‘Cheerful Bees’ wooden Tetris-style sorter

About the game

The bees have a lot of work to do: they need to organise the cells in the hive and find a place for each coloured shape. But the hexagonal cells form unusual shapes. How can the whole hive be filled correctly?

‘Cheerful Bees’ is a wooden Tetris-style sorter featuring coloured shapes formed by hexagonal cells. The child selects the pieces by shape, rotates them and looks for the correct position on the board featuring the beehive. The bee figurines add to the play theme.

When all the coloured cells are in their places, the little beehive transforms into a complete jigsaw puzzle.

In the set

• a 32 × 23 cm board with a beehive
• colourful Tetris-style pieces made up of hexagonal cells
• bee figures

How to play

1. Take out the pieces.
2. The child fills the beehive by matching the pieces by shape.
3. Arrange the pieces to form a pattern so that there are no empty cells left.

Where to start

Start with small figures consisting of 2–3 blocks.

Game variations

• a single-colour beehive;
• a ‘rainbow’ of different colours;
• count the squares in the shape;
• fill in as quickly as possible.

What children can practise

• spatial reasoning
• colours and shapes
• perseverance

Who it’s for

Children aged 4 and over; at home, at kindergarten, whilst travelling.

Material

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