The pieces on this board are thick enough to stand up on a table by themselves. That sounds like a detail and it is the whole point: a letter a child can stand on its feet becomes an object with a top and a bottom, which is how a four-year-old finally stops writing an N backwards. Flat printed cards never teach that; a block you can knock over does.

Four boards are made in this style and you choose one. The Urdu alphabet board carries twenty-eight letter pieces in four rows of seven. The capital ABC and small abc boards each carry the full twenty-six English letters. The numbers board runs 1 to 20 and adds five separate maths signs — plus, minus, multiply, divide and equals — so sums can be laid out on the table rather than only read.

A word about the Urdu board, because no listing anywhere says it plainly: it has twenty-eight pieces. The Urdu alphabet as taught in Pakistani schools runs longer than twenty-eight, so this covers the core Arabic-script letters a child meets in Qaida rather than every single Urdu letter. The photographs show exactly which pieces are on the board — count them before you buy if a complete Urdu set is what you need.

All four share the same build: a plain beech-coloured board with each piece dropping into a recess cut to its own outline, no knobs, and flat saturated paint on the pieces themselves. Because the recesses are shaped, a piece in the wrong place will not lie flat, so the board corrects a child without an adult hovering.

Families often buy two — capitals and numbers, or Urdu and small letters — because the boards stack and look like a set on a shelf. Nothing here needs batteries, nothing makes a sound, and nothing on the wooden base can rub off.

The Safencia price is Rs. 1,050 for any of the four boards, with Cash on Delivery all over Pakistan, including Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Tell us on WhatsApp which board you want and we will confirm stock and your city's delivery charge before dispatch.

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