Our favorite toy brand PicassoToys asked if they could send us their 100 Piece Magnetic Stick Stacking Set, and I immediately knew it would be a great learning tool as well as a fun open-ended play material! I’ve talked before about how the Montessori geometric solids can be a bit boring as a didactic material, so I always like to include extensions to go along with them. This magnetic stick stacking set is the perfect way to review those 3-dimensional shapes in a fun, hands-on way! Nora used them to make a cylinder, cube, square-based pyramid, and rectangular prism.
And I love when a tool that can be used for learning can also be utilized as an open-ended play material — which takes that base learning about geometric solids and applies it in more creative ways! The magnetic stick stacking set contains 100 pieces that can be combined in a variety of ways to create geometric solid-based designs like this castle Lila made:
I spy some rectangular prisms, a cube, and a complicated shape built with squares and triangles at the top!
You can use coupon code AFFANGELAC to take 15% off your order of 100 Piece Magnetic Stick Stacking Set or anything else in the PicassoTiles store!
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