For grown-ups
Geometric cabinet
What your child practices
Seeing the shape of a thing and hearing its name. The first drawer has three plain shapes. Each drawer after it changes one thing: the circles change only in size, the rectangles only in width, the polygons add one side at a time. Lifting by a small knob and setting down exactly comes along with it.
How to use it together
Show it once: lift a shape by its knob, run a finger round its edge if you like, then let it drop into its frame, slowly and without talking. A shape in the wrong frame will not go in; it rocks on the edge and falls back to the mat. If your device has a voice in this language, each shape says its name, and the name shows on the brass plate. Every drawer is there to pick from at any time, in any order. When a drawer is full, the shapes rise in turn and play a scale, and it can be emptied and done again.
These are Montessori-style activities. Handeware Kids is not affiliated with or approved by any Montessori organization.