Sorting & Patterning

3 years & up. Customize your center time by combining this sorting tray with counters from popular classroom themes. (Counters sold separately).

3 years & up. Provide your children with an exciting sorting activity with these textured Backpack Bear Counters with Sorting Bowls. These friendly bears are great for introducing matching, math skills, color recognition, critical thinking, and sorting to your children. Encourage your children to sort the bears into the bowl that matches their color. Have them call out the colors as they sort them. Includes 6 bowls and 102 teddy bears. Bowls measure 6"D x 1"H.

3 years & up. Encourage your children to practice patterning with these fun Multicolor and Multipurpose Pattern Blocks in a Variety of Shapes. This set of plastic blocks features six different shapes and colors that provide problem-solving challenges while building color, design and patterning skills. For extra learning, encourage children to sort the pieces by shape or the number of sides. Includes 250 Pattern Blocks and a Plastic Storage Container.

3 years & up. Use these Hard Plastic Bright Colored Sorting and Mixing Bowls for Manipulatives and More for different color recognition activities. Children will enjoy sorting materials by color, texture, shape, size, and more. For a fun activity, encourage children to sort the items into the bowl that match the color. These bowls can also be used in sand and water tables, and during arts and crafts to mix materials. Measures 6"D x 1"H.

3 years & up. Add a math element to your classroom with these Multi-Color Linking Cubes with Jar. Your children will enjoy stacking, sorting, counting and more! These durable plastic cubes promote early math skills such as color recognition, counting and patterning. This jar includes 150 cubes in ten different colors. The pieces store in a convenient jar with screw-on lid and handle. Cubes measure 8".

3 years & up. Encourage your children to practice patterning with these fun Practice Pattern Blocks Puzzle Picture Cards for Activities. These activity cards are a great accompaniment with pattern blocks. Encourage children to identify the shapes and colors as they place the pieces. These cards promote fine motor skills, problem solving, patterning, and color recognition. Includes 20 double-sided cards with 2 levels of difficulty. Pattern blocks sold separately. Measures 11.75"L x 8.25"W.

3 years & up. Develop your children's counting skills with these exciting Colorful Wild Animal Counters with Container for Practicing Early Math Skills. These counters represent wild animals from all over the world in different colors. Children will love counting with their favorite friendly animals. These counters promote fine motor skills, early math skills, patterning, sorting, and color recognition. Have children identify the color and animal as they count. Includes 60 counters and a container for easy storage.

18 months & up. This engaging set features jumbo-sized transparent buttons in an array of basic colors and eight different shapes. Use for shape recognition, counting, sorting and patterning activities. Great addition to the light table, too! Largest button measures 1.75" in diameter. Includes 90 assorted counters.

3 years & up. Develop your children's counting skills with these exciting Colorful Transportation Counters with Containers for practicing early math skills. These counters represent six different modes of transportation in a variety of colors. Children will love mimicking the sounds of the different vehicles as they count. These counters promote fine motor skills, early math skills, patterning, sorting, and color recognition. Each container includes 72 counters.

3 years & up. Help your children to practice their counting skills with these Textured Bright Colored Bear Attribute Counters for Practicing Early Math Skills. These friendly bears make the perfect counting companions. Children will develop color recognition, early math skills, and sorting skills. Encourage your children to count out the bears and sort them into groups by color or size. These fun plast bears come in 3 sizes and 4 colors. Set of 80 bears: 20 papas, 20 mamas, and 40 babies. Measures 1-1.5"H

3 years & up. Dive into learning with the help of these colorful sea creatures! This engaging set features 14 different sea creature counters in six different colors. Use this set in your classroom for a lesson about the many different sea creatures. Have children point out their favorite sea creatures and describe the details. Includes a starfish, penguin, turtle, frog, lobster, stingray, dolphin, whale, shark, seahorse, seal, crab, octopus, and ocean fish. Includes 84 counters.

2 years & up. This set of six Tongs are great for developing and refining fine motor skills. Children will learn how to control their hand muscles while they grasp, hold, move, and release items. These tongs help develop small hand muscles and finger strength that's needed for handwriting and cutting with scissors. Experimenting and playing with tongs encourage children to explore and investigate, while they develop motor skills and even build nerve connections in the brain. Tongs are 6" long.

3 years & up. Develop your childrens counting skills with these exciting Colorful Fruit Counters with Container for Practicing Early Math Skills. These counters represent a variety of healthy fruits in different colors. Children will love learning about healthy eating while building early math skills. These counters promote fine motor skills, early math skills, patterning, sorting, and color recognition. For a combination activity, have children count out how many of each fruit they're supposed… More »

3 years & up. Twelve different insects in six different colors. These colorful insects teach color recognition. The different insects will help with insect names and recognition. Fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination skills will be enhanced as children make up different activities. Great for building fine motor skills and reinforcing counting, sorting, patterning and other early math skills. Includes 108 counters.

3 years & up. This set of brightly colored Farm Animal Shaped Counters features six different animals in six colors. These counters are great to promote counting, sorting, patterning, shape recognition, and fine motor skills. Encourage children to identify the animals as they count. Use these easy to grip counters for visuals in a lesson about addition and subtraction. Farm Animals include cows, horses, chickens, ducks, pigs, and sheep. This set includes 108 counters.

3 years & up. Time to Block the Clock! Combines shape sorting and learning to tell time. It's two toys in one. Place the colorful numbered shape pieces in their proper places on the face of the soundly built clock and move the hour and minute hands to make learning time fun! Styles may vary.

3 years & up. The Rainbow Pebble set is a perfect addition to any early learning environment. It offers 36 pieces in six colors and six sizes. The unique texture invites children to engage in multiple activities including sorting, stacking, counting, and more! Aid in sensory development and color recognition. Activity cards are included.

3 years & up. Squeeze this tool in the middle to open the tweezers and strengthen muscles in little hands and fingers! A perfect picker-upper that also builds the hand strength necessary for good fine-motor skills. Includes 6 tweezers in 6 different colors.

4 years & up. Students can group items or concepts with similar and different attributes by making circles into a Venn diagram or other visual tool. Set of 6 collapsible circles include 2 each of red, blue and yellow. Hoops measure 20".

Pegboards are a great addition to teach beginning math skills. Pegs sold separately.

3 years and up. Learn about the weather without interrupting playtime. This set of Explore the Weather Counters depicts 6 different weather patterns (lightning bolt, snowflake, cloud, raindrop, wind, and sun) for children to investigate. The child-sized pieces are perfect for small hands, and each weather pattern has a different surface pattern to spark sensory stimulation. As they play, children will gain valuable scientific knowledge about the world around them.

4 years and up. Why not keep a variety of tools on hand to help teach concepts such as similarities, differences, merging groups and more. These generously sized see through trays fit the bill. They are big enough for group use but can also work for individual use. They work beautifully on our Educational Light Cube, light tables or desks and are deep enought to accomodate a variety of materials. Easy to clean, the set of 3 includes bar, Venn, and graph trays. Includes: three 10 x 15 x 1? (25… More »