Gearhead Mom

Monday, September 17, 2007

One Giant Peg for Babykind

Posted by Missy W. @ 11:04 AM

Sy adores these! She’s had it since she was 18 months and at 25 months, she still plays with it almost every day.

It’s a yellow square pegboard with five rows of five different colored shapes. Kids can sort them by color or shape. Or, uh, totally randomly like almost all of the toddlers I know. One row of flower shaped pegs has little plastic balls in them so they make noise when you shake them or spin them. Sy and her friends usually go for these pegs first. She can put the little pegs on her fingers like olives, which she finds terribly amusing. The pegs, not olives. No, olives are not at all amusing to her. Sy likes to do the mambo (thanks for that, Dora the Explorer and the “Daisy, La Quiceanera” episode) and takes them and runs down the hall shaking them yelling MAH-BO! It’s a delight for my tired eyes.

Building towers is her favorite thing to do with this toy. Because they are pegs, they stack really easily and Sy can stack a tower 14 high. The pegs start to lean but don’t fall over. A leaning tower of Pisa pegs if you will.

My girl is very tidy so the pieces usually tend to turn up or never leave the peg board. Her pals come by and start flinging them behind the sofa, atop the TV, under the fridge. So for a compulsive person like me who really likes to put away toys every hour, it’s a challenge. In a good way. No, not really. It makes me crazy and I spend a lot of nap-time searching for the missing red square. Sometimes I put the toy up high when her friends come to play since it makes both of us itch to see the pieces flung asunder.

A word to the wise, it hurts really badly when you are walking down the hall at night and step on that missing red square.

Snapshot:
• Great product for your detail oriented toddler.
• It is a fun way to practice sorting by color or shape.
• The board’s many pieces are hard to keep track of.
• If you cringe at pieces flying everywhere, it’s probably not the best toy for your house!

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