Kid Powered: non-electronic toys for little tikes

Chicco Play N Ride Train February 8, 2009

Filed under: Push/Ride on toys — rachelhenderson @ 10:57 am
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This ride-on train was our gift to our son for his first birthday. Many ride-on toys have lots of electronics – lights, recorded horns, songs that make you want to poke your ears out with a baby fork – but this one manages to have lots of fun activities without any electronics. The working steering wheel has a roulette-style ball spinner that is easy for little hands to press to activate. It has two “shift” levers – one is a colorful spinning barber-pole thing, and the other makes a fun squeaking sound. The front of the train has a part that you can turn to make a ratcheting-type sound. The seat has an easy to lift compartment, which was my son’s favorite thing about it initially (open, shut, open shut, rinse, repeat). The child can ride on it and push with their feet or an adult can push it. There is a removable handle on the back so that beginning walkers can use it to stand and push. My son loves this train and spends lots of time playing with all the toy features, getting on and off, using his feet to push himself (backwards only so far :) ), getting pushed by adults, turning it over and playing with the wheels, etc. My only complaint is that it is not really designed for adults to push from a standing position, leading to several achy backs in our house. But other than that, it is a great toy and it’ll be even more fun when our little one can drive it himself.

 

 
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