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Beleduc Your Body – Girl 5-Layer Wooden Puzzle A great 5 layer puzzle made of birch that teaches children about their own body. 29 Pieces help to complete the nervous and digestive, muscular, skin and clothed layers.
Customer Review: VERY sharp, dangerous pieces
We have this toy in a “boy” version. The main problem: it has a lot of small pieces (arms, legs) with VERY sharp corners. The manufacturer made no effort at all to round corners. I have never seen a puzzle with such sharp, dangerous elements. Some of them are like long thin wooden knives. I would not want to live an active child with this thing alone. Notice that the “recommended age” is 4. Perhaps a 4 y/o would have no problem with dangerous pieces, but s/he would also have no interest in such a simple toy. The realistic age of a kid’s interest is 2.5 to 3.5 y/o. For that age, the toy is simply dangerous. Also, “educational” part is silly. A kid old enough to understand what it means to have muscles on top of organs will have no interest in playing this toy. The “educational” value of seeing a skeleton and then lungs is mostly lost on a 2.5 y/o.
Customer Review: Great learning tool!
This is a great tool, and my children really seem to enjoy this puzzle (they are 3.5 and 2 years old). They can put the different layers of the puzzle by themselves, after I showed them a few times. We’ve had it for over a month now, and they still play with it several times a day.