Montessori-Inspired Geometry & Play-Based Learning Resource | Prep-Free Classroom Play

🌼 A playful, hands-on way to explore shapes through meaningful learning

Designed for busy classrooms, this ready-to-use resource encourages children to investigate shapes, their properties, and early mathematical concepts through imaginative baking play. Whether used independently, in a dramatic play café, or as part of a structured maths activity, this versatile set supports rich, hands-on learning in an engaging and memorable way.

✔️ Why Teachers Love This

• ✔️ Ready to use – no prep required
  ✔️ Ideal for independent learning or dramatic play kitchens and cafés
  ✔️ Combines imaginative play with curriculum-aligned learning
  ✔️ Encourages hands-on exploration of shapes and attributes
  ✔️ Durable, reusable, and thoughtfully designed
  ✔️ Easily adaptable for open-ended play or explicit teaching
  ✔️ Created and tested by an experienced classroom teacher

📦 What’s Included

• • 🍪12 cookies (6 jam filled – Square, rectangle, circle, oval, triangle, trapezium and 6 cream filled – Pentagon, hexagon, octagon, heart, diamond, semi-circle)
  • 🍪Felt baking tray
  • 🍪12 Interchangeable shape matching tray mats to line the baking tray
  • 🍪Double-sided shapes vocabulary cards (one side: shape names with visual examples, other side: shape names, images, plus number of sides and corners)
  • 🍪Shape attribute activity prompt cards (number of sides, corners)
  • 🍪0–8 felt number tiles to use with activity prompt cards
  • 🍪Digital download with Australian Curriculum aligned statements

⚠️ Not suitable for children under 3 years of age due to small parts. Adult supervision recommended where appropriate.

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🧠 Learning Focus

This resource supports:

• Shape recognition and identification
• Understanding shape properties (sides and corners)
• Counting and number recognition
• Mathematical vocabulary development
• Sorting and matching skills
• Fine motor development
• Imaginative and cooperative play

Curriculum-aligned statements (Australian Curriculum) are included for easy planning and documentation.

🌿 Pairs well with:

• ✔️ Felt capacity mugs to create a delightful morning tea
• ✔️Felt Shapes Sandwiches for more shapes practice
• ✔️Felt Counting Doughnuts for a mathematical sweet treat hit

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🎲 How to Use

Simply place the materials on a tray, table, or within a dramatic play kitchen and invite children to explore. Match cookies to the baking tray mats, sort by attributes, identify shape properties, or use the prompt cards and number tiles to create scaffolded maths tasks. The baking tray shape lining sheets make great bingo mats for small group review – simply select a cookie and find it on your bingo sheet.

This resource can be used for:

• Independent learning tasks
• Small group activities including review bingo
• Maths rotations
• Play-based learning centres
• Dramatic play kitchens or cafés
• Explicit teaching and intervention groups

📦Production & Shipping

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If you want to purchase this with other sets too, please email me for combined postage before you purchase (admin.playfullllearning@gmail.com).