This Alphabet Mystery Box is a great way for young children to learn and reinforce letter and sound recognition. A parent will need to be sure that all the objects are properly identified in order for it to work. Or maybe at first be flexible and accept all possible answers as long as the child can justify the object placement. Is it an alligator (A) or a crocodile (C)? Is it a bunny (B) or a rabbit (R)? Etc. As a former 1st grade teacher I can see how the the learning opportunities abound but would caution to take it slow and keep the learning fun. I would have loved to of had this as part of a learning center when I was teaching!

Great quality! The board is double sided, capital letters on one side and lowercase on the other. It is cardboard but it is thick and sturdy and folds up into a square. The colors are bright. The box is also sturdy cardboard and has a stiff felt covering the grab hole. The pieces are all good quality. There are 2 objects for each letter. Most of the objects are fairly common and easily recognizable. There are 2 objects that had me stumped at first. There is one that looks like a mountain that they used to represent an island for letter "i". There is also a puzzle piece that they used for letter "j" as in jigsaw. My 3 year old was confused by these because he also identified them as mountain and puzzle piece. It does comes with a paper that has a few suggested ways to play and also has a list of objects and what letter they go with, which is how I figured out the island and jigsaw thing. Overall, this is a great quality product and is a really fun way to teach the alphabet and letter sounds.

I compared this product to ones that were similar, and I'm glad I got this one. I like how the board has two sides; one with upper case letters and one with lower case letters. I also like that the game comes with 52 pieces instead of only 26. The board is colorful and all of the contents are mostly well made. The alphabet pieces are made from a variety of materials: plastic, rubber, fabric with stuffing, etc; which is good for tactile sensory exploration. My son and daycare kids are just at the age where they are ready to connect letters to beginning sounds. They haven't gotten the hang of it yet, but they are having fun finding objects in the mystery box! They think it is so cool!

This is an amazing idea. The board is big and double sided with uppercase on one side and lowercase on the other signs. There are lots of pieces in the mystery box. Some letters have one match while others have 2 to 3 items that match that letter. As a bonus, you now have a mystery box that you can play "feel, and guess the object" with. This gets my five-year-old to practice his letter sounds, but he thinks he's just having a family game night. My 2.5 year old was interested in taking things from the box and took a couple of turns placing them on letters, but then walked away. My five-year-old finished the whole game and wants to play again when Daddy gets home.The included items were:apple, alligator, almond, bat, banana, carrot, camera, duck, dinosaur, egg, elephant, fish, fork, glasses, grapes, hat, hippo, ice cream, jam, key, kiwi, lettuce, lemon, milk, mushroom, necklace, orange, onion, peanut, puzzle piece, pizza, queen, question mark, rhino, rock, rabbit, strawberry, sandwich, telephone, tooth, umbrella, unicorn, violin, vase, watermelon, whistle, xylophone, x-ray, yo-yo, yogurt, zebra, zipper.