Puzzle Reviews

What a great Trivia Puzzle. Took about 3 to 4 hrs to complete. Lots of fun. The Border is the hardest to put together. Nice way to spend an afternoon. I will be purchasing others soon.

We bought this puzzle for my then 2 year old as he had mastered the barn puzzle (which is also amazing). There are monkeys, tigers, butterflies, and numerous other jungle animals. I had to look up several of the animals as I was not sure of what they were. This was a good educational experience for both me and my son. This puzzle is durable as are all of the M&D floor puzzles. It has been stepped on and thrown across the room by a highly rambunctions child. I have had this puzzle for over a year, and it looks great. I rotate this puzzle with the other Melissa and Doug floor puzzzles that we have. I recommend any of their floor puzzles as they are great quality and have easy to handle pieces for kids. They are a great opportunity to teach about different subjects and teach new words to children.

I've had this kite for two years now. It's definitely not your grandfather's kite! It is reasonably priced, and a lot of fun to fly, but it does take some skill and patience, and a little practice to get good at flying it. You also need a certain amount of arm length to fly it effectively. As a result, I wouldn't recommend this kite for children under 10. Younger children would just get frustrated. Kids old enough to fly it correctly it will think it's a blast.
Points to note:
This kite has two strings. To make it dive to the right you pull the right-hand string. Opposite for the left. Pretty simple.
This kite is easy to assemble, and easy to disassemble again to take with you.
A strong, steady wind works best. I have had good luck at the beach.
It's easiest to launch the kite with a second person helping you. You need to set the kite down in a large, open area, walk away from the kite (into the wind) while letting out all of the string, and then have your partner hold it up into the wind while you pull evenly on both of the strings. If the wind is strong enough the kite will take right off.
Once you get a little practice, it's fun to try diving the kite as close to the ground as possible without crashing.
Happy flying!

The object is to get your logger from one end og the board to the other while following pretty obvious rules. 40 different cards provide a challenge for all levels. Loads of fun.

All 4 of my kids had a ball with this puzzle. Comes with a magnifying glass. Around the perimeter of puzzle are hidden images to find that are really tiny. My children are ages 14,11,7, and 3.We put it together on the dining room table where it was the talk of the house for 3 days. Best puzzle we ever put together.

I bought this puzzle for my kids, after buying the Secret World Puzzle Ocean version. This is a great series! First, you build the puzzle and then you search for the tiny objects hidden in the picture with the cute, little magnifying glass that comes with it. It is a lot of fun and a great idea.
I must for your kids, especially on rainy days!

I bought this puzzle for my two daughters. It was more fun than I could have imagined! We put the puzzle together and then afterwards, had a blast searching for the tiny hidden images with the little magnifying glass included. It was so fun, they took it apart and did it over again. What a great idea for a puzzle. Usually, we put it together and that's it. This is like 2 activities for the price of one!

As a teacher and a parent, I highly recommend this item. It's perfect for the classroom because it doesn't take up a ton of space, yet it holds twelve puzzles. It's also pretty inexpensive for a storage case, not to mention that the class actually likes to put the puzzles away with this case!

I'm buying one for my house, as well. It has tipped ends that won't scratch my hardwoods, which makes my husband happy, and it means that I can buy a couple of more puzzles because they store so easily, and more puzzles, of course, please my children.

Simplicity and grace. A little like Tetris in appearance, similar objective (remove rising lines of blocks), but no twisting of pieces - just rapid fire mouse clicking. Some pieces cannot be removed without the help of the occasional bomb that shows up.

Lots of options and different variations of game play are available. The maker will let you download a demo to try out. Try it once and you'll have to play again and again - and finally you'll have to just buy it so you can play it every day. Great sound effects with stereo sound compliment game play - options let you modify music and sound effect volumes independently.

Word to the wise ... use a new battery. The engine has a hard time pulling the coal car on the hills without a strong battery.

My nephew loved playing with the train set. I purchased the figure 8 set, along with the bay bridge and some additional tracks ... and I still wanted more! He seemed to be thrilled with what he had.

He even used his Lego cars to drive on the ground over the railroad tracks. I can't wait until Christmas so I can buy him some additional sets to connect to this one.