Farmer's Market Colour Sorting Set

Farmer's Market Colour Sorting Set combines realistic play fruit and vegetables with five colourful baskets for hands-on sorting, counting, matching and farm-shop role play. The chunky pieces are sized for young hands and bring early maths language into an inviting everyday theme.

Suitable from 18 months, the set includes 25 food pieces in five colour groups plus matching baskets. Children can begin by simply exploring and naming familiar foods, then progress to matching each item to a basket, counting small groups or creating pretend market displays. This flexible progression makes the resource valuable at home, in toddler rooms, nurseries and early-years settings.

Why Choose the Farmer's Market Colour Sorting Set?

The set turns an essential early classification skill into practical play. To sort successfully, children need to notice an attribute, compare items and decide where each one belongs. Because the foods vary in shape as well as colour, adults can also discuss size, texture, food names and categories.

How the Farmer's Market Colour Sorting Set Supports Learning Through Play

Picking up and placing the food pieces gives toddlers repeated hand-eye coordination and grasp practice. Carrying and filling the small baskets adds another purposeful motor task.

Colour sorting builds visual discrimination and classification. Adults can model colour words at first, then invite children to find a match or explain why two items belong together.

The market theme creates natural language and social-play opportunities. Children can take turns buying and selling, name what they need, count items into a basket and use polite conversational phrases.

Designed for Purposeful, Repeat Play

Activities can be adapted as children develop. Begin with two colour groups, introduce all five later, sort by food type instead of colour or combine the set with a play kitchen for open-ended role play.

Rather than limiting children to one fixed outcome, the Farmer's Market Colour Sorting Set can be returned to in different ways as confidence develops. Adults can begin by modelling the basic activity and naming what is happening, then gradually invite children to make choices, explain their thinking, predict what may happen next or create their own variation. This makes the resource useful for supported adult-led learning as well as independent exploration.

Perfect For

• Toddler rooms, nurseries and EYFS settings
• Early colour recognition and sorting activities
• Farm shop, grocery shop and kitchen role play
• Home learning and playdate activities
• Children aged 18 months and over

Practical Activity Ideas

• Offer two baskets first and ask children to match foods by colour before adding the remaining groups.
• Count one, two or three foods into a basket and compare which basket contains more.
• Create a pretend farm shop with simple shopping requests such as “Please find two green foods.”
• Talk about fruit and vegetables, familiar meals and where food comes from.

Product Features

• 25 realistic play fruit and vegetable pieces
• Five colour-coded bushel baskets
• Supports sorting, matching, counting and vocabulary
• Chunky pieces suited to small hands
• Useful for early maths and imaginative role play
• Baskets provide practical storage after play

Specifications

• Product name: Farmer's Market Colour Sorting Set
• Brand: Learning Resources
• Product code: LER3060
• Contents: 25 play-food pieces and 5 baskets
• Materials: Plastic
• Colours: Red, orange, yellow, green and purple groups
• Approximate packaged dimensions: 33cm x 25.7cm x 14.7cm
• Batteries: Not required
• Age suitability: 18 months+
• Use: Indoor learning and role play

Use under adult supervision. Clean in accordance with the supplier's care instructions and inspect pieces regularly for damage.