Children will love to touch and feel these shells! Specially designed Sea Shells have 6 different tactile surfaces and come in 3 sizes. Ideal to teach early number concepts such as sorting, matching, comparing, sequencing, patterning, and counting. Set includes 6 different tactile shells in 3 sizes, 2 of each, 36 pcs. Complete with cotton storage bag and activity guide.

• MULTI-SENSORY EDUCATIONAL TOY: Perfect for both visual and tactile exploration. Invite children to observe, feel and describe their findings. Textures range from smooth to thorny but are safe for kids to handle.
• DEVELOP STEAM CONCEPTS: Ideal to teach early number concepts such as sorting, matching, comparing, sequencing, patterning, and counting. Also great for play with dough or sand and for use with Loose Parts activities.
• DEVELOP MEASUREMENT CONCEPTS: Perfect for open-ended play and practicing the attribute of size concepts such as “bigger” and “smaller” and strategies such as direct comparison.
• MADE FROM NATURAL MATERIALS: Made of 100% Fiber Particulate Composite (FPC) agricultural waste. Smallest shell measures approximately 1-3/4 inches L and largest measures 2-1/4 inches L

Mosaic craft tiles in jewel-toned translucent plastic, perfect for collage and they positively glow on a light table.

• ARTS & CRAFTS USES: Use the shapes for creating unique gifts for Mother's Day, Father's Day, birthdays, Christmas and can be affixed using glue
• VIVID COLORS: Shapes are see through and come in green, purple, red, blue, pink, orange, and yellow
• HIGH QUALITY: The Colorations Transparent Shapes are made from durable, hard, see through plastic
• LEARNING AND EXPLORATION: Shapes work perfectly on light tables and water tables for sensory play
• SIZE AND SHAPE: Each shape is approximately 1 inch to 1-1/2 inches. 1 lb. bag holds 5 shapes: square, triangle, hexagon, asymmetric oval, and trapezoid

Loose Parts are natural or synthetic found, bought, or upcycled materials—acorns, hardware, stones, aluminum foil, fabric scraps, for example—that children can move, manipulate, control, and change within their play. With more than 550 color photographs of many kinds of Loose Parts in real early childhood settings, classroom stories, and a dynamic overview, Loose Parts provides inspiration and information about the ways everyday materials can support open-ended learning, enhance play, and empower children. With Loose Parts, the possibilities are endless.

• EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE: Use Loose Parts to spark children's creativity and innovation. Provides inspiration and information about the ways everyday materials can support open-ended learning, enhance play, and empower children.
• INSPIRE: Loose Parts help children inspire imagination and creativity on their own terms and in their own unique way. Loose parts create endless possibilities and invite creativity.
• CHILD CENTERED: Open-ended materials, environments, and experiences encourage problem solving and are child centered.
• LEARNING EXPERIENCES: Children involve themselves in concrete experiences using Loose Parts, which lead to explorations that occur naturally, as opposed to adult directed. However, adults do play important, intentional roles in preparing, guiding, and documenting open-ended learning experiences.
• MAKING CONNECTIONS: When children are encouraged to integrate play materials and areas in their own creative ways, they are experiencing open-ended learning.

This beechwood tray is perfect for Loose Parts! The 10 frame tray is a wonderful resource to help children explore, learn and practice number bonds to 10 in an enjoyable and meaningful way. Children can use the tray to collect items both inside and outside, and carry them back safely for future learning opportunities. Measures 15 inches x 6 inches x ½-inches.

• CREATIVE COUNTING: Provides opportunities for children to practice counting and sorting with real objects that attract their interest.
• INSPIRE: Loose Parts help children inspire imagination and creativity on their own terms and in their own unique way. Loose Parts create endless possibilities and invite creativity.
• CHILD CENTERED: Open ended materials, environments, and experiences encourage problem solving and are child centered.
• LEARNING EXPERIENCES: Children involve themselves in concrete experiences using Loose Parts, which lead to explorations that occur naturally, as opposed to adult directed. However, adults do play important, intentional roles in preparing, guiding, and documenting open-ended learning experiences.
• MAKING CONNECTIONS: When children are encouraged to integrate play materials and areas in their own creative ways, they are experiencing open-ended learning.

Approximately 150 acrylic stones in handy storage jar. Loose parts acrylic stones come in 8 jewel tone colors; red, yellow, green, blue, orange, light pink, magenta, and purple. Acrylic stones measure approximately 3/4 inch x 3/4 inch.

• PERFECT FOR COUTNING & SORTING: 2 lbs. of beautiful acrylic ice stones in 8 jewel tone colors, approximately 150 pieces perfect for Loose Parts activities.
• INSPIRE: Loose parts help children inspire imagination and creativity on their own terms and in their own unique way. Loose parts create endless possibilities and invite creativity.
• CHILD CENTERED: Open-ended materials, environments, and experiences encourage problem solving and are child centered.
• LEARNING EXPERIENCES: Children involve themselves in concrete experiences using loose parts, which lead to explorations that occur naturally, as opposed to adult directed. However, adults do play important, intentional roles in preparing, guiding, and documenting open ended learning experiences.
• MAKING CONNECTIONS: When children are encouraged to integrate play materials and areas in their own creative ways, they are experiencing open ended learning.

Children will be drawn to 12 separately-bagged natural specimens. This set will help children develop classifying and observational skills. Latin names are included in the set.

Set includes:

• Lily Centers (soymida febrifuga) - Fruits that grow on the Indian Redwood (pod)
• Spiral Conch Shell (pugilina cochlidium) - A species of sea snail (shell)
• Butterfly Bark Slice (salacia chinensis linn) - Bark off a woody butterfly tree/shrub that is found in India (bark slice)
• Pear Pods (hydropera) - Varied pods from numerous plants (seed/pod)
• Lotus Seed Pods (nelumbium speciosum wild) - Distinctive dried seed heads of lotus plants (seed pod)
• Cinnamon Sticks (cinnamonum cassia) - An evergreen tree that provides aromatic bark that is used as a spice (bark)
• Angel Wings (oroxylum indicum) - The seed from inside seed pods on a tropical tree (seed)
• Grand Windmill (terminalia arjuna) - Fruit from the Arjun tree, sometimes used for medical purposes (dried fruit)
• Ata Fruit Slice (annona squamosa) - A fruit also known as a "sugar apple" (fruit)
• Ear White Seashell (melampus) - The shell of a type of snail/slug, usually found in Hawaii (shell)
• Pine Cone (pinus) - Small pine cone/seed from pine tree (cone/seed)
• Camel Foot (toddalia asiatica) - Fruit from a climbing South African orange tree, which tastes like an orange/lemon cross (dried fruit)