Toddlers should be laughing and learning.

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It's amazing to watch children move from infancy to toddlerhood and recognize how quickly they learn and absorb knowledge from their ordinary activities. (If only we could preserve that sponge-like ability in our adult years.) Fisher-Price, East Aurora, N.Y., understands this, and has developed the Laugh & Learn collection to delight and teach babies through everyday experiences.

The 2-in-1 Learning Kitchen ($65) reinforces learning concepts through entertaining music, sounds, songs, and activities. The front side of the kitchen offers a refrigerator with a shape sorter, stove with spin numbers, and sink where kids can drop balls in for counting. As they crawl through the doorway, triggering music, sing-along songs, dancing lights, and fun sounds, they discover the back side, with a radio that plays songs, greetings, and fun phrases, a clock with movable arms, and a light switch that turns on and off.

The kitchen offers three interactive modes: Learning Time, which teaches the alphabet, counting, and concepts such as opposites (up/down, on/off, open/shut, in/out); Music Time, with 21 songs; and Imagination, with role-playing and...