Baby Santa's Music Box [VHS]

Great DVD!
My boys LOVE this DVD. I only bring it out during the Holiday Season and it never fails to captivate them. They are 2 and 4 and still continue to enjoy this one.

Merry Baby Einstein Christmas!
Baby Einstein's Baby Santa's Music Box One of the earlier releases in the now popular Baby Einstein video series, Baby Santa's Music Box is an unpolished version of the wonderful videos to come later in the collection. Relying more on music and visuals as the sole entertainment than some of the others, Baby Santa began the formula of the Baby Bach and Baby Beethoven videos with stimulating visuals set to music. Unlike the more advanced videos in the Baby Einstein series designed for older babies and toddlers, this one is entirely non-verbal and will appeal to infants as young as one month of age. Visuals rely heavily on the Baby Einstein Puppets albeit the earlier versions, visuals of ornaments and Christmas decorationas, animals playing in the snow, and lots and lots of children. The soundtack is holiday instrumental musical tunes from different countries around the world such as England, Ireland, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, and the United States yet all rendered in similar orchestration by the Baby Einstein Music Box Orchestra. Appropriate for ages 1 month and up, the simplicity of the video combined with some more engaging puppet visuals will likely entertain your baby until around the 18th month. The video is short, but you have the option to "repeat play" as well as play the music without the video. Like most of the other videos in the Baby Einstein series, this one is designed as a `video board book' for your baby and offers you the opportunity to interact with your child in the same way you do with books as well as act as a distraction for that deeply needed parental bathroom break. Most of the DVDs in the series have the option to "play" or "repeat play" and are about 20-30 minutes in length -- the repetition being very stimulating and comforting to the younger set. While I don't think viewing Baby Einstein DVDs will make my infant "smarter" she sure does enjoy them! They give me a great way to interact with her as well as a few minutes here and there to get a few things done around the house. Their ability to calm her when she's fussy is already legendary in our household. Here is information on all the current 21 Baby Einstein DVDs including suggested times to introduce them to your little one. This information IS NOT available with the DVD sets but I gleaned it from several sources for my own use. You may like to print this out for future reference. Note: All the Baby Einstein DVDs are "region 1" which means they only play on machines in the U.S. and Canada. Information on each video is divided into categories of age appropriateness: From Birth and Up * Baby Bach - A multiple award-winning DVD - Engages your newborn/infant through sights and sounds - uses colorful real-world objects for visual scenes - Appropriate from birth and up *Baby Mozart Music Festival - An award winning DVD - Introduces your baby to the classical music of Mozart with visually stimulating real-world objects on screen - From birth and up Age 1 month and Up *Baby Beethoven Symphony of Fun - An award winning DVD - Featuring the compositions of Beethoven - Appropriate for ages 1 month and up *Language Nursery - A multiple award-winning DVD - Exposes your baby to sounds of seven different languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Hebrew, German, and Japanese - Appropriate for ages 1 month and up *Baby Santa's Music Box - Joyeux Noel! Feliz Navidad! Buon Natale! Merry Christmas! - Celebrate with holiday musical sounds from around the world - Appropriate for ages 1 month and up Age 6 Months and Up *Baby Monet - An award winning DVD - A musical introduction to the four seasons - Features the music of Vivaldi - Appropriate from 6 months and up Age 9 Months and Up *Baby da Vinci From Head to Toe - A multiple award-winning DVD - Baby's first introduction to their eyes, ears, hands, feet, and more. - Features Spanish, English and French language tracks for added learning. - Set to the music of Vivaldi, Bach and Handel - Appropriate for ages 9 months and up. *Baby MacDonald A Day on the Farm - A multiple award-winning DVD - A fun-filled introduction to the sights and sounds of a farm - Features live-action images and engaging visuals of puppets, children, toys, and real-world objects - Combines traditional nursery rhymes with the classical music of Schubert, Schumann and Strauss - Appropriate for ages 9 months and up *Baby Galileo Discovering the Sky - An award winning DVD - Baby's first introduction to