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Infantino Happy Hippo Travel Gym
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| List Price: | $29.99 |
| Price: | $19.69 |
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Product Description
The Infantino Happy Hippo Gym features fun sounds and friendly characters on a soft playmat. The plush playmat and activity bar keep your curious baby entertained for hours with colorful sights, delightful sounds and fun-to-touch textures. Detachable toy bar becomes an engaging crib activity center. Zips together for easy travel. Measures 18"H x 18"W x 36"L.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #4150 in Baby Product
- Color: Happy Hippo
- Brand: Infantino
- Model: 150-538
- Released on: 2007-01-12
- Dimensions: 6.00" h x 18.00" w x 22.00" l, 4.36 pounds
Features
- Infantino Happy Hippo Gym features fun sounds and colorful characters on a soft play mat
- Plush play mat and activity bar entertains baby through sight, touch and sound
- Detachable toy bar becomes a great crib activity center
- Zips together for easy travel
- Suggested age range: 0 to 6 months
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Hands-On Review
With the Infantino Happy Hippo Gym, your baby has a fun, captivating outlet for learning, exploring, and developing his senses and coordination. From the moment they're born, babies are little learning machines, and since this toy is designed for newborns, your baby can start using this play gym right away.
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 Babies will love pulling on different shapes and textures (Merry Monkey version shown here). View larger. |
 The activity mat zips up for quick and easy storage (Merry Monkey version shown here). View larger. |
The Happy Hippo Gym features a plush, softly padded mat that appliquéd with an oversized, adorable hippo. Baby can pull its ears, which make a crinkly sound that babies like, and feel its nubby nose, as well as explore the other soft textures on the mat. And because babies are fascinated with bold, contrasting imagery and with facial features, your infant will also like looking at the hippo's big, black-and-white eyes.
Your baby can lie on the mat on his back to interact with the activity arch above. It features three bright, interesting, and interactive toys, including a plush bee, a baby-proof mirror that gives baby the opportunity to discover his own face, and a cute flower that plays a short melody when it is pulled.
When you and your baby are finished playing, you can easily zip up the mat to store it away. The activity arch detaches easily and can be quickly installed over your baby's crib, making for more versatile use.
A Toy to Grow with Your Little One
The Happy Hippo Gym offers plenty of opportunity for growing and learning. We especially like that the characters on the activity bar are angled to make important "eye contact" with the baby, which isn't always the case with activity mats. This mat also encourages the "tummy time" that pediatricians recommend for infants for strengthening neck and arm muscles. Unlike some other mats, the Happy Hippo provides enticements for your baby to spend more time on his tummy with its interesting colors, textures, and fabrics.
The Happy Hippo is designed to grow with your little one through several stages of his early development: as a newborn he'll love just looking at the characters and watching you interact with the toys -- but before you know it, he'll be reaching for them himself with his hands and feet, and rolling over on his own to play with the hippo's ears.
Finally, this activity mat's compact size and relatively inexpensive price tag make the Happy Hippo an economical choice. It is a bit smaller than other activity mats on the market, which give your baby a bit more room to play, but its compact size makes it easy to store and carry without sacrificing fun or educational quality.
From the Manufacturer
Whether it's playtime or naptime Happy Hippo Gym will keep baby entertained all day long! The padded playmate comes with extra support for baby's head and neck as well as cool toys like a plush bumblebee, musical flower, and surprise squeaker and dangling mirror so baby can check out that adorable smile. The removable activity arch easily attaches to cribs and the convenient zip-up carrying case makes it the perfect gym bag for baby on the go!
Customer Reviews
Cute but Arch falls down constantly
Really poor construction whenever my son bats at the toys the arch bends over and falls down. Not safe we are returning it.
sons favorite gym - bar does not pop out if used correctly!!
My son LOVES this item. Its super soft, cute and has great vibrant colors. I saw the other reviews on the bar popping out which caused a bit alarm until I realized that if you follow the directions - there is not a problem. Even if the bar did pop out - it is so soft that it could not hurt a fly. I think this is great gym at a excellent value!
One of our 6 mo. old twins' favorite toys
If my sons could talk, they would tell you this is currently their 2nd favorite toy, right after their Jumperoo. They love the bright colors on the mat, and teething on the little stuffed "feet" that are on the worm during tummy time. Their favorite toy is the bug rattle. I have not had safety issues with this toy. The bar has never fallen over on them, and the toy is lead-free. Zipped up, it is amazingly compact, so it travels well, or stores well in a small space. I don't think there is a toy in the world that a child under 6 months old could safely be left alone with, so I wouldn't let that comment in previous reviews influence my decision in purchasing this basically safe and very fun toy. Developmentally this provides all the right activities. If I could change any one thing about this toy it would be that it really only fits kids 0-6 months. [[ASIN: B0018979MY Infantino's Monkey's Jungle Retreat]] grows with the child beyond 6 months, and if I'd known that sooner, I'd have bought that first/instead.
