Description
Enhance your early years environment with the Colour Resource Treasure Basket, a thoughtfully curated collection of open-ended, everyday resources designed to support heuristic play through open-ended, self-directed exploration. Carefully selected to promote sensory and visual development, the collection includes a rich range of colourful resources, including 3 soft toys, wooden-handled colour and glow panels, kaleidoscope blocks, gem cubes, silicone rainbow arch, chiffon scarves. These are presented in a large natural basket with lid for children to explore.
Designed for use in EYFS classrooms and nursery settings, these treasure basket resources invite children to explore freely at their own pace, encouraging curiosity, choice, and sustained engagement. Children explore using their hands, fingers, eyes, and mouth, supporting early sensory awareness and whole-body learning. As children grasp, turn, stack, and transfer objects between hands, they develop hand strength, hand–eye coordination, and two-handed manipulation.
The varied use of colour supports early visual awareness, helping children notice similarities, differences, and contrast. Children naturally explore how objects look, feel, and respond to movement, developing an understanding of cause and effect through repeated, self-directed exploration. Returning to familiar resources builds confidence, concentration, and independence, while also creating opportunities for shared attention and interaction with others.
The open-ended range of treasure basket resources encourages curiosity, persistence, and deep engagement while providing children with a wide choice of items to explore and attract their interest. Adults can enrich learning by naming colours, describing children’s actions, and responding to gestures and vocalisations, supporting early language development, listening, and communication.
Extend children’s exploration by combining the Colour Resource Treasure Basket with other Early Excellence 1–2 years resources, including a wider selection of Treasure Baskets, Small World Complete Collection 1–2yrs, Early Investigations Resource Collection 1–2yrs, or Block Resource Collection 1-2yrs to create a rich, engaging environment that supports sensory exploration, early communication, and growing independence.
Learning Opportunities
- Developing hand–eye coordination and two-handed manipulation
- Exploring colour, shape, texture, and visual contrast through sensory play
- Building early visual awareness and discrimination
- Understanding cause-and-effect through open-ended exploration
- Developing confidence and independence through self-directed exploration
This Colour Resource Treasure Basket includes:
- 3 natural rubber wood viewing frames with handles, featuring 2 vibrant colour and 1 glow acrylic panel inserts, approx. 18.5cm x 12cm with the acrylic insert, approx. 8cm diameter
- 10 wooden kaleidoscope blocks, approx. 5cm x 5cm x 2.5cm depth
- Set of Wooden Conical Figures in rainbow colours, approx. 10cm
- 5 piece silicone rainbow arch, approx. 9cm x 17.5cm x 5cm
- 10 gem cubes, approx. 2.5cm
- 2 wooden eggs
- 3 sheer scarves, approx. 40cm x 40cm
- 3 soft toys
- 1 large natural basket with lid, approx. H22cm x D46cm at widest part, Inset W35cm
- Suitable from 12 months and over, with appropriate adult supervision
Safety Information
For use with children from 1-2yrs: resources must ONLY be used with effective, close adult supervision. The competency and development of each child should be considered before introducing the resource into the environment. This must be regularly monitored and assessed as new children begin their learning journey within the environment.
For full safety information, please see Product Care & Safety Guidance Leaflet.
Variations
Many of our resources are produced in a variety of colours and styles and may vary slightly from those shown; however, we guarantee that you will always receive the same quality and value.
Secondary images are used for representation purposes only.
