How Many Cubes Are Hiding? — The Guessing Game Across Three Ages
The hidden-cubes game across three ages — from finding one hidden cube to counting the 27 in a solid block, including the one in the middle no one can see.
Spielgaben — Learning by Hand
Fröbel, Montessori and Reggio, made practical — for homes with more than one age at the table
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Your Child Counts the Cubes She Can See. The Ones She Can't Are the Whole Point.
Ask a child how many cubes are in a stack and she counts only the ones she can see. Teaching her to count the hidden ones is where spatial sense begins.
Two Kinds of Play — Why the Chain That Never Breaks Teaches More Than the Tower That Does
Two kinds of play: combining parts into a whole, and transforming one unbroken whole into another. Why Fröbel thought the second goes deeper.
The Snake That Folds Into a Cube — and Why Nine Won't
The folding cube puzzle, across three ages — from making it bend to proving why 8 cubes fold into a cube but 9 can't. Real maths in a chain of blocks.
One Chain of Cubes, a Hundred Shapes — and the Idea Fröbel Got From Studying Crystals
Make a folding cube puzzle from 8 blocks and tape — one chain, a hundred shapes. A 5-minute DIY that teaches real geometry, from Fröbel's crystal studies.
Fröbel Used One Word for Folding Paper and Raising a Child
Fröbel used one word — unfolding — for folded paper AND for a child growing up. The motion between flat and solid is his whole philosophy. The framework.
The Shape That Won't Undress — Predicting Nets Across Three Ages
The wrapping game from Tuesday, built across three ages — from "which shape rolls?" to an 11-year-old proving why the sphere can't wrap flat.
You Can Dress a Cube in Paper. Try It With a Ball and Something Goes Wrong.
A paper-wrapping shape activity for kids that teaches 2D and 3D — and why a ball won't wrap flat, the same reason every world map is wrong.
From Point to Line — The Colour Balls Learn to Draw
Tie a string between the coloured balls and a sorting game becomes geometry — Fröbel's path from solid to point, built across three ages. For members.
From Point to Line — The Colour Balls Learn to Draw
Tie a string between the coloured balls and a sorting game becomes geometry — Fröbel's path from solid to point, built across three ages. For members.
Fröbel Put Colour on His Very First Toy. He Wanted Your Child to Ignore It.
Fröbel put colour on his first toy, then said to ignore it. Montessori did the opposite. A colour-mixing train to make this week — and the idea beneath it.