LAMAZE - My First Fishbowl Toy, Capture Babys Curiosity with Sea Creatures to Rattle, Squeak and Collect with Colorful Patterns, Interesting Textures and Unique Sounds, 6 Months and Older

I now see that Amazon has changed the display picture for this toy. I was hoping for the fishbowl that WAS displayed with water and little floating creatures in the sides of the bowl, but when I got it for my son at Christmas, I was very dissapointed. I returned it after trying to figure out how to through this website, and asked for the one that was on the box, and they sent me the exact same fishbowl! I gave it away as a gift for a friend. This toy has totally turned me off of Lamaze toys all together, which is a shame, cause they are cute!

Similar to the Lamaze Rainbow Stacking Rings, a couple of the fishbowl creatures are poorly made and coming apart. Given how they are put together it makes it very hard for them to be restitched. It makes me very nervous around my 6 month old son as would not want him to choke on the stuffing. I have had to remove a few of the elements to make it safe. For a company that produces babies toys, it really it not acceptable.

I bought this toy for my new baby because I was afraid that my 3 year old daughter would claim all of the existing baby toys as hers. As it turns out, I was right. Now when she asks, Mommy, was this my toy when I was a baby? I can honestly answer, no. This way the toy can actually stay in the hands of the baby. I do find shopping for infant toys a bit overwhelming. There are skills the toys are supposed to teach, but rarely do they just promise fun. For my 6 month old I didnt want something that was going to help her get into an Ivy League school. I just wanted something that she would play with. And babies, fickle creatures that they are, can be completely unpredictable when it comes to finding something to hold their interest. At 6 months of age, my baby had zero interest in this toy. Id shake the fish, shed smile and then turn away. Now that shes 9 months shes showing a bit more interest. The sorting is not really sorting in the traditional sense of putting the square object through the square hole. Its more pre-sorting. Put the fish in the bowl and take them out. No worries about which shape to shove the item through or having fine enough motor skills to get there. The fishbowl is made of a well padded fabric base with cardboard in the bottom to make it stand, narrow sides made of fabric, and a fabric rim. The wide sides are made of plastic. Floating in the water are several sea creatures. The creatures are all smiling. Clearly they have no clue about what babies do to toys. The stiff sides coupled with the soft fabric sides cause the fishbowl to collapse closed to the point where there is no way that my baby can put the sea creature toys into the bowl. Taking them out is no problem at all. The collapsing bowl isnt so much a problem for my baby because the preschooler has claimed the fishbowl as her purse and she carries it around with all of her toy cars inside. Hmm...dont want the baby pulling those out! The included plush sea creatures are cute and my daughter plays with all of them. The starfish rattle is grasped by two of his pointy legs and one of his five legs or his happy face are stuffed into the babys mouth for some serious sucking and slobbering. (Dont call the authorities, the baby is the one doing the stuffing!) Starfish comes out of babys mouth with the same silly grin he had when he went in. His face has a nice satiny texture. The fish rattle has two side fins, a dorsal fin, and a tail that are all grasp-worthy. His face ends up with the majority of baby slobber. He has a soft, satiny face and his rattle has a slight bell sound to it. The terry cloth clam squeaker is a bit bulky for baby to grab, but luckily his shell flares out a bit around his face giving him two handles for grabbing. We havent quite figured out the best way to suck on this one, so mostly his backside gets a good gumming. Crinkle crab is, perhaps, the easiest to chew. The claws on his sides are easy to grab and when you chew on him he makes an awesome crinkling sound. The crinkliness makes him a bit easier to chew and he the feedback on your chewing is quite fun. I put all kinds of baby friendly toys out for the 9 month old, but she will crawl across the room to find the pebble that got tracked into the house or the tiny Barbie shoe that the 3 year old dropped. She does occasionally select one of the sea creatures on her own for an afternoon snack. And I hope that as she continues to grow that she will use this toy for its intended purpose--learning to put her things away!

Tried to use this with multiple children when I worked in early intervention and then, because I owned it, introduced it to my twin grandkids. Have yet to find a child who played with it much. A plastic coffee can with teething toys, rattles, baby jar lids, etc. will work as well.

My son loved playing with each part separately, except for the starfish. He still has a hard time trying to grasp its awkwardly large shape at 9 months old. He seemed most fascinated by the bowl. His favorite parts are the crab and the oyster. He likes crinkling the crab & chews on the oyster. All of the fish can go in the wash (laundry) without any problems, but the bowl is harder to clean. I like that the fabrics are vibrant. The fish are great toys for the car. This was best when our son was around 6 months old. He seems more interested in harder wooden or plastic toys right now, but he still occasionally goes back to this.

This is a must.

Absolute waste of money. Open it and its lost. My little one wasnt even interested. Wouldnt even look at it.

Very well made and cute toy! My son loved this when he was 6-10 months old!

She plays with the fish constantly and has more fun pulling the fish out of the bowl and sticking her hands and feet in the bowl. And the bowl is narrow enough that she canNOT stick her head in. LOVE LOVE LOVE Lamaze plush toys.

My one year olds favorite toy!