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Little Tikes Mission Design Easel from Little Tikes
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Minimum Age: 24 months
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Our Editorial Review
Product Description This beautifully designed easel is part of the Little Tikes Natural Interiors collection of fine children's furniture. Crafted of solid hardwood with a natural finish, it's as durable as it is beautiful. Includes a blackboard on one side and a dry erase board on the other. A magnetic clip holds paper for sketching or painting (paper not included). Folds for storage. Measures approximately 28.50" x 26" x 43.75".
Customer Reviews
Great piece of Furniture Posted 18 January 2007
This easel is a sturdy piece of furniture. I does not fold down, so not good for small spaces. The tray on the white-board side isn't wide enough for the paint cups we bought and that is the only mark against it.
Great for toddlers Posted 15 January 2007
Bought this for my daughter's 2nd birthday. It is a great fit for her size and age. Additionally, it shipped quickly and was easy for one person to assemble.
I do wish it came with chalk and erasers. Thankfully we happened to have some on hand.
very sturdy Posted 19 September 2006
Our little one may be to young and not the artist to be but find this item still nice. It sits out in the tv area and looks nice, we use washable crayons on the white board. Four stars because the chalk doesn't adhere to the chalkboard. Other reviewers called it waxy. This easel will last a long time, and is easy to keep clean. Extremely sturdy. Yes we love it even though it's used at short intervals and only been two months. Can see the expense even out through the years and passed on to others.
Best Art Supply EVER Posted 14 January 2006
After researching many different easels I finally decided on this one, even though it wasn't magnetic. The look is great! It can go in any room of my house and still look nice. The chalk board is waxy, but the more my 22-month-old uses it the more the wax comes off. The magnetic strip on the whiteboard side will hold up to 4 sheets of crayols floor pad sheets (which are good quality paper and almost fill the whole white board)
Instead of using dry erase markers (which always stink) I have started using crayols window markers. My daughter loves the big ones, these come 4 marker to the set (also there is a 8 packet with smaller markers) and clean off with water and don't stain the whiteboard. She loves it. I can hardly get her away from it. My husband and I love to sit with out daughter and color on it too. Its the perfect heighth for a toddler (for year to come) and for us to sit on the floor and color with her.
As far as it not being magnetic (reason why I gave 4 stars)I figured I can always by magnetic strips and put it around the outside and it will still look nice.
One of the biggest reason I liked this easel is it well made and I don't have to worry about it tipping over onto my little tornado. She crawls under it, stands in under it, shakes it, and has tried to sit on the tray and it doesn't budge. We can even throw a blanket over it for a quick fort.
It took my husband and father about 1/2 hour to put it together.
A beautiful easel, but not very functional Posted 26 January 2005
I bought this easel because it was so highly reviewed here on Amazon, and I have been very disappointed with it. In fact, I've been so disappointed that I'm selling it and am planning to buy a different one.
Good aspects of the easel: It's gorgeous -- it's made of solid wood & it looks great. It's also a great height for a 2-3 year old. Also, though we didn't try the chalkboard, it's not plastic & I expect that it works quite well.
Bad aspects of the easel: The magnetic clip that is supposed to hold the paper does not work. It does not even hold one piece of paper. And since the top of the easel is squared off (see picture), I can't use clips or clothespins to hold the paper either. So I've been taping the paper up each time. As my son can fill a piece of paper in about 2 minutes, this is a major pain! Another big problem with the easel is that the trays are extremely shallow and rounded, so I can't imagine how they would hold a jar of paint. Last, some aspects of the easel did not seem to be good quality -- for one thing, the magnetic strip that is supposed to be stuck to the white board (part of the clip that's supposed to hold the paper) was glued on crooked & keeps falling off to boot. Also, it looks like one of the trays got chipped and then was filled in with wood filler & sanded down -- definitely noticeable, and I was surprised that Little Tikes had the gall to sell something obviously damaged as a new product.
The easel looks great, but since it won't hold paper without using tape, and since my son can't use it for painting, I really don't see the point of owning it. Next time I make a purchase of this sort I plan to do it in a physical store, rather than online, since I think I would have realized this easel wouldn't work well if I had been able to look it over in person. Also, the shipping cost of this item ($35) made it impractical to return, so I'm having to sell it used to someone local and therefore am not getting all of my money back.
My recommendation: Don't buy this overpriced, impractical easel -- instead, try to buy something in your local area that you can examine in person.
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