Product Description 
 
Beautiful natural solid beechwood nesting shape sets in the seven colours of the rainbow, with a natural finish to show the grain of the wood.
The 4 geometric shapes are squares, rectangles, triangles and arches.
The inner block in each nesting group is a solid 3D shape.
This wide-ranging enabling resource will provide endless possibilities for creativity, construction and imaginative play,
It engages children in learning across several areas of the curriculum:
using innovation and creativity to build towers, houses or freeform sculptures;
using the imagination to design rooms for filling with small world play people or animals;
applying mathematical logic to sort counters into the shapes which match by colour, shape or size;
learning the geometric properties of common shapes; exploring size and scale;
using mathematical terms - larger, smaller, taller, wider etc;
and for improving language skills and broadening descriptive vocabulary.