Eggy Wawa Learn On the Farm Surprise Egg By Zuru Toys Review

Reviewed by Michelle M
The Eggy Wawa learn on the farm surprise egg has been a delightful early Christmas present for my son. It is a lovely large colourful egg with a cow poking its head out of a crack on the shell. My son was very excited seeing it and took some time to look at the picture scene and the face. When pressed down the cows head made the egg sing “eggy wawa” which he liked too. This is his first surprise toy like this and I let him just play for a while before I showed him that it opened and had more stuff inside.
The outer packaging is a peel-able plastic layer which unzips and unwraps the same way as most surprise toys do. Underneath this is a smaller see through plastic band which also had to be peeled off and finally a layer of sellotape only around the join in the middle of the egg. I actually found it quite difficult to undo it all and then get the egg open. Luckily that was the most difficult part of revealing the surprise.
Inside were eleven surprise bags and there was a smaller red egg held in a basket type thing under he spot were the cows head was poking out. I didn’t realise this was a piece that came out at first and spent a few minutes after we had opened the bags wondering why the pictures had shown a red egg with eyes and had we dropped some stickers to place on it. Initially I think my son thought he was getting sweets, as did the cat who came running at the rustling of bags opening too. Much to both their disappointment no sweets or dreamies were unwrapped.
My boy currently has a bin obsession so he delighted in taking the bags to the bin once we had taken the toys out. This meant it took us quite a while to get all eleven bags open as we had to pause between each one. At twenty three months he has never really had bags to open before so I had to help him but he delighted in pulling the toys out once he realised he could. Inside we found six farm animals, a flat packed hay bale with a play dough roller and chicken shaped cutter, a set of cards with animal pictures on one side and the animals name on the back and three colours of play dough.
We have had lots of playtime fun with these surprises. The animals are chunky and solid and great for toddler hands to hold. They’re those that come to mind immediately for what you would find on a farm. We’ve been through the sounds that each animal makes as well as it’s name. This has encouraged my boy to make new sounds and attempt new words as they’re the first farm animal toys he’s had. We haven’t played with the cars yet but there are twenty of them with all the animals you might see on a farm including geese, mice, cat, dog and frog. If we manage to keep these safe I can think of a few games we can play with them once his language has come on a little more and he has the words to identify the animals and the sounds they make. The little roller is again the perfect size for toddler hands and he enjoyed rolling the patterns into the play dough.
At the very bottom of the egg was an instruction sheet telling me how to change the batteries. It was only when I saw this that I looked closer and realised the small egg under the cow head had eyes and was meant to come out. Once out pressing the cows head on the big egg shell stopped making any sound however pressing the little egg sets off a rendition of a verse of Old McDonald had a farm. Once we realised this and I’d shown my toddler how to make it sing he enjoyed playing with that too.
Overall this is a lovely toy, marketed as suitable for 18 months plus and would make a lovely Christmas present for any toddler or even preschool child. There are so many options for learning though play within it all in a fun and entertaining way. The description on the packaging, on Zuru Toys website and on the Amazon listing says there are 34 surprises inside, I think this must be counting the picture cards as individual surprises as well as the animals and utensils. I counted it as twelve surprises given the play dough tools were together with the hay bale in one bag and the cards as one surprise too. I would have been a little disappointed with it being less surprises than I expected to open however I’d be annoyed about the waste of resources if the cards had been packaged individually. A young child however would be unlikely to understand such a number as 34 and by the time they’ve ripped the plastic around the egg off I’d suspect even a slightly older child would have forgotten if they’d noticed the number.
Rating: 4.5/5
RRP: £24.99 but currently on sale at £15
Purchase from Amazon here.