Smart Snacks Shape Sorting Cupcakes

Smart Snacks Shape Sorting Cupcakes offer a sweet and hands-on way for young learners to develop essential early learning skills through imaginative play. This engaging set includes 8 colourful two-part cupcakes, each hiding a shape inside, which children must match to reassemble correctly. A matching shape is also found at the bottom of the muffin pan, allowing for multiple sorting and recognition challenges.

Perfect for children aged 2+ years, this tactile resource supports shape and colour recognition, fine motor development, and problem-solving skills. As children pull apart and put together the cupcakes, they strengthen their hand muscles and improve coordination-key readiness skills for writing and self-care.

Includes: 8 two-part cupcakes with shape inserts and 1 muffin pan with matching shape bases

Educational Benefits:

• Encourages shape and colour identification with familiar, themed objects
• Builds fine motor skills through grasping, pulling, and matching cupcake halves
• Promotes cognitive development through visual discrimination and problem-solving
• Reinforces early maths skills, such as shape naming and matching

Classroom & play activity ideas:

• Use in a sensory table or pretend bakery to integrate imaginative and structured learning
• Encourage children to name each shape and colour as they match them
• Create sorting games where children match the cupcake shape to the pan space
• Use as a fine motor station rotation to strengthen coordination and grip strength

Safety & Information:

• Ages: Suitable for children aged 2+ years
• Measurements: Cupcakes approx. 5(H) x 3.8(D) cm; Muffin pan approx. 20.625(L) x 15(W) cm
• Made from child-safe, durable plastic for everyday classroom or home use
• Easy to clean and store; encourages learning through hands-on, imaginative play