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VTech Baby 3-in-1 Zebra Scooter

Developmental Benefits

Discovery Exploration

Imaginitive Play

Motor Skills

Visualisation Memory

Developmental Benefits

VTech Baby 3-in-1 Zebra Scooter

Heightens curiosity and encourages exploration.
Even young babies love to learn about the world through exploration. Kicking and waving their arms while lying in their cot can lead them to discover that a kick can make a banging sound. Exploration and play are closely linked in infants where, for example, discovering that a toy makes a noise leads to infants repeating the action that made the noise. Babies learn a great deal through repetition. Once babies are either crawling or walking their mobility gives them more opportunities to explore their world.
Babies need to satisfy their curiosity about an object or toy by approaching and handling it. Adults can influence an infant’s confidence about the world by encouraging and smiling at them when they approach an unfamiliar object or toy. Babies can show uncertainty about a new toy and in order for them to confidently explore and discover it they need the emotional reassurance from their parent or caregiver. The confidence to explore and discover new things develops during infancy and creates a healthy curiousity about the world throughout childhood.

Imagination and exploration through interaction with characters.
Children’s imagination is active from an early age. Imaginative play has links to what psychologists call ‘social pretend play’. Young children pretend or imagine that, for instance a wooden block is a cake and they carefully ‘cut’ it. A large proportion of pretend play tends to be social. Imaginative play begins when infants play and pretend with adults. As young children develop they begin to try to engage other children in social pretend play. Young children in nursery benefit from engaging in imaginative play. It helps them to begin to understand that other children think differently to them and have different ideas.
Children can engage in imaginative play with other children where they have agreed on a story or scenario that they want to act out. Young children playing with toys use their imagination to invent scenarios and play out the consequences. They can use characters to explore scenarios and act out scripts such as going shopping or bedtime. Imaginative and social pretend play is beneficial for children as it allows them to explore different ways of viewing the world. Children who use their imagination when playing with other children are increasing their social competence and their understanding of other people. In a study where we observed children playing in a nursery we found that young children engaged in imaginative play, often using the toys in unexpected ways. Children’s imagination benefits from the opportunity to play with all types of toys.

Encourages fine motor skill development.
An infant’s growth and development in the first year of life is rapid. Many movements that young babies make are in preparation for the next stage of their development. When young babies watch a mobile they are constantly moving their head, arms, legs and even their mouths in response to the movement of the toy. Sound and movement attract a baby’s attention; if a toy is placed almost within reach of babies their movements become more animated. Bath toys provide opportunities to develop and use motor skills to great effect. For example, a young baby has greater control over their leg movements than their arms. You will often see young babies in a bath reaching with their legs towards a floating toy and kicking. All these movements strengthen muscles in readiness for the next stage - walking.
As babies develop they become more adept at grasping objects. Young infants learn to grasp an object, for instance a cube. The grasping, at first, is quite clumsy but through repetition, and across time, infants become adept at grasping and develop fine motor skills. Infants first use the ulnar grasp where their fingers close against the palm when trying to hold an object. Within another month they are able to move the object from hand to hand. After the first year, infants adopt the ‘pincer grasp’ where they use their thumb and index finger to grasp even very tiny objects. Shape sorters help infants to fine tune their visual perception and hand coordination. Soon infants are building towers with two cubes; this also requires fine coordination skills. As the child grows computer games have been shown to help with hand and eye coordination. Spatial skills can also be enhanced when playing games that require concentration, quick responses and finely tuned motor skills.

Engaging graphics & visualisation activities develop memory.
As babies develop they begin to use mental pictures of objects that are no longer within their field of vision. These memory skills can be enhanced through presenting visual stimuli more than once; repetition is essential for the development of memory skills. Young infants’ memories are influenced by context; for instance, they can imitate an adult’s actions with a toy but only if the toy is identical in colour and features to the one that the adult played with. Older infants can remember, for instance, how to press a toy animal to make a sound even if the toy is slightly different to the one which the adult used to demonstrate. Infants’ memories become less context dependent at the same time that infants start to crawl and walk. Giving babies plenty of opportunity to explore their world allows them to enhance their memory skills.
As children’s attention span increases so do their memory strategies. This means that children can use deliberate mental activities, such as visualisation, to increase the chances of retaining information in working memory and then shifting it to their long-term knowledge base. Lots of rehearsal and organisation is needed to use memory to its full advantage; repetition is an important part of both infant and childhood learning. Children can both learn and practice memory strategies using toys and games. Toys that encourage children to remember visual stimuli, answer questions and then repeat the activity over again enhance learning.

Best for ages:

18 to 36 Months

Highlights

Combine learning with fun and motion on this zebra scooter. teaches colours, animals and habitats with encouraging phrases and flashing lights.

Description

Combine learning with fun as your child becomes a wildlife explorer on this 3 in 1 zebra scooter. With three interactive modes of play the electronic learning panel teaches colours, animals and habitats with encouraging phrases and flashing lights that will keep them engaged for hours. The 3 in 1 grow-with-baby design means they can push, sit and ride or scoot around to rewarding voices, melodies and songs that will really get them moving!

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karly, girdlestone

28-Apr-2014

Brilliant!! My one year old little boy got this for christmas and absolutely loves it. It's fantastic there is so much he can do with it plus it is built well and is sturdy un like other walkers and ride ons.

lisa, jones

05-Apr-2014

this toy is very cleaver sit and ride push along sounds excellent toy to help balance and cordination

rachael, gregson

29-Mar-2014

great prouduct bought for my nephen great value for money as can also be used as a scooter

Sarah, Cochrane

23-Mar-2014

We LOVE this product! As a mother of 4 kiddies 4 and under it's great.. A few twists and squeezes of catches it can be adjusted for each one to have a go.. Youngest uses as a push along

trina, bedford

24-Jan-2014

excellent tool for learning my son to walk. one of the sturdiest walkers on the market today.i wold definately recommend this product and have done so to friends. my son is now 18 months and still likes to ride on this and soon i will show him scooter aspect. a long lasting toy.

Lucy, Babb

23-Jan-2014

My 1 year old daughter loves her zebra

patricia, dankova

11-Jan-2014

My little one love it

laura, park

05-Jan-2014

this zebra was brill for my son helped him to walk and he loved riding along onit

Debbie, Cooper

28-Dec-2013

This is such a great 3 in 1 scooter which my little girl loved and I would definately recommend it to any parent who wants to purchase & find a great entertaining ride on toy.

Nicola, King

28-Dec-2013

We bought this product today for our daughters 2nd birthday present. She absolutely loves scooting around on it and pushing it everywhere. As always with vtech

jan, ivanko

28-Dec-2013

my daughter love it

jemma , roberts

27-Dec-2013

I have a very Happy bouncing baby with this product you WILL too :)

emma, curley

19-Dec-2013

Little one loves it

allan, baker

29-Oct-2013

Excellent toy which is easily assembled with plenty of activities for the child. Very colourful

Christy, Appiah

28-Oct-2013

I love Vtech scooterts soo Awwweessome

charlotte, littlewood

12-Sep-2013

Very good gets lots of use given the amount of different things it does . Very strong and durable given the amount of use it gets .

Robert, Collett

06-Sep-2013

Our little one just loves this thing plays with it every day

rebecca, stevens

22-Aug-2013

My son loves this. He is turning two soon and he still loves using all three settings. Great product

sarah, mathewson

20-Aug-2013

Great scooter my son loves playing on this

kimberley, wallwork

17-Aug-2013

My son got this for his birthday and loves it. He tries to take it everywhere with him.

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