Learning Resources All About Me Sorting Neighborhood Montessori Preschool Activities, Ages 3+

I have a 4 year old. She has basic onowldege4of her colors and shapes. She enjoyed playing with her "colorful families" as she called them. She labeled each character according to what she identified them to such as mom, dad, sister, brother and baby. She also enjoyed coordinating them by color.

This is a great learning toy. The toy allows children to learn their colors and sorting. My 3 year old loved it, she loved to play pretend with the little people and animals and loved putting them in their correct house based on their color. The only downside was she got bored with it pretty quickly since there was only so much she could do with it.

This set is so much fun! It has so many uses, my daughter and I have practiced colors, counting, addition, subtraction, family diversity and so much more. She plays with this set for HOURS and is entertained the whole time! We build little cities with the houses and practice "shopping" with the people and so much more! This set does NOT disappoint!

The whole family is having fun with this one! There are so many things that can be learned from this set. We have used it to learn addition, subtraction, and some lower level multiplication. With it being so visual, my daughter is really catching on quite nicely. It is also thought provoking as far as her asking questions or noticing that not all couples have children, or like her, some just have one, some have no pets, and some have multiple, etc. Mom, dad, and daughter have all enjoyed this!

My toddler son has really enjoyed this set. The colors of all the houses and pieces are very vibrant and everything seems well made and sturdy. I can see this toy being used for at least a couple of years. Right now, the figurines are just something fun to play with and put in and take out of the houses. As he gets older, we can practice sorting by colors and counting with them as well. He can already recognize the "mama" and "papa" pieces and as he learns more vocabulary, I'm sure he'll have names for the rest. The little pieces could easily get lost but keeping everything stored in a bin is probably the best bet. I was pleasantly surprised by the set and think it's a great addition to foster imaginative play now and as he gets older.

Absolutely amazing toy! It has 6 houses inside with toy family members and even dogs. It was so exciting to use it with my children to learn colors (they needed to separate families in correct houses by color), counting. Kids also got creative and mixed houses and roofs of different colors. We all love 5e toy, tons of joy and many ways of learning different things via play

I am a pediatric nurse and mother so I get to enjoy multiple perspectives of child development. While I'm purely observational at work, watching a variety of developmental stages at play, with my own son I get the opportunity to not only pour into his education but personal/ethical development too. When we first received the colorful houses with colorful people, I didn't know how my son would react to this different toy. I thought he might grow bored of it quickly. However, I discovered a really neat learning opportunity wrapped up in a simple toy- after he initially set up "our family", I showed him how many other families look. Some families were made of different colored members, some had a solo mother or father, some had two mothers or fathers, some had animals and no children, some were grandparents caring for kids, and so on. Overall I'm grateful for this cool opportunity to teach him about differences in families and how they're all valid and lovable.

My son loves the neighborhood counting set. He is 2 1/2 and we are working on numbers and colors. He would sort them by size/type (his favorite is the dogs) and by color. This keeps him entertained for 20+ minutes and encourages him to use his imagination. It is great for self play and guided play with an adult. The only downfall from a parent's perspective is all the pieces; putting it away organized takes a couple minutes. I did receive this free of charge in exchange for a honest review; this did not influence my opinions on this set.

Great set. My 3 year old loved that it had each member of the family including pets! He would separate each color at first and then each pet and count and put them back into their color home. He begged to bring them into the bath and that's where the fun continued.

I received this for free to try as a buzz agent. My 5 yo daughter and I have used it a few times. The way we play is mixing all of the people together and then separating them into their color groups. Then we count each character color coordinated. She likes to put each household into groups either going from dad, mom, brother, sister, dog. Or changing it up to mom and daughter, dad and son etc... it's entertaining for about 10 minutes then she becomes bored.