EUGY 3D Meerkat Model | Review

[Ad- gifted product] When it comes to puzzles, we seem to be doing more and more in our household! These 3D puzzle models have peaked the kids interest since I brought back a few packs from Spain well over a year ago, as a little gift from abroad. In more recent times, we have come to find that there are quite complex 3D puzzles and EUGY create a bunch of them – from animals that you’d recognise to mythical creatures like mermaids and unicorns – they have a puzzle for literally anyone. We took a look at the Meerkat Model, which creates a daddy and baby meerkat.

I ended up created the Meerkat Model puzzle with Amelia, who was the most interested in these types of puzzles. The puzzle itself comes in a box with the instructions on the outside, and it’s a good idea to look at these before you start punching out the models – which we failed to do – but that didn’t have any bad effects in the end. The model comes with all of the cardboard pieces, little plastic eyes in a small paper bag, a bottle of glue, some spare parts and a booklet of all of their other models. with the instructions on your box, they are quite easy to actually follow – so this is a 3D puzzle that younger ones can do. Once we had all of the pieces punched out, we grabbed the glue and started putting the puzzle together.

You actually are building this model from the middle out, using two rectangles to keep everything lined up. The baby meerkat was broken off of all of the models, due to us not quite reading before we started punching out, but it was easy to glue the main baby meerkats to the body of the daddy meerkat, which corrected the issue. On each of the pieces, there is a number and a letter – like L for left side and 1 for the first one, so you just need to find L2 to go over L1, gluing in-between and slotting it onto the rectangle. Towards the end, when pieces are smaller, it’s a little more challenging to put together but overall, the labelling makes this puzzle easily accessible for children and adults alike.

Once we had half done, we allowed the puzzle to dry before flipping it over, placing back in the rectangle guides and starting again. The glue held together really well and the puzzle we created ended up standing up on it’s own, as designed, looking quite neat! Amelia was extremely happy with the model and really enjoyed putting it together – it’s something that will definitely keep a child busy for a good chunk of time, and they can enjoy seeing their puzzle afterwards as well.

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