Melissa & Doug Reusable Sticker Pad: Habitats – 150+ Reusable Stickers – FSC Certified

Fun, educational and easy!
I bought this for my two year old and they love it! The stickers are high quality and don’t rip. This sticker book is kid friendly as my toddler is able to peel the stickers off independently.This sticker book has been great for working on speech for us as I have used it for my toddler to make the sounds of animals as they place them. I love how it has different habitats and animals. Don’t worry about mixing up the stickers. All the stickers have a different color around their edges that correspond to their habitat. This makes putting the stickers away quite easy if your toddler mixes the stickers up.I have already purchased the vehicle and things that go version of this book for my toddler and can’t wait for it to come in. This is definitely a great gift at a good price. Very happy with this product.

The Life Cycle of this Sticker Pad with a Baby
I purchased this pad for my 15 month old at the end of August. It’s now the end of October, so we’ve had it for about 2 months total, and it’s kind of nearing the end of its life span. Yes, it’s recommended for ages 3 and up, but my baby discovered stickers around that time and I wanted to encourage her creativity and imaginative play. When we first got it, I was delighted. There are 5 scenes: farm, dinosaur, African savanna, jungle/rain forest, and ocean. The stickers are vinyl decals. Some commenters have complained about the stickability of the decals to the backgrounds, and I agree. M&D cheaped out on the gloss on the backgrounds, so the vinyl decals sometimes don’t stick very well. The vinyl decals are perfect, it’s the backgrounds that are poor. This can be remedied by wetting the backs of the stickers a little, or wiping down the backgrounds. Or, you can use the M&D stickers with My First Early-Learning Sticker Books (My Little World). This set has poor quality paper stickers that really aren’t reusable, but the books are FANTASTIC with beautiful high gloss pages that cry out for these vinyl decals to stick to them. They’re also FAR more portable than the M&D backgrounds,perfect for popping in the diaper bag along with some of the M&D decals.Stage 1We received the pad, and the stickers are all in the front followed by the backgrounds. This necessitates removing the sticker sheets from the pad. I only let my daughter play with one sticker sheet at a time and some of the stickers are very small (ducks and chicks at the farm, striped fish in the ocean), so those were removed. If you’re using this pad with a small child, I recommend starting with the dinosaur decals, which are the largest, followed by the savanna and then rain forest. My daughter had a great time removing the stickers from the sheets and placing them on the backgrounds.Stage 2I tried to keep the surrounding outline vinyl on the sticker sheets, so I would know where to replace the stickers in between play times. This failed, as my daughter eventually ripped the background vinyl off. So those outline vinyl sheets were thrown away. However, then I could never get all the stickers back on to the sticker sheets because they had been placed ‘just so’ as to maximize space. So now I as many stickers as I can fit on the sheets and the rest (10+ total) on the backgrounds.Stage 3Eventually, after a few weeks of play, the backgrounds got ripped out of the pad as well (at this point they were only loosely in there anyway). So now the ‘pad’ becomes more like a portfolio folder, for holding the sheets with the stickers and the backgrounds with the remainder stickers.Stage 4My daughter discovered that the backgrounds stink, and aren’t very sticky. She goes in search of more sticky surfaces to place the stickers. Walls with high gloss paint, the glass shower doors, the bathroom cabinets, the hall doors with high gloss paint. Yippee! So now I have stickers everywhere. This actually isn’t SO bad. It’s a nice activity to occupy her in the bathroom while I take a shower.Stage 5In moving the decals all over, to the various surfaces around the house that are glossy, the paper backgrounds have completely fallen into disuse. The stickers are scattered all over the house in various places. Now when I find one in a random place I pick it up and deposit it in a ‘sticker pile’ we have on a shelf in the bedroom. Eventually they will all be placed back on the sticker sheets or backgrounds in the ‘folder’. Unfortunately, the paper backgrounds are dead. Nothing sticks to them. They’re just tucked in the pad/folder, along with some of the sticker sheets with some stickers here and there. In the beginning I was keeping the different themed stickers separate, but now they’re all mixed up across the sheets. Daughter still loves this toy (it’s only been 2 months), but the pad itself is decimated. Will likely buy a new set of them around Christmas, or maybe wait until spring when she turns 2.Overall, this is a very fun toy. If using with a child under the recommended age range, obviously play must be supervised to prevent potential ingestion of any stickers. Even at 1.5 it’s a wonderful learning tool for teaching animal names and sounds and encouraging creative play. However, like most M&D products, it’s scores very high in the idea department (the concept) but low in the construction department (all M&D products are now made in China, with apparently high safety standards, but low quality control). This sticker pad just isn’t made to last, nor are the backgrounds even made to have the decals stick. Come on M&D, would a few cents more for a bit more gloss on the pages really have been so terrible?! Ugh. Anyway, this sticker pad costs less than a Starbucks coffee and lasts exponentially longer, so I can’t complain too much.

A MUST for kids who love animals!
Sure, this is a sticker set for kids. But as an animal lover myself (who seriously looked into scientific illustration as a career), I am SO impressed at the scientific accuracy and tasteful style of the illustrated animals. These aren’t offensively-drawn caricatures, you can identify real animals in these! I was able to point out to my 28-month-old the jaguar, the leopard, the harpy eagle, the cheetah, the skate, the flounder, the horseshoe crab. She can identify them all. (She is already better at identifying animals than her dad, haha.) Even the squid and the octopus have the correct number of arms and tentacles! I am not as familiar with dinosaurs, but I am sure that real dinosaurs can be identified there too.This is the first reusable sticker set I got for my animal-loving daughter and I am immensely pleased with this purchase. She’s already played with them for hours and the stickers are still in great shape. I like to wipe down the scene pages every evening to remove fingerprints. I will say that we did attempt to put the stickers back with the backing intact, almost like a puzzle, but it’s much easier to remove the stickers if you remove the backing from the sticker paper. She’s often able to handle the stickers herself that way. There’s also less likelihood you will rip the sticker paper if you don’t reuse their placement on the backing.My only negative observation is that sometimes my daughter will observe that these stickers aren’t really sticky because they don’t stick to her shirt. She’ll think it’s broken and throw it aside. I have been telling her they’re “special stickers” that only stick to “this special paper” and I think she’ll get it soon, haha.

Great quality reusable stickers! They don’t stick to other surfaces like floors, walls, tables etc. but rather only stick to the provided sticker pad Habitats. The stickers are tough enough to not tear when 2 kids fight over them. I now have 3 sets. Highly recommend. Don’t make the same mistake I did and show your child all the options at the start as I am now being constantly asked to change habitats from dinosaurs to farm to sea to forest etc.

Mi peque de 2 años está encantado, vienen un montón de pegatinas con unos dibujos muy bonitos. Lo que más le gusta es pegarlas en los cristales, además este juego le viene muy bien para la psicomotricidad fina. Sin duda repetiremos! Gracias

Ottimi. Uso questo puzzle per il mio bambino autistico e devo dire che sono un ottima idea per sviluppare l’aspetto cognitivo, giocando. Sia le schede che gli adesivi sono di ottima qualità, il che è un aspetto di non poco conto visto che il mio bambino è un po’ maldestro 😊