Nikitin cubes

Educators claim that cubes are generally one of the most useful toys that have been invented in the entire history of mankind. With them, the child learns to manipulate objects, distinguish between parts and the whole, build, seek balance, navigate in space, and fantasize.

Well, Nikitin's cubes are simply kings among cubes. Speech therapists and psychologists praise them to the skies. The bottom line is that the edges of all cubes are painted in 4 colors, either solidly or divided into two equal triangles. This poor coloring is enough to make hundreds of pictures out of 16 cubes. Each set comes with an album showing assembly diagrams for various ornaments, letters, numbers, objects and animals. You can assemble according to a diagram, and for preschoolers this is not at all as simple an activity as it might seem. Which side to turn the triangles, how many squares to retreat - all this needs to be figured out, laid out, carefully checked, such an activity perfectly develops thinking.

You can come up with your own pictures. This is where fantasy comes into play, spatial vision is also a complex mental activity. These cubes are so popular that publishers are releasing additional albums with tasks for them; there are not enough staff members.

I think I’ll go and make some kind of kolobok out of triangles and squares and develop my brain.

Complicated, useful and interesting - Nikitin cubes