letters are larger than the plastic

I purchased this toy because my son had lost some of his plastic letters and I liked that there were both upper and lower case letters so you can make more words. My eighteen-month-old boy can already identify many of the letters. Unlike the usual plastic letters, there are only four colors. No orange and purple. Kids like lots of different colors. There is 1 of every letter in upper and lower case included. This is barely enough to spell any words, and of course, very few with correct capitalization. So unless you want to invest in many kits to get enough vowels and repetitive consonants to spell a four letter word (and this set will make you want to)...don't buy this. The quality is horrible. Pressed wood that reeks of formaldehyde with a white paper layer on top and thin color paper (no paint on these). The quality is horrible. Pressed wood that reeks of formaldehyde with a white paper layer on top and thin color paper (no paint on these). The magnet layer is thin and is not cut well, leaving many black pieces out of the box to fall all over the place. The first thing my daughter wanted to do when we got these was spell "mama" and papa" on the fridge. Can't do it...there seems to be only one upper case A and one lower case a, and mixing the two in a word is definitely confusing. I would have assumed most of the extra letters would be vowels. I also dislike the "font", if you will, because the letters don't always seem clear to me or fully representational (like ones you'd print block style if a child asked you to). I think next time I would go with an upper case only set...when she asks me, "What's this letter?" it's a bummer that I don't know whether to tell her it's an L or an I. I'm going to get a new set, maybe with smaller letters for actually making lots of words...she's almost three and I'm not concerned about the choking hazard issue. Honestly...if choking is an issue, your child is too young for the alphabet anyway. I was thrilled to find this toy half-off at a discount store, after putting it on our wish list for our 1 year old. However, she put the letters in her mouth, which made the stickers immediately deteriorate. Otherwise, it's a GREAT toy. She enjoys pulling them off the fridge and was thrilled when she discovered how to stick them back on. We also have a board that covers our fireplace, which we painted with magnetic and blackboard paint (for future use with chalks) and they stick on very well. Our daughter loves playing with these letters, and we can teach her the alphabet, even if she's eaten all the stickers. The good news is there's no risk in swallowing the magnets, because they cover the entire letter. We do keep the small caps for future use, though. They are too small, so we keep them in the box. 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