Move It Motor Skills Cube – Wooden Activity Cube for Fine Motor Skills & Early Learning

Encourage hands-on discovery, fine motor development and early problem-solving with the Move It Motor Skills Cube – a colourful wooden activity centre featuring multiple play surfaces for young children to explore. With charming squirrel and hedgehog illustrations and a variety of interactive activities, this engaging motor skills toy provides different challenges within one versatile resource.

Designed to encourage children to grasp, move, manipulate and investigate, the Move It Motor Skills Cube combines tactile exploration with practical early learning. Each play area presents something different to discover, helping maintain interest while providing opportunities to practise hand-eye coordination, controlled movement and problem-solving.

A clever removable lid allows the overall height to be reduced by approximately half when required, making the Move It Motor Skills Cube particularly practical for homes, nurseries and early years settings where storage space matters.

Multiple Play Surfaces in One Activity Cube

The Move It Motor Skills Cube brings several hands-on activities together within one wooden resource.

Different play surfaces provide children with new movements and challenges to investigate as they move around the cube.

Rather than providing one repetitive activity, the multi-surface format encourages children to explore and discover what each area does.

Depending on the activity, children can practise movements such as:

• Grasping

• Holding

• Moving

• Sliding

• Manipulating

• Positioning

• Turning

• Following pathways

These varied actions make the activity cube an engaging resource for developing control of the hands and fingers.

Develop Fine Motor Skills Through Play

Fine motor skills involve the smaller, controlled movements of the hands and fingers that children use throughout everyday life.

The interactive features of the Move It Motor Skills Cube provide opportunities to practise these movements through enjoyable play.

Children can use their fingers to manipulate the different elements, experimenting with how much pressure and control is required to make them move.

Repeated exploration can encourage:

• Finger dexterity

• Grip

• Hand control

• Controlled finger movements

• Two-handed manipulation

• Precision

Rather than completing formal exercises, children practise these movements naturally while investigating the toy.

Encourages Hand-Eye Coordination

Many of the activities require children to coordinate what they see with the movement of their hands.

A child may need to visually follow a component while moving it or position their fingers carefully to achieve a particular result.

This relationship between vision and movement provides opportunities to develop hand-eye coordination through practical play.

As children become more familiar with the activity cube, their movements may become increasingly deliberate and controlled.

Supports Gross Motor Movement

The Move It Motor Skills Cube isn't limited to movements of the fingers.

Its larger activity-centre format can encourage children to reposition themselves as they investigate the different sides.

They may reach across the cube, move around it or change their body position to access another activity.

This provides opportunities for larger physical movements alongside the more precise fine motor challenges.

Colourful Squirrel and Hedgehog Theme

Friendly squirrel and hedgehog illustrations give the Move It Motor Skills Cube a charming woodland character.

The colourful animal theme provides an engaging visual backdrop without restricting how children interact with the activities.

Adults can extend the woodland theme by introducing vocabulary relating to:

• Squirrels

• Hedgehogs

• Woodland

• Trees

• Animals

• Nature

• Colours

This connects physical exploration with communication and imaginative conversation.

Encourages Early Problem-Solving

Interactive activity toys naturally create small problems for children to solve.

A component may need moving in a particular direction, an obstacle might require navigating or a child may need to change their approach when the first attempt doesn't produce the expected result.

These moments encourage a simple process of:

Try → observe → adjust → try again.

This practical trial-and-error approach allows children to investigate solutions independently.

Adults can provide support where required without immediately completing the activity for the child.

Learning Through Cause and Effect

The different interactive elements also provide opportunities to investigate cause and effect.

Children can discover that moving, turning or manipulating a component creates a predictable result.

Repeating an action allows them to test whether the same thing happens again.

These simple discoveries encourage curiosity and help children understand how their physical actions can influence objects around them.

Develops Concentration Through Hands-On Exploration

Each activity provides children with a clear physical focus.

They can investigate one element before moving to another, returning to favourite activities as often as they choose.

The hands-on nature of the Move It Motor Skills Cube encourages children to actively participate rather than simply observe.

Because several activities are available within the same resource, children can move between different challenges while continuing to explore the cube.

Supports Early Language Development

The Move It Motor Skills Cube provides plenty of opportunities for adults to introduce descriptive and positional language during play.

Useful vocabulary might include:

• Up

• Down

• Around

• Through

• Along

• Turn

• Move

• Push

• Pull

• Fast

• Slow

• Colour

• Animal

Adults can describe what is happening or ask simple open questions such as, “Where will that go?” or “What happens if you move it this way?”

This connects physical activity with communication without turning the play into a formal language exercise.

Woodland-Themed Imaginative Play

The squirrel and hedgehog designs can also inspire simple imaginative stories.

Children might imagine the animals travelling through the woodland, looking for food or visiting one another.

The activity cube can complement suitable woodland-themed books, songs and learning topics, giving early years practitioners another way to connect physical play with broader classroom themes.

Additional accessories are not included unless specifically stated.

