• Encourages young children to play freely with a wide range of objects e.g., stacking and combining.
• EYFS, Understanding the World
• Provide mechanical equipment for children to play with and investigate.
• EYFS, Expressive Arts & Design
• Provide lots of flexible and open-ended resources for children's imaginative play.
• Unique, glowing crosses that stack, nestle, and tessellate, offering versatile construction play possibilities.
• Colourful manipulatives that delight and challenge, bringing a unique aspect to construction and loose parts play.
• These glow crosses captivate children and enhance learning by combining light and construction play. A simple button press illuminates the crosses, adding excitement to play environments. This feature draws attention and helps teach children about cause and effect.
• Integrating these crosses into daily lessons supports various EYFS curriculum goals. They are particularly effective in teaching sequencing and sorting in mathematics, promoting investigation in understanding the world, and sparking creativity in expressive arts and design.
Children can further their loose parts exploration, building vertically, horizontally or interconnecting the pieces. They can explore and experiment mathematically with these shapes, working on sequencing, patterns, classifying. and sorting. Young children can enjoy discovering and manipulating the pieces to build and balance whilst engaging with the light stimulus and exploring cause and effect.
The set includes twelve vibrantly coloured crosses and four USB-USB-B charging cables. Dimensions: Large Cross 20cm, Small Cross 12.7cm.
• Rechargeable, developmentally appropriate technology
• Offers children opportunities to explore cause and effect, and stimulus response
• Versatile, open-ended construction and loose part pieces