Fisher Price Bubble Lawn Mower Review
We like
- Helps your child develop gross motor skills and hand/eye coordination
- Allows your child to get outside and run and play instead of being indoors
- Your child can role play and learn how to properly execute chores
- The mower is lightweight and easy for your little one to push and move
- Does not require any batteries or electricity to operate
- The mower is durable and can sustain the roughhousing of some children
- The buttons on the handle are fake and not operational
- The bubble dispenser tends to leak
How it works
Fisher-Price has revamped its most popular toy: the Bubble Lawn Mower. The mower has been a favorite of children and parents for years, and now it’s new and improved. With an updated handle and wheels to make gripping and moving the mower a breeze, the mower also makes life-like sounds that give your child the feeling that they are really mowing the lawn. The Bubble Lawn Mower is not only great for keeping your child occupied as the mower shoots tons of bubbles out as they roll, but it also helps children work on important skills such as gross motor skills, walking and exercising. Children get to use their imaginations and spend quality time with their parents. With so much to offer, the Fisher-Price Bubble Lawn Mower is definitely a toy that is worth buying.
Design
The body of the lawn mower is more realistic as it has a real-to-life motor that turns and makes the same noises as an actual lawn mower. The sound effect gives children the ability to pretend that they are really mowing the lawn alongside their parent as the mower glides across the grass.
On the side of the motor and body of the Bubble Lawn Mower is the area where you can fill the bubble tray and the bubbles will spew out the side of the mower as your child runs along. Since the bubbles will eventually run out, in the front of the mower is a cup holder for your bottle of bubbles. That way, as soon as the bubbles run out, you can easily refill the bubbles and get to mowing and get to bubble blowing almost immediately.
Imagination Development
When a child has the desire to recreate an adult activity, the child must think as if they are an adult, and in those moments, parents begin to understand and learn what their child is retaining when they hear adults talk and when they watch adults do their daily chores and activities. The child then begins to mimic those gestures and attitudes and they really allow their imaginations to soar. This type of role-playing is essential when your child plays with other kids and they create their own games. This type of role-playing is also essential in your child developing their own attitudes about certain things as they get older and start to grow and change.
Above all else, the Fisher-Price Bubble Lawn Mower is a great entertaining activity for your child that gets them moving and playing and thinking, which is what every parent wants when their child plays and grows.
Physical Exercise
The walking and running help your child develop further balance as well as building leg muscles and exerting themselves with cardiovascular exercise. Using the mower out of doors also requires that your child gets out of the house and away from screens and devices that may make them sedentary and lazy. With the Fisher-Price Bubble Lawn Mower, your child will get up and get active and begin to enjoy physical play that will further develop into climbing and running and sports.
Gross Motor Skills
Your child will also get to work out their dexterity skills when they are pouring the bubbles into the side of the mower. Your child will be able to remove the bottle from the front of the motor where the bubbles are stored and then take off the cap, pour the proper amount into the bubble dispenser, return the cap, and then return the bottle. All of this will be done by your child and they will then further develop the skills they are already working on while just running and playing with their new toy.
The Bubbles
The bubbles come out of the mower through the motor. While the motor makes the real-life sound of an actual lawn mower, the mechanism inside of the motor is a bubble machine. When you pour the bubbles into the bubble dispenser on the side of the mower, the bubbles drain into the motor and when your child pushes the mower and the motor begins to spin, it then produces bubbles and the bubbles start to spew out of the side of the motor next to the dispenser and your child will begin to run faster to make more bubbles.
It should be noted; however, that there may be a design flaw with some of the Fisher-Price Bubble Lawn Mowers in that when you put the bubbles into the dispenser, the solution may leak out of the dispenser causing you to lose some of your bubble solutions. It may serve you better to put in just a little bit at a time and see exactly how much the mower can hold before it starts to leak. This may also require you to fill the dispenser more often, but what you choose to do is ultimately up to you.
Quality Time
By being present, parents can run and play with their children or parents can do their lawn mowing chore with their little one is by their side “helping” them get the job done. It is in these moments that children will pick up the gestures and attitudes of their parents, and this is a great opportunity for parents to teach their children the lessons they will need to learn in order to grow up to be efficient adults.
Age Range
Price
The mower is designed to be used outside for your child to do a little role-playing, but the mower can also be used in the house as well if you have the space to move around. You will be paying very little for an indoor and outdoor toy that will entertain your child for a long period of time and requires very little effort or hard work from the parents.
Conclusion
The activity of the mower also helps your child mimic adult activities that help your child learn how to do chores and allows parents to understand what their child is picking up on while they watch adults in their daily lives. The Fisher-Price Bubble Lawn Mower is more than just an entertaining toy that children will love, it offers so much development in so many different areas of your child’s life that it seems almost necessary to buy this toy. That coupled with the fact that the price is extremely low is another great reason that parents should consider buying this toy for their child. The Fisher-Price Bubble Lawn Mower is a toy that not only helps your child grow, but it also promotes quality time in that parents and children can play together, which is another great developmental tool for your child. This is a toy that is a must have for all children.