Shape Sorters & Inset Toys
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Montessori Wooden Object Permanence Box with Drawer & Ball
£32.99Crafted from smooth natural wood, this authentic montessori wooden object permanence box with drawer & ball provides babies from 6 months with an enriching tactile experience that inspires self-directed discovery.
Designed to nurture early grasping and sensory discovery, it introduces fundamental concepts through calm, focused hands-on play.
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Montessori 12 Geometric Shapes Wooden Inset Puzzle
This natural wooden inset puzzle introduces toddlers from 18 months to 12 distinct geometric shapes, supporting visual analysis, shape discrimination, and colour recognition.
An essential Montessori sensory material that builds patience, logic, and early mathematical foundations.
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Gift option
£2.99Is your order a gift? We will be happy to wrap it to surprise your recipient!
Gift wrapping: Whether the order is for a girl or a boy, we offer different types of gift wrap.
Gift card: A message to pass? We include in your order a card with your personalized message.
Warning: This option is not possible with gripper balls.
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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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Wooden Safari Animals Inset Chunky Puzzle
£14.99Introduce early puzzle mastery with this wooden safari animals inset chunky puzzle. Featuring seven thick, easy-to-grasp wild animal pieces—including a lion, zebra, and elephant—it offers tactile matching and standalone imaginative play.
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Spring Blossom Wooden Shape Sorting Box
£16.99Master geometric shapes and problem solving with this charming spring blossom wooden shape sorting box. Fitted with an easy-open sliding lid and four colourful wooden shapes, it invites toddlers to explore spatial matching and posting.
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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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Wooden Geometric Inset Shape Puzzles - 10-Piece Set
£19.99This set of 10 individual wooden geometric shape puzzles introduces young children to geometric figures through visual discrimination and tactile matching. Each sturdy wooden base features an inset blue shape with an easy-to-grasp wooden knob.
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Montessori Wooden Carrot Harvesting & Sorting Game
£20.99🥕 A delightful wooden developmental toy for inquisitive little hands!
Inspired by Montessori practical life activities, this wooden carrot harvesting game challenges toddlers to match 7 chunky carrots of varying girth and depth into their corresponding garden plot slots.
Promotes size discrimination, depth perception, and fine motor grip from 12 months.
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Wooden Car Shape Sorter Toy
£26.99Vroom vroom! This charming wooden car shape sorter vehicle combines rolling vehicular play with cognitive shape sorting!
Toddlers post colourful geometric shapes through matching cutouts in the car body, then open the rear boot to retrieve the pieces (20 x 14 x 11 cm).
Develops shape recognition, spatial orientation, and fine motor grip from 12 months.
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Wooden Safari Animal Truck Shape Sorter
£35.99Embark on safari adventures with this wooden safari animal truck shape sorter. Toddlers can roll the sturdy wooden vehicle across the floor and post five wild animal blocks through matching cut-outs, blending shape sorting with mobile play.
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Pastel Wooden Activity Cube
£43.99An enchanting solid wood activity cube finished in soft pastel shades. Includes a looping bead wire maze, geometric shape sorter, rotating tiles, sliding animal tracks, and a teaching clock to guide early learning.
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Rabbit Wooden Activity Cube & Stool
£65.99A versatile 5-sided wooden activity cube featuring a rabbit-themed bead maze, musical xylophone, sliding maze, spinning gears, and a shape sorter. The sturdy lid locks securely with a screw-in carrot and inverts to transform the cube into a toddler stool.
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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 shape sorter toy asks one simple question: which hole does this piece belong in? Here you will find wooden sorting boxes, sorting vehicles, peg puzzles and inset boards for babies and toddlers from around 12 months.
First posting boxes: one shape at a time
For a first baby shape sorter, fewer holes are better. The Montessori triangle and rectangular inset-and-drop boxes each work with a single shape: your child pushes the block through, hears it land, then opens the box to find it again. Once that is easy, the Spring Blossom sorting box brings in several shapes at once.
Hand over one piece at a time and stay quiet. If a block will not go in, let your child turn it rather than guiding the hand: that small search is the whole point of a post box toy. The box itself says whether the shape is right, which is why these are among the best-loved Montessori wooden toys.
Sorting on wheels and a cube with shapes
The wooden car and the safari animal truck are a shape sorter toy and a push-along in one, so the pieces travel round the room before being posted. Our activity cubes mix things up: a cube with shapes to slot in on one face, and beads, gears or sliders on the others, for a child who likes to move from one challenge to the next.
Peg puzzles and inset boards
Peg puzzles take the same idea flat: each piece has a small knob to pinch and its own outline on the board. The first shapes and colours peg puzzle, the chunky safari animals and the five-piece horse are a gentle start, and the musical animal peg puzzles add sounds to the game. Later on, the inset board with 12 geometric shapes offers trickier outlines from 18 months, a good next step described in our guide to the best toys for 1 to 2 year olds.