Multi-purpose educational device
OwnerMarion W. Schererinventor
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Abstract
A multi-pocketed washable fabric body portion is employed with several selective reversible fabric strips each having fastener components for engagement with mating fastener components on the body portion. The strips carry colors, shapes, alpha-numeric indicia and material textures requiring recognition by a child. Groups of fabric elements having colors, shapes, indicia and textures to match up with the strips are provided, and a child, after sorting the fabric elements, inserts them in the pockets of the body portion which are positioned adjacent to recognized colors, shapes, indicia or textures on the strips.
Claims7
A multi-purpose educational device comprising an elongated body portion formed of flexible sheet material and having a multiplicity of side-by-side pockets formed on one side thereof, plural spaced fastener components fixed to said one side of the body portion in spaced relationship to said pockets, plural elongated strips of lesser width than said body portion and having substantially the same length as the body portion and formed of flexible sheet material, a multiplicity of spaced specifically different recognition elements on each opposite side of each strip corresponding in number and spacing to said pockets, coacting spaced fastener components on each side of each strip adapted to mate with the fastener components on the body portion so that each strip selectively may be releasably attached to the body portion in spaced parallel relationship to the pockets of the body portion with either of its sides exposed to view and its opposite side concealed, and a multiplicity of groups of match-up elements for use by children and being of a size and shape enabling insertion into said pockets and adapted for sorting and matching by children with the recognition elements of said strips.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.