Step 2 Sand and Water Activity Center Reviews

Naturally Playful Sand & Water Activity Table
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Step Two

What is it?
The Naturally Playful Sand & Activity Table is an outdoor table that has two sides. One for water, the other for sand.  The water side holds up to 2 gallons of water and the sand side holds up to 20 lbs. of sand.  The table comes with a striped umbrella that holds securely in the middle of the table to provide shade for hours of fun, without the sun!  The Naturally Playful Sand & Activity Table comes with a lid that ties securely to the sides to keep it in place.  

The Naturally Playful Sand & Water Activity Table is just one...

If you have room in your budget, the Step 2 Sand and Water Activity Center is well worth your money!  We purchased ours on sale for $60 and even my frugal husband agrees that it was a smart purchase.

My handy husband said that it was easy to assemble, even with the "help" of two toddlers.  The umbrella easily folds down and we store it out of the sun when not in use. 

I really like that the kids stand up while playing with this instead of sitting down in a sandbox.  This table is much bigger than our previous sandbox and with the sturdy cover, I don't have to worry about neighborhood critters...

I was trying to find a toy that would keep both my three year old daughter and one year old son busy while in my backyard.  I saw this water/ sand table but was skeptical at first.  I thought it would make too much of a mess.  I was right and wrong about that!  Any parent knows that if you give kids water plus sand you will get mud.  Even though there was a mess, the table was made with clean up in mind.  I was able to pull the plug that was located in the bottom of the table and clean up the mess.  That was when I got smart.  I decided that I would use the whole table as a sand table and...

We purchased our Step 2 Sand and Water Table in the summer of 2007 and it's holding up wonderfully.  I have three rambunctious boys, five year old twins and a four year old, and I'm sure you can imagine how hard they can be on toys.  This Sand and Water table is still a favorite outdoor toy and it looks just as good as it did the day we purchased it.

Most of the little bridges that it came with have long since been lost, but we've found that the boys like it just as much using their regular plastic outdoor trucks and toys.  Sometimes we fill it just with sand and leave the water out, that tends...

I love the Step 2 sand and water activity center. During the cooler weather months, I use sand in the center and the kids love to play and build castles. But in the summer, we fill the thing with water every day and the kids love to play with their boats and just plash around. When my daugher was smaller, she would even limb on the table and play in the water, supervised. I really like that it comes with the huge umbrella to keep the sun off the kids and allows them to play during hotter weather safely. It's also like that it's an activity table verses a sand/water box that sits on the ground,...

     My mother-in-law bought the step 2 water and sand table last summer to have at her house. The family gets together at her house every Sunday for dinner. The kids (2 8 year olds and 1 4 year old) would spend the whole time playing together, without arguing, at the table. They loved to mix the sand with the water. It is a great toy. I like it because the kids are not sitting in the sand to play with it.  With the water right there they cold build sand castles and things using wet sand. It has a lid that fits securly on it and the sun umbrella is great. There is a drain plug on the bottom...