Fisher-Price Brilliant Basics Baby’s First Blocks
Fisher-Price Brilliant Basics Baby’s First Blocks
Fisher-Price Brilliant Basics Baby’s First Blocks Reviews
My 4 month old daughter likes this toy, not so much for the sorting function yet, but because the blocks are easy to handle and she can carry/flip/throw the bucket around. I agree with some of the other reviewers about the lid not snapping on. Just to make it clear, when an adult is carefully carrying this by the handle, the lid can pop off. Every time I show her how a block won’t fit in the wrong hole and then put it in the right one, she tries to interrupt me by taking off the lid to make it easier. Funny at first, but I wonder if this will delay it’s true functionality until she’s old enough to value the ‘puzzle’ aspect. Overall though, it’s durable, easy to clean, and she seems to really like it.
My 15 month old son has had this toy for about 4 months and he just loves it. After about of week of working with him, he’s learned what shapes go where, and when it’s time to clean up his playroom each night, he always puts his blocks back in the bin one at a time through their proper holes.
My only complaint is the lid. Like many people before me have said, it doesn’t snap on, it just kinda sits on top of the bin. If I don’t replace the top after he’s dumped out all the blocks, then he loses interest and moves on. Overall, it’s a sturdy, simple toy for teaching kids their shapes and we’re very pleased with it
My son received this toy as a gift for his 6-month birthday. At the time, I remember hearing about how some plastic toys (often made in China) contain harmful chemicals that are known to cause cancer and feeling concerned that this toy might be one of them. I didn’t do anything for awhile, seeing how my son enjoyed playing with the toy and thinking (stupidly) that if this toy were truly harmful, it wouldn’t be sold in the U.S.
One day, I came across this toy on Amazon and noticed the warning to CA residents under “Product Details.” I couldn’t believe it when I read this toy is made with harmful chemicals known to “cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm.” I bet a lot of people who are giving this toy 5 stars are not aware of the warning.
As for my son’s reaction to the toy, he liked to bang the pieces together and put them in his mouth, but he never bothered to try to sort the shapes since the top doesn’t stay in place, as others have mentioned. My son always removed the top and took out all of the pieces, no matter how many times I showed him how to sort the shapes with the top in place. Talk about poor design! I should have given it 1 star for the “educational” rating in hindsight, but I figured that theoretically it could be of some value if a child didn’t remove the top. Also, Amazon wouldn’t let me go back and change my ratings.
I just got another shape sorter for him from Amazon (the Tolo Rolling Shape Sorter), and within minutes he tried to put the shapes in the slots because he couldn’t remove either the top or the bottom of the unit. Now that’s an educational toy!
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