Melissa & Doug Human Body 100 pc Floor

by Melissa & Doug

Product Features

• One side of the puzzle illustrates the human skeletal structure and the other the internal organs
• Double sided 100-piece floor puzzles
• Develops matching skills
• Life size puzzle
• Recommended age range from 8 years and above

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3 x 9.3 x 11.7 inches ; 3.1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0006GVB5Q
• Item model number: 445
• Our recommended age: 8 years and up
• Manufacturer recommended age: 10 years and up
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,327 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
  • #31 in Toys & Games > Puzzles > Floor Puzzles
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The incredible inner-world of the human body is beautifully portrayed in this unique; double-sided educational floor puzzle. One side of this detailed 100-piece puzzle details the skeletal structure; and the other side the internal organs of the body. Children will love exploring and learning with this challenging; nearly life-sized floor puzzle.

Product Description

The puzzle features the best graphics, highest quality, largest size and lowest price compared to competitors. Colorful and highly detailed, the Human Body Floor Puzzle is made of heavy-duty cardboard with an easy-clean surface that helps keep it looking new for years to come. Measures 12" x 9.5" x 3". 100 pieces.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

50 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Details are fudged, December 28, 2007

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M "Loops" (Minneapolis) - See all my reviews

= Durability:2.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Melissa & Doug Human Body 100 pc Floor (Toy)

I have a curious child who enjoys looking at my osteology textbooks from college. I got this puzzle thinking, "Yay, it'll be fun for us to work on together, and I won't have to worry about her ruining my $100 book!" But now that I've seen this puzzle up close, I'd rather let her scrunch up the pages than waste time with this puzzle again.

As another reviewer mentioned, both sides of the puzzle have the same color background, and there is lots of negative space around the anatomical figure...this means that there are lots of blank pieces that are blue on both sides. (One side is slightly flatter than the other, but this is a very subtle difference--not enough for most people to go on.) It is frustrating enough for an adult to put together, let alone a child.

Furthermore, details are sketchy. On the organs side of the puzzle, not all the systems of the body are represented, and the ones that are depicted seem half-hearted. The esophagus appears to start somewhere in the thoracic cavity, then bypass the stomach and go straight to the intestines, for example.

As for the skeleton side, it looks to me as if the illustrator looked at a picture of a skeleton long enough to get the shapes of the bones mostly right, but couldn't figure out how the joints are put together, and so faked them by drawing lots of weird knobs of bone. The elbows are FUBAR. The foot on the right hand side has no heel bone, and the ankle on that side is fused--the tibia and talus look like one long, misshapen bone (yet on the other ankle they are shown as 2 separate bones...strange), and the right and left shoulder are constructed differently too (both wrong).

If a real person had a skeleton like this, he wouldn't be able to walk or bend his elbows, he'd always be dislocating his shoulders, he'd have trouble turning his head from side to side, and it would probably hurt to sit down.

People will think I'm being too nit-picky, but hey, I'm just laying it out for you. It really comes down to what you want your kid(s) to get out of a product like this. If all you want is vague, rote knowledge of where various body parts are, then go ahead and buy this. If you want your child to be able to understand how parts of the body fit together and see how they work, save your money for one of those neat models made by people who GET anatomy.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars too simplified, November 25, 2009

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R. Rassi - See all my reviews
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= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Melissa & Doug Human Body 100 pc Floor (Toy)

My boys have had this puzzle for 3 years. It has held up great.

They love putting it together and don't get frustrated by the double sided pieces (you can tell by the way the edges were cut which side you are working on).

My only issues is the way they simplified labeling the parts of the body. Instead of patella, they wrote "knee bone". They did the same for ankle, foot...

I ended up taking a sharpee marker to ours and writing the proper names below what was listed.

With my additions, it is very educational.

Either way, worth the money.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good puzzle, but the two sided-ness is confusing, July 4, 2007

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D. Komatsu "children's lit lover" (children's lit lover) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Melissa & Doug Human Body 100 pc Floor (Toy)

I think the picture is terrific for kids, and the puzzle is very sturdy, but it wasn't clear to me when I ordered it that there were two sides. That discouraged my child from trying to assemble it. I wish it had been two different colors, at least.