Our little one (6 months) has been given the toy and plays very much like it. It is colorful and appealing, crackles, rattles, rattles and tinkles. The beads on the bow like he's fine and he turns it and nibbling on them. Interestingly, like his two striped Schwänzchenlaschen particularly well. According to the manufacturer this toy is not washable, but has my three washes (30 degrees in the laundry net) unscathed.