Baby Einstein Color Kaleidoscope

This is a great toy and teaches names of colors in three languages as well as teaches how two colors combined make a single color (ie red and yellow make orange).

A fun way to learn your colors...in English and Spanish. I like it because it can grow with the child. At first a child can learn the primary colors, then can learn how colors combine to make new ones. I love that it is bilingual.

My husband and I got this for our 3 month old for Christmas and he loves it! The handles are made so he can get his chubby little hands wrapped around them and press the buttons. Any time he cries, we turn it on, and he stops immediately to look at the lights and grab ahold of it. Recently, we took a plane ride and took this toy with us...and the passengers on the plane were happy because it kept him quite without blaring the music (thanks to the volume settings). I would definitely recommend this to any parent whose baby is interested in lights.

This product is by no means a kaleidoscope which is very disappointing, given the product name. We bought this for our 6 month old for Christmas. He is now seven months old and not any more interested in it today than he was at Christmas. The music is Baby Einstein's old standbys... if you have more than one Baby Einstein product, you will likely not need this one. It's just more of the same... it lights up & plays the same songs as the other Einstein products. Our son much prefers the hand held "radio" by Baby Einstein.

If you are looking for something for a young infant that is still exploring. I bought this for my ten month old and she likes the music but she is just too old for it. All it does it says the colors and lights up with different tunes. I thought it was a actual kaleidoscope but it wasn't. I think I wasted my money on this product. Baby Einstein is over rated. If you want a good product buy Fisher Price...never unsatisfied.

I got this toy thinking that this was a kaleidoscope of some kind. Its not. Disappointing for me, but my 7 month old son loves it. It plays music, lights up says the different colors in 3 languages. He likes to play with it and he loves the fact he can grab it and throw it around.

Now the picture is deceiving. The top light looks like 1/2 of a large golf ball. There is no opening or whatever that looks like in the picture. The shiny center piece is just a sticker with some reflective material. In the picture it looks fun. It isn't. If I would have seen this product before I bought it, I would have passed on it and got something else.

The toy is nice, and the baby loves it. Not his favorite but responds to it when its on or he sees it. It seems to be constructed well other than some of the words are hard to understand. Granted its a digital recording, but its still a little garbled; even at the lower setting.

I don't think it is worth 14.99. I see now a few days after I got it, the price went down. Go figure. If this product was cheaper I would say why not add it to the arsenal of toys, but for 15.00 there are better and products that are way more fun.

* 3-6 months: Grasp handles to activate lights & melodies to develop eye tracking plus cause & effect learning
* 6-12 months: Grasp a handle to see coordinating color light in the dome & hear the color in English, Spanish & French to encourage language development
* 12 months+: Grasp two handles to hear the secondary color created when the two corresponding colors mix, plus see a light show with melodies
* Music mode available for youngest babies
* 3 months & up