1. An educational medium for teaching children to recognize various objects including one or more, in any combination, of animals, vegetables, minerals, articles, items, and environmental features according to a thematic scene associated with the medium comprising: at least a single sheet of material having a surface with a plurality of the objects forming a part thereof, each of the objects having a three-dimensional shape and forming a part of the thematic scene, the objects representing at least two of the group consisting of images, shapes, forms, letters, and numbers; each object relating to each other to form the thematic scene; and tactile material forming at least a part of each object and used to represent the texture of the actual object such that a user may both touch and see the tactile material to identify the object.