Smarty Pants
OwnerBrett Edmondinventor
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Abstract
A learning system and clothing article designed to enable young children to learn and distinguish left and right sides of their body for getting dressed independently. The clothing article(s) use distinct colors and or shapes and symbols to indicate left and right so that young children can put on their underwear, clothes and shoes without assistance from an adult.
Claims19
A learning system for teaching a young child left and right comprising:
- An article of clothing having a front, a back, a top, a bottom, a left side, a right side, and one or more images,
- a plurality of questions to draw out the connection between the location of the images printed on the article of clothing and the side it corresponds to, and
- a follow-up verbal confirmation that the proper connection was made, thereby allowing the child to put the article of clothing on unassisted.
A learning system comprising an article of clothing, and a teaching method, the method comprising:
- Providing an article of clothing having identifying shapes and or colors,
- Requesting that the child identify the shape printed on the article of clothing,
- Requesting that the child identify the color of the shape on the article of clothing,
- Requesting the child to identify if the identified shape relates to the left or to the right,
- Requesting the child to identify if the color on the clothing relates to left or to right, and
- Requesting that the child put the article of clothing on the side that they related it to based on the shape or color they identified with that side.
A learning system comprising an article of clothing, a set of adhesive stickers, and a teaching method, the method comprising:
- a. Providing an article of clothing having identifying images and colors,
- b. Placing an adhesive sticker on a child's left hand that matches the image on the left side of the article of clothing,
- c. Placing an adhesive sticker on the child's right hand that matches the image on the right side of the article of clothing,
- d. Requesting the child to identify the image on the sticker on their left hand,
- e. Requesting the child to match the image on the sticker on their left hand with the image on the article of clothing,
- f. Requesting the child to identify the image on the sticker on their right hand,
- g. Requesting the child to match the image on their right hand with the image on the right side of the article of clothing,
- h. Requesting the child to put the side of the article of clothing that matches the image on their left side on the left leg and foot, and
- i. Requesting the child to put the side of the article of clothing that matches the image on their right side on the right leg and foot.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.