Nins, Rings & Coins | Loose Parts | Wooden Sorting & Stacking Toy

Six wooden peg dolls, Nins, thirty six rings and eighteen coins make up this Grapat set, made in Spain from PEFC certified maple and beech and winner of a Spiel Gut award.

Nins, Rings & Coins is a loose parts set built for open-ended play. Children stack the rings around a Nin until it disappears from view, then lift them off again one by one. They slide coins underneath a Nin to raise it up, or lay coins on top to seal it inside its ring home. The rainbow of colours across the Nins, rings and coins makes matching an easy game to start with, and the large number of pieces invites Montessori style counting and sorting too. The set comes with a GOTS certified cotton bag for gathering everything up between games.

The Nins themselves belong to Grapat's range of Waldorf style peg dolls, simple enough in shape to become whatever a child needs them to be that day, a family, a market stall, a line of characters in a story a child is telling out loud.

Children working through a positioning schema, arranging and rearranging objects into scenes, tend to return to this set again and again, building a new little world each time with the same Nins, rings and coins.