Melissa & Doug Stack and Sort Board - Wooden Educational Toy for age 2+ years With 15 Solid Wood Pieces

Nice vibrant colors, sturdy, big enough to not choke on but not so big they don’t fit in toddler hands. I got it for my 12 month old. It says 2+ but I can’t see any reason it wouldn’t be good for a 1 year old.Good toy to grow with him. Just sliding them on the legs now but later colors, shapes, counting too.Only complaint is the bottom is thin and curved so it knocks over sometimes but not often enough to actually be an issue.

Love this toy for my son. He is autistic non-verbal. He loves stacking and this is a great to to show him shapes and colors! The poles are also colored so makes it easy for him to recognize!

This is a high quality toy, the kind you can keep and let your grandchildren play with 35 years from now. This is beautifully classic and made of wood. You can use it as intended: a sorting toy. A very young child, as young as 18 months (or younger) in my opinion, can play with this and start learning about colors, shapes, placing the pieces in the pegs, building a little wood tower and so on. There are many possibilities when using a toy like this one and it is therefore very educational.My children do not play with this toy every day. Like many of these classics they are sometimes put away and forgotten for a time. But then you bring them out of their corner (where they look very attractive if arranged properly) and the kids can have a lovely time with them. I find usually I have to engage the children: ask to find the pentagon and look, doesn't it look like a red house? Do you remember? Fire trucks are red too. And so on. It is a good bonding experience. The kids usually keep on playing with this for a few minutes, giving mommy some time to take idyllic pictures for social media of little angels actually playing with wood toys until it's time to put it away (they start throwing pieces or no longer behaving like angels). Keeping it real lol.We have had this for two years. I posted a picture I took right before I wrote this. It looks new!The problems with this toy are those you would have with anything made of wood: it is noisy in hardwood floors, and can hurt you or your windows if a child throws one of these pieces. However, you should be fine with supervision.

Before my second child arrived, I was looking for a few durable new toys that my toddler would (hopefully!) play with while I was taking care of the new baby. I really like this toy. It is a solid toy with vibrant colors that I know will last us as a family for years to come.As a teacher, I was really excited about all of the educational possibilities in this one toy. We have sorted by color, shape, and practiced counting with each item. My toddler loves to pretend to put the pieces on the wrong colored peg and then laugh when mommy looks shocked. He practices counting how many are on each color, and has started naming all of the shapes. He can learn a lot through play with this one item which makes this teacher mom happy. Lots of learning and less stuff! :)Basically, this toy is definitely worth the price and won't look junky on your shelves.

This is a great toy that is, as other reviewers have noted, multi-faceted. My initial goal with this toy was to work with my son on his fine motor delays, and this toy, because the pegs are a bit bigger, was a good fit for where he was at when we bought it...just enough to challenge him, but still within the range of being possible for him to do with some effort. Over time, we were able to progress him up to color matching the pegs, and also shape sorting skills.For us personally, I didn't notice any paint flaking issues, but because my son pretty much views the whole world as a chew toy, he did chew on this and eventually manage to take some paint off at the corners. I actually felt like it held up astonishingly well to the amount of abuse he put it through with the chewing.We eventually donated the toy so he wouldn't fixate on it when we needed to progress him to toys with smaller pegs or shapes that required shapes to be aligned to multiple pegs. But he actually really, really enjoyed playing with this one, he found it highly motivating, and it did wonders for helping to develop his skills on multiple fronts.

Bright colors and so well made. One twin was engaged for more than 30 minutes! It was cool watching them figure it out. ❤️ Both loved playing with this.

This is definitely a toy that is best played with when someone is able to play with baby. Baby loves it though! The pieces are big enough not to be a choking hazard and there's lots of things you could teach baby while using it. You could teach them about putting pieces on the pegs, teach them about colors and eventually teach counting. The struggle with this toy though is the pieces get lost easily -- especially if kids are allowed to play with it on their own. We have three scheduled clean up times a day to "reset" our house and every flipping time there's one of these pieces missing and I spend 5 minutes looking for it. Between this and another toy I'm constantly keeping an eye on where pieces have gone.

Great quality wooden stacking toy, my 18mo old enjoys playing with it and it keeps her busy for a little bit.