Bou ‘n Woord

Children love playing with colourful shapes and enjoy creative activities. Our Pattern Blocks Shape Activities set is bursting with educational value! Children develop important math's skills such as: • recognize, name and sort shapes • shape similarities and differences • position and direction • creating and completing patterns • part-whole relationship recognition • fractions and equivalents • exploration of symmetry Children also learn essential life skills such as hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills, crossing the midline, planning, problem-solving, focus and concentration. Pattern Blocks Shape Activities set contains 16 graded activities on colourful and engaging activity cards, 60 plastic pattern blocks, 4 additional activity suggestions and instruction in both Afrikaans and English. Suitable from ages 5+.

Word Builders connecting letter cubes develop a strong foundation for reading and spelling. Word Builders early reading and spelling kit will help children to recognise letters of the alphabet, letter sounds, consonants and vowels, and the foundations of reading and spelling. Each set contains interlocking cubes printed with lower case letters on one side and capitals on the reverse side. Cubes have been colour-coded: red represents vowels and blue represent consonants. Our early phonics cards help to develop sound placement by focusing on initial and final consonant sounds as well as middle vowel sounds in 3-letter words (C-V-C words). A parent guide includes 20 additional activities to develop fundamentals to reading and spelling for early learners to more advanced. These cubes provide specific benefits to learners: • Easy to connect and they stay connected. • Reinforce left-to-right reading and word-building skills by connecting in only one direction. • Colour-coded to provide quick visual cues for easy vowel-consonant identification. • Allow early readers to construct consonant-vowel-consonant words while larger words can be formed for more advanced readers. • Great for early phonemic awareness, exposure and practice at home. Suitable from ages 5+.

Let’s be creative! Help your child develop early life skills in a fun, ‘hands-on’ manner! Design your own patterns and pictures or follow the exciting patterns from the 40 colorful designs to copy. Pegboards and lacing activities strengthen fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, sorting and matching, planning, concentration, and creative thinking. This set includes a storage carry case with a pegboard lid, 360 assorted colored pegs, 8 threading shapes, 8 laces, and 40 colorful designs to copy. Perfect for on-the-go play! Age 5+.