cut my hand

I gave this a 3 out of 5 cause my little girl knows her letters and sounds of letters. Under the number it has the word of that number. So instead of remembering the number she’s looking at and remembering the words at the bottom.

it was good quality. came on time

I just received this item and the sliding plastic lid doesn’t work because the box is too full. Bad design

Bought many toys from Melissa and Doug, this product's quality is really bad.

A little harder to use with preschoolers than I had expected. Good quality, maybe for older children.

I love MD products and have always had the best of luck with all of their toys and puzzles. This puzzle was a little different. The quality was great, but the 34;exciting34; element was missing for our family. For our younger child, age 3, she wasn't really paying attention to the numbers, rather she was just using trial and error to fit the pieces together. I guess this isn't the biggest of deals because maybe you want to be there with your kid when they're doing a puzzle, but for me I LOVE when they can do a puzzle on their own and feel like they're learning without me being there. I can see this puzzle being a good teaching tool in a classroom. What I wish MD would do, or any puzzle maker, would be to make the shapes/objects individual puzzle pieces to match to the numbers. Kind of like a peg puzzle. For example, you have the number 10 on a board/puzzle piece- then the child needs to find all 10 bananas to put on there. I feel like this would give them a better hands on idea of numbers and really give them a feel for the amount instead of it being more abstract as this puzzle is.