BuckleyBoo Review & Giveaway

If you have been searching for the perfect gift for a baby or toddler (18 months to 4 years), I can practically guarantee you’ve just found it.  I’ve never met a child who isn’t enthralled by straps and buckles.  As a mother of three I can tell you what a sheer genius the concept of BuckleyBoo is.  Babies and toddlers are fascinated with buckles and are drawn to them like a magnet. BuckleyBoo began as a prototype created by a child psychologist and grandma.  It quickly became a hit.  Now BuckleyBoo is an award winning collection of stuffed toys that are not only fun, they’re educational too. BuckleyBoos teach visual matching, problem solving and small motor coordination.  Brightly patterned ribbons snap together on their plush tummies with 3-5 different types of plastic buckles.  An internal motion activated chime adds another element of fun to the toy.  Available in several different types animals (lion, monkey, dog, bunny, bear and more!) and two sizes (12″ and 17″), BuckleyBoo retails for $19.99-$29.99.

Each mastered task readies the child for the next level of learning (info from BuckleyBoo):

• Stage 1: Matching – Children first learn to visually scan and match the brightly patterned ribbons on their BuckleyBoo – polka dot to polka dot, stripe to stripe.
• Stage 2: Buckling – At eighteen months, children are ready to buckle, but they cannot yet unbuckle, which makes BuckleyBoo, for a time, a toy to be shared between parent and child. At this stage, the child will likely leave all the other buckles in their environment alone; now they have their own buckles with which to play.
• Stage 3: Unbuckling – At three years, children have both the physical strength and the problem solving skills to buckle and unbuckle and they will happily do for hours on end. Children will also begin to integrate their lovable pal into their world of imaginative play. 

BuckelyBoo toys are available online at www.BuckleyBoo.com as well as specialty toy, education and gift stores See the website for all product pricing and list of local retailers.

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This giveaway is open until December 14, 2011 at 12:01 am CST to U.S residents.

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