TickiT® Rainbow Wooden Shape Stacker – Wooden Shape Sorting & Stacking Toy

Introduce little learners to a world of shapes, colours and creative possibilities with the TickiT® Rainbow Wooden Shape Stacker. Beautifully crafted from smooth solid beechwood, this colourful early years learning toy combines shape sorting, stacking, matching and imaginative play within one engaging wooden resource.

Featuring seven rainbow-coloured wooden panels and 12 chunky wooden shapes, children can investigate how different shapes fit into their matching spaces, arrange the panels into a colourful rainbow tower or use the individual pieces for open-ended creative activities.

Suitable from 12 months, the TickiT® Rainbow Wooden Shape Stacker provides a tactile, hands-on introduction to early shape and colour recognition while encouraging fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination and problem-solving through play.

Discover Seven Colours of the Rainbow

The seven beautifully coloured wooden panels represent the colours of the rainbow:

• Red

• Orange

• Yellow

• Green

• Blue

• Indigo

• Violet

The gradual sequence of colours creates an attractive visual resource that can help introduce young children to colour recognition, matching and sequencing.

Adults can encourage children to name individual colours, find matching objects around the room or arrange the panels in different colour combinations.

12 Chunky Wooden Shapes to Explore

Hidden within the colourful panels are 12 different wooden shapes, providing much more variety than a conventional circle, square and triangle shape sorter.

The shapes include:

• Cross

• Hexagon

• Crown

• Flower

• Semicircle

• Star

• Mushroom

• Heart

• Square

• Rectangle

• Circle

• Triangle

The combination of familiar geometric shapes and more imaginative designs provides plenty to investigate.

Children can identify, compare and sort the pieces while becoming familiar with similarities and differences between shapes.

Match Shapes to Their Cut-Outs

Each chunky wooden shape corresponds with a matching cut-out within the panels.

Children can select a piece, examine its outline and investigate where it belongs. If the first attempt doesn't work, they can turn the shape, try another position or choose a different opening.

This simple trial-and-error process introduces early problem-solving naturally through play.

The satisfaction of finding the correct position provides an immediate result and encourages children to continue exploring.

Build a Rainbow-Shaped Tower

The TickiT® Rainbow Wooden Shape Stacker isn't limited to traditional shape sorting.

Children can stack the seven wooden panels to create an impressive rainbow-shaped tower, introducing another dimension to the play experience.

Stacking encourages children to investigate:

• Size

• Position

• Balance

• Order

• Spatial relationships

Children can follow the traditional rainbow sequence or experiment with their own arrangements.

Supports Fine Motor Development

Picking up and positioning the chunky wooden pieces requires controlled movements of the fingers and hands.

As children grasp, turn, place and remove the shapes, they can practise:

• Fine motor control

• Finger dexterity

• Hand-eye coordination

• Grip

• Controlled placement

• Two-handed manipulation

The chunky dimensions are particularly suitable for younger children who are still developing confidence when handling smaller objects.

Encourages Early Problem-Solving

Shape sorting provides an accessible introduction to logical thinking.

Children need to consider questions such as:

• Which opening matches this shape?

• Does the piece need turning?

• Which pieces look similar?

• Which panel should come next?

• How can the panels be stacked?

Rather than being given the answer, children can experiment and discover solutions through practical exploration.

Learn Through Touch

Made from smooth solid beechwood, the TickiT® Rainbow Wooden Shape Stacker provides a naturally tactile experience.

Children can feel the smooth wooden surfaces, trace the outlines of the shapes and investigate the different edges, curves and corners.

This hands-on exploration helps connect the visual appearance of a shape with its physical characteristics.

For example, children can feel the difference between the curved edge of a circle and the straight sides and corners of a square.

Use the Shapes as Drawing Stencils

The creative possibilities continue beyond stacking and sorting.

The individual shapes can be used as templates for drawing and mark-making activities.

Children can place a shape onto paper and trace around its edge to create:

• Stars

• Hearts

• Flowers

• Geometric patterns

• Creative pictures

Older children can combine several outlines to create their own artwork and designs.

This extends the usefulness of the resource into early mark making and creative activities.

Explore Shapes with Playdough

The wooden panels can also be incorporated into suitable supervised playdough activities.

Children can press the shapes or panel outlines into modelling dough and investigate the impressions they create.

This adds another tactile dimension while helping children recognise the relationship between a three-dimensional object and the shape or pattern it leaves behind.

Combining wooden resources with modelling materials can create a particularly engaging sensory and creative activity.

