Shape and Colour Stones

Explore shape, colour and pattern with these tactile, chunky shape stones. Designed for hands-on early maths learning, the colourful stones encourage children to match, sort and arrange shapes while developing spatial reasoning and mathematical language.

Each stone features a smooth side and an engraved side, providing tactile feedback for sensory exploration. Children can create repeating patterns, explore symmetry, make pictures and imprint shapes into play dough. The durable stone mix makes them suitable for indoor and outdoor play, including sand, water and mud.

Education Benefits

• Develops early spatial reasoning through exploring shape, position and space
• Supports shape and colour recognition, sorting and matching
• Encourages pattern recognition, sequencing and symmetry
• Builds mathematical language for describing shapes, positions and patterns
• Supports fine motor skills through handling, sorting and arranging

Classroom Ideas

• Sort the stones by colour, shape or both
• Create and copy repeating patterns and sequences
• Explore symmetry by arranging matching shapes
• Press the engraved sides into play dough to create patterns and mosaics
• Use the stones for counting, matching and shape recognition activities

Information

• Age suitability: 2 years+
• Includes 24 stones: 4 each of red circles, yellow triangles, green ovals, blue rectangles, orange squares and purple diamonds
• Stone size: 38–58mm
• Smooth on one side and engraved on the other
• Made from a durable stone mix
• Suitable for indoor and outdoor use, including sand, water and mud