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Loose parts play gives 5 and 6 year olds open-ended materials to build, count and invent with, deepening creativity and problem-solving at school age.
Grapat Bakes – Fresh from the oven! These hand-painted wooden breads and cookies are ready to fill little kitchens with delicious pretend smells an...
View full detailsGrapat Veggies – Time to harvest some fun—what will you make? These hand-painted wooden vegetables bring the garden’s freshest harvest straight to ...
View full detailsThe Grapat set of 12 rainbow coloured wooden mates is a beautiful open ended toy and a tactile tool with which to discover experience and explore t...
View full detailsThe Grapat Mandala Little Coin set is a superbly versatile, open ended, loose parts wooden toy and the possibilities of use are so exciting! Desig...
View full detailsLet’s take flight with our vibrant pink bird! With its stunning pink feathers and bright, playful wings, this little flier is ready to spin and rol...
View full detailsThis set contains 6 different tools, each in a unique size, shape and colour. They are a great addition to all kind of sensory play. They can be co...
View full detailsGrapat’s natural Nins are beautifully simple, three wooden figures made from 3 different types of trees, Beech, Oak and Sapeli, reflecting the beau...
View full detailsHold the warmth of the sun in your hands. This Mandala Bundle is a colorful assortment of wooden mandalas in variousshapes and shades, glowing with...
View full detailsSay hello to the vibrant orange bird, the most energetic of the bunch! With its bold orange feathers and fun wings, this bird loves to spin, roll, ...
View full detailsThe Grapat 7 moons Weekly Calendar helps children to experience the weekly cyclic rhythm. Children will associate each day with a colour, allowing ...
View full details100 Acrylic glitter stones, freely sorted. For decorating the Birthday table or nature table, building block castles and palasts and it is a real...
View full detailsThe Animal Crew by Grapat. Roar like a lion, chirp like a bird, or stomplike a bear! These human-shaped figures, dressed as animals, spark curiosit...
View full detailsThe Grimm’s wooden Building Rings enable endless building and stacking possibilities and are a wonderful addition to your loose parts play collec...
View full details36 pieces of mandala mushrooms in 12 different colours (3 units per colour) Learn more about Grapat through Grapat-Just Loose Parts? Recommended ag...
View full detailsGrapat Little Things (6 Colours) This collection is beautifully handcrafted from solid wood. These open ended wooden pieces are made with love and ...
View full detailsThe Grapat 24 Wooden Nest Bowls come in four different sizes and in 6 colours. Each of the 6 rainbow colour bowl sets contains 4 bowls in a gradien...
View full detailsEach set is made up of 4 different shaped elements that provide a perfect first loose parts set, allowing children to explore: in and out, over, un...
View full detailsThese Six Grapat wooden Bowls in six beautiful soft rainbow colours, invite children to experience and learn through play. Open ended toys allow ch...
View full detailsGrimm’s 5 Math Friends in a wooden frame (+ – : x =) are a fun, tactile tool to assist in the learning of the maths processes. Each hand-painted ...
View full detailsThese wooden buttons in rainbow colours are ideal for threading bracelets and necklaces and can be used in combination with other loose parts fo...
View full detailsGrimm’s Giant Acrylic Glitter Stones – 28 large glitter stones. A treasure to be treasured. Turns any building into Aladdin’s cave with glitter s...
View full detailsThis set of wooden bowls and acorns from Grapat in rainbow colours, compels children to sort and collate. The activity of moving these small acorn...
View full detailsThe Nin’s Carla is a 120 piece wooden loose part set of Nins, Rings and Coins. This is a stunning set in graduated rainbow colours giving enormous ...
View full detailsA sweet collection of new friends all wearing a fancy hat! These hats and bodies are interchangeable, allowing new combinations of individuals in t...
View full detailsAt school age, loose parts play becomes complex and creative — children combine open-ended pieces to build machines, mandalas, small worlds and inventions of their own design. Five and six year olds bring real planning and storytelling to loose parts, using them in endlessly different ways.
With no fixed outcome, loose parts stretch creativity, problem-solving, early maths and design thinking as five and six year olds sort, pattern and build. The open-endedness keeps them challenging, and combining pieces in new ways supports the flexible, inventive thinking school rewards.
School-age children enjoy a rich, varied mix — rings, coins, gems, tiles, natural pieces and small figures they can sort, pattern and build with. Smaller, more detailed pieces are fine now, and pairing loose parts with blocks or a doll house extends the play.
Offer a varied, well-sorted selection in open trays or jars, plus a mat or tray to work on, and let your child lead. Adding a loose theme — build a machine, make a pattern — can spark ideas, but the best play comes from their own inventions.
Yes — building, balancing and patterning with loose parts develops spatial reasoning, early engineering and design thinking, while inventing uses builds divergent, creative problem-solving. For five and six year olds, loose parts are open-ended STEM and art rolled into one.
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