Stack, Balance, and Play with My Fun Shapes!

September 30, 2024

My Fun Shapes: A fun way to learn colors and shapes with 30 colorful wooden blocks that kids can stack and balance.

Delight little ones as they learn colors and shapes and build fine motor skills with My Fun Shapes! With 30 colorful wooden blocks, little learners can stack, balance, and play alongside Tibbar rabbit to see how many shapes they can balance before they all come tumbling down.

My Fun Shapes also includes activity disks for an added challenge. Instead of stacking or playing freely, pick up a shape disk from the pile to see what color or shape of the block to add to the stack next. Test fine motor skills and encourage even more learning by naming colors and shapes. Explore hours of fun while mastering balance and coordination with My Fun Shapes!

Award-Winning Fun!

No wonder this clever stacking and balancing toddler activity has received abundant industry recognition and awards! It encourages children to explore, build, and learn while supporting fine motor skills and early critical thinking skills, among much more. Here's what industry experts have to say about My Fun Shapes!

Parents magazine says My Fun Shapes is a “must-have for the toddler toy box” and included it in their 2024 Best Toys Awards as the ‘Best Educational Toy for Toddlers.’ For nearly 100 years, Parents has provided trustworthy advice to “support caregivers through every step of the parenting journey.” This highly coveted award program designated just 75 best-of-the-best products out of more than 300 submissions.

PAL Awards (‘Play Advances Language’) awarded My Fun Shapes as one of 2024s Top 10 games in the preschool-age category. Speech-language pathologist and toy expert Erika Cardamone spends hours working with children to discover the best toys, games, and books that have the “capability to develop language while delivering great play.”

My Fun Shapes is a wonderful educational game for young children, combining early learning concepts like shapes, colors, and spatial reasoning with the fun of stacking and building. Ideal for developing fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination, this game supports early academic skills in a way that feels natural and fun. - Erika Cardamone

Read the full PAL Award summary for My Fun Shapes here.

My Fun Shapes is also a Mom’s Choice Award winner! The Mom’s Choice Awards program is globally recognized for establishing the benchmark of excellence in family-friendly media, products, and services. Check out the award feature here.

My Fun Set by SimplyFun: early learning activities for ages 2+

Looking to add even more learning to your toddler’s day? Check out My Fun Set! This NAPPA-award-winning set of three toddler toys and activities includes award-winning My Fun Shapes as well as My Fun Day, a colorful wooden activity board, and My Fun Buddy Book, a cuddly cloth book that inspires imagination and sensory development.

The National Parenting Product Awards (NAPPA) find and showcase the best toys, baby, and family products based on their entertainment value, appeal, safety, educational features, and more.

Learning through Play with My Fun Shapes

My Fun Shapes provides hands-on, mess-free fun for toddlers and young children ages 2 and up. At first glance, it's clear that this preschool learning toy introduces and builds straightforward skills such as color and shape recognition and fine motor skills but there's so much more to this set. My Fun Shapes also instills a variety of early learning proficiencies that will ignite a love for learning and add value for years to come.

Here are a few of those skills:

Curiosity: What block would work better at the bottom of the stack versus the top?
Spatial reasoning: Will placing the circle block here cause the tower to grow taller, or come tumbling down?
Focus and self-control: I really want that orange star block, but it's not my turn to pick up a new shape. Or, I know adding the yellow Tibbar block on top of the stack will cause it to collapse, but I can't help myself!
Memory: When I played before, did I already try adding this shape in a specific way or area? What was the result?
Dexterity: Placing the block on the stack slowly and carefully versus quickly and carelessly.
Vocabulary and Language: Identifying and expressing each color and block shape. Using the disks to help encourage the recognition of shapes and colors and then communicating it by either speaking out loud or using signs, like pointing to or picking up the block.
Experimentation: The blocks can be stacked in various ways - either laid flat or placed upright on a side. Let your kids experiment with sizes, weights, and motion as they explore various building patterns.
Decision-making: Deciding what shape and color block to pick up, how to place it, how to build and stack the blocks, etc.
Achievement of goals: Did all the blocks I wanted to use get added to the tower? Did I build a structure that made me happy and proud? Did everything fall down? And if so, was that my goal?

Young boy playing with My Fun Shapes by SimplyFun: A set of 30 colorful wooden blocks that kids can stack and balance while learning colors and shapes.

How to Play My Fun Shapes

There are lots of ways to engage with a child to help them learn their colors and shapes. You can let them play freely with the 30 blocks, stacking and balancing them as they choose or you can ask them to name the color or the shape they are using. Another way to play is to hold up one of the disks and ask them to choose the correct block.

The blocks can be stacked in various ways. They can be laid flat or placed upright on a side. Tibbar rabbit likes to help! Place two or more rabbit blocks as a base and try to balance the shape blocks on top of them. Experimentation is the fun part! Let them test and try out different sizes, weights, and motions as they explore various building patterns.

Young children playing with My Fun Shapes by SimplyFun: A set of 30 colorful wooden blocks that kids can stack and balance while learning colors and shapes.

For more challenging play, mix up the disks face down and then ask players to choose one. When it is turned over ask them to choose the correct block and place it on the stack. See how many blocks they can stack or balance before it falls!

The possibilities are endless when you start playing with My Fun Shapes! Get ready for unlimited entertainment by stacking and balancing blocks and see how many of the colorful shapes you can balance before they come tumbling down!

Keep little hands busy in play with My Fun Shapes!