Discover Early Maths Through Nature-Inspired Play
Encourage counting, sorting and imaginative exploration with the beautiful Flower Stones and Bowls set. Featuring colourful flower-shaped stones and matching bowls, this engaging resource helps children develop early mathematical understanding through hands-on, sensory-rich play.
Perfect for nurseries, preschools, outdoor learning environments and home education, the flowers and bowls can be used for counting, colour matching, pattern making, threading activities, sand play and water investigations. With endless open-ended possibilities, children can learn essential maths skills while enjoying creative and imaginative play.
Features
- Includes 16 flower stones and 4 matching flower bowls in vibrant colours
- Supports early counting, subitising and number recognition skills
- Flower designs feature 3, 4, 5 and 6 petals for exploring quantity and number concepts
- Encourages colour sorting and matching activities
- Ideal for creating and extending repeating patterns
- Suitable for sand, water and outdoor sensory play
- Floating bowls encourage investigations into buoyancy and capacity
- Flowers can be threaded onto twine or sticks to develop fine motor skills
- Inspires imaginative play, from mud kitchens to fairy small world scenes
- Durable stone-mix construction designed for long-lasting use
Specifications
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Contents: 16 flower stones and 4 flower bowls
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Colours: Blue, Green, Red and Yellow
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Flower Size: 50 mm
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Bowl Size: 50 x 100 mm
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Material: Durable stone mix
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Age Range: Suitable for children aged 2+
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Suitable For: Indoor, outdoor, sand and water play
Benefits for All Learners
Supports Early Maths Development
Children naturally explore counting, sorting, matching, comparing quantities and subitising as they interact with the flowers and bowls, building strong foundations for future mathematical learning.
Encourages Pattern Recognition
Creating repeating patterns using colours, shapes and petal numbers helps children identify mathematical relationships and develop critical thinking skills.
Develops Fine Motor Skills
Threading the flowers onto twine, sticks or natural materials strengthens hand muscles, coordination and dexterity through purposeful play.
Sensory-Rich Learning
The tactile stone surfaces, bright colours and water-play opportunities create engaging multi-sensory experiences that support different learning styles.
Inspires Open-Ended Imaginative Play
The versatile design encourages creativity, allowing the bowls to become fairy homes, boats, treasure containers or ingredients in a mud kitchen adventure.
Activity Ideas
- Sort flowers by colour and place them into matching bowls.
- Count petals and group flowers with the same number of petals together.
- Match flowers to corresponding numerals or number resources.
- Create simple and complex repeating patterns using colours and shapes.
- Practise subitising by identifying quantities without counting.
- Explore concepts such as more, less, one more and one fewer.
- Thread flowers onto twine or sticks to create colourful garlands and patterns.
- Float the bowls in water and investigate filling, pouring, capacity and buoyancy.
Why Buy from Learning SPACE?
The Flower Stones and Bowls set combines sensory exploration, fine motor development and early maths learning in one beautifully designed resource. Ideal for indoor and outdoor play, it offers endless opportunities for children to learn through discovery and imagination. Trusted by schools and parents, Expert advice available, Fast UK & Ireland delivery for peace of mind.
