HABA Kullerbu Spiral Track | Ages 2+
Who is HABA?
HABA is a German family-run company that has been in operation since 1938 based in Bad Rodach, Bavaria (Habermaaß GmbH). The company defines itself as an “Inventor for inquisitive minds”, offering a broad selection of products such as wooden and textile toys, home furnishings, and accessories for babies and children. HABA is known for manufacturing premium quality educational children’s toys with an emphasis on sustainability. HABA USA is a United States subsidiary owned and controlled by HABA.
Their toys are heirloom-quality children’s toys that are perfect for any type of play. HABA USA toys teach your children problem-solving skills with their collection of educational board games or to practice empathy with puppets and soft, washable baby dolls. These durable toys and games will provide hours of entertainment and help children learn through playtime.
What is the Haba Kullerbu Spiral Track?
The Kullerbü play system from HABA is an innovative and endlessly expandable toy that features wooden tracks, supports, and tactile smooth wooden balls, as well as plastic connectors, curves, bridges, windmills, dominoes, and both free-wheeling and motorized vehicles. While the suggested age range for the Kullerbü system is between 2 and 8 years old, it has the potential to captivate and engage people of all ages.
The Kullerbü play system is designed to encourage creativity, problem-solving, and imaginative play. There is no right or wrong way to build a Kullerbu set, and each expansion piece added increases the options for creating new layouts. Children can experiment and problem-solve as they design their own tracks and ramps, and the satisfaction of success is particularly sweet.
The Kullerbü play system is constructed using a combination of wood and plastic parts, taking advantage of the unique properties of each material. Beech wood from sustainable forestry in Germany is used for the balls, columns, curves, straight tracks, and ramps, while plastic is used for connecting elements and other functional parts. Safety is a top priority for HABA, and Kullerbü products undergo rigorous in-house and external testing to meet US and European safety standards.
Assembling the Kullerbü play system is easy and intuitive, even for young children. The columns of various heights provide momentum to the balls, allowing them to roll freely and smoothly. With its high-quality construction, endless possibilities for creative play, and emphasis on safety and ease of use, the Kullerbü play system is sure to provide your child with years of engaging and educational entertainment.
What are the benefits of the Haba Kullerbu Spiral Track?
The Haba Kullerbu Spiral Track is a fun and engaging addition to the Kullerbu play system, and it offers several benefits for your child’s development and enjoyment. Here are some of the key benefits of the Kullerbu Spiral Track:
- Encourages problem-solving and creativity: The spiral track provides a new and unique challenge for children to solve. They will need to figure out the best way to position the track in their existing Kullerbu system and experiment with different configurations to get the most out of the spiral’s movement.
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Develops fine motor skills: As children play with the Kullerbu Spiral Track, they will be using their fine motor skills to manipulate the track pieces and the Kullerbu balls. This can help improve their hand-eye coordination, dexterity, and manual control.
- Stimulates imagination and storytelling: The Kullerbu Spiral Track is designed to work seamlessly with other Kullerbu tracks and sets, which means that children can create endless combinations and scenarios for their Kullerbu balls to travel through. This can encourage imaginative play and storytelling, as children build their own worlds and narratives.
- Promotes spatial awareness: The spiral track adds a new dimension to the Kullerbu play system, requiring children to think about how the track will fit into their existing layout. This can help improve their spatial awareness and visualization skills.
- Encourages cooperative play: The Kullerbu play system is designed for multiple children to play together, and the spiral track provides a fun and engaging activity for children to work on together. This can help develop their social skills, communication, and cooperation.
Overall, the Haba Kullerbu Spiral Track is a high-quality and engaging toy that offers several benefits for your child’s development and enjoyment. With its endless possibilities for creativity, problem-solving, and imaginative play, the Kullerbu Spiral Track is sure to provide hours of entertainment for your child.
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Special wooden bases ensure the track stays stable for easy play. This set is part of Haba’s “creative play system,” which is compatible with all other Haba Basic Wooden Building Blocks, and Haba Ball Track Marble Runs. Haba’s unique approach to making the “creative play system” keeps your child from outgrowing the toy. The toddler toy can be used in combination with expansion sets for older children such as their marble runs.
- This adaptable and expandable ball track is a great introduction to the Kullerbu Play World with crazy curves for Paul the ball to speed around and entertaining special effects.
- Nothing can easily shake the Kullerbu tracks. The ramps, straight tracks, and curves have a hole on their lower side, into which the pins of the connecting elements snap snugly into place.
- Kullerbu is the perfect combination of wood and plastic parts and highlights the advantages of each material making this sturdy play system one that will last for their entire childhood and beyond.
- Includes: archway with bell, plastic ball curve, 5 wooden curves, 2 wooden straights, 2 columns, 5-floor connectors, connector, base, starting block, Paul ball, wooden ball, 5 decorative blocks.
- Compatible with all HABA Kullerbu products, the Sim-Sala-Kling Set, Magic Door Accessory, Connectors & Columns make an especially great fit. Balls measure 1.75″ in diameter and ensure safe play for ages 2+
| Best Sellers Rank | #370,190 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games) #269 in Marble Runs #116,884 in Pre-Kindergarten Toys |
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| Customer Reviews | 383 ratings 4.6 out of 5 stars |
What’s inside the Haba Kullerbu Spiral Track?
- Includes: archway with bell, plastic ball curve, 5 wooden curves, 2 wooden straights, 2 columns, 5 floor connectors, connector, base, starting block, Paul ball, wooden ball, 5 decorative blocks.
Christina’s Toy Review consists of 5 standardized criteria categories:
1. Sustainability:
A. Product: The ramps and curves are made from unfinished hardwood. The bases and balls are painted and finished in child-safe paints. There is no plastic within this toy except for a ball that contains a small look-through piece.
