Chocolate Factory Playset Review

Children make handmade chocolate boxes at home

• Encourage imaginative play
• Use fine motor skills
• Making candy from start to finish

what is it

Melissa & Doug’s Wooden Chocolate Factory features a candy factory and candy shop to encourage imaginative play. Children can mix and match plastic candy shells, toppings and fillings to place the candies in place using sliding conveyors, tumblers, levers and dials. Set includes six bases, tops, colorful bears, two gift boxes, tubes, signs, an activity card and game currency. Kids can make their own candy and fill and process orders.

Encourage children to engage in imaginative play. | Source: Melissa and Doug

This neat playset encourages counting, fine motor skills, matching skills and color recognition. | Source: Melissa and Doug

It’s easy to assemble, requires no tools, and is virtually noiseless. | Source: Melissa and Doug

The set includes six bases, tops, colorful bears, two gift boxes, tubes, signs, an activity card and game currency. Kids can make their own candy and fill and process orders. | Source: Melissa and Doug

why we like it

This neat playset encourages counting, fine motor skills, matching skills, color recognition, communication, cooperative play, and narrative thinking without requiring batteries or screens. It’s easy to assemble, requires no tools, and makes very little noise.

Important things to know

Visiting the Wooden Chocolate Factory is recommended for children 3 years and older. Some plastic parts may be difficult to move on hardwood for little hands. While playing, place this toy on a flat, stable surface.

very suitable

Aspiring Chocolatier; Preschooler; Candy Lover