The video Peek-A-Boo of course has this classic game in multiple participatory variations, involving kids, toys, umbrellas, even an animated dalmatian and its dog house. Matching and size comparison games, as well as simple yet amazing visuals of toys, mobiles, and dance "dizzy birds" round out this great video. Radio controlled cars even dance to ballet music.
Laugh & Learn is a step ahead, and teaches all kinds of basic concepts, including colours, numbers, letters, shapes, and sizes. The tots are naturally playful and silly, and Brainy Baby helps encourage them to be so when the time is right, by showing their on-screen counterparts doing the same. Such segments include a dress up with sunglasses, animal-ear headbands and "Groucho Marx"-glasses, or playing inflated saxaphones or toy drums, or pretending all different emotions.
Other Laugh & Learn activities ask questions like "Let's play a guessing game- what is it?", "Does a chair have hair?", "Does this face match?", and "Let's find things that go."
On both discs have stunning nature segments, set on location in the rainforest (Peek-A-Boo), and in a tropical reef (Laugh & Learn). Wisely, these segments focus more on both nature appreciation ("Wow!" is a recurrent quote from the voice over) and simple concepts. The footage is mixed in with bright toys of those creatures, and silly fish hat for good measure. Take the sea reef segment, where simple observations are encouraged, like "What color is this fish? Orange. What pretty stripes!"
There's a wide range of pleasant classical and child-oriented music in the background, that fit perfectly to compliment the visuals. Also, parents and the little ones sing together songs like "You Are My Sunshine", the first verse of "B-I-N-G-O", "The Itzy Bitzy Spider", and other favourites.
The children in the videos are extremely natural and enthuiastic. As senior producer says of the discs, the production crew's key to getting natural, fun videos is to "step back and let [the kids] be themselves".
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