Melissa & Doug Magnetic Wooden Fishing Game and Puzzle With Wooden Ocean Animal Magnets

Super fun with the kids!!

We have a few of these puzzles from Melissa and Doug and my kid loves them. The pieces fit nicely and its very fun to have a little fishing rod to get them out. The magnet holds the pieces good enough for him to get them off without just falling off.The rod isn't too heavy for him to handle but the only thing about it is that kids like to get wild from time to time and its very easy to swing around and bonk him in the head. The magnet side is pretty solid so it can hurt...so just beware of that.Other than that, there is nothing bad to say.

Highly recommend. It’s become the favourite toy of my almost one year old. She easily navigates the stick with the magnet in her tiny hands. The pictures have started to fade away due to heavy use but still serves the purpose.

Got this for my friends 2 year old and she loves it!!

This is a fun toy for hand eye coordination .

I got this toy when my daughter was 2 years old because she showed a lot of interest in sea creatures. She already turned 3 and she still loves this toy. It looks like quite a simple toy and I had doubts at first if it would interest her and hold her attention for a long time but surprisingly it did. She would spend hours playing with it fishing everything out then putting it back again making up different stories while playing with it. Once she got bored fishing she would just take the fishes and pretend they were talking with each other and another big surprise was the shark was her favorite because she called it the happy shark because it was smiling. She also immediately learned the different kinds of sea creatures teach of them were and also their colors. I also liked that smiles were painted on the sea creatures that are often pictured as scary.I would have given this toy 5 stars if I were only to consider the joy and and learning it brought to my child, however there were some things I hoped could have been improved a little on the safety point of view. The fishing rod is kind of a safety hazard since it has a hard magnet hanging at the end of a rope that a child will definitely be twirling around. It has already hit my daughters head and eyes a number of times and most of our furniture. Damage it may cause will be relative to how hard your child twirls it around. It would have been better if it were made of a softer material or was covered with a foam or of something with a similar material.I would definitely recommend this toy but make sure that you either supervise playtime or educate your child on the proper use of the fishing rod to avoid any injuries just to be on the safe side.

I love this. My son is a fishing nut so I bought this for my grandchild. Now I can tell my son I bought the first fishing pole for the baby.

I bought this puzzle for my 18 month old son 3 months ago as a development toy to work on his eye hand coordination and memory. Out of the package this puzzle arrived as expected: the puzzle pieces were in good shape, great quality and were easy to remove and re-insert. The magnet that was attached to the wooden stick worked great with the puzzle pieces: strong enough to the lift the pieces out of the puzzle yet easy enough for my son to remove the pieces from the magnet by hand once he has lifted them from the board.What I love about this product: I really enjoyed that the pictures of the puzzle pieces were not on the board once the pieces are removed. It was great to watch my son develop over a three month span as he went from just removing the pieces (eye hand coordination) to being able to put the puzzle pieces back without needing a picture as a guide (memory). I also enjoyed that the sea creatures are different colors so we could call out colors and watch him figure out which piece to remove.What I didn't like about this product: nothing to report here.Overall I would highly recommend this quality product to anyone looking for a fun puzzle that will help their child with early development skills. In fact after having this puzzle for three months I went out and bought a different Melissa and Doug magnetic puzzle (the bug one) for him to play with.