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

Great learning toy

We really like it but it is a lot smaller than we thought it would be!

Our granddaughter loves this puzzle that we gave her for her 5th birthday! I had been looking at it for over a year. Decided the timing was right--a good challenge, but no so challenging that she would get too frustrated The puzzle can be put together from left to right, or from right to left. This will determine whether you are using capital letters or lower case letters. Also, they need to be tracking their alphabet, (what comes next) as they are identifying the letters. The letters correlate to the name of the animal/bird etc puzzle piece. For example, V is for vulture. Some animals are fairly common and easily identifiable, while others are a little more challenging. We also have the spatial aspect of the puzzle. This puzzle is put together a little differently than some---yes, you are going in one direction, but some of the pieces are a little more challenging to figure out how they connect to the previous piece. So, you are dealing with 1) the spatial aspects of putting the puzzle together, 2) tracking the letters of the alphabet, 3) Remembering whether the letter is upper or lower case, and 4) identifying the animal as a clue to what letter this might be. The only negative point about this puzzle (in my opinion) is that it does not have a lid or a case. Once you tear the plastic off of the puzzle, you do have a nice little box that its in, but nothing to prevent pieces from being spilled or lost. Overall, though, its a wonderful puzzle!

We got one of these for our son for his third birthday and he absolutely loves it. Hes disassembled and put it together a bunch of times. Its proved to be the right level of challenge for him (neither too easy nor too difficult). The puzzle itself contains a bunch of information about astronomy and space exploration. Puzzle pieces include the Earth, Moon, and other celestial bodies, and historical figures like Galileo and Yuri Gagarin, and its a nice way to introduce a little one to these concepts. The overall quality is really good. I found no issues with the paint or wood, and there were no chips or dings in the pieces, and the colors used are really vibrant and rich.

bought this for my 2 year old granddaughter and she likes doing it. It is colorful and well made. I am not sure it needs capitol letters on one side and small letters on the other side but oh well. I recommend the puzzle

This puzzle is AMAZING. I bought it years ago, when my child was only a couple years old, and I realized then that it’s better for older kids. I put it away and gave it to him for Xmas right before he turned 6. Now that we’ve worked with it a lot, I see how incredibly thoughtfully-designed it is. Whether you put it together on the capital-letter side or the lower-case side, all the animals (except the octopus) are looking in the same direction. This helps the child to put the puzzle together more easily and also to learn which side is lower or upper case. We also like to use the pieces as an open-ended balancing/stacking game, just to see how we can build them up. And we play with them like they are dolls interacting. Our favorite thing to do with them is “egg hunt”. I hide them outside in the order of the alphabet (a is next to b, b is next to c...) and it’s great that they have letters so my son knows which animal to expect when he’s looking around for the next one, and also bc we know they’ve all been found afterward (a-z). The materials are EXCEPTIONALLY high quality. This puzzle appears to me to be, easily, worth $200. I’m going to be giving this at every 6-, 7-, or 8-year birthday party (depending on the particular kid’s developmental path) we go to in the future. So grateful to Begin Again.

This wooden puzzle is adorable. Sturdy pieces like blocks can be stacked and played with separately too! All the while your toddler learns colors, animals and the alphabet. My grandson loves it.

Bought this for my almost two year old nephew and he loves it.

These puzzles are fantastic. They are beautiful to look at, fun to put together, and very nicely made overall. I have given them as gifts and to my own children to play with. This is the kind of perfect gift that I sometimes just keep around in my house for parties that I have forgotten to buy gifts for. You wont regret this purchase!

This was bought for a 4 yr old and kids as old as 60+ are fascinated with it. The alphabet on it is really nice but this 3D puzzle get so many parts of the brain working with hands involved. Puzzle is very sturdy and superior quality for the price. One side has upper case letters while other side has lower case so when kids claim its so easy now flip it over and put it together backwards :) Kids love it and gladly accept the challenge. Awesome buy!