Gift this game is already a nice gesture as the batteries are already in place (this is becoming increasingly rare!) Just encourage children (who should not be able to read the "try me" printed on the box) to press a button to be immediately invited by a soft female voice to take up the pen to draw the capital letter B. If the box indicates "3+ years", learning of writing has little reason to be considered to 3 years. For a child last year of kindergarten and / or early PC, this should allow Slate to support the discovery and storage of letters (uppercase and lowercase) and numbers. We regret the lack of games: it is good to learn to read and write characters ... no fun :-( A more educational fun gift that will give good conscience to parents, uncles, aunties, grandmas grandpas and other without much torture the recipient of this slate with a very oriented magic!