My daughter (17 months) loves laces / fingers / pins / etc. in all possible ways to infect holes! Since I was looking for a Fädelspiel, but all I was offered, I found not so suitable for them, until I saw this apple! I think the description from 3 years is a bit exaggerated and that my daughter will have a lot of fun with it, especially since the worm (attached to a string) equal slips out of a hole after having put him in a. Unfortunately, the apple is not processed so beautiful! One can see that the wood is not nice and smooth and the color drops are not nice to look at. At the holes is also less color -> ie bright spots and I'm sure that the color rubs off, so probably only 3 years. Now I just hope that my daughter really has fun with her apple :-)