Noah's Shape Sorter Ark

£50.00
by Tender Leaf Toys

 

Designed and made by Tender Leaf Toys

A perfect present for any little one!

Noah's Ark has removable roof panels and side panels lift up to allow little hands to collect the chunky wooden animals.

It's also unique in that its on wheels.

Suitable for children age 18 months +

 

Set includes Mr & Mrs Noah, 2 elephants, 2, crocodiles, 2, penguins, 2 lions, 2 bears, 2 butterflies, 2 tortoises, 2 zebras, 2 giraffes, 2 geese.

Presented in an illustrated colour box.

Suitable for 18 months +

Product dimensions; 27.50 x 19.50 x 25 cms

Fine motor control

Fitting shapes into holes is fiddly. You need quite a bit of control. That’s why shape sorters for the youngest children have generous openings and simple shapes.

Bringing fingers and thumb together to grasp each piece develops the hand strength and dexterity that will later be needed for confident pencil grip. 

Spatial reasoning

Which way round does it go? This way or that way? Fitting a wooden hippo into an ark doesn’t sound like an essential life skill but this kind of spatial reasoning is crucial for reading. Is that a ‘p’ or a ‘q’, a ‘b’ or a ‘d’? Learning to orientate objects in space is the first step - and lots of fun, too!

Sorting and matching

Sorting means grouping things together that are the same. Two lions, two cats, two zebras. Matching, counterintuitively, is the opposite: what is different about these two things. Put two shapes side by side. Do they match? You are looking for differences between them. Find a difference? No match.

So a shape sorter is really a shape matcher. Is this the right shape for this hole?