Galt Velour Playmat

Advantages: A great activity place for babies
Disadvantages: They will eventually escape

...! They can be ordered direct from Galt at www.galt.co.uk or can be purchased from most baby product selling stores (if not you will be able to find a similar product). More expensive versions of this also have flexible arches over the top of the nest, in a similar manner to some playmats, with more toys to play with dangling form them, for this you can be expected to shell out around £40. If you are looking to get one cheap, at the time of writing this there were around 10 for sale on eBay with a maximum price of £12.50, I would just make sure you wash the cover well first. Or possibly you might be able to pick one up even cheaper at a car boot sale like my parents did! Overall, I would highly recommend this, almost to the point of saying no baby should be without one!... Read review

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Advantages: bright and colourful, amuses Scarlett
Disadvantages: none

...Insect island is what we call Scarlett’ lotty ladybird playmat, because when shes playing on there it seems like shes in the centre of a big island populated by insects. Of course an actual island or any space populated by slugs, ants and spiders isn’t sweet in fact its quite gross. However, it’s a name that has stuck in our household and to us it conjures up lovely images of our little baby playing on her playmat. PLAYMAT I’m sure that you can see from the picture that the playmat is a mixture of bright, primary colours and is extremely sweet. The actual playmat area that the baby lies on is 60*70*180cm in dimension. The material is brushed velour and is incrediblely soft. The only downside is that it can get a bit dusty. The front of the ladybird has a big ladybird face on with a huge smiley face. Smiley faces are a big feature... Read review

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Advantages: Interesting textures/graphics that appeal to babies/ baby can sit propped up.
Disadvantages: Limiting concept/not portable/quite large.

...I registered slight surprise when I looked at the 'favorite five toys' here on ciao, and found that the galt playnest popped up at number three. Not mindbending loud yell-emitting surprise, but more of a slight squeak on the surprise richter scale. Reason? Well, I wouldn't personally call this item a great toy. A good toy? Yes. A sometimes quite useful toy? Yes. But a truly great toy? Nope. It's got quite a few drawbacks, and some of the plus points about it can easily be found in other combinations of other, often cheaper, and certainly more portable pieces of equipment. Before I get to all of that, I'll describe the thing itself. It is a large inflatable plastic rubber ring (we're talking about a metre in diameter). The plastic rubber ring isn't the toy itself. the toy is the fabric covering, which has various large bright farmyard... Read review

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