I bought this a couple years ago so my 2&1/2 year old daughter could dress up as Dorothy for Halloween.  We had Toto popping his head out the one side and put the candy on the other side.  Super cute, big hit at every house we stopped at.  But in the past 2 years my children have played with the basket every day.  It's a great little "picnic" basket or whatever else they want to put in it.  Both the dog and the basket have held up very well.