The ‘Car Fleet’ Magic Chest of Drawers

About the game

It’s the start of the working day at the big vehicle fleet! The lorries are ready to set off, but first the dispatcher needs to allocate the loads correctly. Which vehicle will carry the groceries, and which will take the building materials or animals?

The magical ‘Fleet’ chest is a wooden sorting toy with four boxes shaped like lorries. The child becomes the dispatcher: they look at the cards showing different loads, identify which group they belong to, and sort them into the correct lorries.

Every correctly loaded lorry is another task completed by the little fleet manager.

In the set

• 4 boxes in the shape of lorries
• 40 tiles: food, animals, building materials and more
• dimensions: 23 × 12.5 × 12 cm

How to play

1. Take a look at the 4 vehicles.
2. The child, acting as a dispatcher, decides which vehicle will carry each load.
3. Lay out all 40 tiles.

Where to start

Start with two sets — for example, one with animals and one with food.

Game variations

• ‘Deliver the cargo’;
• ‘What’s been put in the wrong place?’;
• Name the cargo;
• A story about the fleet of vehicles.

What children can practise

• classification and logic
• knowledge of transport
• 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.