Melissa & Doug Safari Friends Hand Puppets | Puppets
Melissa & Doug Safari Friends Hand Puppets | Puppets & Theaters | Plush Toy Hand Puppets | Soft Toy | 3+ | Gift for Boy or Girl
| Dimensions: | 6.35 x 30.48 x 40.64 cm; 520 Grams |
| Model: | 19118 |
| Colour: | Multicolor |
| Pack Quantity: | 6 |
| Batteries Required: | No |
| Batteries Included: | No |
| Age: | 24 months – 5 years |
| Assembly: | No |
| Dimensions: | 6.35 x 30.48 x 40.64 cm; 520 Grams |
| Quantity: | 6 |
I don’t feel I need to mention all the things I seem to be prompted to mention, because my grandchildren either like or dislike the gifts they are given. This instance, they love the gift and are continually making up stories with the puppets.
I bought these as a birthday present for my 3 year old niece and nephew and they loved them. I also bought a tabletop puppet show theatre so they could do little shows for the family and build their confidence presenting and performing for everyone.
Its been magical to watch them perform little shows.
The puppets themselves are very well made, nice and soft and so far very durable, even in the hands of small little terrors.
Would recommend these to anyone, it’s a great alternative to another games consol or electrical toy. It encourages them to perform and use their imagination and for me this is the most important part of any toy you buy. It needs to encourage personal growth, imagination and exploration, even in young children and this is exactly what you get in toys like this.
Thoroughly happy with it and would recommend.
My son loves these and sleeps with them every night, this is our 2nd set in case we lose one or need to wash them!!
V durable and he sleeps with and chews them repeatedly.
Bit small for an adult hand but manageable!
These Hand puppets are excellent for developing language and communication skills in young children, and encouraging interaction between others.
As children grow, the puppets can be used as a prompt to encourage writing of their own plays etc.
I bought these for my baby nephew as a Christmas present. Apparently he absolutely loves them and finds them hilarious (he is 9months old) They are well made and very vibrant in colour. I searched a while for puppets and these seemed to be the best value for money I could find and wasn’t disappointed.
my kids love these great fun finger puppets for all the family to enjoy and interaction with making a story from, quick easy and fast delivery, very happy with the products it self and very good condition and quality
These puppets are certainly great value for money and a good-looking set. However as soft toys they perhaps slightly lack the x-factor – there isn’t anything that singles these toys out. The kids I gave these to were most definitely into the idea of glove puppets but disappointingly quickly lost interest – which is a shame as there is nothing I can really fault these toys on. Possibly other kids would react differently/more favourably?
These are very nice quality puppets, that even fit onto my massive hands — and I have a ten-inch hand span.
The puppets come in a nice presentation box. They take a bit of unpacking, due to the ties that fasten them to the box. Some adult supervision is required there. Once out though, we found the children loved them. They are age 2 to 6 years. They immediately picked favourites, and began making the appropriate animal noises and actions for each puppet. The puppets are neat designs, colourful, and with strong characters in their faces. One of the children decided they made great socks, which oddly they do if you wedge your toes into the head space!
These are brilliant. Very simple, old-fashioned perhaps, but the kids understood them straight away and played with them for hours.
These delightful hand puppets are fun to look at, and good value for their price. When you see them in person, it’s clear that they’re not of poor quality – there aren’t any obvious or poorly stitched seams; there is a lovely level of detail in each of the animals’ faces; the material they’re made from feels soft and nice to touch.
The range of animals is also great, with distinctive differences between each of them. Sometimes with a set like this, you feel that you’re getting one base figure, with several different accessories sewn / glued onto it. This isn’t the case here – the elephant, for example, is particularly distinctive.
From my experience, children love to both interact with the puppets themselves, and also to put them on their hands and be the puppeteer themselves, once they’ve seen you do it.
Great puppet set. The quality is really good and the detailing also. I think for the set of six puppets the price is agood too. Well packaged and presented – would make a lovely present.
We have a few Melissa and Doug sets and in the past they’ve always been wooden.
These puppets are lovely – our 20 month old likes to hold and pat them and our 5 year old likes to perform with them – toddler thinks big bro is hilarious anyway and he loves the attention when putting on a “show”!
They seem reasonably well made and as long as children aren’t too rough with them should last a long time. I can’t comment on value for money but I’d say 20-25 would be reasonable given that there are 6 puppets.
My LO loves these. She’s 3.5 and has them all named. They’re her new goto toy.
They are large enough for me to use too.
She has spent hours with them already doing shows for us as well as for herself playing. I would definitely recommend these.
These are great! They arrive in an open-fronted box, so can be explored by a child recipient immediately. There are just a few small cable ties to snip to get the puppets out of the packaging. The puppets are nicely made, in vibrant colours. The main outer fabric is a short-pile, printed plush. There are some felt elements — such as the giraffe’s horns.
The animal puppets have a friendly, smiley, cartoonish appearance. These are perfect for inclusion in song/story time sessions run by an adult (allowing them to be used at the demonstration level with children rather younger than the recommended age) integrating all, or part of the set. For handling purposes, there are small parts and fluffy bits that could represent choking hazards and these should not be given to younger children.
The puppets are a nice size: they fit small and middling size adult hands easily, and can just about be used by those with larger hands. Children’s hands fit sufficiently into both head and arms to make them workable, though the youngest within the age range may need some help guiding their fingers in to position to operate head and arms at the same time, and find the gesture needed a bit of a stretch.
The set of 6 is a good quantity for a well-rounded puppet starter pack. It gives a nice range of jungle-themed animals, but also provides sufficient characters to be shared by 2-6 people and offers scope for the creation of a multi-character narrative (developed by one or more children/adults) either for personal entertainment or as a puppet show. My 6 y.o. nephew adores them — using them both in his own narratives, and in recreating scenes from favourite stories.
These are brilliant! They look fantastic. Each puppet fits my adult hands well enough to entertain our two year old. Our five and seven year old also manage to manipulate them for their own fun. They feel comfortable and look/feel really well made. Our two year old just loves us having them pop up from behind the sofa and wiggling closer. The older ones make up their own shows, especially our oldest who has looked at play scripts at school and for his class assembly so happily wrote his own mini shows to recreate. Hours of fun!
We’ve been buying Melissa and Doug toys for a number of years now and I think they’re brilliant for both style and quality. This set of puppets is possibly my favourite of the products we’ve tried from them.
The puppets are easy to use and operate (just basic hand puppets) but they’re beautiful and can really bring a story time to life. The quality is good too and I feel fairly confident that they’d survive the washing machine if you put them in a laundry bag. This is exactly the kind of toy that kids would remember in years to come.
Big hit with my 2 year old girl. The set of six has a good variety of jungle type animals from parrot to zebra, tiger, elephant, monkey and giraffe. The size is not too big, so it suits my child without being too baggy and falling off her hand – but I can still get my full sized hand into it too, without stretching it out or ruining it.
Plenty of details and good quality finish for each puppet. Fun for all kinds of pretend play, and boosting little ones imaginations.
I absolutely adore these! What wonderful things. The kids love them, and they were a godsend on a long flight – lightweight, scrunch up small, perfect for taking travelling as an imaginative toy. Great quality and super soft. A true toy that means your imagination has to do the work, and they’re all very cute and very lovely. 5 Stars.