Best Activity Centers for Babies 2017

Babies ages six to 12 months are like wee scientists, constantly investigating their environments and testing cause and effect. Activity centers give curious tots a bunch of things to explore—textures, movements, sights and sounds—and can keep your little one occupied long enough for you to load the dishwasher or make a phone call.
Around six months old is a good time to upgrade your baby from an activity mat on the floor to a seated activity center, where she can swivel the chair around and put toes to the floor. Activity centers come with toys and objects that encourage babies to practice eye-hand coordination and the pincher grasp by reaching for items, opening and closing flaps, spinning wheels and working levers.
Let your little Einstein loose on these entertaining options:

Streamlined Fun

Both parents and babies fall fast for this modern activity center. Children can’t get enough of the swiveling, swaying objects and the electronic keyboard they can hit with their hands or their feet. It lights up and makes sounds or plays songs. Grownups appreciate the activity center’s cheery, but not obnoxiously bright, colors. The foot platform is height adjustable so your tyke’s toes are always able to touch and push off (think: a bit of bouncing action). Later, you can use the foot platform to cover the seat area and create a play table. When your child outgrows the toys, simply unclip them from the surface to create a small table for your toddler to color or play with blocks.

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Similar to the Skip Hop activity center, the PortaPlay enthralls tots with toys that flip, squeak and spin. And, it can also be used as an activity table—for when your baby starts cruising (taking steps while holding onto furniture)—or a play table for bigger kids. But its small size and fast-fold legs make it easy to tote to grandma’s or fold flat to stow away while housecleaning.

Early Start

Fun from the start is the theme of this activity center that includes a playmat to use for children as young as four months old. Once your kiddo can sit upright, the Exersaucer transforms into an activity center with a seat that bounces, rocks and spins to reach a full circle of developmentally appropriate toys. The legs have three different height adjustments to grow with your child, and the whole thing

Best for Siblings

When baby number two comes along it can be challenging to find things both kids can do together. But Bright Starts’ unique design encourages siblings to join the hands-on exploration. Unlike other activity centers that put your baby in the center with a circle of toys surrounding her, this one puts the toys in the middle and your baby on the outside. Baby will sit in their attached seat and navigate the perimeter of the table to get their hands on engaging objects like a flip book, penguins that pop out and piano keys. And while they’re on one side, their sibling can happily play on the other (read: no fighting over toys). Later when your little one is able to stand, you can detach the seat and simply use it as an activity table.