Customer Reviews

Alphabet Fun Flash Cards

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Amazon offers two brands of flashcards: School Zone (this one) and Brighter Child. It's hard to tell the difference from reading the Product Descriptions, so I bought the Alphabet flashcards from both brands to try them out. Both brands are about the same size and provide 2 flashcards for each letter. I think the School Zone flashcards are better in several respects:
* The School Zone cards have 2 different pictures for each letter. E.g., for the letter "A", School Zone has an Apple card and an Ant card. The Brighter Child cards have two identical Apple cards (one has a capital A and one has a lower case a). The different pictures on the School Zone cards allow for a good match-the-letter game.
* The School Zone cards have the letter and word written on the back, so the parent knows what is on the other side and older kids can learn to read the words. E.g., the back of the Apple card says "Aa" and "apple" on the back. The Brighter Child cards have a generic design on the back of every card (sort of like a deck of playing cards).
* The illustrations on the School Zone Cards are higher quality original artwork and more engaging. The illustrations on the Brighter Child cards have a grainy look, like someone downloaded free clip-art and enlarged them.
* The School Zone cards are made in USA. Brighter Child is made in Vietnam. So the School Zone cards have a smaller carbon footprint just from being shipped a shorter distance and probably were made in a more environmentally-responsible manner
* And finally, the School Zone cards are cheaper

Great pictures, great size, and when they've got a hole punched in the corner (drilled through at Kinko's, threaded through a notebook ring), they make a great travel toy. However, the lamination is a little flimsy, so they're not as durable as I'd like them to be. That being said, the person who uses them (every day!) is under age 2, so he's probably tougher on them than an older pre-reader or new reader would be.

Nice cards, funny images, my kid likes them. The cards are thin, so if your kid is under 4, these cards will not survive for a long time, but it's cheap. My kid is 2 years old, we learn words in a few languages with these cards, in a few years we'll learn alphabet.

got these for my 3 and 4 yr olds. they already know their letters but i was trying to teach them each letter's sound and thought it would be nice to have pics with letters but these cards are for older kids like already in first grade. the pics are really no help but it still helps with letter recognition.

My two and three-year-olds enjoyed these charming, amusing pictures. It helped develop their vocabulary while entertaining them.

These flash cards are on the flimsy side, but they are a good value for the price paid.

I love doing flashcards with my son. He is under the age range for this, but it is great to expose him to new words and pictures. All of the edges are rounded and not sharp. I think there are 40+ cards in each stack. Not a bad price either.

These flashcards are PERFECT for teaching kids to recognize the letters of the alphabet as well as the sounds the letters make. I love how on one side of the card, there is a picture of something that starts with that letter as well as the Uppercase and Lowercase letter. On the other side, there is no picture, just the Uppercase and Lowercase letters and the word for the picture that's on the other side. Great product!!

My 2 year old daughter loves these cards. She likes the animals and the letters. I'll hand them to her, tell her the letter and the picture, and she will take it from me. She'll look at it for a moment and then put it down next to her and look at me for the next one.

I was surprised that she was so fascinated. True, it's educational. But I think she likes it because we are both definitely talking about the same thing. She likes to hold and manipulate the little cards.

They are fairly tough, but not indesctructible. I like the design of the corners that helps me get them straightened up quickly. It also helps that the back of the card had a description of the picture.

We get a lot of fun from these cards, and if they become destroyed by repeated fun we'll buy another set.

I bought these for my 4 year old to start him in reading and they were perfect for what I needed to do. I love how it comes with a suggestion card for games you could play with your child!