The Learning Workbench from Fisher Price- Review

Fisher-Price, the well-known children's toys brand, is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year. The founders based their company on this philosophy: "Fisher-Price toys should have intrinsic play value, ingenuity, strong construction, good value and action", a philosophy that has kept Fisher-Price successful all these year. We had the opportunity to review one of their educational toys, the Learning Workbench, created for babies 6-36 months.
The Learning Workbench teaches colors, numbers, and letters, via tools that light up or make music when manipulated. In addition to capturing and holding a baby's attention, it helps to develop different skills by requiring a button to be pressed, a lever to be pulled, a slide to be be moved, etc in order to activate a jingle or flashing light. The various songs teach basic words and concepts appropriate for a baby.

Little man is nearing seven months and is able to press the "nails" to activate the lights and sounds, and even figured out how to pull the lever and spin the roller. There is a detachable hammer that can be used to also hit the various buttons, which he would learn to use as time passes (right now he mainly chews on it). It's also adorable to see him with his first "tool set", being the manly little man he is :)

I have to add this warning though...the stand that the work bench is on isn't very child-friendly. When turned over, it can actually be a hazard. Little man fell on it when it was accidentally turned over and the narrow, hard lip could have really caused damage when his head hit it- as it was, his head bend sharply away from his neck. The stand is not removable, so for this reason, while it's educational from six months, I'd wait until a child was older to play with it.

Otherwise, we find the fact that everything is attached to the bench (except the toy hammer) a good idea- no loose pieces for a baby to put in their mouth and present a choking hazard. If there stand underneath were thicker, so as not to be such a hazard, this would be an almost perfect toy for little ones. 

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