I got this table for my daughter who starts to pull herself up. I liked the look, the activities proposed (hammering and shape sorting are usually not proposed on activity tables), and I thought the legs would make it easy for the table to slide on carpet (for her to learn to walk).Activities are as expected, and I like the colors. But I was disappointed at how small it is (I guess I should have paid attention to the measurements !!). Daughter can still play with it while standing (she does not want to sit down lately), however, supervision is required at all times as the table will topple over when the little one puts all her weight on a corner as opposed to a side of the table or tries to lift herself up with the help of the table. She certainly cannot walk with it (would be hunched over it).
I also encountered difficulty assembling it. The legs come separate and you have to screw them in. The screws get into a bolt that is pre-glued inside of the leg. For one of the legs, the whole of the bolt was too far into the leg and the screw could not screw in. Happily I'm graduated from Ikea and could fix it, but it was annoying.
** edit ** I change my rating from 3 to 4 stars because my daughter likes it so much that she spends as much time with it as with her musical table. She loves to pick up the shapes out of the basket, to move the owl, cow and chicken through the house and to knock the little wood spike (that is tied to the table with a rubber band) over and over again.
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