Manhattan Toy Beads Wood Rattle

My 5 month old received this toy for Christmas from a dear friend. The quality is excellent and we couldn't help but pass it around...it's a great fidget toy for toddlers too. Compared to the Haba version, this one has more colors and more spheres than the competition. This could be a downside if you have a little one who isn't fully sitting up to play, as it is heavy for a baby to hold above their face as they lie on their back. Overall a stimulating and educational toy for all ages and definitely one to pass down.

I have not seen a child play with these, though wow, they feel great and look great, so I think kids would love them. But I'm a grown up with rheumatoid arthritis that includes my hands, and I love them for hand therapy.

I've used quite a few wooden toys for therapy with my hands. I'll bet they would cost 5 to 10 times as much if sold for therapy, and wouldn't be painted those great colors! The colors have helped get me to use them, and they have done me a whole lot of good.

These wooden toys are so well-made that I still have all the many I've bought, ready for action. For the last 3 1/2 years I've been combing a Standard Poodle daily, and that has turned out to be great therapy for my hands. So the wooden toys have been standing by, looking good and ready for action when needed.

This is a quiet toy, beautiful and well made, and the balls are just right for my hand needs. I certainly recommend it!

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Our son has been interested in balls since he was just a couple of months old, so when I saw this toy I thought it would be the perfect clutching toy for him. We have the classic ball rattle. It is very well-made, wooden with very bright, pretty colors and it can be manipulated and balls will clack against each other. I had high hopes for this becoming a popular toy with my son, but over the months as he got older he didn't express much interest in it. He would pick it up every so often and hold it for about 10 seconds and then drop it. He is 17 months now and he will pick up the toy sometimes and say "ball" and try to pull them apart. It seems he would like them to be separated, probably so he can throw them and play with them like a regular ball, though we have plenty of those around the house. So all in all, for us this toy didn't really work out, though I don't know that is was necessarily because of a bad design, just our son's personal preference.

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My 6 month old daughter immediately loved this toy, but I am returning it because the paint started chipping (big chunks) as soon as I received it. I checked the company's website, and although the paint is supposed to be non-toxic, I still don't want my baby eating/licking paint, non-toxic or not. Plus, this toy wasn't cheap. Sadly, I have decided to return it and not get another one.

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My 8 month old daughter has enjoyed many Manhattan Toys, but I am shocked that this rattle is considered appropriate for any teething baby. The paint chipped off and my daughter left teeth marks on it. I washed the toy (by hand like I do anything that goes in her mouth) and that led to the wood cracking and further paint peeling. I threw it away minutes after I received the toy. I had bought it because she enjoyed a different wood rattle where the wood was colored with organic dyes. That is the way to go with a wood rattle.

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