Best Paper & Magnetic Dolls
From classic wooden toys to crafts, pretend play, and games, Melissa & Doug products provide a launch pad to ignite imagination and a sense of wonder in all children so they can discover themselves, their passions, and their purpose. Wooden magnetic doll to dress in eight different outfits.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Classic Melissa & Doug product made with care."
"Older kids can go the extra mile creating their own stories and imagining."
"This is a lovely toy for the grand daughter."
"I thought it was neat and would hold their attention more (3.5 yo boy and 20 month girl) but it went over so-so."
"A girl dress up doll with a chef, artist, fire fighter, doctor, and other awesome outfits."
"Great sub for paper dolls of the past."
"My granddaughter loves it."
Abby and Emma love to play dress-up and exchange mix-and-match outfits. 2 play sets in one.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"She played for over an hour with these dolls- she had them go to the office and to work, and then to the playground and school. A cover for the case would have been preferable, but my granddaughter is careful with her toys, so they have their own place. Her imagination is pretty vivid, and she and I had fun changing outfits and deciding what the day's activites would be. I would highly recommend any of Melissa and Doug's toys, It is a company that can be relied upon."
"My granddaughter is SO into paper dolls....I bought a tiny little set at the. dollar store & put it into her "go to the restaurant lunch pail" that is only. played with when out to eat."
"You cannot realistically store the pieces in it--the flimsy plastic cover does not close over the pieces unless a certain number of them are magnetized onto the 'models', and there are too many small pieces to let it hang around. The other critic I have is that the pieces do not all fit both the dolls."
"They are far superior to the cardboard dolls they had back when I was a girl."
"I remember playing paper dolls with the tabs on the dresses to hold them on."
"There's teeny tiny magnetic shoes for each of those teeny tiny feet. My daughter is two and she owns tons of toys for older ages and is fine with them, but this set, I won't let her have a large portion of the little magnetic pieces for fear they will be mistaken for a raisin, or even eaten by one of our dogs. It doesn't seem as though it was well thought out (teeny tiny pieces, unable to layer, magnets not even as strong as those for M&D wooden magnetic letters)."
From classic wooden toys to crafts, pretend play, and games, Melissa & Doug products provide a launch pad to ignite imagination and a sense of wonder in all children so they can discover themselves, their passions, and their purpose. Enter your model number to make sure this fits.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I ended up ordering the Nina Ballerina one for my daughter and Melissa & Doug Joey Magnetic Wooden Dress-Up Pretend Play Set (25+ pcs) for my son. This Nina Ballerina Magnetic Dress-Up Pretend Play Set is a wonderful gift idea for a little girl who enjoys using her imagination and playing dress up (because what girl doesn't like that????). There are a total of six outfits that mostly include ballet costumes of the tops, bottoms, shoes, and headpieces.There are also three more "outfits" that I thought were outfits but must not be counted in the six. There are 27 total costume pieces (we are missing one from our set which is somewhere in the abyss of my daughter's room) and they are all magnetic."
"I wish Melissa and Doug had created a piece of wood to slide in the box and act as a cover so it could stack on a shelf or to take on the go without worrying about losing little pieces."
"It is a quality play set but it has no lid or anyway to keep it all together for individual play time. Our grand D is great playing with one item at a time and putting it away but a cover or lid would be nice."
"The outfit pieces magnetize onto the doll with ease."
"Bought for my daughter for Christmas- she likes changing the clothes."
"So cute, my granddaughter opened it up and played with this first on Christmas."
"My 3year old daughter loves playing with this toy."
Best Magnetic Dress-up Dolls
Size: Abby and Emma Dress-Up Dolls Play Set. The wooden figures can each be dressed in a variety of magnetic outfits and a list of extensions activities is included to help children learn as they play.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The organs and skin layers have girls parts and boy parts."
"You can only attach one layer of parts to the big skeleton."
"Already my little boy has brought the inner workings of the intestine to me and asked about how it works."
"The teacher wasn't prepared for full frontal and internal private parts."
"My 2.5 and 4.5 year old love this activity."
"We have several others (a boy, girl, and a Santa) and they all "live" in ziplok bags to prevent loss."
"Well made— but I wish the magnets worked in layers."
"My only complaint is that although brand new and packaged, some of the pieces were scuffed up along with the holding tray."
Best Paper Dolls
Young fashion designers can make tiny, perfect clothes for the red carpet using specially-designed papers with velvety black flocking, foil, glitter, and lace. Enter your model number to make sure this fits.
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Find Best Price at Amazon""Paper Fashions Fancy" comes with 21 pieces of fun, double-sided, patterned paper including solids and textures like velvet and sparkles. First, to get the paper out, you have to remove the hanger strip which leaves behind a sticky adhesive which sticks to the paper. And second, the envelope designated to hold the paper was poorly designed and will come out if not handled gently."
