Miss A just had her 3rd birthday party and as I look around at the house I see thousands of plastic toys upon toys, sometimes the amount of toys she has makes me go bonkers, and Baby C hasn’t even started to accumulate any yet!
Not only am I unimpressed by the quality of most of these toys, but the little fabric bins I have them in are starting to burst at the seams, thank goodness for both the amazing quality and durability that Guidecraft offers in all of their toys, but especially this amazing Noah’s Ark Toy Box I got to try out.
From taking the pieces out of the packaging to Little Miss A helping me fill it up with her toys we had an overall great experience and here’s how it all went down…
The day that we got the package in the mail Miss A wanted to open it, but we just weren’t ready, finally the day had come, so I brought it in the house from the garage and decided that it would be fun to try to assemble with Miss A. As we unwrapped I noticed how much great care was put into packaging each toy box piece. Each one was individually wrapped, Miss A especially enjoyed the packaging!
Once I laid out all of the pieces and looked at the instructions I decided that it may be easier and safer for me to just wait until Miss A went down for her rest time, especially since Daddy B was at work and Baby C was due to wake up anytime.
I’d have to say I’m pretty handy with putting things together, or rather following instructions on how to put things together, so I’d give this job maybe between beginner and intermediate because a few of the sections, mainly the safety latch on the lid, would be a million times easier with two people. One thing I think that Guidecraft could improve on would be their instructions. Now I know a lot of companies are going more for the “less is more” approach and trying to keep the instructions to one or two pages, but I’m a fan of instructions giving you every single step, even if it’s something they think you should already know. I did get a tiny bit confused, but it didn’t take too long to figure out my next step, and I think also with assembling this toy box in most cases you couldn’t really mess it up too much if you went out of order from the first picture grouping to the next.
After the 45 minutes (mostly uninterrupted,) it took me to put the Guidecraft Noah’s Ark Toy Box together, I ended up with this beautiful, finished product. Miss A displays it nicely!
Things to complain about? Really there’s not much, and they’re pretty small details, but I did have a few good ideas on how Guidecraft may rectify any issues.
One of my pieces had a small scratch on the blue paint, luckily it was on the back of the toy box anyway so it ended up not even mattering, but I would have loved to have maybe a can of touch up paint, even for future scratches that my lovely girls will bestow upon, if not the outside, then the inside of the box. I was thinking although it looks great that it may even be wiser to make the inside of the box just natural wood color, no paint, so there isn’t even an issue of scratching it up. Just a thought.
My other suggestion would be for Guidecraft to have a better online description, I guess maybe that’s where product reviews come in, because this piece is extremely beautiful and you cannot tell just from pictures and the description on http://www.guidecraft.com doesn’t let you know about the quality paint job, or how sturdy the toy box is, or the raised wood features on the front of the box (Noah’s Ark.)
I love that the toy box has the safety latch so the top doesn’t come crashing down on my girls and their friends. *Insert sigh of relief here.* Not only is it practical, and fit a good amount of toys (see image below,) but the workmanship on this piece of furniture really blew me away, I was very impressed and I know this may sound funny but I really feel like it made my house a little brighter and homier. Definitely worth every penny and I would recommend not only this product, but the company for sure.
All the toys have a home, a beautiful home, and I can quickly throw all the toys in before guests come over. Problem solved and less stress about toys overtaking our house! Hooray!!
Aside from this lovely Noah’s Ark Toy Box Guidecraft has a huge selection of kids furniture, toys and teaching equipment. If you want to get your toy box or check out what else Guidecraft has, go to http://www.guidecraft.com
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Your kid is so cute. Hope she enjoys her new toy box.