Melissa & Doug Upper & Lower Case Alphabet

by Melissa & Doug

Product Features

• Upper and Lower Case Letter Puzzle
• Learn your ABC's
• Pictures under pieces
• Recommended Age Range 4 Years and up

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 11.5 x 18 inches ; 14.1 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B00004NKKN
• Item model number: 47
• Manufacturer recommended age: 4 - 6 years
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,434 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
  • #7 in Toys & Games > Puzzles > Pegged Puzzles
  • #29 in Toys & Games > Preschool > Pre-Kindergarten Toys > Puzzles
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (58 customer reviews)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Beautiful full color illustrations under each letter make learning easy and fun! Helps children develop their letter and case recognition; manual dexterity and matching skills. Quality wood construction will last a lifetime.

Product Description

Wooden activity set features 52 alphabet pieces featuring both capital and lower case letters. Each piece fits inside its own form. The color coded picture for each letter is set within the form shape for easy recognition and cognitive skill development. Set is crafted with care and guaranteed non-toxic and child-safe. Board measures 11-1/2" x 18-1/4".

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great learning tool for letter recognition, October 27, 2002

By 

christinemm - The Thinking Mother (Houston Texas USA) - See all my reviews
(TOP 500 REVIEWER)   

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Melissa & Doug Upper & Lower Case Alphabet (Toy)

This is quite inexpensive for all you get. I love that this is a combination of upper and lower case letters.

This puzzle can be made the traditional way or it can be used as a moveable alphabet. A moveable alphabet is a name for little letters that kids can manipulate on their own. Moveable alphabets are used in Montessori schools and other schools. After buying an expensive moveable alphabet of only lowercase letters (that is all that is available from that other manufacturer) I realized I could have bought multiple sets of this puzzle and use them in the same way. A moveable alphabet is used in freeform activities with your child to teach letter recognition. It is a tactile exercise as the child is holding the letter and moving it, rather than it being a little mark of ink on a page. You or the child can also form words with the letters and sound them out and read them as a way to supplement teaching reading. (Multiple puzzles would be needed so that there are more than one letter each.) My children hold up the letters and ask me which it is and we play games like that, that either they or I invent.

This puzzle is very durable as are all the other wood puzzles from this company.

The only downside is that organization is key if you want to not lose any of the pieces. This is too large for the puzzle holder that this company sells. Also beware the L's and I's are quite small and definately are choking hazard sized..so if you have little ones, take care to keep this out of their reach.

I think this is an inexpensive learning tool that every child should own. Please buy this for your child or give it as a gift to other children.

The puzzle doesn't have fancy graphics or bells and whistles to entertain. Games could be made up by the parent working alongside the child to make this interesting.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great learning tool, October 10, 2000

By A Customer

= Durability:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Melissa & Doug Upper & Lower Case Alphabet (Toy)

We purchased this puzzle for our daughter 4 months before her third birthday. At first I thought it would be way over her head. Instead, she was very interested in the colors, letters and pictures. Now, 8 months later, she can assemble it completely by herself and knows all her letters, even the lower case letters. She loves this puzzle and wants to play with it all the time. The only drawback is that her little sister has chewed some of the color off of the letters.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great language toy, January 20, 2002

By 

Mother of Bright Two Year Old (Iowa USA) - See all my reviews

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Melissa & Doug Upper & Lower Case Alphabet (Toy)

My son was around 21 months when he knew his capital letters really well. At about two, I bought this puzzle, so he could learn the lowercase as well. Much to my surprise, he not only learned the lowercase letters quickly after playing the puzzle, but he quickly learned how to say all the pictures below the pieces, and says those words when he is doing another alphabet puzzle I have which has no pictures on it. He'll go to put the A in the non-picture puzzle, and say airplane or apple, which comes from the 'picture beneath' puzzle, like the one shown here. Obviously, he is learning language and letters all in one with this puzzle, or he wouldnt be associating the letters with words that start with that letter without seeing those pictures on the puzzle. I guess its a great memory aide, as well, for him to remember the pictures from the other puzzle that were associated with the letter. Great puzzle, and it IS his favorite, no doubt. The others he has enjoyed are the Alphabet Train and Number Train as well, made by the same company, and have the pictures below and on the puzzle piece. Well worth the price I paid for the hours we have played with them over the last month.