A couple of months ago, I reviewed TwinkleTup, Tupperware's latest range of innovative products for children and toddlers and recently, I had the opportunity to review a new product from Tupperware again, and since I'm into reviewing educational products for my kiddos, of course I say yes!
Description from the product page:
"Here's a toy that grows with a child, from infants to pre-schoolers. Not only is it fun and colorful, the Shape-O-Toy is a classic shape-sorter, rattle and counting toy which helps toddlers to identify shapes, develop coordination and dexterity, as well as counting and number recognition."
The moment I took the Shape-O-Toy out of its box, I was reminded of a similar childhood toy I used to play with. It took me a couple of minutes to figure out how to take out the shapes inside the Shape-O-Toy as I didn't see any instructions on this. Of course, not wanting to appear like a klutz to our kiddos, I examine it all over and finally figured out that I need to pull apart the two handles on both opposites sides and it will open up in the middle and the shapes inside will drop out. Ahhhh.... easy peasy! What a creative idea!
Next, I tried getting our kiddos to play with the Shape-O-Toy WITHOUT even telling them what to do! Heh, evil mummy right? Just testing our kiddos to see whether they are smart enough or not hahaha...
Our 4.5 years old boy did not show much interest in the toy initially and went off to continue playing his Legos. Only after seeing his sister playing happily with the Shape-O-Toy that he jumped in and played with it too!
Our 2 years old girl showed interests and soon began to take one of the shape block and tried to stuff it into the Shape-O-Toy. Remember, I did not even tell her what to do! You can click at this link to view a video clip of our 2 years old Alyson playing with Tupperware's Shape-O-Toy game.
It doesn't take long for Benjamin to match all the shapes correctly though I will test him again in future to see whether he can solve it again faster and faster hehehe... as for Alyson, it is fun seeing her happy face as she matches the shapes correctly and though she takes time to match the shapes, I definitely think the Shape O Toy has great potential as a teaching tool and also as a play toy for her.
What I like with the Shape-O-Toy is it allows our kiddos to sharpen their problem solving skills. I like that our kiddos have to use their own mind to determine how to slot the puzzle blocks according to its matching shapes.
I especially like the vibrant colors used and upon closer inspection on the shape blocks, you can notice one side of the shape has a number of dots and if you see the opposite sides of the shapes, you can see the number representing the dots. Nice! I can use this to teach our kiddos counting and number recognition on top of teaching them about the different shapes.
Last but not least, I feel at ease knowing our kiddos are playing with toys made from safe, non-toxic, Tupperware food grade materials.
In summary, the Shape-O-Toy is a fun and yet educational toy.
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I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with the products by Tupperware in order to facilitate my review. All opinions expressed in this post are my own. Please do your own research when purchasing products, as your opinions may differ from mine.
