Shape Puzzle (7-24M)

One of the most important skills your baby learns during this phase of life is the coordination of both arms and their simultaneous use. This coordination is of great importance for key everyday challenges and needs to be practiced extensively. This wooden shape puzzle, proven in Montessori pedagogy, helps your baby learn how to solve problems using their hands and eyes. At the same time, they learn to recognize different three-dimensional shapes and match corresponding objects.

How does your baby play and learn with the shape puzzle?

1. Coordination and simultaneous use of both hands

Gathering initial experiences, examining objects, motor skills, hand-eye coordination, cause-and-effect… a lot must be learned before all the Montessori puzzle shapes can be put together correctly! At first, your baby will likely just bang the cuboid, sphere, egg, and egg cup against each other and enjoy the wooden sound. But that is already a good exercise, because they are using both halves of their body to do so.

2. Visual and haptic recognition of shapes

Before your baby can piece the geometric shapes together, they will be able to take out the unique Montessori objects (sphere, egg, cuboid) by, for example, knocking over the cup or turning it upside down and letting the wooden egg fall out. The shapes are examined very closely with the eyes, hands, and mouth. But don't worry! The beechwood shape puzzle is safe for babies, and your child can play and learn in peace.

3. Matching pairs and recognizing differences

Gradually, your baby will also learn that "putting together" is the opposite action to "taking out." Why not demonstrate it correctly a few times by putting the matching shapes together in front of your child's eyes? While they are sitting on your lap, you can also easily guide their hands to show the connections.

4. Heuristic play

Free and creative play with the shapes encourages independent learning and discovery. Therefore, give your baby enough time to explore the shape puzzle and all the objects themselves. Watch your baby get creative with the interestingly shaped objects and find their own solutions and develop their own unique games through playful trial and error with the shape puzzle for babies.

A Montessori baby toy for coordination, sensory experience, and heuristic learning!
This Montessori baby toy is specially designed to playfully promote children's motor skills and cognitive development. This innovative set consists of various shapes (sphere, egg, and cuboid), as well as the matching containers (cauldron, egg cup, and cube cup), which are explored visually and haptically. The toy is made of beechwood.