VTech ABC Food Fun 26 Magnets | 
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| Brand: VTech
Category: Toy
List Price: $17.99
Buy New: $11.99
You Save: $6.00 (33%)
New (30) from $11.99
Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 9722
Batteries: 2
Batteries Included: Yes
Age: 3 - 6 years
Battery: 2 AA
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 3 x 11.1 x 14.1
MPN: 071500
Model: 80-071500
UPC: 050803715007
EAN: 0050803715007
ASIN: B000M3U4FQ
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | ABC Food Fun teaches lessons in letters, foods, colors, logic, and more | | • | Interactive toy fridge incorporates fun sound effects and playful music | | • | Made with colorful, durable plastic | | • | Includes 26 food and letter pieces | | • | Recommended for ages 3 and up |
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Amazon.com Product Description
With the VTech ABC Food Fun, learning begins in the home. Recommended for ages three years and up, this interactive, portable play fridge gives preschoolers an important head-start in lessons on letters, foods, colors, logic, and more. Child-Friendly Design
Able to stick anywhere on your refrigerator, this electronic toy can be easily placed at the right height for your child. Made with colorful, durable plastic, the ABC Food Fun stands up to child's play. And with three modes of play and 26 bright food and letter pieces, this learning product is certain to holds your little one's attention as well. First Day Of School
Taking the pressure off that first day of school -- no matter how far away it is -- the ABC Food Fun encourages children to acquire preschool skills like spelling, counting, the alphabet. It also promotes healthy diets. Adding to the fun, the interactive toy incorporates fun sound effects and playful music. What's in the Box
VTech ABC Food Fun and 26 food/letter pieces. 
Twenty-six food magnets display foods' first letters to help little ones make important connections. | 
With just a push of a button your child is learning important lessons in letters, foods, colors, logic, and more. |
Product Description
When it comes to learning, serve it up farm-stand fresh with ABC Food Fun. Chock full of brain-building fun, this nifty set is a new and innovative challenge for budding Einsteins. The set contains 26 food-shaped magnets that display a food's first letter, helping little ones to make important connections. And there's more than just letters -- ABC Food Fun dishes up important lessons in foods, colors, logic and more. Plus, youngsters will love having their own fridge that sticks right onto Mom and Dad's. Measures 5" x 7.5" x 1.6". Requires 2 "AA" batteries, included.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 Vtech Food Fun June 28, 2008
I debated on whether to buy this or the leap frog word whammer or the leap frog fridge phonics. But, they had a ton of bad reviews about the letters not working properly. So, I went with this one.
All I wanted was something where they put a letter into the machine and it told them what the letter was. This product doesn't do that. It tells them what letters to put in the machine (I'd rather my kids choose which ones to put in).
Also, my 4 and 5 yr olds keep using it as a food identifier and not a letter one. Instead of finding the "L" he says the "lemon".
The 3 buttons keep getting bumped into and so it changes the question / answer. Also, sometimes the fridge part slides down on the fridge and the foods/letters fall off the fridge a lot. I finally gave them a cookie sheet to play with it on. They play with it while I am busy in the kitchen. They really love it.
It's not a bad product. It's just not exactly what I was looking for.
 Great ABC's June 18, 2008
My daughter is 2 and showed interest in letters. So I decided to get something that she can do on her own when I'm busy. These letters are great. After 3 months she is repeating "Eating an apple a day keeps the doctor away..." /from the letter A/.
The only thing is that now she plays with the toy for a short time and than looses interest. But eventually she comes back to it. I think that could apply to any toy and any 2 year old...
 Fun for younger toddlers too April 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This might be more suitable for an older child (it does recommend 3+), but I bought it for my 1-yr old since he was taking a keen interest in food at the time. It did capture his imagination for a while, and he found it fun to take foods, orient them correctly, and have it fit into the "fridge". It's also got a good learning utility in that I could line up 4-5 different foods and have have him pick out the correct one when asked.
That said, I am not a fan of toys for toddlers that come with a million different components, as it is only a matter of (little!) time before the parts get strewn all over the house. So now I end up finding these tiny food magnets in the laundry, on the staircase, in the bath-tub....you get the picture.
 Not great durability April 13, 2008
The product does NOT stay on the frig. It slides down. Also the door is so hard to open my child has to ask me to open it and I can barely get it. The learning aspect is great but these other flaws are disturbing.
Great fun on the "real" fridge in the kitchen! April 9, 2008
My 1-year-old loves this toy so much I had to hide it at times. Of course, it would give way because the automatic shut-off didn't shut off fast enough. It's true that it can be annoying but overall, I like this toy.
My daughter's speech is early. So, she's really interested in the names of the food and other facts about them. So, I now use the magnets only without the little fridge that comes with it. I put all the magnets in an empty container and leave it by the (real) fridge in the kitchen. She likes to stick them to the fridge while I cook and I can teach her the names and other things about each piece of magnet while doing my chores. It also serves like a little menu before her mealtimes as she sometimes picks up a peice of magnet and tells me she wants to eat that particular food. (Example: Grapes! I wouldn't understand what she meant if she didn't show me the magnet becasue a 1-year-old speech is still limited however early.) When she knows all the names and letters, I might reintroduce her the little toy fridge that one reviewer called "the energizer bunny".
Most pieces are great... with an exception on the letters Q and X. These two pieces have no food on them but the letters themselves. The letter U introduces the term "utensils" to the little ones. The Apple and Tomato also look alike and it's a bit confusing to a 1-year-old, but a 3-year-old can probably tell the difference.
I have to say I like it a lot becasue these magnets keep my toddler busy for a good 30-45 minutes at a time! And without the noise!!!
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