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The Cry Babies dolls are brilliant for teaching children responsibility and to love and nurture. They’ll be recognisable to children, and parents, who follow the animated Cry Babies adventures on YouTube, Nick Jnr. and Netflix. And now there are the new Cry Babies Dressy Fantasy dolls, with three characters to choose from – Dreamy, Jenna and Hannah.
Young children will love the doll’s vibrant, multi-coloured rooted hair, bright, sparkly eyes, and magical fantasy outfit. The changeable outfit includes a super-soft t-shirt, trousers or dress, cute shoes and a fluffy jacket – perfect for playing enchanting adventures, and teaching and encouraging little ones how to get dressed!
Like all the Cry Babies, the Dressy Fantasy dolls cry real water tears and make more than 10 realistic baby sounds when you remove their dummy! Pretend play to calm the doll down with cuddles, rocking them to soothe, or giving them their dummy, helps your child develop caring and loving feelings – that can be great practice if there’s a new baby recently arrived or on the way!
The new Jenna, Dreamy and Hannah dolls are lightweight too, so it’s really easy for little ones to cradle them and carry them around. Able to go everywhere you go, they really are the perfect interactive doll for fun, imaginative and nurturing play.
The new Cry Babies Dressy Fantasy dolls give little ones the freedom to play how they wish, and the chance to bring their favourite characters from the animated series to real life for extended play value.
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Having heard great things about the Cry Babies Dressy Fantasy dolls and how they help to encourage nurture play, I was keen to see how my little Robin would get on, as he is much more of an automobile fan. But to my surprise, he was rather taken by ‘baby’ Hannah.
He enjoyed her cooing and sucking sounds, and laughed when she laughed, and quickly worked out that she was ‘really sad’ when she was either face down or upright, and that he ‘made her happy’ when see was lying down or had the dummy in her mouth. She certainly provided him with some good entertainment and he was happy enough for her to join him with his at-home activities.
The doll itself is really easy to handle for little ones, with its large head and small body, allowing Robin to carry ‘baby’ Hannah around here and there. And the cute outfit is certainly fun to take off, with not as much of a desire to put back on…!
The sounds themselves are very realistic; particularly the crying sound which is a little unnerving as an adult at times, but I can totally appreciate how it enhances play and development for children; making them feel like the caregivers themselves with a ‘real’ baby. After a while, Robin passed her to mummy when she cried saying ‘here mummy you hold it’ knowing that mummy cuddles are the best.
The switch to turn her on and off is on the bottom so it’s easy for parents to get to but not so obvious for children (unless they’re de-robed)– which is a bonus when you’ve decided enough is enough. The tears come from water that is poured into the hole in the back of her head (which is hidden by the hair for the most part). And as soon as she cries the tears really do pour!
I think it’s safe to say it’s a great toy for that nurturing child. And also for one that you want to introduce more nurturing to, such as new-to-be sibling. Robin certainly understood when the baby was ‘sad’ and ‘happy’ and was perhaps more interested in her crying saying ‘please cry baby’. I asked him what we could do to make Hannah feel better and he suggested his sister ‘Manny help’.