Wooden sorting and nesting toy ‘Little Penguins – Counting’

About the game

Ten funny little penguins have gathered to go fishing, but each one needs a different number of fish. Who will get one fish, and who will get as many as ten? Help the penguins count their catch correctly!

‘Little Penguins – Counting’ is a wooden sorting toy with halves featuring numbers and fish. The child matches the numbers from 1 to 10 with the number of fish by joining the top and bottom halves of the little penguins.

Every correctly assembled penguin is a small victory on the path to confident counting.

In the set

• a 32 × 23 cm board featuring 10 penguins
• 20 halves: 10 upper halves with numbers from 1 to 10 and 10 lower halves with fish

How to play

1. Remove the halves.
2. The child counts the fish and looks for the penguin with the correct number.
3. Join the top and bottom of each penguin.

Where to start

Start with penguins numbered 1 to 5.

Game variations

• ‘How many fish are there?’;
• count from 1 to 10;
• ‘Find the penguin in the red hat’;
• ‘One more fish’.

What children can practise

• counting to 10 and numbers
• the ‘number–quantity’ relationship
• colours

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.