TEACHING AID AND EDUCATIONAL TOY

摘要

A teaching aid and educational toy includes a hollow box preferably shaped as a cuboctahedron having its outer faces covered with sheets of fabric in various colors. In one form of the invention, a plurality of illustration objects, such as cutouts of numerals or letters of the alphabet, are made of or backed with a material which adheres to the fabric covering the outer faces of the box to permit a student to attach the objects to specific faces of the box when learning to associate the objects with certain of the colors appearing on the box. In another form of the invention, at least one face of the box is open, and the inner faces of the box are covered with materials of different textures so a student may reach through the opening and touch a given inner face when learning to form word associations with the various textures.