Sort the Bears

Hands-On Learning for Sorting, Categorising, and Fine Motor Development!

Make early learning fun, focused, and tactile with Sort the Bears – a vibrant, hands-on activity that builds essential skills in sorting, matching, colour and size recognition, and fine motor control.

Children are invited to sort a collection of colourful bear figures by size and colour, placing them in the correct positions in front of matching assignment cards. Using the included tweezers, they carefully pick up and move the bears into place, strengthening fine motor skills, concentration, and hand-eye coordination.

This simple yet highly engaging activity is ideal for early years learners and supports independent exploration and guided practice. It also provides a rich foundation for developing mathematical thinking, classification skills, and language development, all through a playful, hands-on approach. Ages 3yrs+.

Key Educational Benefits:

• Sorting and Categorisation Skills: Teaches children how to identify similarities and differences. Develops the ability to group objects based on one or more attributes (colour, size). Builds early logic and classification skills essential for math and science learning.
• Colour and Size Recognition: Reinforces knowledge of basic colours and relative sizes. Encourages visual discrimination and vocabulary around size comparisons (e.g. big, small, bigger, same size).
• Fine Motor Development: Using tweezers strengthens finger muscles, improves pincer grasp, and enhances hand-eye coordination. Prepares children for writing, cutting, and other precision-based tasks.
• Early Math Foundations: Supports the development of sorting, matching, one-to-one correspondence, and early counting. Provides a visual and tactile introduction to sets, patterns, and data organisation.
• Language and Communication: Offers opportunities to use descriptive language such as “small red bear,” “two big yellow bears,” etc. Encourages children to explain their sorting choices, boosting oral language development and reasoning.
• Focus and Independence: Promotes concentration and independent problem-solving. Encourages self-checking and task completion.

Contents

32 Plastic Bears in 4 colours and 4 sizes

5 Assignment Strips both sides

1 Wooden Tweezer

1 Instruction Manual