Product Description

This beautifully crafted board with polished brass locks, latches, hooks and clasps, has hide-and-seek pictures behind each door and helps develop fine motor and memory skills. A tremendous value! Ages 3+. 16 x 12 x .5.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #62253 in Toys & Games
• Brand: Melissa & Doug
• Model: 383
• Released on: 2006-06-12
• Dimensions: 1.00" h x 15.50" w x 11.50" l, 1.76 pounds

Features

• Helps Develop Memory Skills
• Learn latches
• Pictures under pieces
• Recommended Age Range 3 Years and up

From the Manufacturer
This beautifully crafted board with polished brass locks; latches; hooks and clasps; has hide-and-seek pictures behind each door and helps develop fine motor and memory skills. A tremendous value!

Customer Reviews

Develops fine motor skills and object permanence
We bought this for our 19 month old to take on a plane trip as the "new" toy to entertain her when needed. She *loved* playing with it through the entire trip. it's a bit big for a carryon, but we fit it in. It is now a car toy that gets swapped out upon occasion with others. The back of the puzzle says 4+, but I think it's a good challenge for younger children. There are 2 latches that she needs adult help with because they are too tough to move. I'm sure she'll grow into those with time, though.

updated 9/07:
My almost 3yo can now do all of the latches on this puzzle-has been able to for several months, now.

Pegs in Latches keep breaking
My daughter LOVES this toy. She got at christmas time and unfortunately, by new years eve we noticed the little pegs in the doors were coming loose. Now, we keep finding the little gold pegs all over the house. We watched her play with it and she doesnt pull them out....they just seem to come loose from the regular opening and closing. Very disappointing but she still plays with it rather the door shuts well or not. We just have to make sure she doesnt get ahold of them.

Latches are either too easy or too tough!
I bought this puzzle for my 2 year old daughter who LOVES puzzles. Especially the puzzles by Melissa and Doug that open and inside are hidden images or magnets.

The latch puzzle that we purchased was terrible. The sliding latch door lock simply fell out of the latch when you moved the puzzle - thus was to easy and way to loose. The most disapointing is the window latch and trunck latch. Both these two required adult hand strength to open! I had to hold the puzzle flat with one hand and grip the window latch with the other in order to manipulate it open. And I have very strong hands and it was hard for me (an adult) to open!! Perhaps it was JUST our puzzle. So I returned it. The other puzzles are sold in tight plastic wrap and so we weren't able to TRY another latch to see if it is not so HARD. So that is 3 defunct out of 6 latches that my daughter wasn't able to play with. That's half the toy that wasn't workable or child friendly - and NOT worth the money.