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African animal favorites are featured on this extra-thick wooden puzzle. Eight easy-grasp, chunky wild-animal pieces have a full-color matching pictures underneath. The animal pieces stand upright for pretend play. Encourages hand-eye, fine motor and creative expression skills. This product is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council. FSC certification ensures that products come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits, and that forests are protected for future generations. Please note that FSC certification applies to new inventory only (FSC C156584)

Have fun on the farm with this extra-thick wooden puzzle. It includes seven easy-grasp, chunky farm animals plus a chunky barn. Each piece has a full-color, matching picture underneath. The barn and animal pieces stand upright for pretend play. Encourages hand-eye, fine motor and creative expression skills. This product is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council. FSC certification ensures that products come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits, and that forests are protected for future generations. Please note that FSC certification applies to new inventory only (FSC C156584).

Zoom the wooden cars, build with the blocks, match the cars to their garages--there are lots of ways to play and learn with this versatile learning set! The seven graduated garages (all decorated with objects to count and colors to match) can be arranged to make a colorful town, or stacked to make a tower tall with learning opportunities. Then nest them for neat and easy storage! Best of all, each one matches one of seven stackable wooden cars by size, color, and number, opening up endless opportunities for stacking, counting, hide-and-seek, mix-and-match, imaginative play. This product is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council. FSC certification ensures that products come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits, and that forests are protected for future generations. Please note that FSC certification applies to new inventory only (FSC C156584)

Brightly colored animals and familiar objects illustrate the letters of the alphabet on these cardboard blocks. Nested, the ten vibrant blocks fit into the included carrying case. Stacked, they form a tower nearly three feet high! This product is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council. FSC certification ensures that products come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits, and that forests are protected for future generations. Please note that FSC certification applies to new inventory only (FSC C156584)

Four adorable hand puppets make up this family-friendly collection—a perfect play set to help children and caregivers to role-play together! Four simple glove puppets in an animal theme make it easy and so much fun to act out scenes, practice new vocabulary, and spend quality time playing together. Great for motor skills and self-confidence, too! Made with brightly patterned, washable fabrics and built to last, these soft and sweet hand puppets are sure to be go-to toys for years to come.

This four-piece hand-puppet set makes it easy for kids and caregivers to role-play together! Four simple glove puppets in a coordinated theme can act out a scene together, or be used separately for simple puppet play. Either way, they are great for developing motor skills, hand-eye coordination, communication skills, self-confidence, parent-child bonding, and so much more! Made with brightly patterned, washable fabrics and built to last, these soft and sweet hand puppets are sure to be go-to toys for years to come. Farm Friends Hand Puppets includes a sheep, cow, pig, and horse.

What does the cow say? Kids can hear the cow say "moo" and other farm animal sounds with this hand-crafted wooden peg puzzle. Each happy farm animal "sounds off" in its own voice when the animal puzzle piece is placed correctly in the puzzle board. The puzzle is made out of high-quality durable wood, and depicts eight farm animals that kids can recognize. It features pictures and sounds of a pig, cow, dog, cat, sheep, rooster, horse, and duck. The light-activated sound puzzle also has a full-color, matching picture under each piece. Playing with the puzzle is fun and engaging for kids while they learn different animals and their sounds. It also helps little ones practice eye-hand coordination, sight and sound recognition, memory skills, and fine-motor skills. The Farm Sound Puzzle makes an exceptional gift for boys and girls ages two and older for hands-on, screen-free play. (AAA batteries not included).

This Classic Toy is a perfect first manipulative for kids! The Beginner Pattern Blocks set includes five two-sided wooden boards with 10 recessed design templates, and 30 bright and bold geometric shapes. Each template depicts a whimsical, colorful scene, and the geometric pieces are sized right for little hands to place them in their matching spaces. Kids can feel a sense of accomplishment as they complete the wooden puzzle or create their own designs and matching activities. All of the pieces come in a sturdy wooden box making clean up and storage a breeze. The Pattern Block toy provides kids with opportunities to practice color and shape recognition, fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and creative expression. Designed to engage playful preschoolers and young children, and constructed with care to withstand their harshest treatment, this block set is made of durable, child-safe materials and is safety-tested to our most rigorous standards. It makes a wonderful gift for preschoolers and kids ages two and older for hands-on, screen-free play.

Children can create their own scene with the Clubhouse gang! This set of 20 wooden character magnets promotes fine motor skills, matching and sorting, storytelling, and lots of meeska mooska fun.

Everyone is attracted to these magnetic animals! Twenty favorite wild and domesticated animals are rendered in vibrant color on these wooden magnets that are easy for small hands to position and reposition. Arrange and re-arrange the colorful magnets to make scenes, play games, and tell stories! Great for developing fine motor, sorting, grouping, and storytelling skills. Pieces store in a wooden crate with a handy snap-in plastic lid, perfect for both home and travel! This product is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council. FSC certification ensures that products come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits, and that forests are protected for future generations. Please note that FSC certification applies to new inventory only (FSC C156584)

This bright green Froggy-face ball will encourage happy times in your backyard or on the playground! Made of durable rubber, this ball is ideal for early catching and kicking games.

Eight familiar shapes are featured in this extra-thick wooden puzzle with easy-grasp, chunky pieces. Each piece has a matching picture underneath and the shape name is printed on the puzzle board. Encourages hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills and visual perception skills. This product is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council. FSC certification ensures that products come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits, and that forests are protected for future generations. Please note that FSC certification applies to new inventory only (FSC C156584)

This extra thick wooden puzzle includes seven easy-grasp, chunky dinosaur pieces with a full-color, matching picture underneath. The dino pieces stand upright for pretend play. Encourages eye-hand, fine motor and creative expression skills. This product is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council. FSC certification ensures that products come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social, and economic benefits, and that forests are protected for future generations. Please note that FSC certification applies to new inventory only (FSC C156584).

Sing along with favorite childhood characters like Humpty Dumpty and Jack and Jill with this unique wooden peg song puzzle! Match the six illustrated wooden puzzle pieces to the pictures in the beautifully carved wooden puzzle board to hear six different nursery rhymes (Humpty Dumpty, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Hey Diddle Diddle, Mary Had a Little Lamb, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and Jack and Jill). Plastic pegs make it easy for small hands to grasp and manipulate the pieces. Lyrics are included on the puzzle so kids can sing along as they complete the puzzle! TIP: Puzzle has light-activated sensors; for best results, expose the sensor by removing a piece in a brightly lit room, then make the sound play by replacing the piece in the board; 2 AAA batteries required, not included

Building new skills is just part of the fun when little ones match and sort these colorful wooden pieces. The Geometric Stacker toy for toddlers includes rings, octagons, and rectangles that can be slotted onto the three rods attached to the wooden base. Kids can stack the shapes on the rings according to size, or explore other ways to play such as sorting by color or creating patterns. The 21 wooden pieces are sized for little hands, and they're made from high-quality, child-safe materials. This early-childhood learning toy provides endless possibilities for creative expression while building shape, color, and size differentiation skills. The first-concepts set is a manipulatives all-star and makes a great gift for children ages two and older for hands-on, screen-free 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.