It must be boring being a baby sometimes – unable to move where you want, and relying on a much larger person to guess your needs and attend to them.

So thank goodness for Hape’s Garden Friends Play Arch.  The strong orange and turquoise fabric-covered arch attaches easily and securely to the sides of most babies’ cribs, leaving the brightly-coloured soft toys to dangle down for Baby to see, and when old enough, he can play with them too.

All the toys are made of different shapes and colours. In the centre of the arch flies a large brightly-coloured bumblebee, whose blue, geometrically-embossed wings, make pretty designs in the sunlight.  Below the bumblebee, a teether-ring rattle hangs low enough for an older baby to grab and put in his mouth to sooth his gums.

On one side of the arch is a chunky red apple rattle, with two little dangly wooden toys hanging below, and on the other side, a dangling  leaf and a star.

Lots to stimulate Baby’s vision, hearing and touch, and so attractive. This lovely crib toy is available from Amazon at £34.38 – it makes a fabulous present.

                            

 

 

By Dr K Thompson, author of From Both Ends of the Stethoscope: Getting through breast cancer – by a doctor who knows

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