August 9, 2026
Word Play
Oioiooi's Magnetic Alphabet Play Set, Once Upon a Word, and more
Kids play with words before they can spell them. This week, here are four things for pulling words apart and putting them back together.
Oioiooi's Magnetic Alphabet Play Set pairs 26 chunky capitals with picture pieces, so the apple physically meets the A. Once Upon a Word by Jess Zafarris is a word-origin dictionary for ages 9 to 12 that traces caterpillar and star back to where they came from. Magnetic Poetry's Kid Genius kit has 220 double-sided tiles with a plain word on one face and a bigger one on the other, so laugh flips to guffaw. And Adena's Montessori Grammar Symbols give every part of speech its own shape and color, helping kids understand sentence construction.
oioiooi
Magnetic Alphabet Play Set
26 chunky magnetic capitals, each with a matching picture piece, printed on sugarcane paper in soy ink.
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Books
Once Upon a Word: A Word-Origin Dictionary for Kids
Word-origin dictionary for ages 9 to 12, tracing everyday words back to their roots, prefixes, and suffixes.
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Magnetic Poetry
Magnetic Poetry Kids Kit: Kid Genius
220 double-sided word magnets with a plain word on one face and a bigger synonym on the other.
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Adena
Montessori Wooden Grammar Symbols
Wooden Montessori grammar symbols for laying out the parts of a sentence.
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This week's picks
One product and one brand from the collection
Bananagrams. 144 letter tiles in a zip-up banana pouch: everyone builds their own crossword grid at once and the first to use every tile wins. Get it here
Learning Without Tears. Built on the handwriting curriculum an occupational therapist wrote for her own first-grader in 1977, now a full K-5 language program. Find it here
Last week's drop
In case you missed it
Four Good Things. Maileg's dotted trolley, Big Fat Bambini's daily planner, and more View the drop
Big Fat Bambini
Daily Planner
Daily planner, one perforated page per day, with three months of pages and a pocket for loose notes.
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Maileg
Multi Dots Trolley
Whimsical metal trolley on wooden wheels with a washable dotted linen cover.
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Cuddle & Kind
Baby Sea Turtle
A 7-inch sea turtle hand-knit from OEKO-TEX cotton in Peru, with an embroidered shell.
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Wooden Story
Montessori Sand Tray with Flashcard Holder
Wooden sand tray with a flashcard slot, for tracing letters, numbers, and shapes with a finger or the included pencil.
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