As other reviews indicate, this board has pieces that must be inserted and removed every time the board is brought out. There are several problems with this. The first is that the cardboard inserts quickly become frayed and crushed at the bottom where they are supposed to fit into plastic clips. The clips themselves are like vices and hard to open sufficiently. There is no way small children can set this up by themselves and frankly, it can take an adult so long to get all the pieces together that the children lose interest and go off to do something else. I really can't believe that the designers of this ever tested it with real children and parents before tossing it out on an unsuspecting public.