BeginAgain Animal Parade A to Z Puzzle and Playset - Educational Wooden Alphabet Puzzle - 2 and Up

Purchased for a holiday charity donation. Very sturdy and durable, but had to laugh at some of the animal choices. Nobody in my office could guess if F was a fish or fox and the duck as the N for nightingale was a hoot.

This is an awesome and unique puzzle. Not only is it very well made and pretty, but its super useful for creative and spatial thinking, as well as learning letters of course. I was concerned that it would be boring for my son, after solving it a few times, since the alphabet doesnt change. However, I was totally wrong. Because of the nature of the shapes, it is always a fun challenge and not something you can just memorize position-wise, regardless of how well you know the alphabet. I was also pleasantly surprised to learn that there are lowercase letters on one side and uppercase on the other, so you can solve the puzzle in two directions. My 3.5 year old loves this, and so do I!

I love this puzzle and so do my kids. It is beautifully carved out of wood and could easily just be artwork. But, it really is educational with the upper and lower case alphabet on the front and back. Plus, each is an animal of the same letter. It is challenging to put together but thats what makes it such a great puzzle. My younger kids just like using the animals in creative play while my older daughter actually uses it as it is intended as a puzzle.

My son loves it. He solves this puzzle almost daily. Built very sturdy.

This puzzle is so cute. Got it for my 5 year old grandson. The animals are easy to recognize & fun to play along with. I prefer to have supervised play with this because we end up making it a game of it. I point out the letter that is printed on the animal, then one by one we attach the next animal. Even if we only get through some of the alphabet, I know hell retain the letters we worked with.

The bear came with the upper case b side scratched, and nothing was on the lower case b side at all. But my kids love it regardless.

My 2 year old perfected this by 25 months. Bought him it for his 2 year birthday because he loves puzzles. Keeps him busy. Hell complete this over and over 5 times before bed. Keeps him occupied for me to get dishes done. Sturdy. Great quality.

My son just got this and he’s absolutely smitten by the puzzle and animal characters.

Pro: My toddler can play with this toy for many months to come. The first challenge is to solve the problem. The second one is to stack and balance the pieces. The third one, my toddler tried to fit the pieces into a shape sorter cube (such as this: https://www.amazon.com/Building-Preschool-Educational-Learning-Christmas/dp/B00GYUZLKY). Cons: 1. The pieces are not intuitively fit together. There is a better BeginAgain product called Animal Parade which is similar to this puzzle. Animal Parade is much more intuitive. The designer of Farm A-Z puzzle seemed to have run out of ideas how to fit some of the puzzles. 2. My toddler loves to play the pieces with her bath. The colors fade. Slowly. But they fade.

We all had fun learning the planets and other interesting facts about Space. It was the perfect gift for our grandson.