Encourages Independent Exploration

There is no requirement for every child to interact with the Move It Motor Skills Cube in exactly the same sequence.

Children can select the activity that interests them and explore it at their own pace.

One child may repeatedly return to a favourite moving component, while another may want to investigate every side.

This flexibility supports child-led exploration while adults remain available to demonstrate features or introduce additional challenges where appropriate.

Shared Play and Communication

The activity cube can also provide a shared focus for children playing alongside one another.

Where the layout and individual activities allow, children may investigate different areas at the same time or take turns with favourite features.

Shared play can encourage:

• Turn-taking

• Watching others

• Communication

• Sharing ideas

• Cooperative exploration

Adults can help children manage shared use according to their age and stage of development.

Removable Lid for Flexible Play

A particularly practical feature of the Move It Motor Skills Cube is its removable lid.

The upper section can be removed when required, reducing the overall height of the resource by approximately half.

This provides additional flexibility when adapting the activity to the available space or preparing the cube for storage.

Always follow the manufacturer's instructions when removing or repositioning components.

Compact Storage

Large activity centres can sometimes be difficult to accommodate when they aren't being used.

The removable-lid design helps address this by allowing the Move It Motor Skills Cube to become significantly more compact.

This makes it particularly useful for:

• Homes with limited play space

• Nurseries

• Childminders

• Classrooms

• Shared activity areas

• Settings where resources are rotated regularly

The cube can provide a substantial play experience without necessarily requiring its full assembled height during storage.

Durable Wooden Construction

The Move It Motor Skills Cube is made from quality wood, providing the substantial tactile feel associated with traditional wooden early years toys.

The wooden construction makes the resource particularly well suited to playrooms and learning environments where wooden educational toys form part of the wider provision.

The colourful illustrations add visual interest while retaining the character of the wooden resource.

A Screen-Free Early Learning Activity

The Move It Motor Skills Cube requires no digital screen or electronic entertainment.

Its play value comes from physical interaction.

Children discover what happens by touching, moving and experimenting with the different activities themselves.

This makes it an engaging screen-free option for everyday play and early learning environments.

Ideal for Early Years Learning

The combination of motor activities, problem-solving and woodland imagery makes the Move It Motor Skills Cube suitable for a range of early learning environments.

It can complement provision within:

• Nurseries

• Preschools

• Early years classrooms

• Childminding settings

• Home learning spaces

• Playrooms

• Fine motor activity areas

Practitioners can allow free exploration or introduce particular activities according to current learning objectives.

A Versatile Home Learning Resource

At home, the Move It Motor Skills Cube provides several activities without requiring multiple separate toys to be set up.

Parents and carers can allow children to explore independently or sit alongside them and talk about the movements, colours and animals they discover.

As children's confidence develops, adults can introduce new vocabulary or encourage them to investigate alternative ways of completing an activity.

Why Choose the Move It Motor Skills Cube?

The Move It Motor Skills Cube combines multiple interactive play surfaces, colourful woodland characters and a practical removable-lid design within one engaging wooden activity centre.

Children can explore different hand movements, practise coordination and encounter simple problems to solve while moving between the various activities.

For adults, the removable top provides an important practical advantage by reducing the unit's height for easier storage.

For parents, teachers and early years practitioners seeking a versatile wooden activity resource, it provides opportunities for fine motor development, hand-eye coordination, problem-solving, language and child-led exploration through play.

Perfect For...

• Fine motor skill development

• Hand-eye coordination

• Finger dexterity

• Grasping and manipulation

• Early problem-solving

• Cause-and-effect exploration

• Woodland and animal topics

• Communication and language

• Independent exploration

• Shared early years play

• Screen-free activities

• Nursery and preschool provision

• Home learning and playrooms

Product Features

• Move It Motor Skills Cube

• Multifunctional wooden activity cube

• Multiple interactive play surfaces

• Provides varied hands-on motor challenges

• Colourful squirrel and hedgehog designs

• Encourages fine motor skill development

• Supports hand-eye coordination

• Encourages grasping and controlled manipulation

• Provides opportunities for gross motor movement

• Encourages early problem-solving

• Supports cause-and-effect exploration

• Creates opportunities for descriptive and positional language

• Suitable for independent and shared exploration

• Removable lid

• Removing the lid reduces the overall height by approximately half

• Compact design for easier storage and transportation

• Durable wooden construction

• No batteries required

• Ideal for homes, nurseries and early years environments

Specifications

• Product Name: Move It Motor Skills Cube

• Brand: Sensory Education

• Product Code: M39-LG10459

• Product Type: Wooden motor skills and early learning activity toy

• Material: Wood

• Design: Colourful squirrel and hedgehog woodland theme

• Play Surfaces: Multiple interactive activity areas

• Storage Feature: Removable lid reduces overall height by approximately half

• Learning Focus: Fine motor skills, gross motor movement, hand-eye coordination, problem-solving, cause and effect, language, imaginative exploration and learning through play

• Suitable Settings: Home, nursery, preschool and early years learning environments