Wooden sorting puzzle ‘Vegetables: Inside and Out’

About the game

What does a carrot look like on the inside? And what’s hidden beneath the skin of a tomato, an onion or a beetroot? These familiar vegetables have some little surprises in store — you just need to peek beneath the top layer!

‘Vegetables Inside and Out’ is a two-layer wooden puzzle sorter. The child looks at the whole vegetables, lifts off the top flaps and finds pictures of the same vegetables in cross-section underneath. By comparing the outside and the inside, the little one finds the correct pairs.

Twelve familiar vegetables reveal a new side to themselves, and every flap lifted brings a little discovery.

In the set

• a two-layer board measuring 32 × 23 cm
• 24 inserts: 12 whole vegetables on top and 12 cross-sections of vegetables underneath
• beetroot, garlic, peas, tomato, cucumber, carrot, pepper, sweetcorn, onion, cabbage, courgette, potato

How to play

1. Take out the whole vegetables.
2. The child examines the cross-section and looks for the vegetable that fits it.
3. Place the cross-section inside, and the whole vegetable on top.

Where to start

Start with a tomato, a cucumber and a carrot.

Game variations

• ‘What’s inside?’;
• ‘What grows in the ground, and what grows on a bush?’;
• Name the colour of the skin and the flesh;
• Memory game: find the matching pair.

What children can practise

• ‘outside–inside’ logic
• knowledge of vegetables
• speech

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.