The Christmas Aftermath Part 2: I Love It!!….What is it, Mum?
Posted: January 3rd, 2008 
The dust has now settled on Christmas, but what about what Santa left behind?
I was on a mission to have my kids road test Active People’s ‘Bilibo’, an open-ended play discovery toy, with it’s only limitations for use being the child’s imagination. It has also famously been billed as one of the 50 great ideas for the 21st century. Is it really that good?, I wondered.
Regular RRP for the Bilibo is $39.95 (plus postage if you buy online). As I was buying two, I didn’t want to shell out that much, excuse the pun.
Extensive searching led me to Skill Builders (http://www.skillbuilders.com.au), a therapeutic and educational toy supplier, who stock the Bilibo for a fabulous $27.95 plus $8.25 for postage (as per a sliding scale for value of order) Australia-wide. That comes to $36.20 in total, a saving of almost 10%!!
I phoned them to place the order (1300 number), so I could specify the colours I wanted, as they don’t give the option to choose online (a small downside).
Once the order was placed it arrived well packed within a few days.
Christmas morning came and, although my kids were not quite sure what the Bilibo were for at first (”I love it!!!!….What is it, Mum?”), they have certainly been self-motivated to want to find out.
So far the Bilibos have been used as seats, turtle shells, snail shells, helmets, spinners, catchers and baby beds. Two thumbs up from my two testers!
