Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

These looked really cute and I have two daughters aged 7 and 3-1/2 so I bought two. All in all, both kids were very happy to spend an hour and a half painting their fairy garden pieces, arranging their garden and planting the seeds. The box suggests ages starting at 7, but my 3-1/2 old did fine and she loves it. However: Most of us parents should know that no product in the box ever looks as good as the picture on the box. This is certainly true for the Wee Enchanted Fairy Garden. Especially for the fairy herself. The fairy comes painted already and the faces are really not done well at all. My 7 year old's fairy really is quite ugly and she noted it as soon as it came out of the box. My 3 year old didn't say anything, but hers was better (not good, but better). One of my boxes came without the little paint-able glass stones. And instead of one large and one small mushroom, it came with 2 large mushrooms. Not a huge deal in my house because I happen to have lots of the glass stones with one flat side from another project we did ages ago. Also, as others noted, the starter soil that comes with the box really did look like it wasn't enough, so I used my own potting soil and filled it to the top. The instructions also suggest that you might want to use half the seeds now, and half later to prolong the life of the garden. I didn't bother, I dumped them all in. There are plenty of seeds, but I don't know how you could get such a full looking garden as on the box using only half the seeds.