Introduces Early Mathematical Language

The TickiT® Rainbow Wooden Shape Stacker provides natural opportunities to introduce early mathematical vocabulary.

Adults can use words such as:

• Circle

• Square

• Rectangle

• Triangle

• Hexagon

• Semicircle

• Curved

• Straight

• Corner

• Side

• Above

• Below

• Inside

• Outside

• Bigger

• Smaller

Children begin encountering mathematical concepts through practical play long before formal maths lessons begin.

Encourages Colour Sorting and Matching

The rainbow panels provide opportunities for additional sorting activities.

Children can identify colours, arrange them into rainbow order or find other objects within their environment that match each panel.

Simple questions such as “Can you find something else that is red?” or “Which colour comes after green?” can extend the learning experience.

Open-Ended Creative Play

Although the TickiT® Rainbow Wooden Shape Stacker provides clear shape-matching activities, children aren't restricted to using it in one particular way.

The pieces can become:

• Pretend food

• Decorations

• Small-world objects

• Pattern-making resources

• Building components

• Drawing templates

• Playdough tools

Open-ended possibilities help extend the play value as children's interests and abilities develop.

Ideal for Home and Early Years Settings

The combination of tactile wooden construction, bright colours and multiple play possibilities makes the TickiT® Rainbow Wooden Shape Stacker particularly suitable for:

• Home learning

• Nurseries

• Toddler rooms

• Early years settings

• Childminders

• Playrooms

• Montessori-inspired environments

• Sensory and creative activities

The attractive design also allows the set to remain accessible on an open shelf where children can independently select it for play.

Solid Beechwood Construction

The TickiT® Rainbow Wooden Shape Stacker is crafted from smooth, solid beechwood with a natural woodgrain finish.

The substantial wooden pieces provide a satisfying tactile quality while creating an attractive resource suitable for regular early years play.

The combination of natural wood and vibrant rainbow colours gives the set a distinctive appearance that works particularly well within contemporary learning and play environments.

A Learning Toy That Offers More Than Shape Sorting

Traditional shape sorters often provide one main activity: putting a shape into its matching hole.

The TickiT® Rainbow Wooden Shape Stacker expands on this concept by providing opportunities for:

• Shape recognition

• Colour recognition

• Sorting

• Matching

• Stacking

• Sequencing

• Pattern making

• Drawing

• Playdough exploration

• Imaginative play

This variety allows the resource to be used in different ways as a child's confidence and abilities develop.

Why Choose the TickiT® Rainbow Wooden Shape Stacker?

The TickiT® Rainbow Wooden Shape Stacker brings together beautiful wooden construction, vibrant colours and genuinely versatile early learning activities.

Younger children can begin by handling the chunky pieces and exploring the colours. As their skills develop, they can progress towards matching shapes, stacking the panels and creating patterns.

Later, the same pieces can be incorporated into drawing, modelling and imaginative activities.

This progression makes it an engaging resource with plenty of opportunities for continued exploration.

Perfect For...

• Shape recognition

• Colour recognition

• Shape sorting and matching

• Fine motor development

• Hand-eye coordination

• Early problem-solving

• Stacking and balancing

• Rainbow sequencing

• Early mathematical exploration

• Drawing and tracing

• Playdough activities

• Creative open-ended play

• Home and nursery learning

Product Features

• TickiT® Rainbow Wooden Shape Stacker

• Colourful wooden shape sorting and stacking toy

• Includes 7 rainbow-coloured wooden panels

• Includes 12 chunky wooden shapes

• Seven colours: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet

• Shapes include cross, hexagon, crown, flower, semicircle, star, mushroom, heart, square, rectangle, circle and triangle

• Shapes fit into corresponding cut-outs

• Panels can be stacked to create a rainbow tower

• Encourages shape and colour recognition

• Supports fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination

• Encourages early problem-solving and logical thinking

• Introduces early mathematical language

• Shapes can be used for drawing and tracing

• Can be incorporated into suitable playdough activities

• Encourages creative and open-ended play

• Crafted from smooth solid beechwood

• Natural woodgrain finish

• Suitable for home, nursery and early years environments

• Suitable from 12 months

Specifications

• Product Name: TickiT® Rainbow Wooden Shape Stacker

• Brand: TickiT®

• Contents: 7 rainbow wooden panels and 12 chunky wooden shapes

• Number of Pieces: 19

• Stacked Dimensions: H 9.2 × W 12.3 × L 12.3cm

• Material: Solid beechwood

• Colours: Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet

• Learning Focus: Shape recognition, colour recognition, fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, problem-solving, stacking, spatial awareness, early maths and creative play

• Recommended Age: 12 months +