Those 6 magic colours of the rainbow! Can you recreate them on this gorgeous Montessori Rainbow Board?!

Montessori Rainbow Board is a high-quality educational and versatile tool to serve children for years to come! Apart from learning about the “rainbow concept”, children simultaneously train their sorting, planning and organisational skills. One can create and print out own task cards with different patterns. Your patterns would depend on what types of sorting material you prefer. As a result, the activity encourages kids to reconstruct mosaic patterns. Do not forget to remind children to count their counting manipulatives during play in order to foster early maths abilities.

Elements of the rainbow sorting board in this set

NeuroToys has put together different rainbow mosaic patterns with 4 pompom sets: a classic rainbow, seashore rainbow, day and night rainbow and contrast rainbow.

Extending the value of the Montessori rainbow board

Another play option is freestyle, of course. Children fill out dimples the way they like, thereby exploring their creative side and inventing their own unique compositions. Child neuro psychologists and psychologists recommend it during an introductory phase; age-wise between 3-4.5 years old. Yet, once you feel that the child is ready to advance sorting skills, structure activities using task cards or own verbal instructions. Consequently, now you even train auditory skills. Let’s say:

At the beginning agree on how you count rows. Start. “You have 6 types of grains. Place 3 grains of rice into each dimple, onto the bottom row of the board. Then, each of your chickpeas will go into row number 4. Row number 6 will have 2 types of grains. Black beans and green peas. Every other dimple will have 1 black bean.” Etc.

Diversify experiences on the rainbow board

To enrich tactile and sensory perception, switch regularly manipulatives for 87 dimples and 6 rows on the rainbow sorting board. For example, consider: small wooden balls, beads, stones, marbles, pom-poms, grains. Integrate additional bowls and kitchen utensils such as spoons and tongs. This way you kind of “structure” fun during sorting exercises – by colour, type of material, object, etc.! The rainbow board is an amazing tool to train self-regulation, focus and concentration skills. Needless to mention how motorically-charged those little fingers will be after picking and inserting so many tiny sorting pieces.

Simply ensure you systematically rotate the sorting board, having bi-weekly breaks between activities in order to sustain interest of the child. Today we play with 6 types of grains, the next time with glass marbles.

As an idea, please have a look at the last photo. Such colourful wooden beads are a top addition for our Montessori Rainbow Board. This option you could purchase separately, as it is not included into this set. This way the child not only engages in sorting activities but also enjoys threading games. You extend the value of both educational toys.

High quality of the rainbow board

Warm and earthy scents of the board Montessori activate children’s senses and connect them to nature. This handmade and modern sustainable wooden board is produced from solid linden and coated with natural oils in the traditional ways. The collection lines of Oyuncak House are inspired by the Montessori and Waldorf pedagogies.

Thanks to its resilient quality and long-lasting service, the rainbow board is a part of sustainable education. It works really well in homeschooling and kindergartens. Moreover, NeuroToys ranks such sorting boards as heirloom toys that one passes from siblings to siblings. They, in turn, pass it down one day to their own children, filling them up with an emotional magnitude of feelings about their own childhood.

Learn 6 colours of the rainbow and practice to recreate 3 more patterns of alternative rainbows… of another planet!

Age: 3-8 years
It includes: 1 wooden board, 4 sets of pompoms to re-create 4 different patterns, a cotton storage bag and a task card with 4 rainbow patterns
Language: English, German
Dimensions: 16 x 32 cm

Side note. Solid wood is unique. Thus, every produced piece may quite often vary in colour, natural, structural and discolouration patterns than shown on images of our online store. Sometimes due to certain textural knots, the result of wood finishing may show cosmetic flaws. Yet, they do not at all downgrade functionality of the educational toy.

Care instructions. Wooden toys of this calibre might leave oily stains due to its recent production. Hence, keep the wooden item away from valuable items. Preserve it in an eco-friendly carton box, wrap in clean paper or in a cotton storage bag. Never soak a wooden toy in water. In case it got dirty, just spray/apply a tiny amount of gentle organic cleaner, wipe it with a sponge or washcloth and a bit of warm water. Ensure to air dry the toy before storing it or playing with it again. Every once in a while, please replenish the moisture in the wood with boiled organic linseed oil.