Ten different shapes with colorful heavy-duty lace-up cards are included in each kit along with 10- 42"" woven nylon laces with 1"" long sewing ends for ease of handling by small children. Each card is plastic coated for durability and strength representing a different animal or shape providing for different fine motor and eye-hand coordination challenges with each card. Either numbers or letters of the alphabet direct the lacing sequence providing for additional learning over other sewing cards. The Lacing Cards have also been designed to reinforce a left to right sequence of motion. Teaching guide with extension activities is included in each kit!

Shape Lace-Up Cards are designed to meet the following key instructional goals:

* identifying and naming 10 basic shapes (circle, square, triangle, rectangel, oval, rhombus, star, heart, pentagon, hexagon

*identifying, sorting, and classifying objects by attribute (shape) and identifying objects that do not belong to a particular group

*developing fine-motor and cognitive learning skills

* reading simple shape names For use with Grades PreK-1.