SpinAgain Fat Brain Toys - Toy Review
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The SpinAgain from Fat Brain Toys is a fan favorite in our clinic - we have one in almost every one of our treatment rooms! This spinning stacking toy has six fun shaped and brightly colored disks that little ones love to watch spin all the way down the corkscrew pole. While watching the disks spin can be mesmerizing, this toy helps teach kids concepts like color, size and one vs. all. Encourage kids to stack the disks from small to large or large to small. Once all of the disks are stacked, they can remove the pole from the base and watch all of them spin to the floor!
The SpinAgain is great for little ones who are learning to talk and late talking toddlers. This toy helps build pre-linguistic skills, or the building blocks to speech. These skills include pointing and turn-taking. Once your kiddos has begun using words this toy is great to help build early language skills like requesting “I want the disk”, directing action “go”, counting “1, 2, 3 - go” and directional comments like “up” or “down”.
The SpinAgain stacking toy is also great for building gross motor skills and hand eye coordination. I like to hide the discs around the therapy gym at different heights and play hide and seek with my kids. Placing the discs on the floor or under a chair encourages squatting, putting the discs on higher surfaces encourages reaching on to tip toes or climbing to retrieve them. Placing each disc onto the pole helps kiddos work on hand eye coordination and fine motor skills.
Fair Warning: I have only found one down fall with this toy - the spiral pole can quickly become a weapon! I have learned this lesson the hard way! Kids love to pick up the pole and dump the discs onto the floor, and the pole quickly becomes a bat. Most of the time it is an accident, sometimes it’s on purpose. Just a word of advice: I have been wacked with this pole one too many times to leave my back turned when my kiddos are playing with this toy. with this one than the kids do!
