{"title":"Wooden Toys \u0026 Games","description":"\u003ch3\u003eGames and teaching materials, not toys in general\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEverything in this collection is made by Igroteco, a Ukrainian manufacturer working in solid wood – painted with water-based colour or left bare. The range splits into two halves that behave quite differently, and it is worth knowing which you are looking at.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne half is games: dominoes, mahjong, sudoku, a balancing tower. The other is teaching material – Cuisenaire rods, Dienes logic blocks, an abacus, counting sets. The second group looks like toys and is not; it is what primary classrooms have used for seventy years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat are Cuisenaire rods and Dienes blocks?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo of these are not generic products. The counting rods are the Cuisenaire system, devised by the Belgian teacher Georges Cuisenaire and in classroom use since the 1950s: fifty-six rods in graded lengths, each length its own colour, so that number relationships can be handled before they are named.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe logic blocks are Dienes blocks, from the Hungarian mathematician Zoltán Dienes: forty-eight shapes varying in form, colour, size and thickness, no two alike. Sorting them is set theory before anyone calls it that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf a teacher has asked for either by name, this is what they meant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy wood rather than plastic?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWeight, mostly. A plastic counting rod slides when a child lays another beside it; a wooden one stays put, and lining pieces up accurately is the exercise. A plastic block tower falls under its own lightness. Wooden tiles stack; card ones bend.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe pieces are also untreated or finished in water-based paint, with no varnish, which matters at the age when things go in mouths.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhich set for which age?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe range runs from two to fourteen, and the markings mean something. At two the sets are large solid blocks and an abacus with 3 cm beads. At three the task cards appear and the sets become exercises with a right answer. At fourteen there is one product, the balance tower, and that is a family game rather than a child's one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEach product page carries its own age and the number of pieces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat are the task cards for?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMost sets here come with ten double-sided cards and twenty graded tasks. That is what separates them from a bag of blocks: the same pieces work as free play and as structured work, and the cards give a parent something to do with the set rather than leaving it on the floor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe tasks progress rather than repeating. A set bought at three is still being used at six.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat are they made of?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSolid wood, water-based paint where there is colour, and an instruction booklet in every set. Made in Ukraine. Nothing here needs batteries, and nothing makes a noise.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"mosaique-en-bois-triangles-64-pieces","title":"TRIANGLES Wooden Mosaic, 64 pieces","description":"\u003ch3\u003eSixty-four triangles, thirty pictures\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eColoured wooden triangles of a single shape and size, in eight colours. Laid edge to edge they build fixed pictures – a fox, a tree, a bird – following cards, or anything at all without them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne shape is the constraint that makes it work. A child is not choosing between pieces, only deciding where the next one goes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere it leads\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe cards start with outlines to fill and progress to pictures shown complete, which the child must reconstruct without a guide underneath. That second stage is the one that teaches: reading a shape and rebuilding it from parts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTen cards, thirty tasks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat it is\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSixty-four triangles, ten cards, thirty tasks, 450 g in a 21 × 17 × 6 cm box. Water-based paint on solid wood. Its sibling in the mosaic pair is the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/wooden-balancing-mosaics-rainbow-arches-24-pieces\"\u003eRainbow Arches\u003c\/a\u003e, which adds balancing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Igroteco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256694096003,"sku":"900194","price":17.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/razvivayuschaya-treugolnaya-mozaika-iz-dereva-dlya-detej-900194-igroteco-74-detali88-800x800-1.jpg?v=1780866760"},{"product_id":"30-blocs-en-bois","title":"30 Wooden Blocks","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThirty shapes and twenty pictures\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThirty flat wooden shapes in bold flat colour – circles, semicircles, triangles – for building stylised pictures. The cards show a ladybird, a parrot, a dog, each assembled from a handful of the same shapes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe style is deliberately graphic rather than realistic, which is what makes a two-shape bird recognisable as a bird.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eBuilding without a grid\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUnlike our \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/triangles-wooden-mosaic-64-pieces\"\u003etriangle mosaic\u003c\/a\u003e, the pieces do not tessellate. They are laid loosely on a surface to suggest a shape rather than fitted together, so there is no correct fit and no way to be wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat makes it the least frustrating set in this range and the one to start a young child on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat it is\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThirty pieces, ten cards, twenty tasks, 300 g in a 21 × 17 × 6 cm box.