Imagination Generation USA States Chunky Puzzle Board - Learn All 50 States with Professor Poplar's Wooden Pegged Puzzles - Children's Educational Toys - USA States

This puzzle is fantastic and incredibly durable. Its actual wood instead of a sturdy cardboard type material. My only feedback would be that it kind of sucks that the 6 and 9 are the same color.

It has the capitals, pictures and names of states and oceans. My 6 year old grandson and I love it!

Great way to help little ones learn the states, durable and fun, great value

Pros:Great graphics, vibrant colorsOne symbol per stateBack of each state has the capital and nicknameBoard: is thick and sturdyCons:Print is TINY (see photo)States are not in individual grooved holders. They depend on pressure from each piece to hold them in place.No pegs to help remove states, you must either always start with California, (which has a cut-out) or pry the state out with your fingernail, which damages the image.No outlines on the background board to help reconstruct. If all the states are removed, it's a blank board. This might be good for older children, but I purchased this for our 4YO granddaughter and it was too difficult for her, as the pieces are tiny.Take-away:This set would be better suited for a 6 or 7-year-old.

We bought the States puzzle a couple of years ago, and it's has been through some rough handling by a preschooler and many attempts at losing the pieces, but I'm happy to say that it is still intact and damage free. We have to help with where the states go, but it has been great for increasing familiarity and discussion about the different states and what's unique about them. The quality is great, pieces are sturdy with nice coloring. The wood base is much better than the cardboard used by a lot of puzzles. Would buy again!

I was worried about getting this puzzle when people mentioned that they wished the states had been outlined on the base of the puzzle so that the pieces could be easily put into place but I actually love that this puzzle has a blank base because it requires my kids and I to memorize the location of the states to find their placement. We just opened this puzzle today and have had several rounds of timing ourselves to see if we can get the states in the right place as quickly as possible. Each time we play it we learn a new way of remembering where states are. My kids are the ones who keep eagerly dumping out all the pieces and trying to place them in the right place and they have learned way more about the states in this one day of playing this game than any other way that I have tried to teach the states. The bright colors seem to draw my kids into wanting to play with it again and again. And it seems durable enough to last us a long time.The shapes of the states are very generalized. For example, we live in Michigan and the shape of Michigan is far from its actual shape, it looks like it’s one large piece of land rather than two pieces separated by water and it looks nothing like a glove. However I got this for my kids to learn location memorization and general shape memorization and this puzzle works perfectly for that.I never expected my kids to learn so much from this puzzle in one day, I love it!

I bought this to help teach my son whom I homeschool his states. He has learned so much thanks to this product. If you have someone in your life who is learning. I advise to check this out.

It was fun and my son loves it