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The Learning Tower Playhouse Kit


  • Transform your child’s Learning Tower into a versatile playhouse
  • includes an easily-attachable roof, red curtains, and 4 theme signs
  • create a puppet theatre, doll house, drive-thru, and lemonade stand
  • From helping in the kitchen to putting on a show, spark your child’s imagination
  • As featured in the Rachel Ray show!

Product Description
Transform your child’s Learning Tower into a versatile playhouse with the Playhouse Kit. This adorable accessory set includes an easily-attachable roof, red curtains, and 4 theme signs to create a puppet theater, doll house, drive-thru, and lemonade stand. From helping in the kitchen to putting on a show, spark your child’s imagination with the Learning Tower and Playhouse Kit…. More >>

The Learning Tower Playhouse Kit

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  1. #1 by Janelle Brazeal Hyde on May 25, 2010 - 1:27 pm

    We purchased the Learning Tower for our 2 year old’s birthday. We got this kit to go with it. She loves playing with this kit and her puppets and dolls. I’m sure she will use it more as she gets older. The only issue I have with it is that you cannot use this kit if you have the art easel installed on the side of the tower. We have to remove one in order for the other to be installed. Our little one loves the easel, so most of the time, this kit sits on the floor taking up space. Had I realized they could not be used simultaneously, I would have waited to purchase this kit until later.
    Rating: 4 / 5

  2. #2 by Al Sargent on May 25, 2010 - 3:02 pm

    One of the wooden blocks broke when I was putting this together. Like the first reviewer, the block broke because the slot was just a bit too tight. Very disappointing.

    That said, the kids really like the product concept. If the Learning Tower folks could work out this glitch they’d have a great little product on their hands. (Hence the two star rating rather than a one star rating.)

    I’m trying to reach the distributor for this product to get replacement parts. If they come through, I will update this review.
    Rating: 2 / 5

  3. #3 by Jessica on May 25, 2010 - 3:02 pm

    This kit was a total disappointment. I’d give it no stars if Amazon let me. We love our Learning Tower, and were very pleased with its construction, and expected a similar quality product in the playhouse expansion. We had high hopes for the playhouse kit because my two toddlers love to climb around the tower even when we aren’t cooking. Instead it is poorly designed, poorly constructed junk. We even received a replacement kit after I complained to the mfg about the poor construction. The replacement was no better.

    The wooden support blocks are awful. Neither set fit. I, too, am a handy former engineer turned Mom, and had a really hard time putting it together. In the end, we used a nail file to widen the slots a tiny bit so the roof panels would slide in snugly without the appliques getting torn up. Even once I got everything assembled, the roof panels don’t stay on well because the grooves are pretty shallow and the peak of the roof is just a shallow slotted piece too. I can think of so many better ways to assemble & attach roof panels – it’s such a shame the designers didn’t think of a single one of them. I’m not even going to let my two year old try it out because she’ll just knock them off the support blocks and they’ll fall onto her head. Not my vision of a great gift-receiving experience for her.

    Secondly, the curtains are junk. The first set we got had unevenly sewn velcro tabs that made them hang a little funny, but they at least stayed together. The second set started coming apart at the rod pocket seam as soon as I slipped them onto the rod. They’re not the nice-hanging, long, pretty curtains with cute polka dot tiebacks shown either. They’re cheap, see-through stiff material that doesn’t gather well at all with their plain red tiebacks and they’re barely long enough to cover the opening.

    All things considered, I’m going to try to return this item even though I’ve already bought a set of puppets to accompany it for Christmas. Fortunately, I still have plenty of time to find something else to go with the puppets this Christmas.
    Rating: 1 / 5

  4. #4 by EH on May 25, 2010 - 3:10 pm

    Couldn’t find any reviews on this kit before buying. Thought we’d give it a try since the learning tower itself was rated so highly.

    I have an engineering background so I’m fairly handy. Instructions were easy to figure out. However, poor design.

    The roof, curtain rod and sign are supported by little wooden blocks with grooves in them. These have to be pushed onto the top of the tower. It’s not so easy to make them fit. ONE WAS SO TIGHT THAT THE WOODEN BLOCK CRACKED (I was as gentle as I could be). It would then fit onto the tower but not hold the sign.

    The two roof pieces slide into a long piece of wood with grooves at the top. This isn’t stable and quickly fell apart the first time the roof was bumped (with the panels then falling down on top of the kids). When the panels fell, they cracked the wooden support blocks as they pulled out of the grooves.

    Summary: all very cumbersome; not something I’d want to struggle with over and over as we shifted from using it to play or as a stool in the kitchen.

    Will update review once we write to the company (not worth returning to JoeMuscle as shipping charges would match the refund we might get).
    Rating: 1 / 5