Maximemo With Textures – 16 Piece Wooden Tactile Sensory Matching Set

Discover a world of touch with Maximemo With Textures – a beautifully presented wooden sensory matching resource featuring 16 individually framed tactile plates for exploring, comparing and matching different textures. Designed for children aged 3 years and over, the set encourages little hands to investigate surfaces through touch while developing descriptive language, matching skills and tactile discrimination.

Each generously sized plate measures approximately 15 × 11.4 × 1cm and presents a tactile surface within a wooden frame. Children can feel each texture, compare it with another and investigate which surfaces feel similar or different.

Supplied in a practical wooden storage box, Maximemo With Textures is particularly suited to nurseries, early years classrooms, Montessori-inspired environments, sensory provision and supervised learning at home.

Discover Through Touch

Touch gives children information they can't always understand by looking.

Maximemo With Textures encourages children to slow down and investigate each surface using their fingertips and hands.

They can explore questions such as:

• Does this feel smooth or rough?

• Which texture feels softer?

• Can you find another surface that feels similar?

• Which two feel most different?

• Can you recognise a texture without looking?

There is no need to rush towards a particular answer. Much of the value comes from carefully exploring and comparing the different surfaces.

16 Wooden Framed Texture Plates

The set contains 16 tactile plates, providing a substantial collection for sensory exploration.

Each texture is contained within its own wooden frame, creating an individual resource that children can pick up, hold, compare and organise.

The separate plates make it possible to create many different activities rather than restricting children to one fixed sensory board.

They can be:

• Explored individually

• Compared in pairs

• Sorted

• Matched

• Arranged into groups

• Used for descriptive-language activities

This flexibility gives the resource plenty of repeat-use potential.

Explore Different Textures

The central feature of Maximemo With Textures is the variety of tactile surfaces.

Children can move their fingers across each plate and notice how the sensation changes from one material to another.

Adults can encourage children to use different parts of their hands to investigate the surfaces.

They might:

• Stroke with a fingertip

• Use several fingers

• Move slowly across the surface

• Compare using both hands

• Return to a previous texture

These simple actions encourage careful tactile observation.

Develop Tactile Discrimination

Tactile discrimination involves noticing differences between objects and surfaces through touch.

The varied textures within Maximemo With Textures provide a practical way to explore this concept.

Children can compare two plates and decide whether they feel:

• Similar

• Different

• Rougher

• Smoother

• Softer

• Harder

As familiarity develops, children can attempt increasingly challenging matching and recognition activities.

Texture Matching Games

Turn tactile exploration into a simple matching challenge.

Let children investigate the surfaces before asking them to identify textures that match or share similar characteristics.

Rather than relying only on visual appearance, encourage them to use their fingertips to compare.

Adults can begin with obvious contrasts before introducing surfaces that require closer investigation.

Try Matching Without Looking

For an additional tactile challenge, children can attempt to identify or compare suitable plates using touch rather than sight.

An adult can present a texture for the child to explore before asking them to locate a corresponding or similar surface.

Removing visual information encourages greater attention to what the hands can actually feel.

Introduce any blindfold-style activity only when appropriate for the child and under suitable adult supervision; covering the eyes is not required to use the product.

Montessori-Inspired Sensory Exploration

Maximemo With Textures complements Montessori-inspired approaches to hands-on sensory learning.

Rather than presenting texture only as a picture or verbal concept, the resource gives children real surfaces to investigate directly.

Adults can demonstrate an activity before allowing children time to explore, repeat and compare at their own pace.

The open-ended format makes it suitable for both adult-guided activities and appropriate child-led discovery.

Build Descriptive Vocabulary

One of the most useful ways to extend tactile play is through language.

Children may initially know that two surfaces feel different without having the words to explain why.

Adults can introduce descriptive vocabulary such as:

• Smooth

• Rough

• Soft

• Hard

• Bumpy

• Flat

• Textured

• Fuzzy

• Firm

• Different

• Similar

The exact words used should reflect the genuine textures included within the supplied set.

Communication Through Sensory Play

Adults can encourage children to describe a surface before revealing which plate they are touching.

Questions might include:

• How does it feel?

• Do you like this texture?

• What does it remind you of?

• Can you find something that feels different?

• Which texture would you choose?

There is not always one correct descriptive answer. Children may experience and describe the same surface differently.

Compare and Contrast

The 16 individual plates provide plenty of opportunities for comparison.

Children can select two textures and discuss their similarities and differences.

They might decide:

• Which feels smoother

• Which feels rougher

• Which they prefer

• Which feels most unusual

• Which textures seem to belong together

Comparison encourages children to pay closer attention to individual characteristics rather than simply touching each plate briefly.

Sorting and Classification

Once children are familiar with the textures, they can begin organising the plates according to their own criteria.

They might create groups based on surfaces that feel:

• Soft

• Rough

• Smooth

• Similar

• Different

Adults can also ask children to explain why they have placed particular textures together.

This introduces early classification and reasoning through a sensory activity.

Fine Motor and Hand-Eye Coordination

Picking up, positioning and returning the individual wooden plates involves controlled hand movements.

