

The springboard is designed to take the place of the seat, forming a flat tabletop, and the whole thing becomes a great table for coloring, playing with dough and other toddler and preschool activities.
BABY BOUNCER WALKER PLUS
The huge plus of this model is that it converts to a useful preschool table when your baby starts cruising, which means taking steps while holding onto something. If you really want your baby to bounce you might try a different jumper. It moves your baby more side-to-side, like they're surfing, and not so much up and down. Instead of having springy cords that hold the seat, this has a springboard on the underside of the seat. (You can always buy other toys to sit on the tray.) One cute feature: A clear panel lets your baby stare down at their own feet as they step on the toy piano and activate it. The seat spins completely around and there are a half-dozen stylish toys, though some testers felt like the activities didn't hold their baby's attention for very long.

This activity center is popular due to its modern design and pretty color palette. The spring action works well and babies can really bop up and down in this just by bending their knees. A sibling or dog is even more entertaining to a baby than a light-up toy, and for a 6-month-old to be able to spy on the family from an upright position is golden. The seat spins 360 degrees so your baby is able to pick any toy or activity they'd like to play with and can also turn to keep an eye on family members and family pets. We're impressed that this jumper has five height adjustments, more than most, so a short baby will fit into it and even a tall baby should be able to use it until about the first birthday. "I tried out more simple activity centers, hoping for something that looks less babyish, but my kids weren't impressed." And, she noted, since she wanted to keep a baby in this while she made dinner or got dressed, she needed it to hold their attention for 15 minutes. "The jumpers with all the different toys and the option to hang more toys are great," said our Good Housekeeping Institute Executive Director of Textiles Lexie Sachs, a mom of two young kids. It plays six songs and, in keeping with Baby Einstein's roots in educational entertainment, they're all classical compositions including snatches of Beethoven and Vivaldi. You can set it to have sayings in either English, Spanish or French, for instance it can name colors in any of the three languages. There's a toy piano, mini bead maze, several kinds of spinning toys and more. All appreciated the variety of engaging activities and sensory toys that keep a baby busy, entertained and safe. Naturally the craziest-looking jumper was the favorite of our tester babies and therefore won over their parents, too. Our team of engineers and parenting pros have vetted more than fifteen baby jumpers to find the best ones for every home and baby. When our Lab experts review products for your baby, we look to make sure they meet the necessary safety requirements, are easy to use, well constructed and offer value to parent and child. The Good Housekeeping Institute regularly reviews at a huge range of juvenile products, from safety gates to the year's best toys. A stationary jumper sits on the floor and works with a stand, like a baby's activity center but with bounce. There are two different kinds of jumpers. Most babies love a jumper, which lets them bounce up and down plus play with toys that demonstrate cause and effect and more. A jumper does, indeed, take up space, and its aesthetic is usually aimed at babies, but jumpers provide parents with a few minutes to prepare dinner or clean up while the baby is having fun. Having a large, colorful and possibly noisy toy center in the house is something most first-time parents of newborns hope to avoid, but as an infant grows more curious and begins to try and sit up it's easier to see the appeal of giving them their own baby-safe indoor playground of sorts. We edited a few of our favorites to reflect current fashions and added one new Jumperoo. We updated this article in February 2023 to ensure that all baby jumpers previously tested and vetted by the Good Housekeeping Institute were in stock and correctly priced.
