Review on 🧩 Melissa & Doug Animal Sounds Puzzle by Dru Labrado

This was recommended by a Speech Therapist to encourage facial expressions. take the child What noises does the dog make? Something like that. But you have a puzzle in front of the kid, they want the pieces. However, removing more than one piece at a time creates CHAOS. Dogs croak, cows meow. I don't know why, I assumed (and you know what they say when they suggest something) that if I put a piece of the dog in the dog's place it will bark. and so it is. He also barks when a duck hovers over him. Or your finger or hand runs over the sensor. Because it is. No cool technology that works specifically between the parts and their place. It's just a light sensor. So I just turn the sound off because I don't want him to get confused about what sounds each animal is making. That's a pretty irrational expectation, I know, because the picture on the board that matches the chip in his hand sounds right; but if I ask "what does a duck do?" and move the chip to the appropriate spot, the board starts crowing or roaring (and doesn't turn off when another sensor is triggered. It just doesn't catch one new triggered animal) seems to me that he may miss the point . At that moment I could make sounds myself. It also wasn't the quality I expected from Melissa and Doug's products. Perhaps due to the nature of the soundboard, they had to use lower quality material than usual. Who knows. All I know is that we have a non-sonic puzzle (vehicles) made by them and I'll let him take the pieces everywhere and play with them; they're big, chunky pieces with rounded edges, and if he fell off while holding one of them I wouldn't worry. For him or a piece. However, they are relatively small, sharp-edged and thin. I can imagine him tripping over one in his hand and either getting a nasty scratch from it or breaking it leaving a million jagged little shards in his wake. The sound is turned off and treated as a special event (meaning he doesn't have access to it himself). It serves its purpose as a puzzle and the pins on the pieces are great for little hands. I won't bother with the vehicle audio puzzle though, which was my plan when I ordered it.