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My kid was having a hard time learning to match large letters with the proper small letter, and this puzzle helped it click for him. He doesn't play with it daily, about once or twice a week, and it occupies him for about a full hour. Functionality wise, you'll need some room to set this up, tho the size of the cards are small enough to store in a Ziploc bag to put away. I organize the large letters in one stack, small letters in another stack, and pictures in one stack, and once the matches are completed it can take up about a 4 seating table, thick enough where it doesn't break for a 4 year old (definitely could be taken out by any younger age), decent quality and value for the money overall. Colors are black and white for letters, and the pictures are colored as advertised.

Not a traditional matching game, but my 5 year old still loves it and it really helped him learn the spelled out versions of the numbers. Lots of different ways to play this game, and all of them enjoyable for the child. I had a lot less fun with this game than I do with the regular matching/memory games, but it is not for me and it definitely works as a way to make numbers fun for children (at least for my child!). The prep time is annoying because you have to sit there and make sure you have the 3 corresponding pieces for each number (we rarely do all of the numbers at once because it just takes too long to play and gets a bit tiresome). It still definitely gets 5 stars, though, because it is fun for my kid and after playing it twice he had learned nearly all of the spelled out numbers, something he had been struggling with for weeks before we got this game. The game designers/creators definitely knew what they were doing and I am so happy!

Not only is this a fun, educational game to play the traditional way, but it is also very exciting to have your tot find those body parts on himself. My 2 1/2 year old learned a lot of self awareness by playing this game. It has also made him more aware of letters and words in general. It’s a great product and I highly recommend it to anyone with a little one. Would make a great gift as well!

I am an early childhood teacher that currently stays at home with my children. This set is a great toy and teaching resource for young children learning to sound out words or learn new sight words. For starting out, help the child sound out the word and let him/her find the marching picture and put them together. Then, as the child progresses you can let them work by themselvs. The self-correcting puzzle pieces make independent work successful. Make sure to remind the child that just trying to match the pieces without knowing the word isn't going to cut it. :) Also, the quality of materials make this toy very durable. I would recommend this toy to any beginning reader.

I use this at work with my preschoolers and they love it! It helps to identify capital and lowercase letters while also demonstrating the sound the letter makes. The only thing I would change about it is for the letters with more than one sound, make an additional puzzle piece. (ie: the vowels have long sounds and short sounds, some consonants have hard and soft sounds, etc.) It could just be an additional picture to go along with the letter so that particular letter would have 4 pieces (Capital letter, 2 pictures for the different sounds, lowercase letter) that way it doesn't require too many more pieces to be added to the set. Great purchase. I'll be purchasing the numbers and spelling sets soon. Update: something else I would change about the Counting puzzles. There are 2 sets of 1-10, and only one of 11-20. I don't know why it didn't just go up to 30 and only have one set of 1-10. Still a great purchase. The kids love it in my class.

It was just as shown. Very pleased.

When I received this, I was a bit worried that it wasn't the complete alphabet because the box says 20 sets of cards. Thankfully, all 26 letters are present and accounted for. It's really hard to find products that isolate the capital and lowercase letters so I was super happy to find this. I follow a Montessori style approach so I plan on introducing the picture sounds, then the lower case, then the uppercase. The self correcting component is super important as well. I recently picked up a similar set at Target that are not self-correcting. They won't teach the child bc any letter and picture can match even when completely incorrect. My only critique is that the letter /i/ uses ice as the picture instead of igloo with the short vowel sound. I am going to draw an igloo on there. I may also draw a colored border around the vowels to distinguish them. The cards are nice and thick though my daughter hasn't played with them yet to truly see how they hold up. Overall, I think this set is a really affordable option and I'm happy with my purchase.

Great to help develop critthinking skills by allowing kids to sequence the pictures on the puzzle.