These brightly colored foam letters make playing educational! Use this Magnetic Alphabet to encourage the development of essential hand-eye coordination and dexterity, which are pre-cursors to handwriting. Perfect for introducing individual and combination letter sounds, prefixes, suffixes and vowels. The set includes two sets of uppercase letters A-Z, plus two tilde accents. Each of the magnets are cut out in the same shape as their foam letters and then glued on, which means there are no small magnets that can be lost! All vowels are yellow for easy identification. Consonants are blue, red and green. For reference, the letter D measures 1.75"H x 1.5"W. Jar with handle measures approximately 4" x 4" x 4 1/2". For ages 3 and up