Great toy for building visual-spatial skills!
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We frequently order items from Amazon, and this is literally the first time I have written a review. That's how great this product is!

I had seen KEVA planks at various children's museums and always thought they were pretty boring. But I was looking for activities to work on visual-spatial skills with my 5-year-old, and kept coming across them, so I bought this set as a "starter" before investing in a larger set.

This set is fantastic! It is small and portable and the cards are perfect design-starters for younger kids. There are far more ways to use these blocks than I had imagined.

As a former early childhood educator and parent of a highly capable child, I would recommend these without hesitation.
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Putting jigsaw puzzles together helps young children develop hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills, and problem solving skills. My four-year-old daughter has recently become extremely interested in doing puzzles, and my one-year-old son likes to do everything that his big sister does. She can manage puzzles with about a dozen pieces pretty well on her own now, and she feels a great sense of accomplishment when she finishes a puzzle by herself. She was extremely excited to put together her new Old MacDonald's Farm My First Sing-Along Puzzle from The Learning Journey for the first time. I dumped out the pieces, and she set to work. She was able to put the entire puzzle together in a few minutes. She was quite proud of herself too!

The big, chunky pieces of the Old MacDonald's Farm My First Sing-Along Puzzle make it a perfect educational toy for older toddlers and preschoolers. The pieces are easy for small hands to grab. My son is only 19 months old, but he can already pick up the pieces with ease. He enjoys "helping" his big sister with the pieces --- much to her chagrin. My daughter also had an easy time picking up the pieces as she worked on the puzzle. For some reason, the larger pieces helped her figure out the puzzle more easily. She sometimes still has difficulty with small puzzles with the same number of pieces. The large pieces of this puzzle are definitely a plus!

Both my kids and I enjoy the bright and colorful picture of Old MacDonald on his farm. My son loves animals, and he kept saying "Ooh!" as he pointed to the different animals on the farm. He is also working on learning his animal noises, and he enjoyed mimicking the different animal sounds that I made for him as he pointed at each farm animal. My daughter also liked looking at the picture, both before and after she completed the puzzle. The bright and colorful pieces definitely help hold the attention of even the youngest children.

Finally, both my kids love the sound module that comes with the Old MacDonald's Farm My First Sing-Along Puzzle from The Learning Journey. I must admit that I am not a fan of toys that make noise because I frankly am not a fan of noise. My kids, however, like most kids, are drawn to sound-producing toys. As soon as I showed my son that the button played a song, he took off with the sound module and repeatedly played "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" over and over and over again. My daughter also likes toys that make noise and play music, and Old MacDonald Had a Farm" is one of her favorite songs to sing. Both my kids really loves that this educational toy plays a song that they can sing along with while working on the puzzle. I received a puzzle in exchange for my honest opinion.
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My 9 year grandson loves this game.  It uses those spatial abilities that I apparently lack.  He looks at the card and immediately imitates it with his set of cubes.  Each player has a nice wooden tray to arrange their tiles.  The parts are well made and colorful.
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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.
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Great gift for my 1 year old to practice his visual motor skills. As a pediatric OT,  i love this toy. My 3 year old also loves to play with it too, however it is too easy for her so she finishes it quickly.
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I thought our 2, 3, and 5 year old kids might have fun with this and I was right! I also think it's good for building hand-eye coordination and following visual directions.

They do have fun, but they don't like doing it competitively. We flip a card and build it. Then when everyone's done, we flip another. The two year old sometimes needs extra help, but they do all have fun.

 I thought that the 6 blocks each wouldn't keep their interest, but it really is their favorite game. Without the competitive rush, they just really like that they can build the things.

So when you're tired of Candyland, Memory, etc, give this a try!
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This has been a great product for my 5 year old, who will be entering Kindergarten in the next few weeks.  She is an active, hands-on learner, who has trouble focusing on activities that aren't physical.  First, she colors the pictures, then after I put on the contact paper, she practices her cutting skills, then she helps put in the brass tab and then she has a new toy!  She just loves the idea that she is learning to read words.  She has been frustrated trying to sound out words in the level 1 books and seeing her friends have more success with that process.  We do one a day and she can't wait to show off her new phonogram to rest of the family in the evening.
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Our 8-month-old son outgrew his favorite toy (the Fisher-Price Jumperoo) about a month ago. His increased mobility meant the Jumperoo felt more constricting than freeing, and we'd been having trouble finding a new toy to fill the void left in the Jumperoo's disuse. We stumbled across this on accident and bought it because it reminded us of several toys we'd loved in childhood, with the added bonus they were all rolled into one.

