If you want a cute little box that doesn't hold much, as the sides are wider than expected, this is a nice box. As someone else remarked, it has a nice magnetic flap closure. The outside is padded and colorful, as shown. The problem is the contents. Yes, the label states it is a Singer product, but everything was made in China, and it shows. The straight pins have the tiniest heads I've ever seen, which makes them difficult to grasp, and in certain fabrics, the heads might slip through. The needles are all exactly the same in size and shape, including the eyes, which are also tiny. They are so tiny that it wasn't easy to use the (very cheaply made) threader. One had to squeeze the wire hard to force it through the eye of the needle. The sewing thread was very cheap, had no finish such as mercerized cotton threads have, and wrapped around very small spools. The result is that even taking the most basic stitches, the thread snarled and tangled. It took both patience and experience to make it work. One would imagine that beginning sewers, especially children who may easily become frustrated, would quickly become discouraged and decide sewing was more of a punishment than a pleasure. The box also included a tiny stuffed felt "tomato" to hold the pins and a needle ready for use, which is standard; a cloth measuring tape, which was about as expected; and a seam ripper. The latter was enclosed in a sort of capsule that pulled apart, which was a sensible solution to a sharp object, and therefore a common feature of seam rippers nowadays. The spools, BTW, held thread in black, white, and primary colors such as red, yellow, and blue, as well as green and pink, but there was no beige, khaki, or brown. To sum up, one would think that the straight pins would have at least had larger plastic heads, if the reason for tiny metal heads was to save on metal, and a few needles with larger eyes and some variety in length, etc. wouldn't have cost much more than a fraction of the total cost compared to what was provided. There is no excuse for providing the cheapest, thinnest, most likely to snarl and break thread, either. So much for the much-vaunted and once reliable "Singer" name. Bottom line: I personally would not give this to anyone as a gift for the purpose of encouraging the skill of sewing by hand.