Engineering & Maths

Engineering and maths toys for early learners, where children build, measure, sort and count with their hands, in class or at home. Arrange tubes and test the airflow, time a task with a sand timer or sort hedgehog quills by colour.

Air Toobz let children design a run of tubes and adjust the airflow to make foam balls leap, hover or loop. Large Sand Timers come in six colour-coded lengths from 30 seconds to 10 minutes, for timing and comparing. Spike the Fine Motor Skills Hedgehog has quills in red, orange, green and purple for sorting and counting, and the Colours & Shapes Tactile Sensory Pad has geometric shapes to guide with a finger. Start with sorting and timing before building challenges. Find more in our early years STEM resources and activity games.

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112 products

Large Sand Timer - available from 30 seconds to 10 minute time periods

£9.95 ex VAT
£11.94 inc VAT
£9.95 ex VAT
£11.94 inc VAT
Timer Time:
6 Timer Time: available

Colours & Shapes Tactile Sensory Pad

5.0 (1)
£19.00 ex VAT
£22.80 inc VAT

Wooden Lacing Jewels

£25.00 ex VAT
£30.00 inc VAT

Sensory Timer Selection - set of 3

£12.00 ex VAT
£14.40 inc VAT

Oozy Gunge Timer

£3.75 ex VAT
£4.50 inc VAT
£3.75 ex VAT
£4.50 inc VAT
Colour
+5
6 Colour available

Tracy the Fidget Triceratops

£15.00 ex VAT
£18.00 inc VAT

Spike the Fine Motor Skills Hedgehog

5.0 (1)
£18.00 ex VAT
£21.60 inc VAT

Light-up Shapes - Set of 3

£15.00 ex VAT
£18.00 inc VAT

Finger Colour Mats - set of 5

£32.00 ex VAT
£38.40 inc VAT

Talking Tubes

£18.00 ex VAT
£21.60 inc VAT

Jump Bean Timer - available individually or as a set of 4

From £3.50 ex VAT
£4.20 inc VAT
£3.50 ex VAT
£4.20 inc VAT
Colour
+4
5 Colour available

Lock & Learn Playboard

£23.50 ex VAT
£28.20 inc VAT

Spike the Fine Motor Hedgehog Tissue Pal

£9.50 ex VAT
£11.40 inc VAT

Popping Cube & Popping Dice Set

£6.75 ex VAT
£8.10 inc VAT

Magic Motion Sand Set - with your choice of colour Sand (kinetic sand)

£15.00 ex VAT
£18.00 inc VAT
£15.00 ex VAT
£18.00 inc VAT
Sand Colour
3 Sand Colour available

Rainbow Lacing Shapes

£15.00 ex VAT
£18.00 inc VAT

Aurora Northern Lights Projector

£33.00 ex VAT
£39.60 inc VAT

Wriggleworms! Fine Motor Activity Set

£21.50 ex VAT
£25.80 inc VAT

Tri-Grip Tongs - Set of 6

£13.00 ex VAT
£15.60 inc VAT

Tock the Learning Clock

£28.00 ex VAT
£33.60 inc VAT

Snap-n-learn Counting Cows

£21.50 ex VAT
£25.80 inc VAT

Silishapes Letters

£16.95 ex VAT
£20.34 inc VAT

Huey the Fine Motor Hippo

£19.00 ex VAT
£22.80 inc VAT

Rainbow Colour Blocks

£30.50 ex VAT
£36.60 inc VAT

Engineering & Maths: your questions answered

What engineering ideas can children try with Air Toobz?

Children arrange the tubes in different ways, switch on the fan and adjust the airflow to see what the foam balls do. They can try to make a ball leap from tube to tube, hover in mid-air or go round in an endless cycle, which is designing, testing and improving in action. Air Toobz are marked age 3+.

How can sand timers be used in maths?

Sand timers make time something children can measure and compare. There are six colour-coded lengths, from 30 seconds to 10 minutes. Children can count how many jumps fit into one minute, check which task took longer, or put the timers in order from shortest to longest.

How does Spike the Fine Motor Skills Hedgehog help with sorting?

Spike's quills come in four colours, red, orange, green and purple, so children can sort them by colour, count them as they go in and make simple patterns. Pushing each quill into the two-piece hedgehog and pulling it out again gives fine motor practice at the same time. The product page lists what is in the set.