playing with zhu zhu babies

zhu zhu babies dance recital

“I love the Zhu Zhu babies. They’re like regular Zhu Zhu pets but they don’t have wheels to move around. They’re so cute. Their clothes are so cute.”

My daughter was sent some Zhu Zhu Babies with outfits and a Dance Recital playset to try out. And by try out, I mean go completely insane over when the box arrived.

Like all kids this age, Cass likes little figures and dressing them up in their tiny clothes. I love that they’re just cute little hamsters and puppies and whatnot, and not tiny fashion plates with impossible figures.

They are also, thankfully, easy to dress and undress, so Cass can actually play by herself (someone gave her a Barbie last Christmas, and I went beserker trying to pull her ridiculously tight pants on and off her. I’m not even going to start about her shoes).

The Dance Recital playset is actually kind of genius, as Cass devises stories and plays for the babies to act out and dance to. It kept her very involved and quiet for a long time.

playing with zhu zhu babies

Another stroke of genius: the playset is Zhu Zhu powered. You put a full-size pet on the piano treadmill and he activates a rotating magnet, causing the babies to “dance.” Here, we threw together a quick video to demonstrate how cute it is.

 

 

Now, it’s worth noting that the babies have magnets instead of wheels for kinetic play. However, we did receive a new regular Zhu Zhu to operate the playset, and I was really sort of pleased to see that it carried a new warning, obviously displayed, in two places:

 

don't listen to your zhu zhu pet

 

It didn’t happen to Cass with a Zhu Zhu pet, but a certain blue train engine. I don’t know if she was trying to listen to it, or whether maybe she was holding it and went to scratch her face, or what, but Cass got her hair all kinds of snarled up in the wheels. We had to cut a huge chunk of hair out.

I’m just glad the company is loudly bringing that possibility to your attention. Heed the warning, people.

 

naptime

 

After an afternoon of dancing, the babies were fed, walked around a bit, rescued from the real-life puppy and undressed for bed. The many tiny parts were collected in a shoebox. (This is my usual complaint about these sorts of toys. I really wish they came with a storage container of some sort.) We’ll see how many of those pieces we still have in a month’s time.

For the record, Cass had to curate 3 items for an exhibit in the “Me Museum” at school. The three items she chose to sum up her life right now: a business card for this blog (“I’m a writer sometimes”), a picture of her making a goal during a soccer game (“I love soccer. My team is the Blast and we run really fast”), and a Zhu Zhu Baby (“I like to play”). So I’d have to say she really likes them 🙂

Hey– don’t take my word for it.

Want to win a Zhu Zhu Baby of your very own?

Or, you know, for your kid? Stocking stuffer to hideaway until Christmas?

We’ve got one. All you have to do is leave a comment below. “I wanna win a Zhu Zhu Baby!” is perfectly acceptable. Or, you can tell me what you generally put in Christmas stockings. I like to know how people do things.

I’ll pull a winner via random.org at noon on Saturday, September 17th, and notify via the email left with the comment.

Winner must have a U.S. mailing address and will have 24 hours to reply before I pick again.

Yay! Good luck!

zhu zhu

 

For games, activities, Zhu tracker, info on the upcoming Zhu Zhu movie, and tons more for Zhu-natics, you’re gonna want to head over to the Zhu-Niverse.

Cass received a Zhu Zhu Babies package from BSM Media for review purposes. No compensation was given and all opinions are mine, mine, all mine!

 

 

22 thoughts on “Giveaway & Review: Zhu Zhu Babies

  1. This would be great to tuck away for Christmas!!

    daniellecorrelle @aol.com

  2. Hmmm… not sure O would be ready for these babies this christmas but maybe next christmas. So yes, I want to win!

  3. “I wanna win a Zhu Zhu Baby!”

  4. I love these! (I mean, my daughter loves these!) lol They are very cute. I would love to stuff her stocking full of these for Christmas – last year, she had tiny baby dolls from Wal-mart in her stocking. They were a buck a piece, and perfect for her toddler hands to grasp.

  5. “I wanna win a Zhu Zhu Baby!”

  6. I wanna win a Zhu Zhu Baby!

  7. I wanna win a zhu zhu baby!

  8. I’d love to win a Zhu Zhu baby for my daughter. Thanks!

  9. I wanna win a Zhu Zhu Baby!

    frugalmommieof2 at gmail.com

  10. we put oranges in the stockings

  11. I wanna win a Zhu Zhu Baby! Our stocking are usually filled with fruits and a small toy

  12. My girls would love this! For their stockings chocolates and small toys are the norm.
    Thanks!

  13. Would love this to tuck away for Christmas for my daughter

  14. I wanna win a Zhu Zhu Baby! With 4 young girls at home it would be a hit.

  15. Our foster daughters would LOVE this!!!

  16. My daughters love ZhuZhu pets! My youngest got her hair caught up in the wheels of one of them. Luckily she didn’t have much hair so we only had to cut a little out. It’s traumatic! But she likes them again! 🙂 The babies are cute, I’d love one!

  17. I would love to win this for my youngest daughter. She loves Zhu Zhus!

    We typically put a few sweets, a couple of small toys, and some useful things in the stockings like new hair things, toothbrushes, etc

  18. I want to win a Zhu Zhu Baby

  19. I have 3 little ones and my daughter would love to be able to play with her brothers with this adorable Zhu Zhu. Thanks for the chance………..

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