Colored squares, hexagons and ovals screw onto threaded posts and spin: a fine motor skills toy a child wants to turn again and again.
Picture a child choosing a bright shape, holding it to a post and turning it, and the shape winds itself up the thread. Then another, and another, and soon a colorful rainbow is growing on the post. This toy is about colors, shapes and motion, and about fine motor skills too: to screw a shape on, little fingers learn precision and patience.
The toy is made for kids who love colors, shapes and anything that spins, including little ones with special needs. That is why it is practical too: the posts are replaceable, so if one is dropped and broken you swap just that post instead of throwing the whole toy away.
The set consists of a 70 × 200 × 10 mm base with three holes, three threaded posts 130 mm tall (hexagonal, oval and square in cross-section) and 18 colorful shapes: six squares, six hexagons and six ovals in the colors of the rainbow, red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. Each shape is 20 mm thick and roughly 36–46 mm across. As in the photos: a light blue base, yellow posts and colored shapes.
We print each color separately, so the shades stay clean with no mixing. We recommend PETG for the posts: it is more flexible than PLA and has stronger layer adhesion, so a post survives being dropped; the threads are printed without supports and come out smooth. The full set takes about 364 g of plastic and roughly 13 h 11 min of printing, spread over several plates.
You choose the color of the base, the posts and the shapes separately. Order it, and we will print the toy as a gift for a holiday or a birthday.
- Type
- fine motor skills toy: shapes screw onto threaded posts
- Set
- 70 × 200 × 10 mm base with 3 holes, 3 posts (hexagonal, oval, square), 18 shapes
- Posts
- threaded, 130 mm tall, replaceable
- Shapes
- square ≈ 40 × 40, hexagon ≈ 46 × 40, oval ≈ 36 × 46 mm, 20 mm thick; 6 of each shape
- Shape colors
- red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple (as in the photo)
- Printing
- no AMS needed; posts in PETG, tree supports over the plate only, threads need no supports
- Plastic used
- ≈ 364 g
- Print time
- ≈ 13 h 11 min (several plates)
- Color
- your choice, separately for the base, the posts and the shapes
- Weight
- 364 g
- Print time
- 13 h 11 min