"I was very wary that buying this book used could mean that the design templates in it would be missing, but I figured I'd risk it to make her happy."
"I got this for my 9 year old daughter's birthday."
"My eight year old daughter is very into fashion design so she was happy to receive this as a gift."
"A beautiful dress up game for my 9 year old."
"She has spent many hours carefully tracing and cutting out her fashions, adding little details here and there to make them her very own creations."
"My daughter is a college freshman in Fashion and Textile Management and she absolutely loves this book as well as the first Paper Fashions book."
"Super fun, creative."
Best Magnet & Felt Playboards
Children can acquire strong sense of color, geometrical shapes including 3D forms numbers counts, magnetic polarities & architectural design at early age. CREATIVITY BEYOND IMAGINATION - Magnet Building Tiles Clear 3D color Magnetic Building Blocks Playboards for preschool, pretend play and more.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The colors are beautiful and the magnets work well enough to hold most structures together."
"My granddaughter received her first magnetic building set (the Magna-Tiles brand) a few months ago and she enjoyed building with them so much that I bought an additional set."
"He’s learning his shapes, he gets to make garages for his cars, they keep him entertained for about an hour at a time."
"I purchased a set of these tiles for my grandson as a Christmas gift."
"We've played with this literally every single day since it was purchased."
"We had another set, I can't remember the brand - I can see they are slightly different but they work just fine together."
"We especially love building castles with these and you can remove tiles to make "windows," which just tickles my son to pieces!"
"We have magna tiles and decided to buy these to build on our set."
Best Money & Banking Play Toys
73-piece set encourages children to learn basic math and money skills with this real-working cash register.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Great product."
"Bought this as a gag gift to wrap my 21 year old son's Christmas money in and I must say for the price, it was an excellent deal!"
"Lots of fun for playing store!"
"The first one we got that was a gift didn't work so that was pretty disappointing."
"Grandkids love to play store and use it with all kinds of other toys."
"Looks like it would be a good learning tool and recommended for this purpose by school."
"Purchased this item for my grand daughter who wanted a cash register (which I found a bit surprising)."
"Cash register is a great toy for young children."
Best Toy Medical Kits
Get your kids the Kidzlane Doctor Toy Kit, and relax while they keep entertained for hours. This toy makes a great tool for familiarizing kids with any medical procedures, and alleviating typical fears of the doctors office. 12 PIECE DOCTOR KIT: 💉 Help children learn about the human body and calm doctor-related fears as they engage in doctor/patient role play. The cell phone features a range of exciting tones, and the stethoscope produces an authentic real-life heartbeat and coughing sound.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I also purchased separately a pedi cuff and cheap stethoscope - the kids used these two items with the glasses and phone from this kit and they had an absolute blast playing doctor."
"I bought this for my granddaughter to help her with her anxiety with doctor's, she totally loses it. when she see the doctor with all their instruments."
"This was my son's favorite Christmas gift."
"My 4 year old loves this set."
"Nice teaching toy for my granddaughter who has had ongoing medical issues."
"This was a sturdy fun kit and the shot needle was the winning item."
"This is a cute set the blood pressure pump is kind of cheap and hard to work."
"She's played with the kit multiple times this week, using it with family members and doll babies."
Best Toy Construction Tools
They're made with superior quality materials and are rigorously tested for quality, leading to a toy unmatched in quality and durability. Kidzlane toys are fully tested and certified according to the highest international standards for toy safety. 19 PIECE TOY TOOL SET (+Case) Our toy tool set for children includes everything he or she needs to channel his or her inner mechanic, contractor or handyman. GREAT GIFT IDEA FOR KIDS: This toy tool set for kids makes a fantastic gift idea for toddlers ages 2-5!
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I bought this tool set for my grandson for Christmas."
"The reason for 3 stars is in less than 6 months the drill stopped working; even after replacing the batteries it still wouldn't work (yes I had the batteries in correct)."
"This was a gift to my 3 yr old grandson and he LOVES it, especially the drill!"
"Super fun for pretend play and for my twins to be like Daddy."
"The tool set is durable and includes the right amount of tools and they're the right size for him to use."
"Loved seeing my great grandson's face when he opened it."
"I highly recommend this to go with the Black and Decker Junior Power Tool workshop; great set of additional tools and screws which works well with (and was generally missing from) the existing bench."
"My grandson loves his tool set."
