- This beautifully-crafted board has polished brass locks, latches and clasps
- Brightly colored, smooth-sanded pieces help build early shape, color and size differentiation skills
- Hide-and-seek pictures behind each door help develop fine motor skills
- Incredible value and superior craftsmanship
Product Description
Undo a latch, swing open the numbered door, and count on fun when the picture beneath is revealed on this wooden play board! Build fine motor skills while learning colors, numbers, animals and more. Measures 15.7" x 11.7" x 1.6".
Melissa & Doug Deluxe Latches Board
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I love almost all Melissa and Doug puzzles, but I won’t let this one into my house. It strikes me as insane to teach your child to circumvent all of the latches we use to protect our adult things and keep children safe.
That being said this puzzle would be great for older children or special needs children who need work on fine motor skills. Still I wouldn’t use it until your child understands and respects limits.
Rating: 2 / 5
Melissa & Doug Deluxe Latches Board
Too boring for the average child. Puzzle pieces are not challenging, colors are blah and pictures are generic. There are many other choices to spend your money on.
Rating: 1 / 5
Melissa & Doug Deluxe Latches Board
I bought this for my 17 month old so that she could start developing her fine motor skills. She is obsessed with the mechanics of the seat belt buckles, clasps, locks, etc… so when I found this, I thought it would be perfect and would keep her busy and intrigued. The first two latches are pretty tough to undo (even I have a hard time) and I’m afraid she might pinch her fingers. Because of the difficulties with the latches, she pretty much has no interests with the board. She likes opening the doors and seeing what’s behind them, but that only occupies her for about 5 minutes and she losses interests. A good concept, but disappointed with the execution.
Rating: 3 / 5
Melissa & Doug Deluxe Latches Board
My Grandson loves this, only problems were the rounded part on the latch on the lower right popped right off. It is plastic and painted with brass paint and the perfect choking size. I think if it had been made of metal it wouldn’t have popped off so easy. The other latch that everyone is saying is difficult is the other problem. It really is difficult to use so we will have to figure something out on that. We will also have to find a way to get that plastic piece to stay on and it will be a toy we won’t let him play with alone since that one piece popped off so easy then maybe other pieces will too.
Rating: 3 / 5
Melissa & Doug Deluxe Latches Board
This is a great product for pre-schoolers. It teaches problem solving, which I expected, but also colors and numbers-which was a pleasant surprise. Every time my son opened the latch doors, there were different animals/colors for him find. I would hear him from his room… “SIX… ORANGE… FISH!!!!” And so on…. Then he’d close the latches back up and start again. I think he finds the mechanics of the latches fascinating and they’re just big enough for little hands to maneuver. It’s also a pretty solid product, well put together–My son hasn’t found a way to break it yet, and he’s dropped it a few times transporting it from room to room. I think this is an excellent product overall.
Rating: 5 / 5
Melissa & Doug Deluxe Latches Board