Play set:Tall-Stacker A-Z Pegboard Set: Uppercase

The Tall-Stacker A-Z Pegboard set combines beginning language skills with developing manual dexterity. The set includes cut-out letters of the alphabet punched with pegholes for stacking the Easy-Grip Tall Stackers. Descriptive copy on the set's carrying case suggests activities to teach letters and letter sequences that form words, colors, and shapes. The Lauri toy company began as the bright idea of Esther Filbulkin of Haverhill, Mass., a retired teacher who sought innovative teaching aids to help make learning fun for students. With her husband, Filbulkin owned a shoe store, and she found in the soles of the slippers sold in the store the perfect material for die-cut puzzle pieces to make her instructional materials. In 1961, she produced Fit-A-Space, a play set of crepe rubber squares with geometrical shapes cut-outs designed to teach shape recognition, color matching, and classifying and sorting. The Lauri company expanded its line of instructional puzzles and concetrated on the manufacture of products for schools. By 2003, the company attracted Smethport Specialty Products, which purchased Lauri and moved its operations to the company headquarters in Smethport, Penn. When Patch Products purchased the Smethport company in 2008, it also acquired the Lauri product lines.