First steps… first 123… the moment has come to make the “learning to count” experience special!

With these stunning wooden boards, learning to count gets easier for small children. Their design is multifunctional and welcomes a number of different games to teaching early maths. The set offers 10 wooden boards, promoting development of counting skills from 0 to 9. Each numbered board is marked with their respective amount of dimples. Included colourful pompoms are a perfect bright starter to initiate the play.

Educational value of the wooden number counting boards

– They provide an effective structured foundation to introduce numbers and counting.
– The boards teach to visually recognise numbers and associate them with their required amount of objects.
– Curved grooves on the boards enable tracing activities, using both fingers and a stylus pen of your choice.
– Children use their fingers, spoons and kitchen tongs to pick and place manipulatives into these grooves. Fill them out with different manipulative accessories of your choice (ex. small beads, stones, grains, safe-to-eat nuts (yummy!), etc. Just make sure to supervise children, if they are still in the sensory stage of tasting things around them.
– NeuroToys also recommends to systematically rotate the wooden boards. Some children may like to play the learning-to-count game every two weeks, others may need a break for a month… Find your balance in order to sustain interest of the child. Also, consider, switching types of manipulatives: “… today we play with 6 types of grains, the next time with mini stones.”; and so on and so forth.
– As an idea, the dimpled wooden boards pair well with other counting instruments of Oyuncak House (as shown in one of the photos). The manipulative objects are visually reshuffled, and the child is learning to count with a different format and structure. You extend the value of both educational toys.

Learning to count on boards of high-quality

The boards’ warm and earthy scents activate children’s senses and connect them to nature. They are handmade by Oyuncak House, produced from solid linden and coated with natural oils in traditional ways. The learning material carries a modern design, yet capturing the spirit of the Montessori and Waldorf pedagogies.

Thanks to its resilient quality and long-lasting service, the “learning to count” wooden boards are a part of sustainable education. They work really well in homeschooling and kindergartens. Moreover, NeuroToys ranks such 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.

It is as easy as one-two-three!

Age: 3-5 years
The starter set includes: 10 wooden boards, 45 coloured counting balls, 1 cotton storage bag
Language: English, German
Dimensions: 6 x 9 cm (1 piece)

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.