Review of Melissa & Doug Deluxe Wooden 48-piece jigsaw puzzle

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Buy it: Melissa & Doug Deluxe Wooden 48-piece jigsaw puzzle

My daughter Ally, 4, loves putting together puzzles. But dumping out the loose pieces of a cardboard puzzle onto the floor and trying to assemble the puzzle using only the picture on the box as a guide can be pretty challenging for a 4-year-old.

That’s why I’m so happy that a friend a mine told me about the Melissa & Doug Deluxe Wooden 48-piece jigsaw puzzles, which she had purchased for her 4-year-old daughter.

These puzzles come on a wooden board that acts as a frame. The board keeps the puzzle together when it’s not in use; gives an instant hard surface to assemble the puzzle on; and most of all gives a frame for the puzzle so kids can have a better idea of where the pieces will go.

The wooden puzzle pieces are sturdy and thicker than the cardboard variety, which means the puzzle will last a long time. And Ally likes that the pieces kind of “snap” together, which you don’t get with a cardboard puzzle. The Melissa & Doug 48-piece puzzles feature colorful pictures with subjects such as pirates, horses, fairies, space or the rain forest.

These are the first puzzles that Ally has been able to assemble by herself. She has three of them and I’m sure we’ll be getting more.