Ruff's Tactile Set

Ruff’s Tactile Set - Explore Textures, Build Vocabulary, Strengthen Hands

Give children a hands-on way to discover the world of textures. With Ruff’s Tactile Set, young learners reach into the doghouse to find soft, smooth, bumpy, ridged, and scratchy bones, strengthening their tactile discrimination, fine motor skills, and early language.

Designed for toddlers and preschoolers, this material invites children to sort by colour, match by texture, and compare differences using real sensory exploration rather than pictures. It supports both Montessori practical life and sensorial work in a playful, engaging way.

What children learn

• Tactile discrimination - feeling and identifying different textures
• Visual sorting and matching - colour coding, pairing, and categorizing
• Fine motor development - reaching, grasping, carrying, and placing
• Language building - descriptive words such as smooth, bumpy, and silky
• Early problem-solving - finding pairs hidden inside the doghouse

What’s included

• Sturdy plastic doghouse (5 L x 5 W x 5 H inches)
• Soft dog figure
• 20 bones - 2 of each of 10 textures in bright, engaging colours

Why educators love it

Teachers use Ruff’s Tactile Set for small-group sensorial lessons, shelf work, early matching activities, and vocabulary development. The variety of textures and colours allows for multiple extensions such as sorting games, blindfold tactile work, memory activities, and cooperative play.

Why parents love it

Parents appreciate that the set is intuitive, screen-free, and encourages independent exploration. Children enjoy repeating the activity again and again, hiding the bones, searching for them, and proudly matching pairs.

Age: 2 - 4 years

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