These fun puzzles will challenge your skills, dexterity and patience as you try and balance them. 

Balancing Animals are a fun game of skill for both children and adults.  Different age groups will use them in different ways.  Young children may just stack them one on the other, or play with the animals separately.  Older children will be able to recognise the different shapes and do the configurations.  As play develops they will try their own configurations and look for praise from adults for their accomplishments.

Balancing Animals are fun to balance while teaching and improving hand-eye coordination, problem solving skills, patience and perseverance, shape recognition, plan reading, minor motor skills, colour recognition as well as giving an enjoyable tactile experience.

Children will learn about the physics of gravity, friction etc as well as experiencing the tactile benefits of touching and playing .

Adults will usually try to do all the configurations, and then develop their own.  In group play they may race to see who can balance the set the quickest, or who can build the highest tower or the widest stack.  Challenges of building on top of the smallest animal or using each animal as a starting point will ensue.

These animal blocks can be placed on a shelf or mantle to look fun, ready for the next time!  Some people like to make a new configuration each day!

IMPORTANT INFO
• As these contain small parts they are suited for children 3 years plus and only to be used with parental supervision. These are NOT a teether and are NOT to be bitten or used for teething.