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

Changing Seasons Sensory Tubes

£21.75 ex VAT
£26.10 inc VAT

Snap Cubes - set of 100

£11.00 ex VAT
£13.20 inc VAT

Handy Scoopers - Set of 4

£13.50 ex VAT
£16.20 inc VAT

Primary Science Mighty Magnets - set of 6

£22.95 ex VAT
£27.54 inc VAT

Spike the Fine Motor Fidget Friend

£15.00 ex VAT
£18.00 inc VAT

Smartmax Magnetic Safari Set

5.0 (2)
£20.50 ex VAT
£24.60 inc VAT

Mirror Numbers

£8.00 ex VAT
£9.60 inc VAT

Large Sand Timer - Set of 6

£57.00 ex VAT
£68.40 inc VAT

Colour Paddles - Set of 6

£6.55 ex VAT
£7.86 inc VAT

Rainbow Numbers

£8.50 ex VAT
£10.20 inc VAT

Sort & Seek Polar Animals

£20.00 ex VAT
£24.00 inc VAT

Poppy the Count & Stack Flower Pot

£15.75 ex VAT
£18.90 inc VAT

Rainbow Wooden Shape Twister

£12.75 ex VAT
£15.30 inc VAT

Farmer's Market Colour Sorting Set

5.0 (2)
£40.00 ex VAT
£48.00 inc VAT

Fruit & Veg Colour Sorting Set

£47.00 ex VAT
£56.40 inc VAT

Attributes Nuts and Bolts

£17.00 ex VAT
£20.40 inc VAT

Movement in Time Exploration Bag

£69.95 ex VAT
£83.94 inc VAT

Grab & Sort Fine Motor Alien Counters

4.0 (1)
£20.00 ex VAT
£24.00 inc VAT

Play Foam Learn Sets - options of Numbers & Alphabets available

5.0 (1)
£17.00 ex VAT
£20.40 inc VAT
£17.00 ex VAT
£20.40 inc VAT
PlayFoam Shape Set
2 PlayFoam Shape Set available

Hoot the Fine Motor Owl

£19.50 ex VAT
£23.40 inc VAT

ColourMix Sensory Tubes

£29.95 ex VAT
£35.94 inc VAT

Jumbo Tweezers

£11.25 ex VAT
£13.50 inc VAT

Go Fish Go

£13.00 ex VAT
£15.60 inc VAT

My Very Own Moon

£23.00 ex VAT
£27.60 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.