Montessori Shape & Count Sorting Board — Five Graded Columns, Ages 1–4
Montessori Shape & Count Sorting Board — Five Graded Columns, Ages 1–4
- ✅ They correct themselves
- 🔢 First feel for numbers
- 🫶 Made for little hands
- 📵 Screen-free
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Montessori Shape & Count Sorting Board — Five Graded Columns, Ages 1–4
Full details
Full details
The board tells them if they're right, so you don't have to. Five wooden columns rise from a base — the first has one peg, the next two, then three, four and five. Each coloured shape is drilled with a matching number of holes, so it only seats on its own column.
Why this beats a plain shape sorter
A normal sorter teaches one thing: which hole. This teaches shape, colour and quantity at once, and it's the quantity that makes it unusual. A child pushing the four-holed square onto the four-pegged column is matching a number without counting aloud — which is exactly how number sense starts, well before a child can recite to ten.
Because a wrong piece physically won't go down, the correction comes from the toy. Nobody has to say "not that one".
What's in the set
- Solid wood base with five columns of one to five pegs
- Twenty shape pieces — circle, rectangle, triangle, square and pentagon, four of each in blue, red, green and yellow
Age guidance
1 to 4. One and two stack whatever fits and enjoy the threading. Three sorts by colour. Four works out that the holes and the pegs are counting the same number, which is the moment the toy pays off.
Materials
Solid wood, non-toxic paint. Contains small parts — supervise under-threes.
Frequently asked questions
Is this the same as a stacking-ring toy? No — the pieces are keyed by hole count as well as shape, so there is a right answer and the board enforces it.
How many pieces? Twenty shapes across five shapes and four colours, plus the pegged base.
Does it need batteries? No.
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Why children keep coming back to it
Shape, colour and quantity at once
A child pushing the four-holed square onto the four-pegged column is matching a number without counting aloud — which is exactly how number sense starts.
The board tells them if they're right, so you don't have to
When they work out the holes and the pegs are counting the same number
The board tells them if they're right, so you don't have to.
- Ages 1–4
- Number sense
- Shape matching
- Colour sorting
- Self-correction
In the box
- Solid wood base with five columns of one to five pegs
- Twenty shape pieces — circle, rectangle, triangle, square and pentagon, four of each in blue, red, green and yellow