fantastic puzzle and great fidget item
924735
what a fantastic puzzle, not to mention great fidget item just to play with in your hands.  such a delight
1054723
High quality on both sides of the puzzle pieces. The art is darling and case VERY handy. The kids play with it for a long time.
4293289
The pieces fit together with a snap - the sort of snugness that is highly unusual (when it was complete I was able to pick the whole thing up by a corner - it was THAT snug!). It was a fun puzzle - lots of colors and things to look at. This was one of my favorites that I have done in the last year! I highly recommend it!
3336363
This is a great toy and works as a simple puzzle appropriate for young children. The quality is outstanding and children love it!
670817
My 4 year and I both love these puzzles!! They are really nice quality and very colorful. Plus they came with 2 mini posters that we will be hanging in his room. Definitely going to be buying more of this brand.
1885056
Ive never seen a wooden puzzle set. And I must say my daughter and I are beyond happy with this product.

The box contains four sets of puzzles which are separated.

At first I wondered what would happy if the puzzled happened to get mixed inside. But the pieces are nicely indicated on the back with either a red square, triangle, circle or diamond which indicates which pieces go with which. Which I thought was genius.

Melissa and Doug products are really top quality toys. Always impressed and pleased.
3434901
We came across this puzzle in a hands-on room at a museum. My (just turned) 5 year-old daughter found it challenging and seemed to really like it.
I ordered the puzzle for her to have at home but unfortunately it took over 6 weeks to ship.
Now that we have it, she has mastered it very easily, although she still loves to dump it out and do it.
The puzzle is very well made with four layers. The bottom puzzle has 2 pieces, the second layer has 4, third layer has 6 and the largest puzzle on top has 8 pieces. I would highly recommend this puzzle for children age 3 to 5. It would also get a lot of use in a preschool, especially to help teach stages and plant growth, fractions, counting and counting by twos.
1026142
Love the game- now we love the puzzle.

My just turned five year old loves this puzzle. She currently puts it together several times a day (and she has plenty of other things she could be playing with.) She loves seeing the characters from the card game.

The pieces are study- not too big and not too small to handle. The detail on each piece makes puzzle completion relatively easy.

This is a great entry puzzle if you are looking to move up on piece quantity. We quickly went from 60 pieces to this without any problems.
2618872
My 2.5 year old son got this for the holidays... he is crazy about this puzzle. He could put it together with some help right away, but now, he can even work on it independently. The colors are vibrant and the construction is durable. And, he really enjoys talking about the different insects pictured. This is a puzzle he wants to come back to again and again.
1735104
This is such a great and well made puzzle. I am a huge fan of Melissa and Doug products, they are always well made and affordable. These jumbo puzzles are great for toddlers and my two year old son especially likes puzzles that have knobs on the pieces. This is a great puzzle to learn shapes and colors, my son genuinely enjoys this puzzle and has not become bored of it. He has mastered how to do it but still finds it enjoyable. Puzzles are great for toddlers at this age and they are a great learning tool. I highly recommend .
230111
My 3.5 year old son got this puzzle for Christmas and he loves it. It is a little hard for him but he can do it with help. The image itself is really pretty and the cardboard is really thick and unlike other puzzles should hold up to years of use. The pieces are a good size for toddlers and are easy to fit together. If I had one minor complaint it would be that the image could be full size on one side of the box to make it easier for young children to use as a reference. We also got the zoo scene puzzle. My son is enjoying both.
2511410
My 3 year old and 4 year old love the puzzles - even my 6 year old has fun putting them together and playing the games.  This is wonderful for motor development as well as helping the kids to learn their ABC's and numbers.  Each puzzle has 3 games to play to make learning fun.  What a wonderful idea - I hope Leap Frog comes out with more puzzles like these.
167243
I got this toy for my son's girlfriend's son, Sammy, a somewhat mechanically precocious 5-yr-old.  When we opened the box, Sammy said, "awesome!"  He needed some adult help to see how to follow the instructions about the yellow frame rings and the blue mold for the puzzle.

This puzzle has an ingenious design.  The pieces for the two halves are marked on the back -- and the pieces are numbered on the back, too.  Then, each of the two starter pieces for each half has two stick-out shapes on the back that fit into like-shaped holes on opposite sides of the frame piece.  Once the straight-edge pieces between the two starter pieces have been put together, that holds the puzzle together -- but Sammy needed an adult to help hold the two starter pieces in place on opposite sides of the yellow ring while he snapped in the final piece between the two.  Once that part was accomplished he could finish assembling the half.  When one half is completed, you lift it off the blue mold and then put on the other ring to assemble the other half -- Sammy needed a little help to understand this concept.  After both halves are assembled and removed from the mold, you snap them together and -- voila! -- a captivating undersea globe that Sammy likes to look at.  An adult can disassemble the puzzle so it can be done again, but 5-yr-old hands seem not quite strong enough to do that.

The only trick the manufacturer missed was that the mold COULD make a perfect display stand if the puzzle included something to set the mold into so that it would not roll away.  We are going to get some modeling clay to make such a piece so that Sammy can enjoy displaying his underwater globe.

This is an extremely well-built toy!  Sammy's mom loves it.  Sammy loves it.  And I am glad I got to share this little toy experience with Sammy and his mom.
1317329
Alright.  These are awesome.
There are 3 puzzles, one with numbers 0-9, one with the alphabet (all caps), and one with differently colored fish.
What I love about these puzzles is that they have stuff UNDER the peg puzzle piece.  For instance, under the letter "A" of the alphabet puzzle, there is a picture of something that begins with "A", and so on through the alphabet.  It's really great and makes it easy to link the sound of the letter to the actual letter...
The numbers have the correlating number of things under the puzzle piece...under the number one is one snake, under the 2 are two somethings, and so on through number 9.
The fish/colors are great, too, I think they have the actual name of the color under the piece?  But all the tails fit on all the fish, so you can mix them up and have the kid put them where they belong.

These things are HOURS of fun, I tell ya.  HOURS.  My daughter wants to do them every day when I get home from work.
991149
My son received these as a gift for his 3rd birthday and he loves them! As with all M & D stuff, the pieces are very sturdy and will hold up to being put together and taken apart dozens of times. The storage box is great since it is divided to keep the puzzles separated. All pieces are marked with a shape on the back for quick sorting.
2687492
This is a great puzzle.  My 2 1/2 year old son is able to figure out all the puzzles and he likes to use them as building blocks too!  So far the blocks seem durable and he has not grown bored of this toy.  It is also small enough to take when traveling (he puts the blocks in his backpack without the board).  This toy is a great tool for pattern recognition as well as motor skills.
3054745
This was a really fun puzzle to assemble.  My son loved the "false" edges and I loved the pieces that were split in two.  Lots of fun and a challenge for my puzzling boys.  The picture is so cute, too - might just frame it for their room!