What is great about this item:
It has an average rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars!
- A Set Of Four Geometric Shapes Which Can Be Stacked Together According To The Number Of Holes In The Middle Of Each One
- Instills Early Math Concepts Through Play
- Teaches Shape Recognition And Early Geometry
- Winner Of The Good Toy Award From Parent Magazine
- Teaches Color And Pattern Recognition Through Play
Product Description
Is your child endlessly taking things apart and putting them together, only to pull them apart again? Introduce them to the Geometric Sorting Board from Plan Toys. The Sorting Board includes a set of four colorful geometric shapes, which can be stacked together. Your toddler will be challenged to find which shape fits on which set of pegs, which are sized perfectly for those little fingers. The Geometric Sorting Board encourages shape recognition and instills early … More >>
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Plan Toy Geometric Sorting Board
What is great about this item:
It has an average rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars!
A Set Of Four Geometric Shapes Which Can Be Stacked Together …
5 replies on “Plan Toy Geometric Sorting Board”
Don’t adhere too closely to the age guide on this one. A younger toddler can begin a process of discovery by simply trying to place the shapes on the pegs. (Most of the shapes will fit only on the correct pegs) With a little parental guidance toddlers can see and feel that the two holes fit on the two pegs. Once they grasp that concept they really can take off. Even if everything isn’t quite “right” by adult standards, it is still fun and if put away for a week or so, skills will invariably improve with each additional play session. The skills learned on this game seem to transfer remarkably well to other activities.
5 stars
Great for sorting, development of small motor skills, and shape and color recognition. This is a wonderful, open-ended toy. Beautifully made and sturdy. Ours has been with us through three kids and 6 years and still looks as good as ever. I wish more companies put as much thought into their toys. Plan Toys makes some of the best toys you can buy and they are reasonably priced if you consider how long they’ll last.
5 stars
I purchased this for my son (who was 18m at the time) thinking that it would be a good first introduction to shapes and colors. It really was! He took to it right away and (for all you tired mothers and fathers out there) he stuck with it for a good half hour! It has pegs for each of the shapes and at first, he was having a little difficulty putting the appropriate shape on the right group of pegs, but he soon figured it out. The holes in the shapes are large enough so it is not difficult at all to put the shapes on the pegs – sometimes the problem with traditional puzzles. It is durable – made of really nice wood – made to last! I love wooden toys – just for the sake of durability and longevity – and this one is really worth it because you really get your money’s worth. Just be careful – as with all puzzle pieces…they are easy to lose around the house.
5 stars
Two stars were deducted because one of the pegs fell out which required a re-gluing. Otherwise, this product, like all other Plan Toys’ products, uses replenishable rubber tree wood and vegetable dyes for coloring, and is smooth and well-machined — good for the little one who sticks everything in her mouth. On the same token, the loose peg was small enough to pose a serious choking hazard and I always make a habit of regularly inspecting this toy — something I should do with all toys anyway.
3 stars
I’ll confess, I was fairly undecided on whether this toy would be any actual fun. But since my two year old is really into shapes, colors, and simple numbers and I’ve just confiscated all the scary Melissa & Doug (see:toxic) puzzles in their collection, I thought this might stand as a fair replacement.
The kids, 23 months & 4 years, both immediately loved it; ie. The youngest immediately took control of the toy whilst being loudly scolded by the bossy 4-year old on how she wasn’t assembling it correctly(!!!!), which quickly spun out of control, and ended up in a draw with both of them letting out an ear-splitting screech. In toddler/preschooler world, I suppose this is a “two-thumbs up.”
After the dust settled, I took a look-see at this new toy, and received a few reprimands from the 4-year old on my unorthodox experiments with it. Namely the totally cool discovery that this toy not only teaches about colors, shapes numbers, with a little dexterity thrown in, but it also fits the bolts and nails that come with the Green Toys Tool Set they own, and that it also makes a whole new ‘wardrobe’ for their Turnello the Mouse toy that they received for Christmas. My youngest, had she not been in such a tizzy at this point might have approved, but my four-year old insisted this kind of out-of-the-box thinking was a highly unacceptable use of a toy with only one stated purpose.
Against her explicit warning, and under her disapproving eye, I continued to compose a little car – that would even roll for a time – though the nuts inevitably fell off, and thus the ‘wheels’ detached.
My four year old, witnessing my experiments, eventually conceded there might be other cool things you could do with these pieces, and built a little neighborhood, with houses made from the 3-peg triangles and 4-peg rectangles, and over-sized people made from 2-peg rectangles topped with a circle. She flipped the board over to use as a mini-table for this project. Then she sat on the board, and we all held our breath thinking one of the pegs might pop off, but it withstood her 30-odd pounds of weight, so that speaks well of the integrity of the workmanship.
I bet there are even more uses for these little flat pieces we haven’t yet imagined. But I’m so crazy-bored I may just discover them over the course of a few days!
In any case, chances are you can find a plethora of ways to use this toy – if the kids will allow it. Our toy seems pretty well-constructed, and it’s attractive enough – though more utilitarian in appearance than most of the Plan Toys we own. And actually it’s not a bad little teaching tool to have around, even if you do only use it for the stated purpose.
And, unlike Melissa & Doug, Plan Toys line of products has been tested extensively – via XRF – by the Ecology Center, with one of the best safety records of any toy on the market. So I feel pretty good about my children playing with this toy, or using the pieces as throwing stars in their endless competition of sibling rivalry. Whatever. They might lose an eye, but at least I won’t have to worry about lead and cadmium, so that’s something.
Bottom line: This is a great toy. Open ended. Educational. Safe. I highly recommend it.
5 stars