Make Memories with GummyLump: Melissa & Doug Easel Review + Giveaway

GummyLump is an online toy store that features an awesome selection of Melissa and Doug products, special needs toys and high quality wooden toys that make sweet memories. One such product that is sure to delight kids (and please parents, too) is the awesome Melissa & Doug Easel. We received this wooden easel from GummyLump and one of you will WIN one, too.

Melissa & Doug Wooden Floor Easel

The Melissa & Doug Easel is the perfect way to inspire your artist! Generously sized chalk board and dry erase boards are perfect for projects large and small. Easel folds ups easily for convenient storage and features a colorful paint tray with cup holders. Has an easy loading paper roll holder and an extra large tray for holding erasers; chalk and clips. Paper cutting edge at top of easel means clean paper cuts for your artists work! 4 large clips included.

I have to admit that I wasn’t sure how much use this would actually get in our home. I knew it would be great quality, as I’ve come to expect from Melissa & Doug, but I just didn’t know how my kids would use it. My son even has a Tabletop Easel but has never used it all that much and it’s currently in our basement. Well, I don’t see the Floor Easel leaving it’s place of importance in the play room any time soon. My kids love this easel and stop by to scribble on it at least once a day.

If you haven’t gathered by now, I’m not the most creative or artistic mama out there. (Thank goodness for Shannon!) Honestly, until this easel I had to get the crayons and coloring books out of a cupboard for the kids. Seems silly, doesn’t it? Now, the Easel is stocked with a roll of paper on one side, large coloring pages are clipped to the other and the trays are filled with crayons and colored pencils. The kids can literally walk up, draw for a bit and then continue on their business. And, when I get brave I can get out the smocks and fill the trays with paint for some serious arts and crafts.

The Floor Easel was easy to put together and consists primarily of tightening screws with large plastic nut. One of the great features is that the Easel grows with your child and has three height options. Our Easel is set on the lowest of three heights and is easily accessible by my 2 and 4 year old. If you have kids of varying ages and size, you can have one side of the Easel up higher than the other to accommodate both.

My littlest artist at work.

To Buy or Not to Buy

To Buy… The Easel is a great addition to our play room – it grants my kids the opportunity to be creative and express themselves whenever they want. If you don’t want to use it all the time, it does fold up for smaller storage. Another great feature is that the Easel height adjusts to grow with your children.

Or Not to Buy… In the several weeks we’ve been using this, I have yet to find a complaint or improvement. If anything, I do wish it came with a roll of paper.

Shop! The Melissa & Doug Wooden Floor Easel has a suggested retail price of $79.99, but is available for only $63.99 at GummyLump.

Win! Melissa & Doug Wooden Floor Easel from GummyLump!

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Giveaway ends May 26. Open to US mailing addresses. Any household that has won a giveaway from GummyLump.com in the past 90 days is not eligible for this giveaway. Should an ineligible entrant be chosen as the winner, all rights to the prize will be considered forfeited and a new winner will be chosen

Thanks to GummyLump for providing a sample and the giveaway prize.