On Tuesday, after I came home from a long day at school, I went out into the backyard with the little one to play outside a little and to give K some much-needed peace and quiet. (He's got a nasty virus infection or some such that started out as a cold.)
We've got big foam letters that you can use to make a little mat or to form words. If you can spell. The distribution of letters makes me suspect that this was originally designed for the English-speaking parts of the world. And no, I'm not teaching my son the alphabet, but he somehow managed to assemble this:

I helped with putting the pieces together, but believe me when I say that I spotted the word much, much later.
Neat, eh?