My First Touch and Feel Cards: First Words

My First Touch and Feel Cards: First Words packaging cover. The background is blue with a white band and colored flag banner over the top with the title written in different colored letters. The letters look like a child's writing and scribbling. In the blue portion below is a red apple and white text below that reads "16 colorful early learning cards."

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My First Touch and Feel Cards: First Words

Flashcards for babies? That was popular in the 1980s. Surely in the 40 years since, something better has been designed. It has. My First Touch and Feel Cards: First Words are classical educational flashcards but souped-up for today’s babies. The set includes 16 sturdy hardboard cards, each suitably thick to withstand clumsy small hands and coated with a wipe-clean covering. Every beautifully-designed photo depicts the name of an everyday item. It also includes a textured portion - fluffy, bumpy, or fuzzy - for your baby to touch and feel. It is perfect for encouraging sensory processing.


However, the back of the card makes the My First Touch and Feel Cards: First Words an educational treasure chest. Expertly designed to enhance early language development, on the back of each card is a host of questions for parents to ask, from the obvious to the creative. For parents who find themselves asking only “what is this” questions, the prompts on the back of the My First Touch and Feel Cards: First Words allow for more open-ended questions.


Plus, each box includes ideas for using the flashcards, including simple games. My First Touch and Feel Cards: First Words are excellent for helping young children develop their verbal skills and vocabulary. The card deck comes in a strong cardboard box with a Velcro closure. The words taught in My First Touch and Feel Cards: First Words are dog, teddy bear, baby, keys, tractor, car, fire truck, ball, fish, cat, corn, apple, mirror, shoes, jelly, and sweater.



From the Publisher:
Give your toddler a head start with these 16 colorful and tactile first words flash cards, expertly designed to develop early language skills, and ideal for preschool play.

Contains 16 sturdy picture cards, each with their own vibrant image and touchable texture.
 
First Words features common animals like fish, dogs, and cats, as well as household items like keys and shoes, and vehicles like cars, tractors, and fire trucks.

To provide even more educational value, the back of each picture card has word translations in Spanish, French, German, and Chinese, and phonetic spellings to help with pronunciation. You’ll also find a series of engaging questions about the related animal or object. For example, the “dog” card has questions such as “What sound does a dog make?”, “What do you call a baby dog?”, and more. A guidance card, which has tips for creative learning games and ideas for additional language activities, is included with each pack and helps both parents and little ones get the most from this collection.
Features
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Author: DK
Published: Mar 27, 2018
Publisher's Suggested Age Range: Baby-3
ISBN: 9781465468130
Faith-Based: No

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Aerie
My son loves these

These were a hit at our house. So fun that they have touch and feel stuff. My kids love them and don’t get bored with them. They are thick and very sturdy with large pictures for the kids to really see them well.

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Brittany G.
Yes!

We love these.

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Sara S.
Lovely gift for 18 month old

My daughter loves the cards. They are durable and a great weight. The box is also a hit!

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Cara S.
Fun way to learn

These First Word cards are excellent! Such a fun way to learn words. My children love the textures of these cards, which make learning more exciting. These are a keeper!

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Dorothy
Wonderful, just like the animal cards

These cards are just gorgeous with various textures for the "touch and feel" portion of the card. My son loves the pictures and to stroke the various textures while I say the name of the object. Even better is the backs of these cards have various questions you can ask your slowly budding scholar as well as the spellings and pronunciations of the names of things in Spanish, French, German and Chinese (Mandarin I think). There are also two instruction cards in the box to give ideas of both simple and more complex games to play with your little scholar the more their skills grow.

These cards prove that flashcards are not an outdated concept or even boring, monotonous and reptetitive. These provide delightful sensory input and wonderful ideas to incorporate bonding and learning in your little ones.

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