Product Description: The Bright Starts Baby's Play Place is a cheerful play space that adapts to your growing baby¿s needs and provides endless ways to play. The oversized-46¿x38¿, quilted play mat quickly folds to create an engaging environment with soft, sturdy side walls. The walls easily reconfigure to customize the play experience for a variety of developmental phases- from newborn and tummy time to crawling and sitting. Baby¿s Play Place comes with seven toys and grows along with your baby. It features with a plush bee toy plays with eight long play melodies and nature sounds for 25 minutes, a plush caterpillar, and an extra large mirror, a water-filled bee teether, two large bug links, and a ring rattle.
One of our must-have's! This playmat is a staple in our daily rotation. We live in an apartment & space is an issue so we didn't register for a lot of toys. However, I really wanted a playmat & researched a lot of different ones. This had gotten good reviews on another site & I'm glad we got it. We've been putting our now 3 month old daughter in it since she was just a couple of weeks old. She loved looking at the pictures on the side walls & the crinkling sounds of the leaves on the floor of the mat. Now that she's older, she focuses more on batting the overhead toys with her hands & feet & looking in the mirror. We actually don't even keep the musical bee in the playmat, but instead take it with us in the car. As any parent can appreciate, its songs are not really all that "offensive" (read: annoying) to parental ears. True, it does go on for a very long time. Just when you think it's done, it'll start with another song, but they're actually quite catchy & I've found myself whistling them even when it's off. Sometimes this play mat is the only thing that will quiet her when she's fussy & doesn't want to be held. It's a saving grace when I want to jump on the computer, start dinner, or just get some "me time". She can be in here up to a half hour which this Mom always appreciates especially since my hubby works 2 jobs & isn't always around to relieve me. I've even put her Boppy & her Bumbo in there just so she has a different point of view & she's loved the change of scenery.
My only con & the only reason why I didn't give it the full 5 stars is that I wish it'd come with more toys to interchange. My daughter has grown quite bored of all the standard toys that come with it. I've bought some new ones & am constantly trying to switch them out to keep her entertained. The orange bee teether is pointless (at least till she starts teething). The color isn't all that bright & she's had zero interest in it. I would've rather they included something else.
All in all, this is a terrific playmat & compared to other pricier models, a great value. The pictures on this site don't actually do it justice. The colors are much brighter & more vivid in real life.
Worth every penny I paid! My new Grandson is a preemie, born 11 weeks early and now at 10 weeks he is 8lbs 8ozs and is starting to notice all the bright colors and listen to the music in his Bright Starts Play Place Mat. I think its a great product and I love the way the sides can be used up or down. Would suggest this product for all new babies, its well made also. Easy to wipe clean.
Good play mat, even for newborns This is a great, high quality mat. I started putting my newborn in this mat at 1 week old, and he enjoyed it even when he was that young. There are a lot of pictures on the fold up sides that he looks at (in black and white and bright colors) and he kicks the crinkly sections of the mat. As he is getting older, he is looking in the mirror and hitting the toys overhead. I think we'll continue to get a lot of use out of this mat.
Baby Play Mat.. Its good as a "Baby Play Mat". I dont know why its so pricey though!! I mean its still a MAT!
Kept her attention so I could get things done!!! I love this gym because it keeps her attention for at least 15 minutes. That's long enough for me to get dinner started, do a 15 minute pickup around the house or take a shower. All things I have trouble doing without occupying my 4 month old. I set one of the rattling toys on the side panel and she loves moving that with her hand. The light up/musical ladybug is a big hit too! I bought mine at a consignment shop for half the price, in the package and it looks like new!
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