ALPHABET TEACHING AID

摘要

A teaching aid for children learning the alphabet of any language utilizing a combination of alpha characters each in a cluster with a word starting with the alpha character and a drawing that are drawn in a child's hand. A preferred configuration is an alphabet strip with irregular child drawn borders appearing on a substrate. The substrate may be a clear plastic of any outline but with the border and background as well as the clusters mechanically or electronically printed.

主权项

1. A teaching aid comprising:
a cluster of three or more elements appearing on a substrate; a first element consisting of: a first drawing of a first object that is common to a child learning an alphabet; a second element consisting of: a printed first name of the first object: wherein the first drawing and the printed name of the first object contain at least one of the following attributes that are common in child handmade drawings and child hand printed letters: symmetrical element sides diverge or converge or are different sizes, oblong or egg shaped element that is normally circular, solid colored area outlined in a darker color, solid areas colored with wax or ink marker, random color variation in solid colored areas from liquid or wax marker strokes, color may overlap or not reach outline, single irregular line, broken line, wavy or curved lines that are meant to be straight, single lines having variable width or drawn as double or triple line, miss-shaped, crooked, or asymmetric characters, intersecting lines falls short or overlap each other, multiple lines randomly converge or diverge, crooked or sloped character base line, like characters printed in different widths or different heights, character spacing is out of proportion to character widths, stems of the same character are printed at different angles. a third element consisting of: at least one case of a mechanically reproduced printed character of an alphabet.