Children’s Vocabulary Cards
Thai Children’s Colour Vocabulary Cards promoting Ovaltine chocolate malt drink, 2016.
Thai Children’s Vocabulary Cards, one of a series of three sets given away free with Ovaltine Smart chocolate malt drink which is manufactured under license from Switzerland and very popular in Thailand. The attractively illustrated cards can be used to help memorise vocabulary in three languages (English, Thai and Chinese), to tell stories or to find colour associations.
Above: Thai Children’s Colour Vocabulary Cards promoting Ovaltine Smart chocolate drink, produced by P.P.W Interactive Co., Ltd, 2016. 19 cards + instruction card in box.
By Simon Wintle
Member since February 01, 1996
Founder and editor of the World of Playing Cards since 1996. He is a former committee member of the IPCS and was graphics editor of The Playing-Card journal for many years. He has lived at various times in Chile, England and Wales and is currently living in Extremadura, Spain. Simon's first limited edition pack of playing cards was a replica of a seventeenth century traditional English pack, which he produced from woodblocks and stencils.
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