{"title":"Small Foot Wooden Montessori Toys | BeoVERDE","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere's real magic in a child working something out all by themselves — and our wooden Montessori toys are built for exactly that, many in FSC-certified wood.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDesigned in Germany by Small Foot, these Montessori toys turn sorting, posting and balancing into real skill-building — fine motor practice, hand-eye coordination and happy, focused play.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"small-foot-motor-skills-toys-montessori-sorting-game-with-a-drum","title":"Montessori Sorting Game with a Drum | Motor Skills Toy","description":"\u003cp\u003eA toddler settles at the table, tips a chunky wooden drum on its side, and begins to work — rod by rod, disc by disc — matching, turning, trying again. There's a quiet focus to it, the kind that arrives when a toy is just the right amount of challenging.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Montessori Sorting Game with a Drum from Small Foot is a beautifully considered wooden learning toy built around a single clever idea: one drum, three interchangeable sorting plates. Swap in the plate for rods, the plate for discs, or the plate for cut-out shapes, and the challenge shifts entirely — keeping little ones engaged long past the first sitting. Twenty-three insertion pieces in all, colour-coded and sized to encourage matching, sorting, and comparing. Made from FSC wood, it's solid, smooth, and satisfying to handle. When play is done, everything packs neatly inside the drum — a real bonus for bags, nursery bags, or the back of the car.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe three-plate system means fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and color recognition all get a workout, and the gentle Montessori approach lets children set their own pace — no pressure, just purposeful play.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt BeoVERDE, we love this as a first or second birthday gift — tactile, open-ended enough to grow with the child, and tidy enough to keep a parent happy too.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Small Foot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55506169692500,"sku":"LG12816","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/2356\/9995\/files\/12816__2.jpg?v=1780156965"},{"product_id":"small-foot-motor-skills-toys-montessori-sorting-game-with-balls","title":"Montessori Sorting Game with Balls | Motor Skills Toy","description":"\u003cp\u003eA one-year-old leans over the wooden board, picks up a smooth pastel ball, and places it — carefully, deliberately — into the hollow that matches. Then another. Then all fourteen, arranged just so. Then tipped out and started again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Montessori Sorting Game with Balls from Small Foot is a beautifully simple wooden sorting game built around a stable board with nine colour-matched hollows and fourteen smooth FSC wood balls in soft, easy-to-read hues. Little ones can sort by colour, stack a small pyramid, or simply roll the balls and discover what they do — there's no single right way to play, which is exactly the point. That open-ended play approach means the game grows with your child, offering fresh challenges as their color recognition, fine motor skills, and hand-eye coordination develop.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe smooth, rounded balls add a gentle sensory dimension — satisfying to hold, easy for small hands to grasp and place with precision. Sorting, stacking, sequencing, experimenting: each session quietly builds concentration, patience, and an early understanding of order and colour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt BeoVERDE, we love that this toddler toy asks so little of a child and gives back so much — a handful of wooden balls, a board, and an hour of genuinely absorbed play.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Small Foot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55506169725268,"sku":"LG12815","price":22.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/2356\/9995\/files\/12815__2_d40ed445-793f-44f3-9739-f2690414ccae.jpg?v=1780156849"},{"product_id":"small-foot-motor-skills-toys-montessori-sorting-game-with-pliers","title":"Montessori Sorting Game with Pliers | Motor Skills Toy","description":"\u003cp\u003eA toddler settles at the table, wooden pliers in hand, carefully lifting a star-shaped piece and lowering it — with great concentration — into the matching coloured bowl. There's a wobble, a correction, and then a quiet satisfaction that says everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Montessori Sorting Game with Pliers from Small Foot is a beautifully considered activity set for little ones from 12 months up. Five coloured bowls, 15 wooden pieces in circles, triangles and stars, and two pairs of child-sized pliers come together to create a play experience that's as open-ended as it is purposeful. Your child can sort by colour, sort by shape, count the pieces, stack them, or simply move them from bowl to bowl — there's no single right way to play. Made from FSC-certified wood, the pieces are smooth, tactile, and satisfying to handle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat makes this set genuinely special is the pliers. Gripping and transferring pieces builds fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination in a way that feels like play rather than practice — and the added challenge of the tool keeps older toddlers engaged long after the initial novelty fades. It also introduces early shape recognition and colour sorting in a concrete, hands-on way that sits squarely in the Montessori tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt BeoVERDE, we love this one as a first or second birthday gift — the pliers add just enough challenge to grow with a child, and the open wooden bowls mean it doubles as a lovely display piece between play sessions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Small Foot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55506169987412,"sku":"LG12814","price":31.