What is National Alphabet Magnet Day?
On May 9th, beautiful letters and clever language come together in a single celebration. The invention and ingenuity of making words from magnetic letters are recognized on National Alphabet Magnet Day.
When you sip your coffee, have you ever spent the morning rearranging the alphabet magnets on your fridge? Hopefully, your child is sitting at your feet, learning the alphabet while shuffling the letters........
These colorful classic letters have been around for 50 years, and they have been around for 50 years, incredibly. Fisher-Price first introduced the School Days Desk in 1972. The tiny plastic case served both as storage and a desk. Beneath the chalkboard top, the desk contained word cutouts and magnetic plastic letters, as well as chalkboard letters.
Magnetic chalkboards first appeared a decade ago. Magnetic chalkboards first appeared ten years ago. Plastic or wooden letters were sold with magnets attached to the backs, and the sets came with plastic or wooden letters with magnets attached to the backs. Around the same time, entrepreneur Samuel Hardcastle invented magnetic molded letters for use in the space industry..
These colorful magnetic letters made their way to our refrigerators following the introduction of the School Days Desk. They morphed into a decorative way to leave short messages, experiment with wordplay, or wax poetic in the decades to come. National Alphabet Magnet Day honors this rich past and encourages you to be creative with magnetic letters..
