Wooden sorting puzzle ‘Butterflies: Colours’

About the game

Colourful butterflies have fluttered down onto the flower-filled meadow, but each one has a unique combination of upper and lower wings. Where does the butterfly with yellow wings on top and blue wings underneath belong? Help everyone find the right squares!

‘Butterflies: Colours’ is a wooden sorting puzzle designed to match two colour characteristics. The child looks at the coloured spots on the edges of the frame and selects butterflies with matching upper and lower wings, placing them where the colours meet.

Once each butterfly is in its place, a vibrant composition of correctly matched colours gradually emerges before the child’s eyes.

In the set

• a 23 × 21 cm frame with a mesh
• 30 inserts: paint splashes as clues (on the left and top), butterflies with multicoloured wings
• the inserts are interchangeable — the tasks can be varied

How to play

1. Arrange the colours from left to right and top to bottom.
2. The child looks for a butterfly whose upper wings are the same colour as the row and whose lower wings are the same colour as the column.
3. Fill in the whole grid.

Where to start

Start with the 2 colours on the left and the 2 at the top.

Game variations

• swap the colours around;
• ‘find the butterfly with pink wings’;
• name the colours.

What children can practise

• colours
• logical reasoning based on two criteria
• attention

Who it’s for

Children aged 3 and over; at home, at kindergarten, or during lessons with a teacher.

Material

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