Magnatab Uppercase - Multicolor

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Retail price: $24.99
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Ages: 3+

Grades: Preschool - PreK

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Product Code: 360-027

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Timberdoodle's Review

A-Z Uppercase Magnatab

A to Z Magnatab is the ideal tool to help your preschooler develop fine motor skills. Your child will eagerly trace each letter with the magnetic stylus to see and hear the little metal balls snap to the surface to make the letter.

Then, to further help him develop a feel for each letter, lightly trace over the letters with the tip of a finger, and the metal balls clatter back into the A to Z Magnatab base. One tool, two approaches to strengthen young children’s fine motor skills.

Using A to Z Magnatab will probably not teach your child how to form letters correctly. Our experience has been that most preschoolers are so excited with the immediate feedback of the metal balls snapping to the surface that correctly forming each letter would impede that joy. However, our handbook for the Preschool Kit has ideas on how to use the A to Z Magnatab successfully for prewriting skills.

Manufacturer Description
Kids writing their first letters will get helpful up, down, and sideways instructions via the easy-to-follow arrows. A magnetic stylus pulls the beads up to create solid lines, and erases with the tip of a finger.

Features

Manufacturer: Playskool Hasbro
Manufacturer Recommended Age: 3 years and up
Faith-Based: No
Copyright: 2022 Playmonster LLC

CHOKING HAZARD - Small parts. Not for children under 3 years.

A Creative Start to Penmanship

I very much like this magnatab! My son loves to play with it and I think it's a wonderful way to introduce writing the letters. My son is very much a sensory and kinesthetic learner (so far) and the feeling of the stylus pulling up the metal balls and pushing them back in is very pleasing to him.

I also like that the letters have different colors to attract the eye and distinguish between them.

I'm knocking off a star because the stylus is not attached to the magnatab (it's understandable why it isn't) so it could be easily lost if you're not paying attention, rendering the whole thing useless if it is. Also, as a previous reviewer noted, if you aren't paying attention it could instill bad writing habits.

So overall I'm very happy the Magnatab is in here but it's only for an introduction to penmanship. As an educational tool it should not be used if you can't pay attention and should be moved on from to the actual pencil and paper to make sure it doesn't give bad writing habits that need to be corrected.

I love this!

My son has really grasped onto this toy. He really enjoys the feel of the pull of the magnets and has shown a lot of progress in his writing

Fun

Very simple yet fun. Although, my daughter much prefers to push each magnet down rather than practice working on her letters.

Fun but not perfect

My son enjoys this writing tool so much that he brings along everywhere we go, but I am not the biggest fan of it as an educational tool. It is really easy for them to use it wrong and never know it, so it has created a couple bad habits with pen holding and the direction that he is writing, plus he really only knows his capital letters. I could see this working better for some but not all.

Perfect for preschooler

Our nearly 3YO loves to trace with his Magnatab! Excellent fine motor practice on car rides or when Mama's busy cooking!

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Magnatab Uppercase - Multicolor

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