Wrist Rattles

Wrist Rattles are a very simple infant toy: soft bands or straps with a small rattling element meant to sit on a baby's wrist and respond to movement. By our assessment, their best feature is how little they ask for — a baby moves an arm, the toy makes a sound, and the cause-and-effect is immediate. The limit is just as clear, because the appeal is narrow and age-specific, and the toy has only one basic trick. In practice these are lightweight, easily lost things that live in the same zone as baby socks and teething toys, not as durable play objects for older children. They sit below bigger activity toys and above nothing at all in complexity, which is fine because they are meant for early sensory play. Wrist Rattles are for very young infants and the adults buying for them, and they stop making much sense as soon as a child wants anything more than a sound on the wrist.