VTech Sing and Learn Musical MIC: Amplify the Fun

We all think our babies are little superstars. And with VTech’s Sing & Learn Musical MIC ($8), your budding American Idol gets an early start at musical stardom.

Ideal for 12 to 24 months, this colorful microphone may be small in size, but it provides big fun.

The Musical MIC has two different settings for either listening and learning or singing along. There are three different music styles — jazz, classical and rock — and three different sing-along songs.

The ring at the top filled with 12 cute animal illustrations can be twisted to help teach babies the correct noise associated with each animal. My twins loved pushing all of the buttons, including the blue puppy that will sing along to the song when pressed. But what they loved the most was hearing their own sounds come out of the microphone.

It isn’t singing exactly, but whatever it is they have a blast doing it. And in fact I’m going to purchase a second MIC so they can start performing duets. Look for their first album in about 18 years.

– Sarah S., mom to twins Lily and Logan, 16 months, works part-time and obsesses over things that are perfect for two while simultaneously making her life a little easier

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Comments

I have this. I have an almost 4 year old, a 15 mos old, plus I babysit 4 other toddlers. Nobody plays with it for more than 30 seconds. It hardly amplifies your voice, and its difficult to hear the animal sounds unless the room is virtually silent. The cheap microphone I got at the dollar store, now there’s a hit. Easily amplifies voice, is hardy (it can even be submerged in water, its fine, throw it, drop it, good as new), doesnt require batteries, the kids fight over that one.

- am581 on September 12th, 2009

My 13 month old has NO interest in this at all either you cannot hear the animal sounds and to make the microphone work you have to press the button and it is hard. It lasted a whole second before it was tossed aside. I wish I kept the packaging to return.

- Elisabeth on September 12th, 2009

Hmmm looks like a cute toy, would be a great idea. It’s a shame it didn’t work for the previous posters, but hopefully your reviews will keep someone else from having buying it.

But I had to laugh at your post am581, because I don’t have kids yet, but when I was little, we spent hours singing and telling jokes into a cheap dollar store microphone too! We loved it. It gave my mom a headache though lol.

- Erika on September 12th, 2009

hmm – my 11 month old loves this thing. she doesn’t have to push any buttons to use the mic – and it amplifies her voice fine. yeah – it’s not as loud as a regular mic – but is that what you REALLY want???

- meghan on September 14th, 2009

I agree ‘am581′
the mic really doesnt work. Just makes a static noise when you talk/sing into it.. but any kid under the age of 2 would still play with it because they love making noise and driving us nuts:) and older kids might like it too, just because its a micraphone and works a little better than a hair brush would. lol

- mother of 1 on December 17th, 2009