We wanted to re-adapt the traditional alphabet book into something more interactive and dynamic and the form we chose was a toy. A toy as a teaching aid has a number of advantages.
1. It cancels out the monotony of reading ( which is essential to children of our target audience who are primary school kids, but have not progressed much beyond the nursery levels)
2. It also develops assemblage faculties of the child as well as polishes up co-ordination and motor skills of the child.
3. It also engenders a more creative and problem solving approach in thinking in the child.
The first ideas that we came up for the toy was ether a jigsaw puzzle or a set of building block form for the alphabets. We then thought of integrating the two forms into a simpler form and came up with the idea of having the Kannada alphabets be broken down into its essential forms in the form of building block like pieces, which could be formed and re-formed in various arrangements to form the various alphabets.
Materials we were thinking about included rubber sheets and wood. But we have currently settled on wood as our primary choice.
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