Enabling Environments: Tried and tested - First fun

BRUIN LIGHTS AND SOUNDS ACTIVITY CUBE

BABIES 'R' US

AGE RANGE: Six months plus

PRICE: £12.99

CONTACT: 0800 1387777

www.babiesrus.co.uk

This is a multi-activity play cube designed to help a small child develop motor skills and co-ordination. It features a portable phone with lights and sounds and an eight-piece shape sorter with lights and sounds rewards. The cube has rounded corners and a carry handle. It requires 5 AA batteries, not supplied.

Tested by Marigold Day Nursery, Heswall, The Wirral

'We have had shape sorters that our young children haven't found particularly interesting, but this one is brilliant! Its success is down to the music and the coloured lights, which really encouraged the children to make an effort to fit the shapes into the corresponding holes. It's very sturdy and the pieces are just the right size for young ones to handle. We used the toy with a child with Down's syndrome, who found it very appealing. He found the pieces easy to grip and loved the music. We kept it on a shelf accessible to the children and invariably one of them would go straight for it when they arrived at nursery. A big hit with our babies and very good value for money.'