***There ARE instructions! After assembling the playard with no help, thinking there were no instructions, I found them 2 months later. They are well hidden (which makes NO sense) you'll find them behind the "mattress" if you unvelcro it from the attachment.***

On a side note, this product broke on us after disessembling it to take somewhere. One side won't lock when we try to put it back together. This product lasted us only 2 months.