Wild Scenes Pandas' Bamboo Forest - Grow & Play Kit Environmentally Friendly Wildlife Conservation Toy - Animal Playset for Kids Ages 4 and Up

I used it for bday cake decoration. Grandson is a huge panda fan. He loved the cake!

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My grandson loves it. He brings his elephant stuffed animals over to eat to eat the grass. It’s very cute. A stocking stuffer hit.

Our Daughter immediately fell in love with this when we gifted it to her. She was sold just on how it looks, and was even more excited when she realized that we'd be growing an actual "garden" for her pandas. It's packaged well, and super giftable based on that.One thing worth mentioning. A few reviewers gave the product less than a five star rating for one reason in particular: soil isn't included. Here's my issue with that. The product page makes it clear that soil isn't included. So they're doing a disservice to this brand by rating the product lower simply because they failed to read the product details. If a order a replacement remote for a TV on Amazon, it's mentioned more than once on the product page that it doesn't include batteries, I don't rate the remote four stars just because it didn't come with batteries. Or because it SHOULD have come with batteries. I either make sure I read the product details, or I own up to the fact that I didn't read them, but I give it an honest rate just the same.Never mind the fact that unless you live in a series of canyons in the Southwest, or a city completely devoid of anything that actually grows, how hard is it to find dirt? Most people can simply walk outside and scoop some out of their yard. We live on about ten acres of land out in the country, so we're obviously on the fortunate side considering we grow things and have fertile soil galore right outside (and for miles around us). Just the same, I elected to use some Miracle-Gro potting soil that we had used for a few of the plants on our patio.One thing to keep in mind, if you have impatient kiddos. For best results, you'll want to let the dill seeds germinate for about a day before you actually mix them in with the soil. So you'll want to soak them in water for a good 24 hours, then add them to the soil. So if your kid isn't the most patient, you may want to consider starting that process 24 hours before gifting this to them. At which point, you can immediately "plant" the seeds, and not put them through a day of waiting.Fun, educational toy that my Wife and I can get behind. Plus anything that gets your kid to unplug from their electronics for a while, and learn about nature in a good way is always a positive thing.

Received elephants' watering hole. Arrived in a skimpy envelope with a big hole in it. Parts missing: watering hole, waterfall and seeds. I told the person who sent the gift.

This was such a cute concept, but it's a bit impractical. It doesn't include soil, the humidifying top is really hard to take off, and having to remove the bamboo to put on the top is a little inconvenient. It also makes a bit of a mess, especially considering we aren't able to put it out of reach of the toddlers.The pandas are cute and fun to play with, and the dill did grow! We'd expected more of a jungle for the pandas to play in, which was not what we got, so that's a bit disappointing.Overall, this grow and play kit didn't really capture my siblings' attention, but it may be enjoyable for others!

The media could not be loaded. This is a really cute kit. It’s ages four and up, my daughters eight and we thought this would be a fun project to do together.It’s called wild scenes. This is the pandas bamboo forest. It gives you some really cool facts about pandas and babies.In the box you get dill seeds and they recommend you soak them for 24 hours to help with germination. Two figurines, one adult panda and one baby panda. Now while you’re waiting for your seeds to germinate, you can go ahead and fill the planter 3/4 full of damp soil or compost I didn’t have any and it doesn’t come with it but you can pick it up anywhere. I mean most your dollar stores anymore carry some kind of soil.Then after that, you simply press it down and don’t cover the cross pin. The cross pin is where you’re going to end up setting the fake bamboo up. Then you just put the dill seeds across (it says half) we did all of them because I don’t really care I’m just going to let it grow and see what happens.Now then you have to assemble the little bamboo set. That’s where we ran into a little bit of trouble we ended up we couldn’t put the last topper on and I’m not sure if we did the leaves wrong or what but we had it up with one that didn’t have a cover on it. We didn’t really care it wasn’t a big deal to us.Last but not at least you just put it all together and you can set the pandas wherever you want.The one thing that I didn’t like is that if you want to put the actual lid on so it stays warm at night (that helps it get the growth going inside the plants) you have to remove the fake plants that you set up on it and I think that’s a little bit of a bummer.I didn’t remove a star for that it’s just one of those things I think could be fixed in the future and maybe put a little thing outside that way you would be able to leave it set up complete.The dill starts sprouting in anywhere from 10 to 14 days and I’m looking forward to it! Then you just pick the leaves at the bottom, wash them and put them onto whatever you choose. I like it on chicken some people like it in dips.Fun educational project!