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/2356\/9995\/files\/12814__2.jpg?v=1780156632"},{"product_id":"small-foot-motor-skills-toys-montessori-sorting-beaker-with-figures","title":"Montessori Sorting Beaker with Figures | Motor Skills Toy","description":"\u003cp\u003eA little one reaches for the red beaker, drops the red figure inside, and pauses — waiting for that satisfying click of a match made. Then the blue one. Then the yellow. The Montessori Sorting Beaker with Figures turns colour learning into a quietly absorbing ritual that tiny hands want to repeat again and again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMade from FSC-certified wood, this Small Foot set comes with six coloured beakers and six matching wooden figures. Children sort, stack, and nest their way through colour recognition and fine motor skills at their own pace — no batteries, no noise, just the clean focus of a wooden sorting toy that does exactly what it should. The open-ended format means it grows with your child: first it's about placing figures in beakers, then stacking, then free play, then tidying up — which, as any parent knows, is a win in itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt BeoVERDE, we love that the beaker-and-figure pairing makes colour sorting feel like a game rather than a lesson — and that the FSC-certified wood means you're choosing something that's genuinely good to have in your home.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Small Foot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55506170249556,"sku":"LG12813","price":21.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/2356\/9995\/files\/12813__2.jpg?v=1780156490"},{"product_id":"small-foot-montessori-puzzle-shapes-and-images","title":"Montessori Puzzle Shapes and Images | Wooden Puzzle","description":"\u003cp\u003eA small hand reaches for the bright circle, turns it over, and peers underneath — there's a face looking back. They slot it home, then reach straight for the next piece, already curious about what's hiding there. The Shapes and Images Montessori Puzzle is one of those quietly satisfying toys that keeps a one-year-old coming back for more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour chunky wooden pieces — square, triangle, pentagon, and circle — each sit in a colour-coded slot with an easy-grip knob sized just right for tiny hands still mastering the pincer grasp. Lift a piece and there's a surprise: a friendly tiger, a crocodile, a leopard, or a mirror that bounces a small face back at them. It's a knob puzzle that rewards curiosity twice — once for placing the shape, once for peeking beneath it. Shape recognition, colour recognition, and hand-eye coordination all get a gentle workout, and the simple wooden puzzle format means even the youngest toddlers can join in with confidence from 12 months.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt BeoVERDE, we love this as a first-birthday gift — it's beautiful enough to feel like a real milestone present, and the hidden-image twist gives it a little extra magic that keeps small folk genuinely surprised, visit after visit.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Small Foot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55506170872148,"sku":"LG12769","price":10.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/2356\/9995\/files\/12769__2.jpg?v=1780151780"},{"product_id":"small-foot-building-blocks-montessori-river-rocks-balance-game","title":"Montessori River Rocks Balance Game | Wooden Building Blocks","description":"\u003cp\u003eA little one settles onto the playroom floor, picks up a smooth river stone in soft sage, sets it down, reaches for another. The tower wobbles. There's a pause, a recalibration, then — carefully — one more stone finds its place. This is the Montessori River Rocks Balance Game from Small Foot, and it's quietly brilliant to watch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe set includes twelve wooden river stones in varying sizes, each with gently irregular shapes and rounded edges that make every stacking attempt its own small puzzle. Made from FSC certified wood in a palette of soft, modern tones, the stones feel genuinely lovely in little hands — smooth, weighty, satisfying. Little ones can stack them, sort them by size or colour, line them up, count them, or simply carry them around the room. That's the beauty of open-ended play: there's no wrong way to use them. Inspired by the Montessori approach to learning, the set supports fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, patience, and early numeracy — all through the kind of calm, focused play that you'll want to sit beside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt BeoVERDE, we love that these stones sit just as happily on a shelf as they do on the floor — the soft colours and natural finish make them genuinely beautiful to have around, long after play is done.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Small Foot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55506171101524,"sku":"LG12759","price":12.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/2356\/9995\/files\/12759__7_ec342290-8502-45a2-bed7-5491d29b4e0b.jpg?v=1780151686"},{"product_id":"small-foot-sorting-stacking-montessori-sorting-game","title":"Montessori Sorting Game | Sorting \u0026 Stacking Toy","description":"\u003cp\u003eA small hand slides open the first drawer, peeks inside, and pulls out a coloured peg — then slides the drawer shut again, just to open it once more. That quiet, repeated discovery is exactly what the Montessori Sorting Game from Small Foot is designed for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuilt from FSC-certified wood with smooth, rounded edges, this drawer-and-peg sorting toy gives toddlers from 12 months a clear, calm structure to explore. Three colour-coded drawers each hold matching insertable pegs, inviting little ones to sort by colour, practise opening and closing, and begin to understand that things exist even when they're out of sight — the foundational idea behind object permanence. It's a shape sorter with a quieter, more purposeful feel than the typical drop-and-rattle variety, and the soft palette keeps things focused rather than overwhelming.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlong the way, children build fine motor skills — grasping, placing, releasing — as well as hand-eye coordination and early color recognition, all through play that feels genuinely satisfying rather than instructed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt BeoVERDE, we love this as a first-birthday gift — a wooden educational toy that looks lovely on a shelf, travels well in a bag, and keeps earning its place long after the wrapping paper is gone.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Small Foot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55506171265364,"sku":"LG12746","price":22.