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Your cart is empty.An ideal first manipulative! Five double-sided boards with 10 recessed design templates are ready to fill with these brightly colored geometric shapes. Complete the pictures or create your own designs and matching activities. Everything stores neatly in the sturdy wooden storage box. Our wooden pattern blocks and boards are a classic math manipulative and learning activity. It’s great for spatial awareness, color recognition, hand-eye coordination, and problem-solving. This Melissa & Doug wooden blocks for kids set features double-sided boards that provide kids with even more creative play opportunities. Kids can complete the pictures or create their own designs. The Melissa & Doug Beginner Wooden Pattern Blocks set makes an exceptional gift for kids from 2 to 4 years. Add the Melissa & Doug 100-Piece Wood Block Set to round out the play experience and give kids another engaging option for screen-free fun. For more than 30 years, Melissa & Doug has created beautifully designed imagination- and creativity-sparking products that NBC News called “the gold standard in early childhood play.” Today, Melissa & Doug is proudly partnering with the American Academy of Pediatrics to foster early brain development and help children build important life skills through play.
CAsunsets!
Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2025
Great purchase so far. Got it for my 2.5 year old, we are able to engage him in talking about colors, shapes, numbers and dif images when playing with this set. It’s great to have the box to keep all the pieces in though it has no cover. Overall, I highly recommend!
Dani
Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2025
My kid loves these, great for motor skills
The Brafford Family
Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2024
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Amy W.
Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2024
20 month old granddaughter loves playing with these puzzles. Naming colors and shapes. Placing the shapes into the puzzle. We give her a group of shapes and she has to figure out which puzzle they go with. Lots of options. Well made. Easy to handle. Will last to past down to her brother.
Rosie
Reviewed in Canada on May 1, 2023
Very solidly built. Great fun to use. The two sided boards and storage box are easy for little ones handle. All the pieces are solid wood. The bright colours and large shapes are perfect for little hands.
Alba
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 6, 2022
Very good quality toy. Good to practice shapes and colours. Each wooden board has 2 designs, so 10 in total. Unfortunately this is not my toddler go to toy. He likes other jigsaws better. Probably just his preference?
Ajeet Karn
Reviewed in India on May 22, 2019
Very nice my 2 year old loves it.
Cliente
Reviewed in Italy on April 28, 2017
Perfetto per i bambini da 2 a 4 anni. Imparano le forme geometriche, colori, affinano la notificata fine! Ottima qualità.
Andrea H. Cummings
Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2012
We got this for my son when he was 21 months old. He immediately loved it and it kept his attention longer than any thing else. He was able to figure out the puzzles pretty easily and his only difficulty was with the triangles (they are not equilateral so they have to go in a certain way). The triangle actually presented a great opportunity to teach him to keep trying and not give up, even when it doesn't go right in. By the time he was 2 he had completely mastered it and has moved on to harder pattern block sets. He is now 2 years 3 months and is working on pattern blocks recommended for ages 4+ (He mastered the next level pretty quickly as well, we just keep getting a harder set, the most recent set is progressively harder so it should grow with him more). This was a great introduction (and he still loves to get this one out to this day) and I would recommend parents to get this at ~18 months and just try it. This helped my son focus on an activity, learn his shapes (saying the words), learn to combine shapes to make a larger one (2 triangle=1 square, 2 squares=1 rectangle in this set), learn to get past learning frustrations and keep trying, and generally introduce him to pattern blocks. Overall great educational toy.
Renee
Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2008
I bought this for my son's second birthday. He loved it and took to it right away. He spent over an hour on it the first time. He's had it for a few weeks now and he sometimes pulls it out and asks to "make pictures". He is so proud of himself when he fits the pieces in and when he completes a puzzle, he claps and cheers for himself. I had been wanting to get him a puzzle that is made up of basic shapes so this works well. I call out the names of the shapes as he puts them in and he repeats them. It's also good for teaching colours. The only thing he sometimes has a problem with is the triangles, because they are not equilateral, so he has to turn them to fit them in. Sometimes he gets a little frustrated but I think it's good he has a bit of a challenge - he's learning to turn them so it's an accomplishment when he fits them in. I love Melissa and Doug products. This as usual, is durable and attractive. There are more interesting puzzles in the box than what the picture shows - there is a train, fire truck, house, flowers, butterfly, dog, etc. I'm really glad I got this for him.
ZooMama
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2007
...from Melissa & Doug.Beyond the obvious shape, color & object learning, this toy is just plain fun! I'm a fan of wooden toys; the less toxic plastic in my world the better.My preschooler son enjoys this one a great deal & will get it out on his own, dumping it all over the floor. The puzzles are two-sided & along with the shape pieces, stored in it's own compartmented box. I wish it came with a lid, either sliding or flap, but not having a lid does make it easier for my son to see what's inside.The only downside, is the many pieces to pick up, but you can make it a fun game with your child by asking him or her to pick up first by color, then by shape, etc.There are points of course on the angular pieces, but with some supervision no one should get hurt. Hey, your child can get hurt walking...so far, no one's gotten poked, pricked or banged except when my son throws the pieces around, as he does with everything.A good puzzle set for the toddler in your life.UPDATE...almost 2 years on & the paint has held up, the wood has held up, all in all so far fairly durable. My son still plays with the puzzles & has fun!
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