Best Toy Home Cleaning Products
This cute Dyson vacuum is a direct replica of the life size Dyson Ball Vacuum to help your little helper tidy in style! This Dyson Ball upright vacuum cleaner has been specially designed to be true to life, right down to the last detail so your little helper will really feel part of your world while developing essential life skills. Realistic role play for exploring imagination and developing social skills, Replica design with bright colours for visual stimulation, Play encourages the development of hand-to-eye co-ordination, Working suction and cyclone action for understanding cause and effect, Manoeuvrability of toy develops problem solving and motor skills, Independent play encourages exploration and discovery, true to life sounds for added realism and aural stimulation, Pre-schoolers learn by acting out and copying what their parents do, making the range of role-play toys from Casdon Toys ideal learning vehicles for youngsters wanting to emulate their parents. A direct replica of the latest Dyson “Ball” model, this creates realistic role play for exploring imagination and developing social skills.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Our son, 1 1/2-years-old, is OBSESSED with vacuums and carpet cleaners. He has nearly broken my vacuum a few times because it's a bit too large for him to maneuver."
"My 18m old loves to help me around the house, so this is perfect for him to vacuum while I am using my own vacuum."
"The first is a small red button on the front, that makes the little foam beads swirl around. Which doesn't bother me since it's a play vacuum, but they do advertise that it has a mild suction."
"We got this one so that we could have 2 vacuums, and now they fight over who gets the "yellow vacuum." As an adult, I would give it 4 stars, but I based my rating on what my boys think, because they are the target audience."
"This button does not work the suction and while using this mode, it won't pick anything up. Still haven't had to change the batteries after a month and a half (on the red button mode). The only problem we have had is that the screw holding the battery cover in place stripped the first time I put batteries in."
"You'll know what LOL really is when you see your little one searching for bits of anything on the floor just to vacuum up and empty the bin again, repeat, repeat..."
"You have to click it into position a certain way, otherwise the back wheels will pop up when you pull the vacuum backward."
"My one and half year old loves to clean but my stuff is still quite too big for him."
Best Toy Kitchen Products
KidKraft Uptown Espresso Kitchen. Refrigerator, freezer, microwave, oven and dishwasher doors all open and close.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"We made ours more realistic by adding battery operated led touch lights to the microwave, oven, refrigerator, freezer and above the range (see photos)."
"We teamed up with family to purchase several big "play" items for our daughter's birthday/Christmas in 2015, and this is without a doubt my favorite of everything she got! We ended up buying the Learning Resources basket meals to go with it because it had a nice variety and was fantastic quality."
"The kitchen was packaged and shipped very carefully. I will admit putting this kitchen together was a little overwhelming at first and it took several hours. No matter how frustrating it is believe me, it is worth it!.I really love how this kitchen doesn't have any stickers. The graphics on this kitchen are painted on which is awesome in my book! The counter height of the kitchen is 22 inches. The counter length is 32 inches. The inner width of the freezer and fridge is 10 inches. The overall height of the kitchen is approximately 40.5 inches. The play food and play pots and pans in the photos are by Learning Resources."
"The color of the screws does matter as there are brown ones for use on outside pieces and silver for inside pieces, so be aware of that!"
"It might be a bit more expensive than some of the others, but it's SOLID and wood, not plastic and cardboard like so many other products these days."
"The faucet has come out, but that might be due to our boys or our install."
Best Shopping Carts, Baskets & Cash Registers
Our mini grocery wagon is easy to maneuver, fun to fill, and built to last for years of pretend play! A folding seat for your childs' favorite shopping companion.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I returned home with the plastic grocery cart (and a boatload of other things) and proudly showed my wife what I had accomplished all by myself! As soon as I saw the M&D option, I realized how comprehensively I had failed my child, my wife, and probably everyone who had ever offered me a kind word or the time of day. But lo and behold, the grocery cart smugly emerged, fully assembled, and was of such high quality that I almost puked."
"The shopping cart is the best on the market as far as realism and function...the only flaw is the the handle slides back and forth and has pinched my daughters hand really bad a couple of times..I fixed it by putting a bead of 100% clear silicone on both ends all the way around..."
"Very nice the kid enjoyed it very much."
"It is VERY sturdy and made of metal like the real ones!"
"I wanted a realistic looking shopping cart because I thought it would be something she would easily understand because we go shopping all the time, and she does. She makes the shopping cart noise (vrrrrooom - we say this together when leaving a store) when she sees it so I know she comprehend what it is used for. I am hoping that she will grow into using this more and more and hopefully by the summer time be able to take this outside and walk around the block."
"This shopping cart is amazing."
"Yes, it will scratch up your walls and furniture if your brutal little monster powers it into things all day, but, really, a normal kid with even a little self control and parental discipline/supervision should do just fine with it."
"Now, she is not giving her cart up, she said she will use it until she is big enough to see over the regular carts, and that is ok with me, but beware that while the cart is durable, adorable, and well made, if your child is over the age of 4 it is most likely to small."