Average Customer Review:
 ( 17 customer reviews )
Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers.
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
25 of 25 found the following review helpful:
 Miracle pounder is a hit!Sep 04, 2008
By M. Rousseau
Okay, so pardon the above pun, but my son has loved the pounder since 6mo of age. We look for quality toys from SAFE companies. Plan Toys provides safe toys free from BPA, phthalates, or lead paint. The balls are stained, not painted, so they won't ever chip! We also look for toys that will grow with our child.
As an infant, he liked to mouth/teeth on the balls and mallet. When he started crawling, he had TONS of fun crawling after the balls on our hardwood floors. They were great crawling incentives. Then, he worked on dumping things out, and now, at 9.5 months, he is working on putting the balls back in. I know the Mallet will eventually double as a hammer for work projects, and someday, it will be great for teaching color sorting/cause and effect and coordination/motor skills. It will be a long time, I think, until he is able to use it for it's intended use. Before they are able to use the mallet to move the balls, the child can press the balls down to make the next one pop up.
It's wonderful! (And the balls fit other Plan ball toys, too.)
28 of 31 found the following review helpful:
 More fun as a projectile...Sep 06, 2007
By Sapere Aude
I loved the idea of this toy, so I got this for my toddler. I though that the balls were contained withint the unit, so he could just keep pounding them down, not take them out. In reality the toy was hardly used because my children were mostly interested in throwing the balls around, or hitting other things with the hammer, since the balls are heavy wooden balls, that just wasn't going to work for us. This one ended up in the yard sale 3 months after christmas.
15 of 16 found the following review helpful:
Simple Fun Toy Has Been a Hit for UsJan 12, 2007
By Jennifer Juday
"Working Mom & Cook"
We bought the MIRACLE POUNDING TOY for my 17 month old son. He has gotten several months of enjoyment out of it.
The colorful wooden balls get taken out and played with all over the house. He also sits and plays with it more as designed, pushing a ball into one opening and watching another ball get pushed out the lower opening.
Yoy may or may not want to have the hammer out. We find that the MIRACLE POUNDING TOY is enjoyed without it, and so currently have retired the hammer (so as to avoid the "pound on this not that" discussion).
Thumbs up for this simple, colorful, durable, interesting toy!
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Great Wooden Pounding ToyMar 21, 2011
By Amanda L. Davis
I wanted a wooden pounding toy to teach hand-eye coordination and cause and effect to my baby, and this is the perfect one. I like that another ball is always ready to be pounded down so that the play can be continuous. I also like it because there are no balls to chase after. They stay in the toy instead of being pounded down, falling out, and rolling around everywhere. This toy is also made very well like other toys by this company.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Good for an older kidApr 27, 2010
By N. Millan
My son is 15 months and loves to pound on things and loves balls. Perfect. However, I misjudged his motor skills. This toy is just a little too advanced for him at this stage. He gets the pounding on things part of it, but not the pound on this ball and another one pops out part. The balls are loose, so he prefers to just fling them around. Hence, the toy has been put away for 6 months, and then we'll try again.
My husband and I, however, had a lot of fun with it. It's like a mini Whack a Mole. ;) And Plan Toys in general rocks. Solid construction. Beautiful design.
See all 17 customer reviews on Amazon.com
|
based on 17 reviews
