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How to Select Melissa and Doug Wooden Toys

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Melissa and Doug are the designers and manufacturers of a variety of educational wooden toys. Major retailers and national magazines have recognized them for the quality of the products they provide for toddlers and young children.

Difficulty: Easy
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    Discover Melissa and Doug Wooden Toys

  1. Step 1

    Find Melissa and Doug play food a delight for young gourmet chefs. The pizza party and birthday cake play food will entertain your little cook for hours.

  2. Step 2

    Choose from a variety of pattern blocks for great challenges in developing shape recognition and spatial relations.

  3. Step 3

    Select the Melissa and Doug unit blocks to open a world of imagination to your child. Building blocks bring out the creativity of a child while enhancing small motor skills. Most children by the age of 3-years-old are ready to meet the challenge of creating with building blocks.

  4. Step 4

    Use wooden peg puzzles to introduce problem solving to your 2-year old. These puzzles use fine motor skills and promote creativity.

  5. Step 5

    Teach your child to tell time when you select the Melissa and Doug Wooden Shape Sorting Clock. This unique creation involves shapes, numbers and telling time.

  6. Step 6

    Make lots of noise with the Band in a Box creation. Children will learn the sounds of different instruments and have fun developing rhythm and coordination.

  7. Step 7

    Visit the farm with a farm cube puzzle, a folding horse stable and a fold-n-go barn. Your child will be entertained for hours with all the farm and animal wooden toys by Melissa and Doug.

  8. Step 8

    Start your baby off right with toddler gifts such as the geometric sorting play board, rainbow stacker and shape-sorting cube. Each of these teaches the infant or toddler about shapes, sizes and colors.

  9. Step 9

    Teach your child to spell his name when you select a name puzzle board by Melissa and Doug. Letters are in bright primary colors.

  10. Step 10

    Let children 4-years-old and up explore the fun of creation with a wooden bead set containing more than 300 beads. Fine motor skills are enhanced as they feed the string through the beads.

  11. Step 11

    Teach your 4-year-old to spell with the See and Spell puzzle by Melissa and Doug. This colorful creation has cutouts for each letter along with a picture to help your child learn.

Tips & Warnings
  • Keep toys with small parts away from infants and young toddlers.

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