Grapat Perpetual Calendar with Nins

The set includes one natural beech bowl, two natural beech cubes printed with the numbers of the days, and a platform divided into four sections that mark the seasons and are stamped with the months of the year. It also comes with twelve Nins.

There are twelve Nins in twelve colours, chosen to follow Waldorf pedagogy. Each Nin represents a month and helps show its season, so the child can move the little figures around the platform as the year turns.

It is a hands-on, active calendar. The child sets the day using the two numbered cubes, places the matching Nin on the seasons platform, and follows the months around the year. Handling the pieces helps children feel the passage of time rather than just read it.

Grapat recommends this calendar for ages 3 years and over. At this age children are beginning to understand days, months and seasons, and the tactile pieces make those ideas concrete through daily handling and repetition.

The bowl and cubes are natural beech, and the wider set uses mostly beech and birch sourced locally from sustainable forests. Grapat finishes its toys with water-based, non-toxic dyes and vegetable oils, and packs them in eco-friendly materials.

Yes. It is a perpetual calendar, so there is nothing to replace or reprint. The same bowl, cubes, platform and Nins are reset each day and reused every month and year, making it a lasting part of a daily routine.

The twelve coloured Nins belong to the wider Grapat family, so they can join other figures in small world and storytelling play away from the calendar. You can explore more figures and bowls in the /collections/grapat-nins-bowls collection.