"We got this as a Christmas gift for my child when she was 2. At the time, she was probably a little too young to figure out the paring...but she loved just to play with the puzzle and make the animal sounds...We just pulled it out again for her 20 month old sister (again, likes the animals and trying at the puzzle). But the 5 year old got totally into it and sorting the animals by farm or zoo, etc. So, now we've really gotten a long life out of it. And it has held up extremely well."