Beautiful cards...but three things annoyed me.

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	• Colors & Shapes: Colors & Shapes (Scholastic Hands-on Learning) CARTWHEEL BOOKS, 2003 - 12 pages average customer review:based on 6 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Hands on learning at its BEST!!

Excellent examples of colors and shapes that can be seen in the everyday world. My daughter loves these cards!! She is almost two years old and her vocabulary has increased greatly. Her favorite shapes are the circle, oval and the heart.

Love these cards

These cards are so educational. My daughter got her first set for her 1st birthday and just loved them. She is now 20mths old and has the whole set/series. She still loves them and asks us to play with them with her all the time. They are great for road trips and even on long shopping trips. They are so worth the money....I would even buy if they were more xpensive they are so worth the money.

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Great for Tactile Learners

The Scholastic Hands on Learning series is great for tactile learners. My toddler was evaluated as either on target or ahead on everything except verbal - he did not want to talk. His hearing was fine and there's no history of ear infections so hearing interference was ruled out as a factor. So, he began regular visits with a state intervention program to help him develop communication skills and everything we tried did not work. My mom bought him two boxes of flash cards from this series for Christmas. At first, he showed little interest. However, I kept trying. And it wasn't long before he started showing interest in the cards - particularly the ones he recognized as objects he encountered on a regular basis (ball, wagon, cat, dog, boy, orange, girl, etc.)

Aside from teaching shapes and colors as this particular title on the product indicates, the cards are made so that the pictures of common things a child might encounter in his/her world. They are inlaid with various textures that go along with the product being pictured. My son is a tactile learner - so when he could pick up the card, feel of it, and hear us repeat to him what the picture represented, he soon began naming the picture card himself. Once that started, he has now moved on to real, 3 dimensional around-the-house products - either pointing them out or bringing them to me or other family members to inquire what they are - and only after a couple of times of naming the object, he will add the word to his vocabulary.

I highly recommend this product as well as the other products in this series (as you can imagine, we have all of them now). They helped us open up a whole new world for my toddler.

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Great for any age

I feel these cards are suitable for any age, pointing and naming pictures is a start, then as the child gets older you can use the suggested games in the slip enclosed.

Beautiful cards...but three things annoyed me.

The flash cards are beautiful and colorful and packaged very nicely. They are also perfect for teaching a toddler shapes and colors. However, three things bothered me about this particular set of cards. 1) They used a brown rabbit for the color brown and a white rabbit for the color white. Couldn't they have used something else for one of the colors? A brown bear or a brown dog, perhaps? Or a snowman for the white card? Anything. But why the same animal for two cards? 2) For the color purple they show a purple gift and a purple lollipop. Those two items are not always going to be purple. Come on people; show something that is consistently purple like a plum or a violet or heck, an amethyst.
3) They have metallic coloring on parts of the cards. So why is the top of the "gold" card a maize yellow and the silver card gray? My toddler was confused looking at the gold and the yellow cards- they were too similar in color. Use the metallic coloring for the metallic colors! Hello! Also- the item they used for silver was a red fire truck! I had to point out the "chrome", which was meant to portray the silver color...but why? Why not show a silver item, like a quarter or a key or a... Tiffany paperweight? Isn't there something out there that is silver besides the tiny amount of chrome on a red fire truck? I know I am nit-picking, but these kinks should've been worked out and they annoyed me. (I have no life. I know.)

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The most trusted name in learning brings you the most playful way to learn!Each Scholastic Hands-On Learning: Colors pack comes in a sturdy reusable storage box containing 12 child-and- parent-friendly cards with rounded corners. Each card has a photograph with touch-and-feel textures on one side of the card, and information for the parent and child on the other side. An additional Parenting Guide card in every box includes skill-building activities.

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