Match It! Who Am I?

Reason for purchase:After moving 4 hours away from my 3 year old (turning 4 this month) godson I started thinking outside the box. I researched STEM toy & book subscription boxes & found the age gap was too wide to consistently get age appropriate toys/books. I decided to make my own. I feel it necessary to disclose this is a time consuming project & it can be as inexpensive or expensive in price as you choose. It's entirely dependent on you.In my box:The Crayons: A Set of Books and Finger Puppets & The Learning Journey: Match It! - Counting - Self-Correcting Number & Learn to Count Puzzle.Product Review:The Learning Journey: Match It! - Counting - Self-Correcting Number & Learn to Count Puzzle was an inexpensive toy that went well with The Crayons Book of Numbers book. It's a simple but effective toy to practice numbers. My godson's interest in the toy seems to have limited entertainment value. Anytime a book about numbers is on the story time agenda the toy is used. He'll listen to the story wait for the numbers & pull out that puzzle card to show his mother or me via facetime he understands the number 2 is correspondent to the #2 puzzle & so on.I suspect the toy's limited shelf life is being extended by the learn your number type books.Recommendation:I'm not sure how interesting the toy would be alone in your household. I wouldn't recommend the toy as a gift. It was simply packaged & truly unimpressive alone.For my purposes I give it a 5 star rating.

We got the “counting” set. The pieces are nice and thick. The description isn’t clear, but it came with two (different) sets of 1-10 and one set of 11-20. You can tell which of the two sets are supposed to go together because the color of the numerals match the color of the items, but in both 1-10 sets, the pieces for each number are cut with the same shape, so they can be interchanged. For now, we’ve separated them in baggies and just use one set of 1-10.

I got this puzzle for a boy who has just turned 4. He plays with numbers 1-10 only so far as that is what he had been introduced to and it definitely helps him to practice number recognition and counting (he does not attempt to assemble random pieces but it definitely is useful that this puzzle is a self-correct type).The pictures and the print are good quality, the colors are vibrant, the pieces are pretty sturdy and fit well together when they should, do not fit at all when they shouldn’t.My only complaint is that there is nothing to make it easier for kids to tell which side of a number piece is the top and which is the bottom - for kids who don’t know the numbers names and shapes by heart yet, it may be difficult to easily spot the difference between 6 and 9 for example - obviously, they will eventually see that it is on the wrong side if they try to put them together but there should be no confusion at all.I wish there was a black line or something on the bottom of each piece for that reason (also, an almost 3 year old girl who likes to join her brother in play, ends up putting the pieces /connected pairs/ sideways or upside down... the line would help her, too)I was able to fix that issue myself though, using sharpies :)

My son likes puzzles, and this way, he is also learning numbers - he loves this one.

These flashcards are nice and sturdy, but I feel like given the size of the box that these came in the card could have been a little bit bigger so that once you get to higher numbers like 19 and 20 the pictures don't become so tiny that it's almost hard for a small child to count them and keep it straight. I also thought some of the pictures were a little outdated and they could have chosen pictures that were more recognizable to kids, for instance instead of the wheelbarrow and the cactus they coukd have used things like crayons or apples. Other than theg are working great so far for helping my son practice counting.

Classroom favorite, will buy again

Great activity for my students! Count the picture to find the number. Great for number recognition and counting! My students love this because they are having fun while learning!

This is a terrific learning game! Got it for my 3-year-old granddaughter. The puzzle pieces are large and sturdy and easy for small hands to put together. Payton already recognizes the numbers and can count groups up to 10, so we are using those for reinforcement and are saving the higher numbers for a little later. The objects on the puzzle pieces can also be used for even younger kids for object recognition (cat, trains, etc.), and the numbers can be used to help with learning colors, as well. I would definitely recommend this puzzle game--it makes an excellent gift, and Payton kept going back to play with it over all the other presents I got her!