Description
Enhance your early years environment with the Metal Resource Treasure Basket, a carefully curated collection of metal and everyday household resources designed to support heuristic play through open-ended, self-directed exploration. The collection includes reflective sensory balls, funnels, whisks, miniature saucepans, serving buckets, spoons, colanders, mashers, mixing bowls and more, all presented in a medium natural basket with lid.
These familiar resources encourage children to explore safely at their own pace, inviting curiosity, choice, and focused engagement. Handling the objects supports reaching, grasping, turning, and transferring between hands, helping to develop hand strength, hand–eye coordination, and two-handed manipulation.
Children can explore through touch, sight, and sound, discovering how objects move, feel, and respond to action. Repetition and returning to familiar resources helps to sustain interest, build confidence, and create opportunities for shared attention with others.
Youngest learners can explore textures, sounds, and movement using their hands, fingers, and mouth, building early sensory awareness. Open-ended, multi-sensory exploration encourages early curiosity and the development of concentration, persistence, and independence. Adults can enhance learning by naming objects, describing children’s actions, and responding to gestures, supporting early language, listening, and communication.
The resources are made of stainless steel which is highly hygienic due to their non-porous surface. It does not absorb moisture, bacteria or odours and are easy to clean, sterilise and disinfect without degrading, supporting high hygiene standards in EYFS classroom.
Extend children’s exploration by combining the Sensory Balls Treasure Basket with other Early Excellence 1–2 years resources. Use alongside our other Treasure Baskets, Early Investigations Resource Collection, or Investigations In, Under, Through Resource Collection to create a rich, engaging environment that supports sensory play, physical development and growing independence.
Learning Opportunities
- Developing hand–eye coordination and two-handed manipulation
- Exploring textures, shapes, and sounds through sensory play
- Understanding cause-and-effect through experimenting with objects
- Building confidence and independence through self-directed exploration
This Metal Resource Treasure Basket includes:
- 3 Reflective Sensory Sound Balls, approx. approx. Dia 10cm
- Balloon Whisk, approx. 16.5cm
- Stainless Steel Mini Saucepan, approx. 6.5cm diameter
- 2 Stainless Steel Serving Bucket, approx. 9cm and 7cm
- Stainless Steel Mixing Bowl 0.5l
- Stainless Steel Spaghetti Measure, approx. 18.5cm
- Stainless Steel Strainer with Handle
- Stainless Steel Spice Funnel
- Stainless Steel Masher
- Stainless Steel Mini Colander
- Stainless Steel Milk Jug
- Stainless Steel Round Tray – approx. 14cm diameter
- Stainless Steel Teaspoon and Tablespoon
- Stainless Steel Scoop Spoon
- Medium striped natural basket with lid approx. H18cm x W32cm, inset 25cm
- Suitable from age 12 months, 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.
