest are for different activities to be played, the first circle is the alphabet sounds so ...  Read the complete review

This must be one of the few good interactive toys that has an English accent, which is brilliant when he is rhyming off the alphabet. He is quite a cute mink coloured plush bear about 10 inches tall, stitched together in a sitting position with his hands in the air (looks a bit like he has been 'held up' at gunpoint) but only because this makes it easier to use the numbers on his paws. He is dressed in a pair of red dungarees (not removable)with yellow felt buttons which are stitched down (I imagine these stiches could be broken when the child gets older and more inquisitive). He is operated by two 1.5V size AA batteries which are placed ...  Read the complete review