B. Packaging: This ball run comes in a recyclable cardboard box with a plastic handle for toy storage. Inside packaging does not contain plastic bags, just a small box containing balls.
C. Origin/Company: Haba favors the use of wood when making many of their toys as it is best for the environment and for children. Their wood is PEFC certified Beech and or Maple which means the wooden toys are made from timbers that are reforested. Haba uses only safe, non-toxic, water-based stains and lacquers on its products. On their packaging, they use recycled corrugated with as little foam or plastics as possible to package items. To learn more about Haba sustainable mission at HabaUSA Here.
2. Playability:
A. Open-ended: Often European-designed toys are classic, simple, non-gender-specific, and open-ended. Haba strives for open-ended play in most of the toys that they produce. They want children to be completely unaware of the educational benefits of each toy and to just enjoy the play. This is a very open-ended toy in regards to that the child gets to decide the track layout each time the run is created. Furthermore, it is the perfect addition to Haba’s marble run for children ages 4+. My 3-year-old also uses this ball track as a miniature freeway to drive his cars up.
B. Active Parent engagement: Parents will love helping their toddlers successfully design and set up a different ball track experience each time. This is a STEM toy that gives parents the opportunity to introduce physics and momentum to their little ones.
C. Playtime: In my house, the Haba ball run entertains my 3 youngest children ages 3, 7, and 12. My kids have stacking competitions with rainbow bases, they use the ball run as an addition to their Haba marble run to make epic marble runs. They also use the ramps in conjunction with the Haba basic building blocks to create rooftops on their buildings and architectural interest in their structures. Read about it more in my Best Toy Blocks Review HERE. This wonderfully open-ended toy gets used in my house daily. This toy is also great for family playtime as it encourages working together and promotes gameplay.
3. Durability:
A. Craftmanship: Haba wooden toys are crafted beautifully. When you hold the wooden toy or piece in your hand, you can feel the dense heavy wood with fine details. Each piece of this ball run has a lovely finish. The track is unfinished well-sanded wood. The rainbow-painted bases and balls are coated with durable paints and finishes. Toy quality like this is not common these days. Haba toys do not cut corners on craftsmanship and will not disappoint in terms of function or quality. The ball run is beautiful to look at because of its design and craftsmanship.
B. Quality: In terms of quality, this is a top-notch toy. Most toy companies in my opinion do not make toys of this caliber or quality. The ball run will be a beautiful addition to your toy collection, lasting for many years to come. The vibrant colors are nicely sealed. The wooden run smells of fresh-cut wood. The wooden balls are crafted well with a nice weight to them making them attractive to toddlers.
C. Price/Value: I am a firm believer that you get what you pay for in most cases. This is a toy that will be with your family for years growing with your child/children. The price point for this toy is just under $100 in the United States. This is a German-made toy that sells for around $80 in Europe. For my family, I’d rather have fewer toys that are more expensive than more cheap low-quality toys that head for the landfill.
4. Longevity:
A. Landfill or Heirloom: The Haba Ball Track is 100% heirloom quality. These types of heirloom-quality toys are hard to come by. My Haba My First Ball Track is something I will hand down to the next generation.
B. Lifespan of Toy (Age Range): To ensure many years of family play, all Haba toys are designed to grow with the child. Haba’s “creative play system” allows this toy to grow with your child from 18+ months to 12 years old and even beyond. Teens and adults have fun building the Haba marble runs in which the toddler ball run can become an “add-on” component. There are not many toys out there that can be appropriate and fun for babyhood to adulthood.
C. Multi-age Families: The ball run is perfect for multi-aged families because there are no choking hazards to worry about. An added benefit is that this set promotes older children to help younger siblings build and engage. We love having both components, the ball run, and the marble run. The options are endless for kids of all ages to design and implement the run.
5. Versatility:
A. Combinable with other toys: Haba makes this “creative play system” by having all the ball, marble, and block sets work together. First, the different sets that you purchase allow you to create more. Second, there are endless possibilities with the ball/marble run combination or ball/block set combination. My 3-year-old makes a car freeway for his diecast cars to drive on. My 7-year-old uses the ramps as roofing for his buildings in conjunction with the block set. The rainbow bases make a fun stacking game and also add color when using the Haba basic building block sets.
B. Creativity Function: The rainbow base pieces have wooden pegs that help stabilize the tracks when building. This helps the track to stay put for little hands even if the constructors bump against it. I love how the sky is the limit for open-ended toys such as this. It is beautiful and attractive and is the perfect link between stacking and free building.
C. Storage: This comes in a box with a handle for storage. Haba’s basic block sets come with additional generously sized storage canvas bags as a nice bonus. If you purchase a block set, you can add the ball run to it for storage.
Final Review for Haba Kullerbu Spiral Track:
Overall, I highly recommend this toy for your family even with the high price point. I assure you that you can’t go wrong with any of the wooden construction type “creative play system” components that Haba offers. Haba delivers beautifully crafted high-quality heirloom wooden toys. This type of open-ended educational and creatively functional toy is a must for any family’s toy collection.
The Haba Kullerbu Spiral Track is a fun and engaging addition to the Kullerbu play system. It encourages problem-solving and creativity, develops fine motor skills, stimulates imagination and storytelling, promotes spatial awareness, and encourages cooperative play. The Kullerbu Spiral Track offers endless possibilities for creativity, problem-solving, and imaginative play, making it a high-quality and engaging toy that is sure to provide hours of entertainment for your child.
Your children will enter that “engaging concentration” during playtime which is helping in their development. You will also enjoy your time building together which is a win in my opinion. In conclusion, you cannot go wrong with any of the Haba wooden construction components and your family will love them for years to come.
