Bought these to use as an alphabet/phoneme teaching tool for my preschool aged children.
Pros: The beautiful illustations/watercolored effect and print have already inspired my kids to "play" with their letters. Though pretty, the illustrations are simple enough that I could see using these as a segway to a drawing project. Both upper and lowercase letters are large enough for a child to trace with his/her finger to reinforce proper letter-writing. This is one of the only card sets I found to have lowercase "a" written as children are taught in school (circle around, pull down...). Illustration for Xx is fox, which follows phonics teaching.
Cons: I was surprised to see that illustations for Gg, Ii, and Uu on these cards do not follow the common phonetic sounds. G pictures a giraffe instead of hard /g/ as in gorilla; I features Ibex rather than soft /i/ as in iguana; U features unicorn rather than soft /u/ as in umbrella. One other strange thing was that the extra letter cards in the set were A, E, I, O, and T. Thought we were getting an extra set of vowels, but the T threw us off.
Durability: Study laminated cards, card stock/playing card thickness. Seems like they will hold up well to general handling, but might be damaged with any rough handling or moisture.
Overall, excited to have a beautiful teaching tool for practicing letters names and sounds, though we may have to draw additional cards for the more common G, I & U sounds.
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