Alphabet Flash Cards for Babies, 6 Months and Up

Alphabet flash cards work because they are short. A six-month-old is not learning letters yet, but she is looking hard at high-contrast shapes and listening to the sound you make when you point at one, and both are the foundation the letters land on later. Plastic cards survive the stage where they go in the mouth, get bent and get dropped from a high chair, which paper cards do not. Later the same set becomes a matching game and then a spelling one. Assorted designs, and small enough to keep a set in the car.

• Material: plastic
• Assorted designs
• Wipe-clean cards
• Builds letter recognition, vocabulary and visual attention
• No batteries required
• Ages 6 months and up