Discovery Playhouse by Yookidoo

 

By Jackie Sachen

French proverb says there are toys for all ages and nobody knows this better than a parent.  There is a certain comfort and elation that sweeps over moms when we spot a toy on a shelf promising fun, learning, and developed motor skills.  Toys speak to us from the moment we see the box.

The Discovery Playhouse by Yookidoo is cleverly packaged, featuring photos of lovely babies playing in the dome’s inner and outer activity zones.   For it’s size (19.5" L x 9" W x 19.5" H), it maximizes space with cascading ball play, shape sorting, peek-a-boo panels, and spinning windows inside and outside of the four panels.  Colorful and cute with orange feet keeping it from toppling over, the playhouse is light enough to move from room to room and can be disassembled neatly for storage.

It took me 15 minutes to put it together—a little longer than I had anticipated, and I thought the instructions were hard to follow, but eventually, it all came together rather nicely.  Once assembled, my daughter hid inside the “fort” and practiced shooting balls in and out of tubes for at least a precious half of an hour—the equivalent of three hours to you non-parents. Recommended for children from 12 months to 6 years.