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Igroteco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256694128771,"sku":"900071","price":13.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/razvivayuschaya-figurnaya-mozaika-iz-dereva-dlya-detej-900071-igroteco-50-detalej5-800x800-1.jpg?v=1780866761"},{"product_id":"blocs-logiques-de-dienes-48-pieces","title":"Dienes Logic Blocks, 48 pieces","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDienes blocks, the full set\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eForty-eight wooden shapes varying in four properties: form, colour, size and thickness. It is a standard teaching material devised by the Hungarian mathematician Zoltán Dienes, used to teach classification and set logic before either is named.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe point is that no two pieces are identical and every piece differs from every other in a countable number of ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat you do with them\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSort by one property, then by two. Find the piece that differs from another in exactly one respect. Build a sequence where each item changes one thing from the last. Ten cards and twenty graded tasks cover this progression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe exercises look trivial and are the foundation of set theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat it is\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eForty-eight shapes, ten cards, twenty tasks of varying difficulty, 800 g in a 28 × 18 × 7 cm box.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Igroteco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256694194307,"sku":"900408","price":28.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/razvivayuschaya-igra-logicheskie-bloki-denesha-900408-igroteco-68-detalej8-800x800-1.jpg?v=1780866762"},{"product_id":"reglettes-de-calcul-en-bois-methode-cuisenaire-56-pieces","title":"Wooden Counting Rods, Cuisenaire Method, 56 pieces","description":"\u003ch3\u003eCounting rods, the Cuisenaire way\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFifty-six rods in graded lengths from one to ten centimetres, each length its own colour – twenty single-centimetre cubes at one end, a pair of ten-centimetre rods at the other. The set follows the method of the Belgian teacher Georges Cuisenaire, used in primary classrooms since the 1950s; the colours are Igroteco's own rather than the classic scheme.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe principle is that a child handles number relationships before naming them. Two pink two-rods laid end to end are the same length as one red four-rod, and that is what four equals two plus two looks like when you can hold it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat comes with them\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTen double-sided cards and twenty logic tasks, which take the set from free play into structured work: matching lengths, building equivalences, finding all the ways to make a given number.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe tasks cover addition, subtraction, fractions, multiplication and division depending on how far the child has got.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy wood rather than plastic\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWeight. A plastic rod slides when a child lays another beside it; a wooden one stays put, and lining rods up accurately is the whole exercise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat it is\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFifty-six rods, ten cards, twenty tasks, 300 g in a 23 × 17 × 4 cm box.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Igroteco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256694227075,"sku":"900385","price":13.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/palochki-kyuizenera-razvivayuschij-nabor-dlya-schyota-900385-igroteco-66-detalej-800x800-1.jpg?v=1780866763"},{"product_id":"boulier-en-bois-3-5","title":"Wooden Abacus 3×5","description":"\u003ch3\u003eFifteen beads on three rods\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA frame with three horizontal rods, five beads on each – the 3×5 of the name – one rod red, one yellow, one blue. Beads slide from one side to the other, and that is the whole mechanism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe abacus is one of the oldest counting tools still in use, and nothing has replaced what it does for a small child: it turns a number into something you can move with your hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy physical counting comes first\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA child learns that five is five by moving five things, not by seeing the symbol. Beads on a rod make quantity visible and reversible – push three across, push one back, and the difference is in front of them rather than in their head.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMarked from two, which is when counting aloud usually starts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat it is\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrame and fifteen painted beads of 3 cm diameter, weighing 300 g in a 21 × 17 × 6 cm box. The beads are large enough not to be a hazard and heavy enough to stay where they are put.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Igroteco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256694292611,"sku":"900132","price":15.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/8818\/8035\/files\/bf2bcf48-6653-4608-8a2d-074b2c11f9e4_jpg.png?v=1780866765"},{"product_id":"set-de-jeu-panneaux-routiers-18-pieces","title":"Road Signs Play Set, 18 pieces","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThirteen signs, two cars and three roads\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWooden road signs on stands – no entry, give way, pedestrian crossing, roadworks, and a fuel station promising petrol in 800 metres – with two small wooden cars and three printed card roads that lay out to a playing area of 180 × 42 cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe signs are the real ones rather than invented shapes, which is the point: a child learns the actual symbols they will see from a car window.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow the roads change it\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWithout them the signs are objects. 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