It was a car boot Sunday and I walked between stalls, with the grass tickling through my flip flops. M&M was in the sling on my front playing with my jewellery and approximately six pounds in change was burning a hole in my pocket. Antique coins? A collection of postcards? Second hand underwear? No. Amongst all the tat, a large and colourful toy caught my eye. It was a tree, with dense plastic foliage and a sturdy plastic trunk, and a yellow and blue helter skelter swirling around the outside. A squirrel nestled in the trunk and chunky piano keys ran along the bottom, next to a yellow flipper designed to catapult balls. This was something a bit special ...  Read the complete review

For my daughters first birthday I was struggling to think of a gift when my niece told me she was having a sort out of a few toys and had some things that had been popular with her children at that age. I had a sort through the things that she was selling and chose the Vtech Discovery Tree. The Discovery tree is made of bright colourful plastic and is obviously shaped and coloured to resemble a tree. There are some colourful piano style keys on the base and buttoins to oress on the top of the tree. Running through the tree is a helter skelter type slide and the Discovery Tree comes with six balls. The balls are made of hard plastic in different colours and ...  Read the complete review

As usual when it comes to my childrens birthdays numerous members of the family have no ideas and give me the money to find some presents, I found this discovery tree for my eldest first birthday 3 years ago and at the time it cost £25 and seems to be available for the same price now which did surprise me. The tree is made by Vtech which I personally feel is a very good make and very educational so that gave me confidence immediately, the tree is aimed at children from 3 years and up but my eldest had no problems playing with this and neither does my youngest who is 11 months. The tree is made of hard plastic and is very sturdy and not a surprise ...  Read the complete review

I was quite surprised to see the reccomended age for this toy is 3 years +. I can see nothing in it that might pose a hazard to younger children and I have always considered this more of a baby toy. Itw as bought for my oldest before his first birthday and both of my sons would sit and play happily on the floor with this well before their first birthday. The toy is meant to be educational, teaching things like colours, numbers and music. I personally think the educational aspects are a tad over rated, but then I've never been much for electronic gadgets to teach babies the basics anyway, and by the manufacturers reccomended age, children would know most of ...  Read the complete review

Now that I was in control of a lively 10 month old baby two days a week, I thought I should start to build a small collection of toys that I could keep in a basket in a corner of the room, for when he came over. Although his mum brought some bits from home it was clear that he was getting bored with these. In the village where I live we have a lovely charity shop that sells books and toys, so one day as I was strolling past I noticed on the table this very bright colourful treehouse. It had all the balls in tact ( five in different colours red, blue, green,orange and yellow) all with little faces on them. The next test was to see if it actually worked, ...  Read the complete review