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.

Build a sensory pack Five quick questions, then we pick best sellers to fit your budget.
112 products

Silly Science Fine Motor Set

£25.50 ex VAT
£30.60 inc VAT

Snap & Learn Narwhals & Friends

£20.00 ex VAT
£24.00 inc VAT

Numberblocks Memory Match Game

£10.50 ex VAT
£12.60 inc VAT

Snap & Learn Counting Sheep

£21.50 ex VAT
£25.80 inc VAT

Sensory Reflective Colour Burst Buttons

£54.50 ex VAT
£65.40 inc VAT

Matching & Memory 'LEARN AT HOME' Kit

£60.00 ex VAT
£72.00 inc VAT

Motor Skills 'LEARN AT HOME' Kit

£51.00 ex VAT
£61.20 inc VAT

Learning Laces Skills Board

£10.50 ex VAT
£12.60 inc VAT

Counting Dino-sorters Egg set

£31.50 ex VAT
£37.80 inc VAT

Twist and Turnables

£11.95 ex VAT
£14.34 inc VAT

Fine Motor Skills Focus Kit

£14.00 ex VAT
£16.80 inc VAT

Gator Grabber Tweezers

£11.00 ex VAT
£13.20 inc VAT

Best Bugs Magnetic Maze

£28.50 ex VAT
£34.20 inc VAT

Colour Frames - Set of 4

£29.00 ex VAT
£34.80 inc VAT

Squidgy Splash Shapes

£25.00 ex VAT
£30.00 inc VAT

Glow in the Dark Tubes, set of 3

£4.65 ex VAT
£5.58 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.