Status: I (In library)

Age range: 4 + years

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Description: This set of plastic, construction sticks is excellent for open ended construction activities. These loose parts encourage creative building and design. The set of construction sticks contains 108 shapes, 300 sticks, 40 swivels and 12 wheels in 6 assorted colours, all packed in a plastic bag. Suitable for children from the age of 3 years. Construction resources help to promote a variety of cognitive and physical skills. Construction and manipulative resources can help to promote both fine motor and gross motor development. They encourage problem solving and logical thinking to solve issues such as balancing blocks, where the next piece goes and how to make the structure that they want to build. Team work is also a key feature in the use of construction resources. Children can work together to design and build intricate and thoughtful structures using their creativity, imagination and logical thinking. Social, communication and language skills are all improved through playing with construction resources. Children build perseverance as they build their constructions. Play encourages creativity, imagination, perseverance and the development of language and social skills. Children become more confident and develop a stronger sense of identity through play.

Pieces

Total number of pieces: 468

Number of unique pieces: 61

• 1 Large gray cloth storage bag
• 3 Green medium circles (1 currently missing)
• 3 Blue medium circles
• 3 Yellow medium circles
• 3 Black medium circles
• 3 Red medium circles
• 3 White medium circles
• 3 Blue small circles
• 3 Green small circles
• 3 Black small circles
• 3 Red small circles
• 3 Yellow small circles
• 3 White small circles
• 2 Red big circles
• 2 Blue big circles
• 2 Purple big circles
• 3 Green big circles
• 3 Yellow big circles
• 50 Green sticks
• 50 Blue sticks
• 50 Black sticks
• 50 White sticks
• 50 Yellow sticks
• 50 Red sticks
• 40 Small orange sticks
• 2 Blue hexagons
• 2 Green hexagons
• 2 Red hexagons
• 3 Purple hexagons
• 3 Yellow hexagons
• 2 Purple triangles
• 2 Blue triangles
• 2 Green triangles
• 3 Yellow triangles (1 currently missing)
• 3 Red triangles (1 currently missing)
• 2 Purple squares
• 2 Yellow squares
• 3 Blue squares
• 3 Red squares
• 3 Green squares (1 currently missing)
• 4 Red wriggly circles
• 4 Yellow wriggly circles
• 5 Blue wriggly circles
• 5 Green wriggly circles
• 1 Red cart wheels
• 2 Green cart wheels
• 2 Blue cart wheels
• 2 Yellow cart wheels
• 2 White cart wheels
• 3 Black cart wheels
• 1 Black cart wheel with central hub
• 1 White cart wheel with central hub
• 1 Green cart wheel with central hub
• 1 Yellow cart wheel with central hub
• 2 Red cart wheel with central hub
• 1 Blue small cart wheel with central hub
• 1 Red small cart wheel with central hub
• 1 Green small cart wheel with central hub
• 1 Black small cart wheel with central hub
• 1 Yellow small cart wheel with central hub
• 1 White small cart wheel with central hub