ETA hand2mind Manipulite Foam Geometric Solids, Set of 12

I teach preschool and my kids love it!

ordered these outstanding set of shaped blocks so that my great granddauhter could recognize them for her testing in Kindergarden

These are great. They are sturdy, squishy, grabable, and all around perfect for little ones to familiarize themselves with geometric shapes.

I did not receive the product as shown in the photo. The prisms I received are long and narrow, in the same proportions as the narrow yellow cylinder pictured. The color is also not as pictured, rather than the bright blue it is a dark navy. This makes the faces of the hexagonal & octagonal prisms tiny, dark and difficult to differentiate. The photo is identical in composition to a similar product: 'Learning Resources Hands-On Soft Geosolids, Set of 12' so I suspect it is copied. The Learning Resources product comes in 2 more elaborate versions including either activity cards or a teacher's guide and other items. I chose this simpler and cheaper version since I didn't need geometry lessons for a 4 yr old. He can identify a variety of shapes and the idea was to help him visualize how his vocabulary of 2 dimensional shapes translates to their 3 dimensional counterparts. I purchased an octagonal box at the dollar store for storage and presentation. They arrived in a ziplock style bag in a padded mailer. I initially panicked imagining crushed and dented contents but the pieces are durable and solid so everything was intact. They were a birthday gift and while my grandson immediately started pulling out solids and identifying them he quickly became distracted and moved on to other activities. I don't regret this purchase but I am very disappointed by the narrow versions of the prisms. The chunkier style shown in the photo is visually more appealing and shows the shapes much more clearly.

This was used as a teaching aid for a grade school student doing remote learning to provide a hands on example of shapes as they were being taught for math class. Very effective.