Skillmatics Card Game for Toddlers - Spot & Learn Letters, Numbers, Shapes & Colors, Preschool Learning, Travel Toys, Gifts for Kids Ages 2, 3, 4, 5

I see these cards lasting for some time sturdy laminated plastic type material seems easy to wipe off germs! And my 3 year old won’t bend easily!

If it is not clear from the pictures/description, this is a set of round dry erase cards that help your kids practice drawing certain things, including the alphabet. Everything fits in a tin roughly 5" wide and 2" tall. After tracing it you or they have to wipe it off with the included cloth, there are two markers which just barely fit in the tin but they fit fine if you flex it a bit. Everything is very well made and way better than average based on what you would expect from the photos.We homeschool two kids and buy or get through Vine a lot of these type of items to help teach our kids. Usually this type of teaching tool is 8-12 dollars (vs $20 for this) but those are mostly useless and odd, with weird words/tasks etc, and this is actually decent and normal, so it is well worth the slightly higher price, I was surprised when I used it as I am used to these things not being all they claim. The packaging states that it is made in India with the company being a UK based company.Every instruction card is written absolutely perfect english. This sounds like a small thing but you can judge a game/teaching tool by this pretty accurately: if the company marketing a foreign product on US amazon spends the money to write the instructions in perfect english it will almost always be an upper quality item in all the other regards, in our experience. Sometimes you get a gem with bad instructions, but you almost never get a flop with well written instructions. Small detail but worth mentioning.

At first when I saw these I was a little skeptical that they'd be worthwhile, but I was pleasantly surprised. First of all the cards are self-contained in a little tin about the size of your hand and maybe two inches deep (less than one finger height). Each of the cards is laminated and should be able to survive a spill or over-enthusiastic toddler long enough for you to intervene. Each of the cards features an action with about half skewing towards imagination/charades and half being more physical movement (eg twirl like a balarina vs pretend you're a police man). Finally the set comes with some guidance on how to introduce and use these. (* Also check the website, the company typically has some suggestions for extension or free additional activities that are similar)- Colors (12 cards, primary and secondary colors, white, black, gray, brown, pink, and peach). These cards have the color on its own on one side and the action on the other. Contains the standard battery of colors introduced in kinder and uses sensible examples. Only strange card is the inclusion of peach and using it for butterflies as the example. Personally it would've been fantastic to see indigo instead so kids were familiar when introducing rainbows.- Shapes (10 cards, found on the back of the 1-10 cards). I found these to be the weakest category of the set. Since they're on the back of another type of card everything is squeezed in and some of the examples are better than others (eg oval uses a mirror which is okay but not always true). Only real con is they use hexagon and specifically reference the number of sides but don't have pentagon.- Numbers 1-10, one sided. No complaints here- Alphabet, two-sided cards with lowercase on one side and upper on the other. Nice to have twice as many activities here and in some ways nice that the lower and uppercase of the same letter are on the same card, but eliminates possible extension of matching both.One final feature that's subtly included - the cards do a nice job of introducing novel concepts and vocabulary. E.g. bury the carrot in 'soil' , or imitate..., extend, lazing.

