Develop logic skills thanks to highly motivating manipulation for children. Enable children to identify, reproduce and extend simple pattern. These materials propose more complex patterns to develop logical thought. Using full-size selfcorrection model cards, children have to slide large beads, made from coloured varnished wood in 3 shapes and 4 colours, onto wooden pins.

The box contains: 144 wooden beads (22/18/14 mm), 8 wooden pins (30/20 cm), 32 full-colour cardboard model cards and 1 instructional leaflet.

Progressively difficult games for counting, numbering, classing, exchanging, numbers, quantities and sets. This game of trade and calculation uses food items with different values. All the children start the game with an identical sum of coin tokens. They must each fill their game card by buying one product per shop. By so doing, children learn basic addiction and subtraction skills.

The box contains: 1 game board, 6 individual game cards, 48 food counters, 66 cardboard coin tokens worth 5, 2 and 1, 1 wooden dice (shop logos) and 1 instructional leaflet.

Game board l/w: 33 x 46 cm.
Game card L/W: 33 x 23 cm.
Food counters L/W: 4.5 x 4.5 cm.
Coin tokens Ø: 3.5/ 2.8/ 2 cm.

(M. Cathala and D. Vanhove) Teach how to reproduce the spatial organisation of the
limited set of objects. Offer language extension ideas to practice using related vocabulary. These handling materials introduce topology concepts such as nearness, limits and symmetry...plus
numbers up to 10 and recognising geometric
shapes in 2 or 3 dimensions.

The box contains: 4 game boards, 24 full-colour photo-cards, 1 bag of 44 coloured pieces in varnished wood (houses, trees, men, animals, fences), 4 photo holders and 1 instructional leaflet.

L/W game boards: 26 x 37 cm;
L/W photo: 10 x 15 cm.

This workshop proposes an activity for arranging objects vertically. The materials include large objects of 4 different shapes and 3 different colours for the children to slide onto a base with 3 pins. The simple, coloured shapes of the pieces have a pleasant texture and are easy to gip for young children. They can be arranged in any way and therefore foster the development of their imagination. The 20 sheets of increasing difficulty are a means of introducing children to reading and reproducing model.

The box contains: 4 bases, 48 plastic objects, 20 two-sided strong cardboard sheets (23x16.5 cm)

Bases: L/W/Th: 19x6.5x1.5 cm
Pin H/diam.:14x2 cm

This workshop provides young children with their first counting activities. By manipulating first wooden animals, then more symbolic round counters, they learn to count, make sets, read the numbers from 1 to 5 and recognized their meaning.

The box contains: 4 plastic counting boxes. 36 instruction cards (9 series of 4 cards)., 60 wooden counters (15 elephants, 15 enguins, 15 tigers, 15 bears), 100 round plastic counters and a teacher’s leaflet.

Box L/W: 27x12cm; card L/W:25.5x8.5 cm;
counter L/W:4.5x5.5 cm

View Toy Instructions (PDF, 91kb)