Colour Recognition
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Montessori Colour Matching Cylinder Puzzle
£9.99Introduce early colour recognition with this tactile Montessori Colour Matching Cylinder Puzzle. Toddlers grasp each chunky wooden cylinder and match it to its corresponding coloured slot, refining spatial awareness and dexterity through playful discovery.
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Montessori Layered Wooden Growth Puzzle
£13.99Explore life stages and depth perception with this captivating Montessori Layered Wooden Puzzle. By removing and assembling pieces across multiple vertical layers, children discover biological growth cycles while developing sophisticated spatial reasoning.
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Montessori Colour Box 1 - Primary Colour Tablets
£14.99Introduce foundational colour perception with the authentic Montessori Colour Box 1. Containing three pairs of primary coloured tablets (red, blue, and yellow) encased in a handsome wooden storage box, it trains visual discrimination without extraneous sensory distractions.
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Montessori Washable Bath Crayons Set
£14.99These washable bath crayons turn the tiles and the side of the tub into a drawing board for children aged 3 and up. They glide over wet, smooth surfaces, so your child can scribble, draw faces or try first letters during the bath, then everything wipes away with a damp sponge.
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Montessori Wooden Rainbow Stacker
£17.99Among toys with rainbows, this wooden rainbow is the one that changes with your child: nested arches that a one-year-old lifts out and puts back, and an older child turns into tunnels, bridges and fences. The wooden rainbow toy comes in sizes of 5, 8 or 12 arches, and the two larger sets add balls to roll through the tunnels.
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Montessori Colour Box 2 - 11 Colour Pairs
£37.99Expand your child's chromatic awareness with Montessori Colour Box 2. Featuring 11 matching pairs of colour tablets—primary, secondary, and neutral tones—this classic sensorial apparatus refines visual discrimination and rich colour vocabulary.
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Montessori Colour Tablets Box - 63 Shades Chromatic Set
£58.99 -20% £47.19This classic Montessori Colour Box 3 contains 63 wooden tablets representing 9 distinct colour families in 7 graduated shades from darkest to lightest. A refined sensorial material that trains visual discrimination and chromatic sensitivity.
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Giant Montessori Wooden Rainbow Stacker XXL with 2 Balls
£94.99 -5% £90.24This giant wooden Montessori rainbow stacker with 2 solid wooden balls inspires hours of open-ended creative play. Children can construct winding ball tracks, arch bridges, vibrant tunnels, and imaginative sculptures while developing spatial awareness and fine motor skills.
A colour matching game asks a child to find the piece that looks exactly like this one: a tablet, a bee, a cylinder. This section brings together wooden colour tablets, matching puzzles and rainbow stackers for children from age 1, plus paints for putting new colours to use.
Colour sorting toys for the youngest
From 1 year, a rainbow stacker is the gentlest start. Your child lifts the arches off, puts them back in any order, and slowly notices which colour sits next to which. The XXL stacker comes with 2 balls to roll under the arches, and the pastel blue stacking clown turns colour into a little figure to build piece by piece.
Pairing and grading with Montessori colour tablets
Colour tablets are among the classic Montessori teaching toys. From 3 years, Colour Box 1 holds the primary colours in pairs: mix the tablets on a mat, lift one, and invite your child to find its twin. Colour Box 2 moves on to 11 pairs, and the 63-shade box, from 4 years, asks for something harder: lining up the shades of one colour from darkest to lightest. Show your child how to hold each tablet by its wooden edges so the colour faces stay clean.
The colour matching cylinder puzzle and the beehive with its colour matching bees add a second challenge: the piece must match the colour and fit its own place, which keeps small fingers busy as well as eyes. Once colours are easy, the counting and maths matching game uses the same pairing idea with numbers.
From naming colours to painting with them
When a child can name and sort colours, painting is the next step. The watercolour paint boxes with 12 colours, liquid gouache and the wooden palette with brushes let them mix two colours and watch a third appear. Washable bath crayons bring the same game to bath time, one colour name at a time on the tiles.
Whichever you pick, start these Montessori toys with only two colours on the table. Add a third once the first pair is easy, so the game stays a success rather than a guess.