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/2356\/9995\/files\/12746__3_51ab0613-28a6-49ad-aa18-8b839a69b336.jpg?v=1780158201"},{"product_id":"small-foot-activity-toys-montessori-balancing-game","title":"Montessori Balancing Game | Activity Toy","description":"\u003cp\u003eA child leans over the seesaw base, tongue out, placing a coloured wooden block with all the care and concentration of a tiny engineer. It tips — just a little — and they reach for another piece, adjusting, experimenting, working it out for themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Montessori Balancing Game from Small Foot is a beautifully simple wooden seesaw activity that turns the physics of weight and position into hands-on discovery. Sixteen coloured stacking blocks of varying heights and weights sit in the recesses of the base, and the challenge is to keep the whole thing level. Numbers printed on the seesaw help little ones begin to understand the relationship between position and balance — exactly the kind of self-directed learning at the heart of the Montessori approach. The included example cards add structure when they want it, with levels of difficulty that grow alongside the child. Made from FSC-certified wood and suitable from age 3, it's a genuine open-ended play experience that builds fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, patience, and logical thinking all in one go — solo, with a sibling, or as a family game.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt BeoVERDE, we love that the adjustable difficulty means this one stays genuinely engaging as children grow — a few pieces, a seesaw, and a quietly satisfying challenge every time they sit down with it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Small Foot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55506171461972,"sku":"LG12745","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/2356\/9995\/files\/12745__2.jpg?v=1780151326"},{"product_id":"small-foot-motor-skills-toys-montessori-marble-box","title":"Montessori Marble Box | Motor Skills Toy","description":"\u003cp\u003eA wooden ball drops into the slot, vanishes for a breath — and then rolls back out again. Watch a one-year-old's face the first time it reappears. That little pause, that widening of the eyes, is object permanence clicking into place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Montessori Marble Box by Small Foot is a classic early-learning material made from FSC-certified wood. Three smooth wooden balls sit ready for little hands to grasp, drop, and retrieve — over and over, with the quiet satisfaction of a game that always pays off. The gentle internal incline does the work, rolling each ball back out so your little one can begin again. It's open-ended play at its most focused: one action, one result, one very engaged baby. Alongside object permanence, each drop-and-retrieve builds hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills — the kind of careful, concentrated movement that lays real foundations for later learning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt BeoVERDE, we love this as a first-birthday gift — tactile enough to feel special, simple enough to grow with the child well into the toddler years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Small Foot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55506171593044,"sku":"LG12744","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/2356\/9995\/files\/12744__2_186423c2-a064-4fda-a254-8e8a4935080d.jpg?v=1780151826"},{"product_id":"small-foot-sorting-stacking-montessori-shape-fitting-game","title":"Montessori Shape-Fitting Game | Sorting \u0026 Stacking Toy","description":"\u003cp\u003eA one-year-old settles at the table, turns a small wooden coin in their fingers, and eyes the slot in the lid — there's a pause, a careful tilt, and then the satisfying drop. That moment of concentration is exactly what the Montessori Shape-Fitting Game from Small Foot is built around.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMade from FSC certified wood, this robust sorting box comes with three interchangeable lids, each one posing a different challenge: post coins through a slot, thread rods through holes, or match geometric shapes to their openings. Swap the lid and the game changes — same toy, new problem to solve. The muted, soft palette keeps the focus on the task rather than the spectacle, which is very much in the spirit of Montessori. Tucked inside are four coins, eight sticks, and four building blocks, all sized well for little hands to grip and guide. As children post each piece and watch it disappear, they're quietly building shape recognition, fine motor skills, and hand-eye coordination — and getting an early, hands-on introduction to object permanence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt BeoVERDE, we love this as a first-birthday gift — beautiful enough to feel like a milestone present, and genuinely open to independent play long after the wrapping paper is forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Small Foot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55506171724116,"sku":"LG12743","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/2356\/9995\/files\/12743__2.jpg?v=1780151914"},{"product_id":"small-foot-motor-skills-toys-montessori-rotating-drum","title":"Montessori Rotating Drum | Motor Skills Toy","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet it down on the floor and watch what happens — a curious little one reaches out, gives it a nudge, and the five rainbow-coloured sides begin to spin. A soft click from the wooden ball inside follows, and they reach for it again. That's the Montessori Rotating Drum doing exactly what it was designed to do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuilt from FSC-certified wood, this compact sensory toy invites babies to grasp, roll, push and turn — building hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills through pure, self-directed play. During tummy time, little ones prop up on their forearms to track the spinning colours, strengthening their neck and core along the way. Once seated, turning the drum with both hands develops wrist, arm and shoulder strength — all while exploring cause and effect through the satisfying click of the ball within. Five boldly coloured panels give the visual contrast that young eyes love, and the simple, open design keeps the focus entirely on the child's own curiosity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt BeoVERDE, we love that this wooden toy grows with your little one — equally engaging at four months on a play mat as it is at eighteen months in a toddler's hands, making it a genuinely lasting addition to any Montessori-inspired home.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Small Foot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55506171920724,"sku":"LG12742","price":16.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/2356\/9995\/files\/12742__2.jpg?v=1780152067"}],"url":"https:\/\/beoverde.ie\/en-se\/collections\/small-foot-montessori-collection.oembed","provider":"BeoVERDE Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}