Customer Reviews

Talking Smart Sticks: Letters & Sounds

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This is a great product for the vehicle ~ Keeps them busy in the back seat. Ours has been dropped many times and it always comes back "Hooked On Phonics Smart Stick....choose a letter" This has many modes for learning about letter sounds and letter recognition; reinforcing each other. Wonderful educational toy and HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

My daughter has all three of the smart sticks (letters, numbers, and colors/shapes) and they are IDEAL toys. They have several settings that play a song, tell her about what button she pushed (this is a - ), or ask her to find a letter/number/shape/color. They also have a switch for english or spanish. My daughter LOVES these and has learned everything on them at a much younger age than I would have expected her to. HIGHLY RECOMMEND for anyone who believes in educational toys. Also very durable, they frequently get dropped with no issues and even got run through the washer and worked again when dried out.

I bought this for my 2yo son after he learned to match numbers with the Numbers Talking Stick. This is a good toy to introduce and recognize letters. The voice that makes each letter sound isn't very clear, so I'm hoping he'll just ignore that part and it doesn't have an adverse effect on his learning the letter sounds. For the most part, this is a good toy to introduce letters and help children begin to learn to recognize them.

I was very impressed with this toy. I work with Pre-School kids in their homes getting them ready for Kinder. I coach parents, screen kids and supply educational materials for the family. I love this toy and its companion toys Smart Sticks Colors & Shapes and Smart Sticks Numbers. Remember I work with kids to whom English is a second language. After a week playing with Smart Sticks, a typical four year old knows the skill the toy teaches like bilingual numbers or colors and shapes. It takes about three weeks to learn all the letters and sounds. Great invention. Very useful in my work! As for durability I only had one problem when a neighbor kids took the toy and threw it in the sandbox. We opened it up, cleaned it out and it worked fine after that. Word of Advise: No sandbox play with this one.

My 2 year old son loves this toy. It fits in his little hand perfect (it's about the size of a standard cordless phone) and the buttons are big enough he can push the individual buttons. The sound is clear and he loves the alphabet song.