Rainbow Architect Set - Pk28

Beautifully coloured natural beechwood hollow blocks in 4 geometric shapes - squares, rectangles, triangles and arches. Each group of shapes contains 7 graduated sizes for nesting, in the 7 colours of the rainbow. The inner block in each group is a solid 3D shape.

This wide-ranging enabling resource will provide endless possibilities for creativity, construction and imaginative play, engaging 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.

Triangles

• Heights: 19mm, 40mm, 61mm, 82mm, 103mm, 126mm, 148mm.
• Sides: 29mm, 59mm, 89mm, 119mm, 149mm, 179mm and 209mm.
• Lengths: 36mm, 79mm, 123mm, 164mm, 207mm, 251mm and 292mm.
• Wall thickness 8mm x depth 40mm.

Squares

• Heights: 40mm, 58mm, 76mm, 94mm, 112mm, 130mm and 148mm.
• Wall thickness 8mm x depth 40mm.

Rectangles

• Heights: 40mm, 58mm, 76mm, 94mm, 112mm, 130mm, 148mm.
• Lengths: 114mm, 132mm, 150mm, 168mm, 186mm, 204mm and 222mm.
• Wall thickness 8mm x depth 40mm.

Arches

• Heights: 19mm, 27mm, 36mm, 47mm, 56mm, 63mm and 73mm.
• Lengths: 40mm, 58mm, 76mm, 94mm, 112mm, 130mm and 148mm.
• Wall thickness 8mm x depth 40mm.

Supports the following areas of learning:

• Personal Development - collaborative play
• Physical Development - motor skills, construction
• Communication & Language - descriptive language
• Expressive Arts & Design - imaginative play
• Maths - shape & space, sorting, pattern & sequence
• Understanding the World - colour

Specification: Size: height of triangles 148mm, height of squares 148mm, height of rectangles 148mm, height of arches 73mm. Pk28.

Age: Suitable from 12 months.