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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.
Say 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 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 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 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 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 detailsGrimm’s Seven Friends in Seven Bowls are great for sorting and matching and the perfect size for small hands. Each hand-painted peg doll is uniqu...
View full detailsGrimm’s 12 Rainbow Friends are colourful wooden peg dolls, perfect and safe for small hands. they are great in combination with the Grimm’s bus, ...
View full details15 surprise sets bursting with joy, each tucked inside its own blind box — made to be collected, shared, swapped, traded… or anything else you drea...
View full details15 surprise sets full of joy, offered in separate blind-boxes with the aim to be collected, shared, swapped, traded and anything in between. Unlock...
View full detailsThe Grapat wooden Insects are small wooden elements with an undefined shape, allowing children the space to imagine small creatures and animals as ...
View full detailsThe Grapat 12 coloured rings are a lovely addition to the Grapat Perpetual Calendar, they colour match the calendar Nins and allow marking the curr...
View full detailsThe Grapat Seasons Sprint Set is made up of 4 different shaped elements that provide a perfect first loose parts set, allowing children to explore:...
View full detailsStore your valued play things, sort items into groups, set up a market stall for trading our wares – how many ways can your child integrate this ‘p...
View full detailsGrapat 18 wooden coins provide inspiration for young children to sort, count and stack. Add to or start a collection of loose parts to provide insp...
View full detailsThese Six Natural Grapat wooden Bowls, invite children to experience and learn through play. Open ended toys allow children to use their imaginatio...
View full detailsGrimm’s wooden coins in pastel colours are a fabulous addition to the Grimm’s pastel range. These versatile construction pieces can be used with...
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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