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Feature Friday-Melissa & Doug Toys (giveaway)

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This giveaway is now closed. 🙂

Are you making your list and checking it twice? Today’s Feature Friday is a great line of toys just in time for the holidays. Melissa & Doug makes such wonderful things, I could not help but share! For the feature I will be reviewing one particular toy set, the cutting fruit crate. But, there are so many options, they have something for everyone!

I was asked by All Children’s Furniture to do a review and I knew right away that my little guy would just love this Melissa & Doug cutting fruit play set. He is very analytical and loves toys that he can manipulate, besides the fact that it means he gets to play with a knife.

Here it is straight out of the box. It was a success right away, but I wondered if the initial excitement would last. Sorry the video is so poor, I was lazy and took it with my camera.

It lasted all right! He played with it for an hour straight, which is unheard of for my active 2 year old! Usually, he doesn’t play with anything for more than five minutes. Here he is an hour later.

He would have played with it longer, but I made him put it away for dinner time.

I have now had this set for a little over a month and it is holding up like a champ with a boy that is not gentle on anything. He knows all the fruits and can put the pieces back together by himself. It is solid wood, so he cannot break it. He has chipped the paint slightly on a few corners when he throws it across the hardwood in the kitchen, but the velcro is still in great shape and he still loves playing with it. I am looking forward to collecting more Melissa & Doug products! We may just have to tell Santa about them!!

And guess what?! Santa has come early for you! I am giving away a Melissa & Doug Cutting Fruit Crate to one lucky reader! I do what I can to help those Recession Christmas budgets. 😉

Melissa and Doug Play Food Cutting Fruit Crate - 4021

To enter:

Visit All ChildrensFurniture.com for fun brands like Melissa & Doug, KidKraft, Little Tikes and more. Come back and leave a comment on this post including what item, besides the fruit crate, your little one would like under the tree. Also, please leave an email if you do not have one on your profile.

Leave only one comment including all entries.

Extra entries:

  • 2 extra: Tweet about the giveaway including @LittleTipsyblog so I can see you did.
  • 2 extra: Blog or facebook about it and include the link in your comment

Giveaway closes on Wednesday the 25th so you will know if you won by Black Friday.

Oh, and All ChildrensFurniture.com is offering 10% off all orders until Sunday. Bonus!


All Children’s Furniture provided the product for review and is providing the product for the giveaway. I was not paid for my comments, I only rave about things I am truly impressed with.

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Comments

  4. Melissa and Doug have been a part of our family for several years now! My nieces LOOVE playing with it and my sister is happy with the quality and safety. NO LEAD PAINT! 🙂

    The fruit crate would be a fun addition to my Christmas gifts for them, but my other favorite is the Abby and Emma Dress up- so cute and girly!

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  7. I have wanted to get the fruit crate for awhile now. I know my guy would love it. I would also love the Melissa & Doug Geometric Stacker Puzzle. Melissa and Doug stuff is the best.

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  10. main entry: I also like the new item called theNap Nanny which i was just telling my friend about the otherday a great way to help baby rest better in a more comfortable postion. great giveaway I love all melissa & doug items quailty built to last toys. my grandson would love this! thanks
    sewitupjulie@gmail.com

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  11. I love Melissa & Doug. My kids already have the cake & play with it ALL the time. I would have to choose the food groups set or the cutting food box.

    I also posted about the giveaway on my blog

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  20. My daughter would love the shopping cart. She loves playing with the one at the doctor’s office. I would also like the musical instruments set. Cute toys! meloniew a t g m a i l d o t c o m

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  25. This one was easy. Some of my boy’s cousins have lots of Melissa and Doug toys. He seems to like the mix and match puzzles (like the fish) a lot (especially since he has no concept of color yet). That and the blocks- always a favorite. He’s a pro at knocking them down.

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  27. My favorite product was the Firetruck Play Loft…too bad I’ll never be able to afford it! My little guy has several of the Melissa & Doug toys and loves them.

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  29. I love bath time. I hate bath toys. You know the kind that squirts water and then gets a black film on the inside. Gross.
    I think both my kids would love the Alex Toys Rub and Dub Draw in the tub set.
    kristidorman at gmail dot com

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  30. We would love the shopping cart, although I would have to get 7 to please all the little hands at this house. Our friend has the shopping cart and they LOVE it. Very cute stuff all around, I love that they sell this stuff at The Red Balloon.
    pjwog@hotmail.com

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  33. My 5 yr. old LOVES, LOVES her kitchen and everything in it! We have some of these sets, but not the fruit crate. How cute! She is also hoping for a DS under the tree this year…!! 🙂

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  34. I am losing my mind…obviously I meant to include a M&D item that my sweetie would love. 🙂 She would be thrilled w/the little magnetic doll kit-the Emma and Abby set!

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  41. I love Melissa and Doug products! I would love any of their playfood items or the Table Top Easel. These are things my kids would play with for awhile! Nicole 🙂

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  50. How about the Victorian doll house. But I would be thrilled to win the fruit for my 2-year-old. She always wants to cut real fruit with real knives. Maybe this would be a better alternative. 🙂

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  52. Well, this is my first time on your site. I love it! It has now been added to my favorites 🙂 I LOVE the Melissa & Doug Deluxe Kitchen Play Center. Adorable! Thanks so much for a great site. I’m excited to explore!
    Tami Madsen
    tamjam@gmail.com

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  60. My two little ones (and one more on the way) love to pretend play and making crafts (especially drawing and painting). They would love the Melissa & Doug Large Standing/Folding Easel.

    kristinjarrett at gmail dot com

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  61. Hi!

    The cutting fruit crate has been on my wish list since my 2 1/2 year old played with it for 2 hours straight at a play date and then came home only to commence peeling and chopping up bananas with anything he could find…a pencil, a chopstick, a length of train track….!!

    I also love the M & D Treehouse!!

    Sarah

    sarah@timhudson.com

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  68. We too love Melissa & Doug, and my daughter has asked for Nina Ballerina for Christmas. She would also love one of the cute art/activity tables or one of the play kitchens. Let’s be honest, my kids could make a list a mile long off that site. Thanks for the giveaway!

    leanne@byu.net

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  71. Melissa & Doug are made in China and they DO have lead paint in them. Test them with a home lead test kit if you don’t believe it. The amount they put in is below the legal amount so that’s how they’re getting away with it. It even states this on their website about how much per million blah blah blah that’s allowed. Don’t know about you guys but I don’t want ANY lead in my kids toys and this makes me sick!!

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