Rainbow Felt Stacking Stones

Rainbow felt stacking pebbles are a versatile and engaging tool for early childhood education, combining sensory play with opportunities for learning and development. These colorful, soft felt pebbles come in a variety of sizes and are designed for stacking, sorting, and other hands-on activities that promote fine motor skills, cognitive growth, and creativity.

Basic Stacking: Start by encouraging children to stack a few pebbles, using trial and error to see how high they can build a tower. Ask questions like, “How many pebbles can you stack before it falls?” or “Can you make your tower taller than mine?”

Sorting and Matching: If the felt pebbles come in various colors or sizes, you can have the children sort them by color, size, or shape before stacking. This introduces sorting skills and early math concepts.

Pattern Creation: Challenge children to create patterns by stacking pebbles in repeating color sequences, such as red, blue, red, blue. This promotes pattern recognition and sequencing.

Balance and Stability Challenges: Offer opportunities for children to experiment with balancing the pebbles in unusual ways, like balancing one pebble on top of another at an angle. This fosters spatial awareness.

Storytelling: After a stack is built, encourage the child to tell a story about their tower. Maybe it’s a castle or a mountain! This promotes imagination and narrative skills.

Group Play: Have multiple children work together to create a large stack or a specific structure, promoting teamwork, communication, and collaborative problem-solving.

Felt Pebble Art: Once stacking is done, children can also use the pebbles to create flat designs, such as a picture of a tree, a house, or a flower, practicing fine motor control in a new way.

Measures approx 6cm - 18cm. 

Made from felt.