This Melissa & Doug Pattern Blocks And Boards allows kids to explore shapes and colours hands-on as they fill wooden backgrounds with sturdy wooden pieces! Using 120 colourful wooden tiles in six different shapes, kids can use one of 10 design templates or create their own mosaic patterns. This classic toy is a gorgeous way for kids three and older to develop their fine motor skills!
Features:
- Includes 120 shapes & 5 boards
- Boards are double-sided for even more play
- A math manipulative and learning activity
- Ideal for spatial awareness, colour recognition, hand-eye coordination & problem solving
- Size: 33.3 x 22.4 x 4.3 cm
- Age: 3-6 Years
Discover More Ways to Play
- PATTERN POWER Create a linear pattern using four blocks. Have kids replicate the pattern. Increase the difficulty by adding more blocks.
- RAINBOW REVIEW Have kids sort the pattern blocks by colour. Ask them to count the number of pieces of each colour. Review the names of each geometric shape with kids (green = triangle; yellow = hexagon; red = trapezoid; orange = square; blue = large rhombus/diamond; white = small rhombus/diamond).
- SHAPE SHIFT Have kids combine two or more blocks to make another shape. For example: two triangles make one rhombus. Stacking the blocks on top of each other may help kids better visualise the equivalency.
- 7 WAYS Have kids find seven different ways to replicate the hexagon. 1) two trapezoids 2) six triangles 3) three rhombuses/diamonds 4) one trapezoid, one triangle, and a rhombus/diamond 5) one trapezoid and three triangles 6) four triangles and one rhombus/diamond 7) two rhombuses/diamonds and two triangles
