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Seriously? Nobody noticed the chalkboard is plastic and chalk won't draw on it?
It's such a lovely easel otherwise, good quality wood frame and attractive. But come on people, I am SO SO SO disappointed nobody noted in reviews that for a hundred bucks, costing many times more than an Ikea easel, this one does not come with a real chalkboard! It's plastic. Chalk barely makes a mark on it. It is false advertising to sell this product as including a chalkboard when it is not at all a chalkboard, just made to look like one. You can even see in the photo on Amazon for the product a child drawing on the chalkboard -- it's a lie. In reality chalk does not work like that at all on the faux-chalkboard. Perhaps the model changed and Amazon still lists it under the same item. Which is something I have seen Amazon do on other items too, which misrepresents the true feedback for the item in stock. I would return this but I had to tear apart the box to get the huge pieces out of it and I didn't know the chalkboard wasn't real until the whole thing was assembled and I tried to draw on it with chalk. Boo boo boo at KidKraft for making an easel like this!!!
June 2011 · Toys and Games · verified purchase