EvenFlo SmartSteps Exersaucer Entertainer

The Evenflo ExerSaucer SmartSteps Active Learning Center offers: Interactive learning for both mental and physical growth. Eighteen age-appropriate toys. Variety of songs and sounds. Adjustable height to grow with your child.

SmartSteps Active Learning Center offers 18 age-appropriate activities. View larger.

First, the Toy Bar encourages baby to reach and grasp by providing over 12 different rewards with lights and music, and 18 age-appropriate activities, half with electronics, maintain her interest. Additionally, over 50 song and sound rewards ensure continual engagement.

Baby will have her own phone, can peek at herself in the mirror or the two of you can play peek-a-boo with a cute worm in a bright red apple. There's also an option to play music by pulling on vibrantly colored, rattling characters, or to press buttons and learn about shapes, letters and numbers in a lively, interactive way. The whole play station even lights up and plays music, another feature that's sure to delight your child.

Helps Encourage 16 Developmental Milestones
The ExerSaucer SmartSteps isn't just a toy--it's a system that's specially designed to help your baby reach up to 16 important developmental milestones. The lights and music encourage baby to reach and grasp, helping him or her to gain an understanding of the relationship between cause and effect. The classic peek-a-boo game gives baby a sense of object permanence.

The other activities help hone imitative play skills and hand-eye coordination, while the chewy toys, spin barrel and the butterflies all teach a wide variety of age-appropriate concepts.

The SmartSteps Toy Bar glows and rings to inspire reach and grasp.

And when it's time to move the ExerSaucer SmartSteps, the lightweight plastic construction makes it easy to carry it around the house, so that you and your child can be in the same room. This learning center even boasts a patented fold down system for easy transportation and storage. It also sets up quickly and easily and takes just six "AAA" batteries (not included). And parents will love that the machine washable fabric lets you deal with spills or smudges quickly and easily.

About Evenflo
For over 85 years, Evenflo has been a worldwide leader in the development of innovative infant equipment and is now one of the nation's leading manufacturers of high quality baby care and juvenile products. Evenflo began as a company that solely distributed baby care items. They have now expanded to manufacturing products, like car seats, strollers, high chairs, play yards and activity centers, that meet all the needs of children from birth to the pre-school years.


Amazon.com Review
Your baby is naturally curious, and with every new day, she's gaining new motor skills and increasing her physical activity. She loves to sit surrounded by mountains of interesting, colorful toys, playing with and examining each one. And while she isn't able to stand or walk yet, she loves to exercise her legs by bouncing on your lap, preparing her for those eventual first steps.

The Evenflo ExerSaucer SmartSteps Active Learning Center is designed to give your baby both the exercise she needs, and the entertainment she craves. If you child is at least four months old, can sit up by herself but can not yet walk, and is shorter than 30 inches tall, read on -- the Evenflo ExerSaucer could be a great way to help your child develop her motor skills while having hours of fun at the same time.

Keep your baby entertained with a fun selection of colorful and playful toys. View larger.

The activity center folds down for easy transportation or storage. View larger.

Spring-loaded legs and a rocking base let your child safely bounce up and down. View larger.

And best of all, while she's entertaining herself with all those fun-filled toys, the ExerSaucer's spring-loaded legs and rocking base will let her safely bounce up and down and help her to develop her sense of balance. And your baby will delight in making the ExerSaucer's butterflies spin when she jumps.

Perks for Parents
As your little one becomes more active, the ExerSaucer offers an entertaining, safe, stationary area for your baby to play while you attend to household chores or prepare dinner. The ExerSaucer's lightweight plastic construction makes it easy to carry from room to room, so that you can keep a constant eye on your child, and it folds down for even easier transportation or storage. You have the option of locking the seat in place and using the fold-out stabilizer legs to keep the saucer from rocking, should you need your baby to stay still for a bit. The seat is also height-adjustable to accommodate your quickly growing child -- and you'll be very happy to know that its fabric is machine washable for easy cleaning.

The Ultimate Test Run
To assemble the ExerSaucer, we needed a Phillips screwdriver and six "AAA" batteries. Although assembly was relatively easy, it was somewhat time consuming due to the number of parts involved. (It took us about an hour, not including time we needed to attend to the baby's needs in between assembly). But once the ExerSaucer was fully assembled, our 9-month-old test baby couldn't get enough of it. We had loads of fun playing with the peek-a-boo apple, she was very excited to have her very own phone, and she loved to make all the toys jingle and rattle as she enthusiastically bounced up and down.

Our one complaint: the interactive electronic "book," which seems designed to introduce babies to their ABCs, 123s, colors, and shapes, is actually a bit confusing. While it was a lot of fun to turn the pages with our baby and press the buttons to make the lights and music play, don't expect it to teach her much about letters or numbers. But considering everything else this fun-filled activity center has to offer an infant, that's a minor complaint.

Pros:

• Entertains your baby for an extended period of time
• Strengthens your baby's legs and develops their sense of balance
• Fun for both independent play and interactive play with mom and dad
• Folds down for easy storage and transportation

• Some of the interactive educational features are confusing
• Assembly takes approximately one hour

Features:

• Aids baby in achieving 10 developmental milestones such as hand-eye coordination, object exploration and more
• Patented folding technology makes travel and storage easy
• Baby can rock, spin or bounce...sit or stand
• For babies 4 months to walking age; maximum height 30"
• Requires 12 AAA batteries (not included) for toy bar, pod, bus and music player