Children can practise:

• Grasping

• Lifting

• Positioning

• Turning

• Matching

• Placing

These actions provide opportunities for fine motor control and hand-eye coordination alongside the main tactile activity.

Sensory Memory Games

Once children are familiar with the textures, adults can introduce simple memory challenges.

Allow a child to explore one surface carefully before removing it from view.

Can they remember how it felt?

Can they identify it later from a selection?

These activities encourage children to pay close attention to each texture's distinctive characteristics. 

Connect Textures with the Wider Environment

Maximemo With Textures can provide a starting point for investigating surfaces elsewhere.

After exploring a particular plate, children can search the room for another appropriate object that feels similar.

They might investigate:

• Furniture

• Fabrics

• Toys

• Natural materials

• Classroom resources

Adults should ensure all objects selected for comparison are safe and suitable to touch.

This helps connect the structured activity with textures children encounter in everyday life.

Ideal for Small-Group Activities

The 16 separate plates allow Maximemo With Textures to be shared during appropriate small-group activities.

Children can each investigate a plate before exchanging them and comparing experiences.

Group exploration creates opportunities for:

• Taking turns

• Listening

• Describing

• Comparing opinions

• Sharing resources

One child may describe a surface differently from another, creating useful opportunities for discussion.

Independent Sensory Exploration

The straightforward format also lends itself to supervised independent exploration.

Children can select plates, investigate the surfaces and decide which ones they want to compare.

No electronic mechanism, flashing light, or fixed sequence controls the activity.

The experience comes directly from the materials and the child's own exploration.

Wooden Storage Box Included

Keeping a multi-piece educational resource organised is important, particularly within busy classrooms and nurseries.

Maximemo With Textures is supplied with a wooden storage box, providing a dedicated place for the 16 texture plates when the activity has finished.

This makes it easier to keep the collection together and ready for the next session.

Children can also be encouraged to return the plates to storage after use.

Generously Sized Texture Plates

Each plate measures approximately:

15 × 11.4 × 1cm

The generous dimensions provide a substantial area for tactile investigation rather than limiting exploration to a tiny sample.

Children have enough surface space to move several fingers across the material and investigate how it feels.

Wooden Frames

Each tactile surface is presented within a wooden frame.

The wooden construction gives the individual pieces a substantial feel while clearly defining each texture as a separate element of the collection.

Wood itself also provides a contrasting tactile material around the central sensory surfaces.

Screen-Free Sensory Learning

Maximemo With Textures requires no batteries, electronics or screen.

Its learning potential comes from direct physical interaction:

Touch → Compare → Describe → Match

This simplicity makes the set particularly versatile across home and educational environments.

Ideal for Early Years and Sensory Provision

Maximemo With Textures can complement provision within:

• Nurseries

• Preschools

• Early years classrooms

• Montessori-inspired environments

• Sensory areas

• Fine motor provision

• Home learning

• Small-group activities

Adults can adapt the complexity of each activity according to the participating children.

Why Choose Maximemo With Textures?

The Maximemo With Textures set provides a focused tactile experience through 16 generously sized wooden-framed texture plates.

Rather than simply teaching children descriptive words such as rough and smooth, the resource gives them real surfaces to touch, compare and discuss.

The individual plates allow activities to progress from free sensory exploration towards matching, sorting, classification and tactile memory games.

A wooden storage box keeps the complete collection organised between sessions, making it particularly practical for classrooms and nurseries.

For parents, teachers and early years practitioners looking for a hands-on resource centred genuinely around the sense of touch, Maximemo With Textures provides an engaging foundation for tactile exploration and descriptive language.

Perfect For...

• Tactile sensory exploration

• Texture recognition

• Comparing different surfaces

• Matching activities

• Tactile discrimination

• Descriptive language

• Sensory vocabulary

• Sorting and classification

• Memory games

• Fine motor activities

• Hand-eye coordination

• Montessori-inspired learning

• Individual exploration

• Small-group activities

• Nursery and early years provision

Product Features

• Maximemo With Textures

• Tactile sensory matching and exploration resource

• 16 wooden-framed texture plates

• Wooden-framed tactile surfaces for comparison and matching

• Encourages hands-on texture exploration

• Provides opportunities to compare surfaces

• Suitable for tactile matching activities

• Encourages descriptive sensory vocabulary

• Can support sorting and classification activities

• Provides opportunities for tactile memory games

• Encourages fine motor hand activity

• Suitable for individual and small-group exploration

• Montessori-inspired hands-on learning resource

• Generously sized plates for tactile investigation

• Wooden frames

• Wooden storage box included

• No batteries required

• Suitable for home, nursery and early years environments

• Recommended for children aged 3 years +

Specifications

• Product Name: Maximemo With Textures

• Product Type: Wooden tactile sensory and texture-matching resource

• Contents: 16 wooden-framed texture plates and wooden storage box

• Number of Texture Plates: 16

• Plate Dimensions: Approx. 15 × 11.4 × 1cm each

• Materials: Wood and assorted tactile materials

• Storage: Wooden storage box included

• Batteries: Not required

• Learning Focus: Tactile sensory exploration, texture recognition, tactile discrimination, matching, sorting, descriptive language, fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination

• Recommended Age: 3 years +