Assembly & Connecting Toys
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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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First Wooden Animal Puzzle for Toddlers
£6.99Toddler puzzles don't come much simpler than this: one friendly animal, four chunky wooden pieces and a sunken 14 x 14 cm board that holds them in place. Made for little ones from 1 year, it is a gentle step up from single-shape inset boards. Choose a cat, dog, fox or rabbit, or all four.
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Wooden Stacking Geometric Shape Train - Pull-Along Sorter
£17.99All aboard for learning and fun! This wooden stacking train features an engine and two detachable carriages with vertical pegs. Children thread colourful geometric blocks with 1, 2, 3, or 4 holes onto the corresponding pegs, combining counting, sorting, and pull-along play.
These wooden connecting toys are for toddlers from 1 year who love fitting one piece to the next: magnetic jigsaw puzzles, chunky inset puzzles and trains whose wagons hook on behind the engine. Each one ends with something whole that your child has put together alone.
Magnetic jigsaw puzzles with stories and animals
The magnetic puzzles cover almost every favourite theme: a pirate ship, a knight and castle, Red Riding Hood, a funfair, forest owls, an ocean whale, a savannah safari, a jungle scene and a Peru llama. Depending on the model they are suitable from 1 year or from 18 months, with pieces large enough to grip, turn and slide until the edges match.
Trains that connect and sort shapes
The pull-along stacking shape train (1+), the large shape-sorting train set and the natural cargo train with inset wagons (both 2+) combine two jobs: linking the wagons together, then filling each one with the right shapes. Once everything is in place, your child has a toy to pull across the room.
From the first animal puzzle to the bigger trains
Around 1 year, begin with the first animal puzzle or the pull-along train: few pieces and one clear gesture. From 18 months, the 12 geometric shapes inset puzzle and the magnetic jigsaws ask for more turning and matching. From 2 years, the bigger trains bring sorting into the game, a natural step towards the stacking and building sets among our wooden Montessori toys.
Hand over only half the pieces at first, so the puzzle is finished before patience runs out, then offer the rest the next day.