Melissa & Doug Birthday Party Birthday Cake

Super cute, super durable and super fun for playing 'birthday party.' The perfect birthday gift for any young child. (age 2-6 or so I would say, although it does have some smallish round pieces which are about the size of a quarter)

All our family birthdays fall in September, and birthday cake takes on a life of its own. So, this toy was a nice way for our 2-year-old granddaughter to re-enact all the excitement. She's had lots of fun with it.

I bought this toy for my daughter's 5th birthday. By the end of the day, red paint had chipped off the cake platter and the velcro was pulling away from the sides of the cake slices. I thought my daughter and her 6-year-old sister would have a lot more fun with this toy. They love playing pretend house and store with their plastic foods, and they love having parties with their stuffed animals. They haven't played with this since the birthday. Also, I was disappointed that the wood tray didn't come with some sort of lid, even a plastic one. This toy was a bummer.

I was a huge fan of Melissa and Doug products. I went in to buy this set at a local toy store and was saddened to see the Made in China label- in fact all the products that were in that particular store by Melissa and Doug were made in China. What bothered me about that fact was that they market themselves as USA made and that clearly isn't the fact anymore.

I chose not to buy it anymore- particularly with the amount of red paint on this toy food product. Now they do say they test and test and safety test.
But as a parent, I chose to not buy it anymore because of my concerns about product safety from China.
Sad to say I will no longer be buying Melissa and Doug- the stuff is adorable I just can't be guaranteed of it's safety anymore.

I bought this toy for my 2 year old nephew and he loved it!! It was easy to handle with the pieces staying put with the Velcro. He felt very important and he sliced everyone a piece of cake! He even took a candle to bed with him.