Review of iPlay Makin’ Cents Musical Piggy Bank

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We bought the iPlay Makin’ Cents Musical Piggy Bank for our daughter Ally when she was 3 and we were very disappointed.

My husband and I had wanted to find a piggy bank for Ally so we could start teaching her about money. The iPlay piggy bank plays music and oinks, but mainly I picked it out because it has an LCD screen that displays the total money saved and adds to that total whenever coins are pushed through the slot. 

But the problem with this piggy bank is the slot where the coins are pushed through. While the piggy bank is labeled for ages 3 and up, it’s not. Ally didn’t have the strength or dexterity at 3, or even now at 4, to push the coins through the slot, which adjusts to accommodate different size coins. Even my husband and I had trouble when we tried.

Sometimes my daughter would be pushing a coin through, but because it was taking her so long, the LCD screen would be continuously adding to the count as if several coins were being pushed through instead of just one. The amount displayed on the screen was never correct.

Eventually we gave up and just unscrewed the top of the piggy bank and dropped the coins in, which isn’t very much fun for Ally. 

This piggy bank could be a good choice for older kids, but for younger children, I would not recommend it.