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

Twisty Droppers - Set of 4

£12.50 ex VAT
£15.00 inc VAT

Liquid Visual Timer - available individually or as a set of 3

From £5.00 ex VAT
£6.00 inc VAT
£5.00 ex VAT
£6.00 inc VAT
Liquid Visual Timer option:
4 Liquid Visual Timer option: available

MEGA Sand Timer - different options available

From £38.00 ex VAT
£45.60 inc VAT
£38.00 ex VAT
£45.60 inc VAT
Individual Time or Set
4 Individual Time or Set available
In stock

Four Colour Liquid Timer

£5.75 ex VAT
£6.90 inc VAT

Blooming Balance Bees Fine Motor Sorting Set

£24.00 ex VAT
£28.80 inc VAT

Colour Change Gelli Baff

£6.25 ex VAT
£7.50 inc VAT

Rainbow Wooden Nuts & Bolts

£28.00 ex VAT
£33.60 inc VAT

Jumbo Eyedroppers with Stand - Primary Science

£15.00 ex VAT
£18.00 inc VAT

Max the Fine Motor Moose

£16.50 ex VAT
£19.80 inc VAT

Counting Cookies

£34.00 ex VAT
£40.80 inc VAT
In stock

Tubey Tactile Wall Panel (V)

£1,315.00 ex VAT
£1,578.00 inc VAT

Shake & Match Shape Sorter

£19.50 ex VAT
£23.40 inc VAT

String Along Lacing Set

£28.50 ex VAT
£34.20 inc VAT

Smartmax Magnetic Discovery Starter Set

£24.50 ex VAT
£29.40 inc VAT

Time Tracker Visual Timer and Clock

£35.00 ex VAT
£42.00 inc VAT

Silishapes Numbers

£8.50 ex VAT
£10.20 inc VAT

Size & Shape Sorting Board

£16.95 ex VAT
£20.34 inc VAT

Bathroom Shape Board

5.0 (1)
£19.95 ex VAT
£23.94 inc VAT

Rainbow Maker

£21.00 ex VAT
£25.20 inc VAT

Lock & Key Clubhouse

£25.75 ex VAT
£30.90 inc VAT

Rainbow Sorting Tray - single or classrom options

From £20.00 ex VAT
£24.00 inc VAT
£20.00 ex VAT
£24.00 inc VAT
Rainbow Sorting Tray Option;
2 Rainbow Sorting Tray Option; available

Colour Mixing Glasses

£10.75 ex VAT
£12.90 inc VAT

Pedro The Fine Motor Peacock

5.0 (2)
£13.00 ex VAT
£15.60 inc VAT

Infinity Decompression Cube

£6.95 ex VAT
£8.34 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.