the sky and solar system - Features captivating footage of the sky, planets, and galaxies - Features musical scores by Mozart, Chopin, Strauss and Tchaikovsky - Appropriate for ages 9 months and up *Baby Neptune Discovering Water - An award winning DVD - Baby's first introduction to water - Features the melodic scores of Handel's Water Music - Appropriate for ages 9 months and up Age 1 Year + *Baby's Favorite Places - A playful introduction to words and sign language - my street to main street - 12 Months + *Baby Einstein Meet the Orchestra - First Instruments - First Instruments introduces your toddler to musical instruments that make up an orchestra and the different sounds that they make. - Features multi-language viewing options in English, French, and Spanish for added learning - Uses real-life images with classical music by Beethoven, Brahms, Joplin, Haydn, Mozart, and Strauss. - Appropriate from 1 year *Baby Einstein On The Go -- Riding, Sailing, and Soaring - An award winning DVD - A musical introduction to transportation and "things that go." - Features multi-language viewing options in English, French, and Spanish for added learning. - Uses real-life images with classical music by Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart, and Rossini. - Appropriate from 1 year *Baby Wordsworth First Words - Around the House - A multiple award-winning DVD - A musical introduction to baby's first words and communication - Features bonus language learning with Spanish, French and English tracks - Includes the music of Bach, Bizet, and Schubert. - Appropriate from 1 year *Baby Noah Animal Expedition - A multiple award-winning DVD - A musical introduction to animals around the globe - Features bonus language learning with Spanish, French and English tracks - Includes the music of Beethoven, Mozart, and Strauss - Appropriate from 1 year *Baby Newton Discovering Shapes - A multiple award-winning DVD - Introduces your toddler to five shapes - Features many of Vivaldi's favorite compositions - Appropriate for ages 1 year and up *Baby Shakespeare World of Poetry - An award winning DVD - Poetry in Motion with real world images - Features award winning Baby Beethoven soundtrack - Appropriate for ages 1 year and up *Baby Van Gogh World of Colors - An award winning DVD - Exposes your baby to the wonder of color through Van Gogh's artwork - Introduces your baby to classical music selections from Van Gogh's era - Appropriate for ages 1 year and up *Neighborhood Animals - An award winning DVD - Meet animals that live in and around the home - This DVD compliments the Baby Einstein Animal Discovery Cards - Engaging music from the 19th and early 20th centuries - Appropriate for ages 1 year and up *Numbers Nursery - An award winning DVD - A playful and interactive introduction to the numbers 1 through 5 - Uses familiar, real-world objects to show what numbers mean - Features the melodic scores of Haydn, Chopin, Strauss, and Schubert - Appropriate for ages 1 year and up *World Animals - Discover animals from the jungle, savannah and ocean - This DVD compliments the Baby Einstein World Animal Discovery Cards - Features music from the 19th and early 20th centuries - Appropriate for ages 1 year and up

We love this video & can't stop watching it!
My 16 month old son LOVES his "HO HO HO" video! Yes, it's simple & kinda slow, but for a toddler, it's perfect. He doesn't get any of the other Christmas shows out there yet, but he does get this one. We are big on Christmas in my family & this is just the first step in teaching my son the magic of the Holiday Season!

Disappointing!
We are huge Baby Einstein fans, but this is very disappointing! The video is very short (yet doesn't cost any less than the others) and really lacks the creativity the other BE videos have. The music for this video is not up to usual BE standards and it is the only BE video our 15-month-old son walks away from! I would definitely NOT recommend buying it. Hopefully the Baby Einstein people won't make another mistake like this - it's annoying to spend money on something this second rate when you've come to expect more!

A great intro to Christmas
We received this as a gift and from day one my son was entertained. This was his first Christmas season and because he is so young, we did not get out much. We thought this was a great introduction to the sights and sounds of Christmas. He loved just about everything in the video especially the children and babies. The sparkling ornaments and children dancing around made him laugh and talk. The music is really vibrant and the puppet shows are always a favorite. He loved the penguins and the polar bears...real and puppets. Great from start to finish!!