Here is an educational set consisting of sturdy flashcards, dry erase markers, and a small cloth all in a compact tin.The cards are double-sided, and of four types. There are two (yes, surprisingly, only two) of the pattern cards, the numbers 1 through 10, the upper- and lowercase alphabet, and several shapes (circle, triangle, square, rectangle, diamond, heart, star, semicircle, oval, hexagon). The pattern cards consisted of fairly detailed drawings, with many different lengths and shapes (so to speak) of lines to trace. The number cards feature a number to trace and a corresponding collection of objects to count (For example, 10, with ten butterflies) on one side, while the reverse shows the word written out, and a corresponding array of dots (ten, with that many dots). The alphabet cards have the capital on one side, and the lowercase on the reverse, and each side shows an object beginning with that letter, so for each letter sound, you have two different examples, which is nice. The shape cards display a two-dimensional shape to be traced, and its name on the front, while the back gives an example of that shape in an every day object (For instance, oval and egg, diamond and kite, semicircle and orange slice.)The cards are round, and roughly the size of a young child's face. They seem fairly durable and flexible. The markers come in two colors, blue and black. Possibly because these are the two main colors for ink pens, possibly because the dark shades show well against a variety of background colors. The markers are a bit chubby, which may make holding and controlling them easier for an immature grasp, but the writing tip isn't boxy and wide like a standard, classroom dry erase marker, which makes marking only on the line you're tracing easier. They make clear, even, smooth lines, and erase cleanly, leaving no trace behind. The eraser is just a small swatch of white fabric printed with the company's logo, but I have to admit that it worked perfectly. I noticed that the ink did form a smudge on the fabric as I was testing the materials, but I suppose if it became dark all over and had no clean space left to use, another scrap cloth or perhaps a tissue or bit of paper towel could be used instead. The tin seems fine, although I would have preferred a square cardboard box. I think that would have been easier to store in among other things on a shelf or in a drawer, and it wouldn't have the lip around the bottom which tins do, and which can scratch or leave dents/impressions on items stacked beneath them. I will also say that the markers are quite a tight fit. They got them in there, and I can yank them out, but some force is required because both ends of each marker click in under the lip of the tin. That's how close it is. I don't know why the manufacturer didn't produce slightly shorter markers or a tin that was a tad larger, but the two barely go together. They technically fit, but realistically, you may need to click them in and out for your child to be able to use the set.A couple other things struck me as strange, so I'll mention them here. One is that the upper- and lowercase letter Y look identical. There are no lines to show you the orientation of the letters in space, so the Z and z look the same, but that's legitimate because these have the same shape. But Y and y are different, whether you learned to make them pointy like a V or rounded like a U, the stem or tail on the capital is different from the corresponding feature on the little y. Also the little l, for some reason, has a tiny tail or whatever you want to call the upward curve at the end. Now, this is how I was taught to write, as a preparation for cursive, so I'm familiar with this shape for a lowercase l, but what's odd is that no other letter appears that way in the set. The d, k, m, n, and so on all go straight down and end there, without curving back up again, so it's a strange inconsistency.The last thing concerns the pattern cards. Again, there're only two out of the total fifty cards, and unlike the pre-writing, pencil-control worksheets I'm used to seeing, these didn't offer long, consistent configurations to trace, but a variety of many small, broken up lines all over, in all different orientations. This may be partly a limitation of the small, circular format of the cards, or maybe the company thought it would be more interesting to a young child to trace a drawing with lines in the context of a unified image, but I'm just mentioning it here so you'll know what to expect.In the end, I would describe this as a good product, fairly well-designed and fairly well-made, but with some minor issues, which may or may not concern every user. I'll say four stars.

These Skillmatics Flash Cards for Toddlers are a fun way to help young children learn.There are four kinds of cards: numbers, letters, shapes and colours. The cards are bigger than I was expecting as I'm used to seeing tin games around the size of Dobble but they are a nice size for young children. The cards feel good quality and should last a while if they are taken care of.Each card has a theme and on one side there is a flash card style card such as just a number or shape etc. and the other side being a spot and learn challenge in which children are asked to look for a picture that fits the learning opportunity from the flash card side. This could be something like find the object that there are six of or find three yellow things.I find that often flashcards can be a bit of a boring method of learning so I love that these have a kind of game on the back as it makes it more interesting and a bit of a challenge for young children.I am really pleased with these cards and think they will be very useful for helping with recognition of some of these important topics for young children, I'd definitely recommend them.

Got it for my 4 years old and she seems to enjoy this. Was little skeptical after ordering whether she would like it, but to my surprise she liked it. But might get too repetitive and bored if you are doing this on daily basis as kids can easily get bored with once they actually come to know what this is all about(my kid is one such kind). I am going to do this alternative days. And what I like about this is it is highly engaging and you can use this in multiple ways to engage the kids. I really liked the quality of the cards, the print, the clarity, and the colour combination and design. It is worth the money.

These Flashcards arrived in a well presented tin (that was shrink wrapped-sealed).The cards look and feel really good quality and are brightly coloured.The variety of actions for each of the cards is great, eg- A- open and close your mouth like an alligator. Our grandchildren (aged-2,4 &6) absolutely loved the actions.These flashcards are a good way to learn the alphabet, colours and numbers.The price (£12.99-price at time of writing), I feel is good value for money.Overall these are great quality, well presented in their storage tin, a good way to learn and a decent price.I would highly recommend them.

Duster cloth is missing

About the size of a CD in a metal tin there are 50 double sided cards which help teach your basics - colours, shapes, number and letters but in a fun way which pictures of things that a toddler should recognise - so 5 items of a colour - they can point to them and name them and if they dont know the name of that item they will also learn it's name too. I think its a good way of interacting and help teach your child in a fun wayCards themselves are a good quality and neatly pack away in the tn.