Educational medium for teaching children to interact with and recognize objects

An educational medium for teaching children to recognize various objects including one or more, in any combination, of animals, vegetables, minerals, articles, items, and environmental features according to a thematic scene associated with the medium, comprising:

• at least a single sheet of material having a surface with a plurality of the objects forming a part thereof, each of the objects having a three-dimensional shape and forming part of the thematic scene, the objects representing at least two of the group consisting of images, shapes, forms, letters, and numbers;
• at least a single background scene depicted on the sheet that serves as a backdrop to the thematic scene shown by the objects;
• each object relating to the other and to the background to form the thematic scene;
• and
• tactile material forming at least a part of each object and used to represent the texture of the actual object such that a user may both touch and see the tactile material to identify the object.