Fisher-Price Brilliant Basics Baby’s First Blocks
- Baby can sort and stack and learn to identify and match shapes
- Filling the bucket with blocks, dumping them out, and starting over is great for eye-hand coordination and other early skills
- Ten bright blocks are ready for baby to drop into the open bucket or through the shape-sorting lid
- Learning Blocks
- Interactive learning aid
Product DescriptionTen bright blocks are ready for baby to drop into the open bucket or through the shape-sorting lid. Baby will love filling the bucket with blocks, dumping them out, then starting over again. Great for eye-hand coordination and other early skills. Then baby can move on to sorting and stacking and learning about identifying and matching shapes. Includes plastic shape-sorting box with take-anywhere handle and ten colorful blocks.
Price: $7.99
Rating: 4.0
it’s an ok toy, but my son just rather throw around the small shapes then put them in the box. not really worth the money
Rating: 3 / 5
I don’t like it. It’s small and the lid comes off way to easy. I know that babies play with it and they should be able to get their shape blocks back out but in the process of her trying to put the shapes in there she knocks the top off.
I’m looking for a better shape sorter.
Rating: 3 / 5
I wish I had paid more attention to the reviewers who mentioned that the lid does not stay on. I have 14-month old twins and both enjoy taking the shapes out and occassionally putting them back in, but it is extremely difficult to get them to use the lid. It seems as if the lid almost just balances on top, there is no effort required to take it off. Sometimes, I can get them to try the sorter for one or two shapes, but then they immediately pull the lid off to take the shape(s) back out. I love watching them when they actually use the sorter, it is great to see their little hands trying to manipulate the shapes, but those moments are few and far between. They like to play with the shapes and box, but it doesn’t serve its purpose in my opinion. If only they had made it with a lid that you could somehow fasten in place.
Rating: 3 / 5
This was given to my 15 month old for Christmas, and he likes it a lot. He can get some of the shapes in and is still working on figuring out the others. He is fascinated by putting other toys in the bucket, and taking them out, and putting them in, and so on. It seems very durable, and I appreciate the fact that it doesn’t make annoying and useless noise like so many children’s toys do. The reason I didn’t give it quite five stars is because he enjoys it a lot but doesn’t LOVE it.
Rating: 4 / 5
There isn’t much to say about a shape sorter – they are (in general) great for young toddlers. It’s one of the better early brain development toys, and any “game” where the goal is to put all the pieces away is something worth embracing.
That being said, most shape sorters aren’t going to appear much different, so there is generally going to be one or two things that differ from one to the other. The Fisher Price model here has a rectangular base which stays firm, and comes with a carrying handle (which is nice, I guess. ) The shape blocks have a small hole in the middle to make it a little less of a choking hazard.
However the major flaw with the product is the top of the sorter. It is easily removable, even by accident. Just pulling up on the top through the holes can pull off the top, eliminating any of the “challenge” of putting the blocks through the holes. I guess you could say the real brain development of this toy is whether they can figure out how easy it is to just remove the top.
I would think most toddlers don’t want to take the cheap way out, so if you can find this cheap enough here (or need the immediate gratification of finding it in a brick & mortar store) then it’s not a horrible pick, but if you’re looking for a shower gift, I’d highly recommend the Tolo Rolling Shape Sorter instead. For a few dollars more, you get a much better product with locking tops (both sides) and rattling blocks.
Rating: 3 / 5