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Melissa & Doug Shape Sorting Cube | 
| Brand: Melissa & Doug
Category: Toy
List Price: $14.99
Buy New: $11.93
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Seller: Adoremus Books
Rating:  106 reviews
Sales Rank: 374
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Fragile: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 2 - 4 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5.6 x 6.3
Legal Disclaimer: no_warning_applicable
Warranty: From Melissa And Doug
MPN: 575
Model: 575
UPC: 000772005753
EAN: 0000772105750
ASIN: B00005RF5G
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Appropriate for ages 2 and up. | | • | Classic toy and childhood favorite. | | • | Helps build early shape, color and size differential skills. |
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Product Description
Challenge little minds with the ultimate shape sorter! Bright and cheerful, it features 16 chunky, vibrant shapes that make a satisfying "clink" as they drop into the hardwood cube. Then open the lid, take them out, and start all over again.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 106
 motor skills February 20, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I wish they had more toys like this so kids can learn shapes and motor skills. I remember the red & blue ball when my kids were little with all the yellow shapes and that was the best! Now that I am looking for the same kind of toy for my grandson and can't find anything close to it.
GREAT Shape Sorter January 4, 2007
Beth E. McHenry
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I purchased this for my grandson who has all the "noisy" toys a child could ever need. This item was purchased to help him focus on fine motor skills without the competition of distraction. The product is colorful and well made - sturdy enough to take years of toddler wear and tear. The only negative is that the top isn't attached with a hinge,so parents have to keep track of the shapes inside. I highly recommend this item.
Surprised by poor reviews April 15, 2007
Lacosh (Philadelphia, PA USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this shape sorter for my son this past August when he was almost 2 1/2. He's been using it now for around 8 months and we've had none of the problems mentioned on the other reviews. Our lid is sturdy, doesn't fall off under regular use (unless you tip the box), no paint has come off the shapes, and only the correct shapes fit in the holes. Someone said any shape fit into any hole, which I can't understand unless they have a totally different product. I guess M&D may have had a run of defective products recently or maybe decided to make them cheaper since I bought it, but I just wanted to add a positive review here because ours is great and has held up well to lots of use over the past 8 months.
4/4/09 I wanted to add to this review that we've now had this sorter for two more years and now have another child playing with it. The edges of some shapes are showing a little wear, but no chipped paint or any other issues. Our 18 month old is sorting the simpler shapes and stacking them like blocks. We still love it!
Rating a similar item - Baby's favorite Christmas gift! December 26, 2004
PghYinzer (Pittsburgh, PA United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
We got the Imaginarium sorter, which was a little cheaper, only has 12 shapes... otherwise seems exactly the same.
I agree it is too difficult for a little child to figure out... and the lid doesn't stay on.
As for difficulty - well, it's a toy he can grow into. My baby is 13 months and he just got this for Christmas yesterday. Eventually I want him to have the Tupperware one - IMO that is an essential childhood toy. For now, I thought we'd get him the FP Brilliant Basics one, but DH insisted on this one over that, as it had more shapes and it's wood... he likes wood. OK, whatever. :-) So my baby is much too young to be sorting shapes just yet (I'm embarassed to admit that even I found this a little challenging... thinking I could just fly through putting everything away but some of the shapes are very similar so I had to think about it, even at the age of 27...) ... however he loves to run around the house with a block in either hand... bang the blocks together (or off of other things)... gnaw on them... and drop them in the cube. So for now he is getting about as much out of these as he would out of any wooden block set... which isn't a bad thing. He'll grow into the shape sorting feature in time, and toys that are fun over time for different reasons are money well spent.
As for the lid issue... we plan to get some self-stick velcro and put small pieces under the lid and in the notches on the cube so the lid stays on. It should work well and be a cheap and easy fix. I agree these things should be designed with more thought to the lid staying on... you have to flip the cube to put the shapes in the sides and having to hold the lid in place is frustrating.
All in all, a great toy. I didn't expect this to be his favorite but what do ya know... I guess the classic toys are still the best.
Nice Toy! July 24, 2006
S. Martin
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
My son got this for christmas, he loves it. He will sit for a long time (5-10 minutes) and play with it. He has learned all the names for the shapes (including hexagon) and will patiently sit and put them in the correct places. I will admit that the lid does come off easily....it just sits there. and some of the pieces are very similar, but this doesn't keep my son from enjoying it...it actually presents more of a challenge for him to pay attention to the smaller differences. And when he is tired of that he enjoys pouring all the blocks out and putting them back together. As for the reviewer who said she wouldn't let her child play with it for fear or hurting himself, I have stepped on more plastic toys that have left me screaming in pain than this well sanded shape block.
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