Magnetic Magic 2

Sophie likes to play with magnets. Ah Mah taught her about fridge button magnets a couple of months ago and ever since then, she plays with button magnets and magnetic numbers (with very close supervision, of course). She seems to enjoy "sticking" the magnets onto the fridge and "plucking" them off. I could not let such fascination aka learning opportunity go to waste now, could I? So, off we went hunting high and low for a suitable magnetic board. I was torn between getting a easel board or a wall magnetic board. In the end, I bought a magnetic black board with a wooden frame from Ikea ($20). On separate occasion at ELC, I found very nice wooden magnetic alphabets (big magnets behind) in upper and lower case (on discount, so yeah!) and bought them for Sophie. My plastic magnetic numbers are worn out and the tiny magnets fall off sometimes (not very safe!), so I wanted replace them with the wooden magnetic numbers, but they were out of stock (darn!). We also chanced upon their easel board, also on discount, and bought it (U.P. was $190 and now selling at $100, how could I resist?). Therefore, now Sophie can play with the magnetic tiles and start familiarizing herself with alphabets and numbers. Maybe I would get the numbers in felt, she seems to like that Velcro stuff as well.