‘Faces’ wooden puzzle sorter

About the game

Who’s come to visit today — a funny little cat, a cunning fox or a big elephant? The play board features the faces of all sorts of animals. Try to recognise each one and find the right place for it!

‘Faces’ is a wooden puzzle sorter with inserts shaped like animal heads. Children can look at familiar and unusual animals, compare their silhouettes and place them in the corresponding slots on the board. The characters include domestic, forest and exotic animals.

Twenty different faces — twenty opportunities to name a new animal and discover how it differs from the others.

In the set

• a 32 × 23 cm board with 20 recesses
• 20 animal-face inserts: a cat, a dog, a cow, a piglet, bear, mouse, raccoon, fox, badger, fawn, owl, hare, koala, panda, monkey, tiger, lion, cheetah, elephant, giraffe

How to play

1. Take out the animal faces.
2. The child matches each face to its corresponding shape.
3. Name the animal and the sound it makes.

Where to start

Start with 4–5 familiar animals.

Game variations

• ‘Who’s that?’;
• sort them into domestic and wild animals;
• ‘Who’s missing?’;
• ‘What does this animal eat?’.

What children can practise

• knowledge of animals
• shapes and silhouettes
• speech

Who it’s for

Children aged 3 and over; at home, at kindergarten, whilst travelling.

Material

Wood-based board (pressed wood), bright print.