We cannot stress how much our son loves this toy. Each face has something different for him to explore. When he's finished with one side for the time being, he'll move around to other sides or the top to keep the amusement coming. Even as I type, he's busy banging closed the doors on one side of the cube.

The top is easily the best part for both us and our son. David's had a fabulous time using it not only to stand but to figure out, finally, how to fall into a sit. The day before yesterday, he literally giggled the whole time he practiced sitting for an hour. More practice yesterday and he's both a falling and a sitting pro. Note, as another reviewer mentioned, you DO have to sit close by, because the wrong lean *can* lead it to tip for a not-yet-autonomous stander. This happens in maybe a quarter - probably a high estimate - of our son's stands so far.

Then there's all the fun in pushing the top toys along their preset paths along the top. The bridges encourages him to figure out movement under and on both sides of each bridge. This is in addition to watching him explore both pushing animals (and beads!) along their path and figuring out how to rotate them in circles where they stand.

We're amazed how much fun and challenge can be fit into one single cube. This is beautifully designed, aesthetically pleasing, free from sharp corners and overall an amazing toy. We're honestly trying to think who else we can buy one of these for! The temptation is rather strong to just play with it ourselves.

If only we'd had this as children! :)
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Greatest little puzzle to help with hand eye coordination. My daughter loves these puzzles. At first she had difficulty using the magnet, but once she got the hang of it She didn't want to stop! Melissa and Doug make a quality product with children and learning in mind!
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I am so glad that I have this for my 2.8 years old girl. She could practice focusing well and learn about color. Thanks for creating kind of this toys!! I am your fan!!
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Classic toys like this are GREAT at helping young children develop skills like concentration and practice patience. This set incluces a wooden storage box, several long and colorful laces, and large wooden beads in primary colors.

Very well-made, durable, and of excellent quality. The set is a wonderful tool to help kiddos sustain attention on a quiet activity. In a world of lights and action, this is a fantastic addition for families looking to encourage children to sharpen fine motor skills and build concentration while playing.
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This is a great item for my almost 2 year old especially for improving fine motor dexterity while getting to know colors and counting objects. I think it would be helpful if additional pegs could be purchased, as there are not enough to fill all the colors on some of the images.
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This made such a wonderful gift! Such a creative toy! It covers so many aspects for a little one to learn besides colors, shapes and walking. Key words, such as 'off, on, piano keys, telephone, wheels, walk, spin, say hello (when picking up the telephone). It has been very helpful as a walker with the two different walking settings located in the rear wheels. Especially, when your little one is just learning how to walk, the walker moves along with your child's pace without having them slip forward with the correct wheel setting.  My son is ready to make a VTech commercial anytime :)
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Our 22 month old loves these blocks. Great for eye-hand coordination at this age. Also, started teaching colors. It's great having a toy that doesn't requires batteries (hoo-ray) and allows child to utilize their imagination in constructing different shapes and colors.
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I got this for my 2 year old son to practice his fine motor skills. It has helped alot and he has fun with it at the same time. The animals are painted with nice bright colors and there's a good variety of them, which also helps with adding words to his vocabulary as we practice saying the animal names. I have a 12 month old daughter that will also benefit from this toy later on down the road. Very happy with this set!
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I had to reorder another 100 of these for my in-home preschool. My preschool babies absolutely love these and they make amazing towers, structures, and even use them as tracks on the floor for their cars. The magnets help them to build fine motor skills and the shapes work to build math skills! When you pair these with the light table you have an amazing brain stimulating learning toy!
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These have been a great addition to our learning toy toolkit! We've been using for a few months and my 6-year-old who has cognitive special needs is making huge improvements in her math skills and memory recall. She enjoys this product and sees it as a game rather than "learning". Highly recommend!