Puffer Balls

This toy has been great for my daughter's physical learning for a number of reasons. The first ball was a complete tactile failure! She wanted to play with it, she could see it relatively well because of the high colour density they have and she envied our cats ability to push it back and forth between them in a game- she just couldn't bring herself to touch it. She was about three years old when we first introduced it and it was too early for her. When she was about five, we reintroduced it and at this time we chose the one with the pulsing light feature. She played with it to destruction! Her distaste for the feel of it was overcome by her fascination with the elastic quality of its wiggly 'tendrils'. Like many visually impaired kids, Elizabeth has not reached milestones for throwing and catching balls and while she's still not quite there at age seven, this ball has been a terrific toy with which to practice these skills because the one she has ( and has had replaced a number of times), is very light, rattles and lights up. She therefore has a much better chance of seeing it in order to catch it. It is not suitable for younger children or children who might swallow the wiggly bits and it does need to be examined frequently for pieces ready to break off but it is a super ball with more features than initially meet the eye and is light enough for children without a lot of throwing power.