Product Description

This super plush travel gym entertains baby through sight, touch and sound. Detachable toy bar becomes the perfect crib activity center. Zips up into a convenient travel bag! Mat measures 38" x 23". Ages newborn and up.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2134 in Baby Product
• Color: Merry Monkey
• Brand: Infantino
• Model: 158-214
• Released on: 2008-07-01
• Dimensions: 38.00" h x 23.00" w x 18.00" l, 2.00 pounds

Features

• Super plush travel gym entertains baby through sight, sound and touch
• Toy bar detaches to become the perfect crib activity center
• Cute monkey pattern has bright colors and various textures
• Interesting sounds and music capture baby's attention
• Zips into convenient travel bag

Amazon.com Review
With the Infantino Merry Monkey Gym, your baby has a fun, captivating outlet for learning, exploring, and developing his senses and coordination. From the moment they're born, babies are little learning machines, and since this toy is designed for newborns, your baby can start using this play gym right away.

What We Think Fun Factor: Durability: (what this means) The Good: Compact activity mat provides tummy-time fun and plenty of exciting sensory stimulation for young babies The Bad: Compact size is convenient, but it doesn't provide as much play room as some other larger activity mats In a Nutshell: Versatile activity mat provides plenty of fun, developmental stimulation for newborns and older babies At a Glance Ages: Newborn and up

Babies will love pulling on different shapes and textures. View larger.

The activity mat zips up for quick and easy storage. View larger.

Activity Mat Features Variety of Tactile, Auditory, and Visual Activities
The Merry Monkey Gym features a plush, softly padded mat that appliquéd with an oversized, adorable monkey. Baby can pull its ears, which make a crinkly sound that babies like, and feel its nubby nose, as well as explore the other soft textures on the mat. And because babies are fascinated with bold, contrasting imagery and with facial features, your infant will also like looking at the monkey's big, black-and-white eyes.

Your baby can lie on the mat on his back to interact with the activity arch above. It features three bright, interesting, and interactive toys, including a plush zebra, a baby-proof mirror that gives baby the opportunity to discover his own face, and a cute monkey that plays a short melody when you pull its tail.

When you and your baby are finished playing, you can easily zip up the mat to store it away. The activity arch detaches easily and can be quickly installed over your baby's crib, making for more versatile use.

A Toy to Grow with Your Little One
The Merry Monkey Gym offers plenty of opportunity for growing and learning. We especially like that the characters on the activity bar are angled to make important "eye contact" with the baby, which isn't always the case with activity mats. This mat also encourages the "tummy time" that pediatricians recommend for infants for strengthening neck and arm muscles. Unlike some other mats, the Merry Monkey provides enticements for your baby to spend more time on his tummy with its interesting colors, textures, and fabrics.

The Merry Monkey is designed to grow with your little one through several stages of his early development: as a newborn he'll love just looking at the characters and watching you interact with the toys -- but before you know it, he'll be reaching for them himself with his hands and feet, and rolling over on his own to play with the monkey's ears.

Finally, this activity mat's compact size and relatively inexpensive price tag make the Merry Monkey an economical choice. It is a bit smaller than other activity mats on the market, which give your baby a bit more room to play, but its compact size makes it easy to store and carry without sacrificing fun or educational quality.

From the Manufacturer
Infantino Merry Monkey Gym is a super plush travel gym that entertains baby through sight, touch and sound. The Detachable toy bar becomes the perfect crib activity center. It has a cute monkey design. This zips up into convenient travel bag. The mat measures 38" x 23".

Customer Reviews

Not a great design
We bought this playmat for our daughter and we have the same problems with the bar popping out and hitting our baby. She likes to play on it, but gets so scared everytime she kicks the bar and it pops out. Also, I think the toys are positioned too high. My 4 month old can barely reach them. Also, we have to lay her more towards the bottom for her to really even be able to see the toys. I do love how it zippers closed and is easy to transport. However, overall, I would not recommend this particular mat.

Cute But Not Safe
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1IFAQLOGABHXU This video shows the bar and how easily it can pull out.
This toy is cute and colorful and my son liked it immediately. He started to grab at the toys and kick and pull. He's 4 1/2 months.
HOWEVER, I would never let him play with this toy if I wasn't around. He very easily pulled the bar out as nothing holds it in place. In addition, the orange plastic pieces are a bit cheap and snap out of place also. I am debating on returning mine because the idea was to have a toy that would entertain him without me having to sit there and watch. I would not walk away because the plastic toys could hit him in the head when the bar pops out. On the packaging it says that you should keep the bar at a distance so that your child can not mouth the toys, however, our son tugged on one of the links until he got it to his mouth (the bar is very flexible). And a minor point would be that for some reason the link toys do not stay linked very well and within seconds they were unlinked and on the floor.
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Baby loves this Gym!
My baby girl loves to play on this gym since she was 6 weeks old. I have not had any trouble with the bar popping out. It is very sturdy even when I pull on it. I like that you can change out the toys. I didn't realize that the flower played music - you do have to pull on it hard to make it do so - I don't know how a baby could reach this toy to make it play which is one of the reasons I give it four stars. I also didn't like the rattle/mirror toy and changed it for something else. Overall, it is a fun activity for my baby!