Description

Beautiful natural solid beechwood nesting shape sets in the seven colors of the rainbow, with a natural finish to show the grain of the wood. This wide-ranging enabling resource will provide endless possibilities for creativity, construction and imaginative play. Kids can use innovation and creativity to build towers, houses or freeform sculptures; use imagination to design rooms for filling with small world play people or animals; apply mathematical logic to sort counters into the shapes which match by color, shape or size; learn the geometric properties of common shapes; explore size and scale; use mathematical terms - larger, smaller, taller, wider etc; and for improve language skills and broadening descriptive vocabulary. Arches measure 1-5/8 D x 3/4 - 2-7/8 H inches; Rectangles measure 1-5/8 D x 4-1/2 to 8-3/7 L inches; Squares measure 1-5/8 D x 1-5/8 to 5-3/4 W inches; Triangles measure 1-5/8 D x 1-1/8 to 8-1/4 inches (short sides). Appropriate for ages 12 months and up.