Deluxe Wooden Baby & Toddler Sensory Activity Table

Six stations around one table

Because the table is round, your child walks around it rather than sitting in front of it. Taps on the xylophone, a scrape along the guiro, a block pushed through the right hole, a bead slid over the wire hump, a fish nudged along its groove: each side offers something different, so the play moves with them.

• Music: xylophone with wooden mallet and a ridged guiro to scrape
• Shape sorter: chunky blocks that drop through matching holes
• Gears: cogs that turn each other when one is spun
• Bead maze: wooden beads to guide along curving wires
• Fish track: little wooden fish to slide along grooves in the top

A sensory table for toddlers, without the sand and water

A sensory table often brings to mind a tray of rice or water. This one keeps the senses busy with sound, texture and movement instead, and nothing ends up on the floor. It is a good pick for a living room or a nursery corner where a messy tray would not work.

Getting the most from a toddler activity table

Leave it out in the same spot, with nothing piled on top, so your child can come back to it on their own. Rather than showing everything at once, sit beside them and play one station slowly, then let them find the next. The gears and the guiro tend to win first; the shape sorter usually takes a few more weeks.

Four splayed legs and a total weight of just over 4 kg keep it steady when a child leans on the edge. Like many wooden Montessori toys, it needs no batteries: every note and every click comes from your child's own hands.

Specifications

• Age: from 18 months
• Size: 47 cm high in total, 39 cm diameter, tabletop at 32 cm
• Weight: 4.01 kg
• 2-year guarantee

Attention: do not use close to the ear. Misuse may cause hearing damage. Please retain this information.