Pink Tower

The Montessori Pink Tower is a classic sensorial material made of ten solid wooden cubes painted in pink, ranging in size from 1x1x1 cm to 10x10x10 cm.

Designed for children ages 3 to 5, this material helps develop visual discrimination of size, coordination, concentration, and fine motor skills.

Children build the tower by stacking the cubes from largest to smallest, learning about dimensions, order, and balance.

This hands-on activity introduces the concept of 'big' and 'small' and fosters early math and spatial reasoning.

“The Montessori Pink Tower differs in three dimensions.” — Maria Montessori.

The whole set includes 10 cubes + 1 spare smallest cube (1x1x1 cm).

Crafted from durable hardwood and painted with non-toxic paint.

Ideal for Montessori classrooms and homeschool environments.

Key Features:
- Develops size perception and sequencing
- Encourages independent problem solving
- Control of error is visual
- AMI-aligned sensorial material

Recommended age: 2.5–3 years

Montessori Pink Tower - Full Presentation Guide.
Description of Materials:
- Floor mat
- Ten solid wooden pink cubes differing in length, width, and height.
Their sizes grow progressively in the algebraic series to the third power: 1 cm3 to 1 dm3.

Presentation 1 (Video 1):
Ask the child to place a mat on the floor. Invite the child to where the Pink Tower is kept and demonstrate how to grasp each cube with one hand and
support it with the other while carrying it to the mat. The child helps carry the cubes individually and places them at random on the mat.
Beginning with the largest cube, and with one movement place the cubes concentrically in tower formation. View the tower from all around, pause, and gently dismantle it.

Exercise 1 (Video 2):
The child builds the tower and dismantles it. He may need to stand to place the last four or five cubes. He replaces the cubes on the stand or shelf with assistance.

Presentation & Exercise 2 (Video 3):
Build the tower aligning two sides. Use the smallest cube as a unit of measure to demonstrate the relation between any two consecutive cubes.

Control of Error:
Visual disharmony.
The tower will topple over if badly built.

Purpose:
Direct:
- Visual and muscular perception of dimension.
- Coordination of movement.
Indirect:
- Preparation for mathematics.
- Ten cubes - ten is the base for the decimal system.
- Cube root - one thousand of the smallest cube makes the tenth cube.
Language (at a later stage):
Cube, large and small, comparatives and superlatives.