Montessori Forest Animals
The Woodland Stack & Match Board is a calm, beautifully simple toy that brings a little forest into your child’s play space. Ten wooden stacking pieces, each painted with a woodland animal, sit on a sturdy base board, ready to be picked up, matched, stacked and arranged again and again.
Younger children will love lifting the pieces off and placing them back on, one by one. As they grow, the play grows with them: matching each animal to its place, sorting, counting, naming the animals and making up little forest stories along the way. There’s no single right way to play, so your child can come back to it at every stage.
Made from wood with non-toxic, child-safe paint, it’s built for everyday play and to be passed on to a younger sibling or friend. It’s the kind of toy that looks lovely on a shelf and earns its place in a carefully chosen playroom.
What’s Included
- 10 x wooden woodland animal stacking pieces
- 1 x wooden base board (21cm x 21cm)
- Recommended age: 1 year+
What the OT Says
I chose this board because it offers a lot of developmental value in a very simple form. Picking up each piece and placing it accurately asks your child to coordinate what their eyes see with what their hands do. Small, controlled movements like these can support fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination, and the size of the pieces encourages children to use their fingertips rather than a whole-hand grab, which is an important step towards a more refined grasp later on.
The board also invites both hands to work together: one hand often steadies the board while the other places a piece. This kind of bilateral coordination is a foundation for many everyday tasks, from holding paper while drawing to opening containers at lunchtime.
Matching each animal to its place adds a gentle thinking challenge. Children practise looking carefully at detail, noticing what’s the same and what’s different, and holding a picture in mind while they search. Depending on how it’s used, this can support visual perceptual skills, working memory and early problem-solving. When you play alongside your child, naming the animals, talking about where they live and taking turns, it becomes a lovely opportunity for language and early social skills too.
As an occupational therapist, I look for toys that let children be active participants in their own learning, and this one does that quietly and well. I’d happily recommend it for home play or for use in a therapy setting.
Let customers speak for us
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I absolutely love this puzzle, and have purched multiple ones as gifts. It is well crafted, and the wood is neatly rounded off. I'll be honest I've never played the game guidlines included, and rather use it as a catalyst in my creative processes. I love the fact that there are no rules to this, and the opportunity to use it as an expressive tool. My tiny human loves it too, and can play endlessly with captivated imagination.
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