Baby Einstein - Baby Van Gogh - World of Colors [DVD]

This dvd is entertaining enough that my 8 month old watches it. He loves the puppets and laughs at them. However, for the rest of the family, viewing this dvd can be painful. This is due to the so-called poems which introduce the colors. Green slithers in to make me cool? Purple makes me want to paint my face? Whatever happened to comparing colors to things children recognize like frogs and grapes? The dvd would be 5 star if not for the sad attempt at poetry. If you can bear to listen to annoyingly bad poetry every few minutes, I recommend this dvd. After all, it is for the kids not us.

I was hesitant to show my daughter this DVD that she received for her first birthday because of all the studies showing that TV/screen time is harmful for children under two. One day I decided to watch it with her, and I am glad I did! It is not fast-paced, as I feared, and most of the items they show are recognizable, every day objects in a childs world. At the time I showed it to her (about 14 mos.), she was in a phase where books no longer held her interest, but she watched this 30 min. video from start to finish without getting distracted. She was not zoned out either though, which I was watching for, but just really interested in what she saw and heard. The only criticism I have is that the DVD is not verbal enough. They say each color only twice and outside of a couple poems, there is not much language at all. Since English is a foreign language where we live, I really wanted her to get more reinforcement from the DVD. On the other hand, this lack of language forces me to watch the DVD with her each time so that I can say the color several times and describe what we see on the screen with words... which is probably the idea behind the program, anyway!

I dont normally rave about kid vids but I felt I probably should give Julie Clark a hand for bringing us these gifts. My 15 month old daughter cant get enough of them, and frankly, Dads hooked as well. These are so well done; I cant say enough good things about this series. My little one just sits in front of the TV spellbound for the duration of the video and the great thing is that shes learning from them! Rush out to your store or just order them here online! Your baby will love you for it!!

Five Stars for the content and ZERO star for the DVD disc. The content on this DVD was too good and my 2 year old daughter never took her eyes off it. It was an enjoyabale view for the parents too. The colors were very good and the background music was also fantastic. But one problem is that after viewing it for around a month now, we are experiencing some long reads and pauses while the player is trying to play. Either the DVD disc recording is not upto the mark or else my player decided to scratch this particular disc alone !!! And - for those who say that it is very repeatable, my answer is that it has got to be repeatable. Else it is going to take a longer time for the little ones to learn it.

Its fun all the time! Not one part boring. My baby loves it and she watches with other kids who are older than her and they all give the mommies a break!! I love to watch it too cause its colorful and withn beautiful images... the puppet show is very cute too!

This video focuses on colors. As it goes through each color, it shows beautiful, vivid images that represent each color. These images captivated the attention of my 1.5-year-old. The choice of language tracks is a very nice feature. We watched it in Spanish and it plays in full, immersion Spanish. This DVD is a good choice looking for something that is entertaining and educational for their child, offering the extra bonus of foreign language immersion.

We like all of the Baby Einsteins, but this one is our favorite. The classical music selections are really incredible. The art of Van Gogh is presented in a way that is very baby friendly. Probably one of our all time favorite baby einsteins, along with Baby Shakespere.

Cant go wrong if your child loves these videos. My grandson watches them over and over and over and over......

I cannot say enough good things about baby Van Gogh! And I cannot disagree more wholeheartedly that this video is not good for newborns. We start showing this DVD to our baby at 3 months- she was captivated! She would laugh and laugh at the little puppet Vincent Van Goat, especially the part where he pops the green balloons. Anytime she was fussy - we just played the video and like a miracle she calmed down. I know everyone says that they wont use TV as crutch - but when you are sleep deprived a few moments of a content happy baby is worth its price in gold. I dont think that other people really believed how great this DVD is until I invited a group of new mothers over for lunch. We put six babies in front of the DVD player (in their cars seat) played Baby Van Gogh - All of the babies were mesmerized! All six moms actually were able to eat lunch. In addition, my baby didnt really like bath time. I bought the Vincent Van Goat bath puppet and now she kicks and laughs in the tub. This product is the best!!!

This is my first Baby Einstein DVD which I bought based purely on the reviews it received. I have to say that this is a superior DVD. I especially like the function at the beginning of the menu where you can select the option to play the DVD once or have it repeat automatically after its finished. The other nice feature is the Concert Hall where you can listen to the soundtrack of the DVD. The Brainy Baby DVD I own only plays one song, but this has 19 tracks that play for over 33 minutes! So when your baby is tired of watching the DVD, your baby can listen to classical music instead. Its like getting a DVD and music CD all in one. Again, you can choose to have the music repeat itself automatically. The quality of this DVD is just as good as the Brainy Baby DVDs. Nice, clear picture and sound. And the blue Vincent Van Goat puppet is just too cute. The DVD states that it is for babies one year old and up, but my two month old twins enjoy watching it (even if their attention span is very short right now).