Aviora Family™ Animal Discovery Play Mat

Aviora Family™ Animal Discovery Play Mat

There is a stretch of the morning where your baby is awake, content, and not yet mobile enough to go anywhere. This is what fills it. A padded mat on the floor, an arch overhead, a few small animals hanging just within reach — and ten quiet minutes while they work out how to bat at a monkey.

In everyday use

Lay it out wherever you already are. Early on, your baby lies underneath and looks up. Later they roll onto their front for tummy time, and later still they sit in the middle and pull the toys down themselves. The padding matters most on wooden and tiled floors, where the ground is harder than a rug and a new sitter tips over often. When you need the room back, it folds away in about a minute.

Key features

Padded for hard floors
A thickened mat gives your baby a soft surface to lie, sit and crawl on, and takes the edge off wooden or marble floors.

Room to move
At roughly 34 by 20 inches there is space to roll over, stretch out and push up onto the elbows without running out of mat.

Four toys that come off
A sheep with a baby-safe mirror, a dog and an owl to touch and explore, fold-over ears to find, and a cloth book of shapes and colours — each removable, so you can change what is hanging there.

Quiet colours
A neutral, tasselled design that sits in a living room without taking it over.

Up and away in a minute
It assembles and comes apart quickly and folds for carrying, so it works indoors, in the garden, or at someone else's house.

The edit

Most play gyms are an early purchase that stops earning its place by about six months. This one keeps changing what it is: something to look up at first, then something to reach for, then simply a padded square of floor to learn to crawl across. The removable toys are what give it that second and third life. And because it packs down flat, it can live somewhere other than the middle of your living room.

Specifications

Somewhere to put the morning down. Better days. Together.