Musical Stack & Play (6m+) - Musical Toys at KIDS LAND

Long-term use.
A multi-sensory experience

The Musical Stack & Play?offers a multi-sensory experience, and integrates feedback in the form of lights, sound and textures to stimulate baby's sense of hearing, vision, and touch all at once.

Fine Motor Development
As baby shakes the four balls, or bangs them together, there is a soft, pleasant rattling sound that helps develop coordination between both hands. This continues as baby learns to insert the balls into the funnel-shaped elephant’s head or later on directly into the cone, voluntarily release an object, loop the rings on the cone, and open and close the velcro-equipped rings and the door on the toy's base.

Object Permanence
When the balls "disappear" through the opening at the top, an inviting game of peek-a-boo teaches baby that once an object "disappears" it can be found again and again.

Cognitive Skills
The Musical Stack & Play?offers an enticing way to learn cause and effect, as each movement results in a cascade of sounds and lights. The variety of parts invites endless play possibilities, developing creativity and imagination.

EQ
The appealing elephant figure enables a heightened awareness of body image ?the basis of self-awareness ?as baby learns and identifies the parts of the face and body, and how they are arranged.

6-9m
His understanding of the world deepens and increases his desire to learn about the logic behind the things he sees, hears and feels. He turns into a real “researcher? He holds things, shakes them, squeezes, pulls, and squashes. He can now apply the things he’s learned previously to new situations. After he learns that pushing a button will cause some sort of result, he will know how to push a different new button, and will also expect a result. He starts testing various actions and expects the results even before they happen, for example if you’re about to tickle him, he will start laughing even before you start. He can now recall something that is not in front of him, that he doesn’t see, and not just recall something familiar that he recognizes. For example, he can “see?his mother’s face (in his mind’s eye), even when she is not present.

9-12m
In his effort to understand things, baby will “experiment?-- he gathers information, and analyzes the results. For example, he will drop his rattle to answer the question: will the rattle make a sound when it lands on the floor? He remembers and learns from previous experience: for instance, if last time his way to a certain toy was blocked, he will try a different route this time. He starts to understand the relationship between something which is done in one place, but results in something somewhere else -- like the TV remote. While “cruising?his environment, he starts comprehending spatial relationships. He learns to estimate distances and to understand concepts such as in front and behind (the chair is in front of or behind the couch) or up and down. His memory pertaining to events develops, and at about one year will be able to retain the memory of incidents or events that happened for about 8 months. His ability to imitate improves and he can imitate clapping, and will even “talk on the phone.

12-18m
The toddler continues exploring and experimenting, developing his cognitive skills: he will drop the balls one by one into the elephant’s head to see what kind of feedback they will elicit (different sounds and lights). He develops his hand-eye coordination by dropping the balls into the top opening of the cone without the elephant’s head, by threading the rings onto the cone, and by opening and closing the door at the base of the cone.

18-36m
Now is the time the toddler will start enjoying the combination of imagination and creativity: He will take the elephant apart in different ways, will drop the balls into the cone, with our without the rings on the cone, just to see if it will change the results. He will find many different and creative ways of playing.