 "ABC Genius" | 2008-09-19 |
| - Reviewed By User: A28243V2T0LCTT |
| Looks like a new design than the one we have, but I doubt that much matters. My daughter has been playing with her Fridge Phonics since she was 12 months. She's obsessed with it. By the time she was near 17 months, she had learned ALL of her letters because of this. If I ask her for a letter she goes and gets the right one. If I show her one, she can name it. If I ask her the sound, she says it. That's AWESOME. She plays with it all the time, but mainly when I'm in the kitchen doing dishes or making a meal. The ONLY negative and it's super minor, is that with 26 letters, she likes to take them all over the house...that means they can get lost easily, but as long as you just keep picking them up, we haven't truly lost any. I buy this for every 1 year old I know, which is why I'm stunned that they age starts at 24 months!? |
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 "Letter magnets motivate" | 2008-09-11 |
| - Reviewed By User: A326EST658VJMF |
| My grandson who is 11 months can manipulate the buttons and loves the sounds. They stay on the frig. His interest has not waned. We love the letters and particularly like that the magnets are not exposed and vulnerable for swallowing. |
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| "Great for 18 month old toddlers too!" | 2008-09-04 |
| - Reviewed By karissa35 |
I was a little leery of getting this toy (we have the animal one) because it says it's for 24 months and up. We got it for my son at 16 months and he has a great time with it.
He likes to repeat the letter sounds and, initially, changing the letters in and out was a challenge for him. He would spend 15 minutes or so at a time playing with this; and that's a long time for an 18 month old :-)
My son also loves the music button that sings the alphabet song. Overall a great toy; I foresee many years of use out of this toy! |
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| "Educational but not fun" | 2008-08-29 |
| - Reviewed By hanna_il |
My 20 month old learned two letters after two month bought it. I did not really teach him. Now he figured that he need to remember these letters so that he can ask, for example, M for McDonald(unfortunately).
He frowns at the music all the time. Having one song is just too boring.
I like it compact size. |
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| "Kids Love It" | 2008-08-06 |
| - Reviewed By vankerck |
Both my boys, a 21-month-old and a 3-year-old, have played with this toy a lot. My oldest got this for Christmas when he was about 2.5 years old. He now knows all of his letters and just loves to read letters everywhere we go. My youngest loves it as well, and I think he's starting to know some of the letters too.
I did not give this 5 stars because it can be loud, even at the lowest volume setting. Unfortunately, this seems to be the norm, rather than the exception, with children's toys.
However, this is definitely one of those toys we have not regretted getting. |
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| "Keep it coming Froggiee" | 2008-08-04 |
| - Reviewed By askprits |
| My 2 year old loves it. Just like some of their other great products Leapfrog delivers!!! |
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| "Just what I was looking for and daughter loves it" | 2008-07-31 |
| - Reviewed By User: AE9XCJCCBASEV |
| I was looking for some magnetic letters to put on the fridge and we received this as a gift for my 26 month old daughter. I love this thing. She is also learning the sounds. We have had it for about two months now and she now knows all of the letters and most of the sounds. She plays with it everyday several times a day. Most toys she gets tired of after a few days or hours but this one keeps her pretty entertained and is educational too. I also used them to teach her the colors blue, red, yellow and green and she likes to group the letters according to color as well. When she gets a little older I will prob buy the lower case set of letters to use with it. |
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| "If I could give 10 stars, I would!" | 2008-06-11 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2WROE19ZOAIMA |
This is such a simple toy, but it's worth it's weight in gold (though, it's usually the simple toys that are). My not yet 2-1/2 year old son, has already started reading, and I give a great deal of credit to this toy that he received as a gift for his first birthday.
At about 10 months old he could recognize 2 capital letters, M and O, about 2 months after playing with this toy, which he was ecstatic about, he could recognize all the capital letters and knew they phonetic sounds. By 18 months he could recognize about 80 percent of all lower case letters, and make the correlation that they were the same as their capital counter parts. By 20 months, I could say a word and he could tell me the first letter of the word. He's now reading 3 letter words, what most teachers refer to as "sight" words", which are more a matter of memorizing the look of the whole word rather than breaking down its components.
Of course, there is no "miracle" toy to teach your child to read, and I used this in conjunction with other educational exercises, tv shows, books, and toys, but I do give it complete credit for his phonics learning.
One hint I would give for use with this and ANY/EVERY toy is : don't send your child off to play alone. Take the time to sit down and enjoy the toy with them. One reason is that as simple as pushing a button is, that is not something that is intuitive to a child. Children need to be taught how to "play" with their toys, especially educational toys, or they just won't take full advantage of the toy's full potential. And the second reason is because at that age, everything in life is more fun, more vivid, more full of flavor, and therefore more absorbed, when you have your Mommy of Daddy their sharing it with you.
So to anyone really interested in getting a headstart for your children, I would highly suggest this toy. In fact, every Leap Frog toy, we've tried has yielded a similarly "miraculous" experience. Happy learning! |
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| "Fantastic" | 2008-06-02 |
| - Reviewed By User: AIIW2382HK0Q2 |
| Our 17-month old loves this. Sings along, loves to switch the letters in and out. It's wonderful. |
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| "Fridge-Letters have grown-up" | 2008-04-22 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3IVPJYAEA5UYI |
My daughter got this as a Christmas gift. She loves to play and dance to the alphabet song and change the letters in the base unit. Other than just learning her letters, my husband and I make simple words and then teach the sound of the word to her. I see that lower case letters are now available and will most likely get them. I hope that the unit lasts long enough(or that it is still available) for my now infant son. It is so much nicer to have a toy like this than plain old letters. I hope to find a magnetic unit like this that has numbers, and I hope it is made by LeapFrog.
We have several LeapFrog toys-games and they all are of good quality and reasonable price for what they are. As my children get older, I hope that LeapFrog will still be around and making toys. |
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