Best Learning Sorting Toys in 2026

See your child's imagination come to life with this 26-piece starter wooden block set.

Little hands can make amazing creations, while learning spatial reasoning and more.

Shapes are in standard measurements 1.75" x 1.75". Compatible with all HABA building systems.

Let your childs imagination take shape with the ability to create endless geometric patterns and pictures. The cork board and tacks allow for the fun to continue over and over. A great starter shape tack set complete with color pattern cards. Set includes 50 hard wood geometric shapes, durable cork board, wooden hammer and tacks. Your design is permanent until you decide to take the figures off and start again! Build all sorts of things like boats and trains, buildings or larger 3-dimensional looking shapes.

Perfect for developing your child's cognitive ability, learning shapes, colors, and math through geometry. Imaginative and creative fun!

As your child fits and arranges shapes together, they'll begin to understand the most basic principles of geometry, like how two triangles make a square or diamond.

Squeaking, clacking, rattling, tinkering.. each cube awaits with a different acoustic effect. In this way, early perception and musicality are fostered.

Little sound explorers will really enjoy themselves playing with the discovery blocks and revel in the thrill of creating their own sounds and acoustic experiments.

Contents: 6 discovery blocks with different acoustic effects. Each cube measures 1.75" x 1.75" x 1.75". Suitable for ages 12 months and up.

This fabric block set is perfect for baby's first blocks. Each cube measures 3" x 3", has a different color, patten and texture and makes its own unique sound.

This STEM toy fosters learning as children push, grab, stack and even notice their reflection in the mirror.

Winner of the Parent's Choice Approved Award, this toy is machine washable on cold. Suitable for babies aged 6 months and up.

Wee-wah, wee-wah! Here comes the fire brigade! With this versatile set, your little one will become acquainted with the numbers 1 to 10, while delighting in stacking and nesting each cube over and over again creating different scenes or mixing them up!

The faces of the cube show dfferent scenes: the fire truck, the firefighters doing their job, the equipment and the rescue.

The cubes can be stacked to make a tall tower or they can be nested inside each other for easy cleanup and storage.

How many ways can you stack these adorable and silly forest friends? This brightly colored set features bears with lots of personality and cheeky owls who want to fit in everywhere. The goal is to carefully stack the owls, bears and trees as high as you can. 

You can either try to copy the templates that feature different levels of difficulty or create an arrangement all of your own. 

Set includes: 9 stacking blocks and 10 double-sided template cards featuring 3 levels of difficulty.

Independent threading or following the template? Little threading experts can choose!

Bonus! If there are two players, they can play an exciting tactile game and take turns to pull the play figures out of the tactile bag.

Contents Include: 2 threads with stable, 1 cow, 1 calf, 1 horse, 1 foal, 1 cloverleaf, 1 flower, 1 milk churn, 1 horseshoe, 4 templates and 1 little tactile bag.

This unique stacking toy has so much to offer! Younger children will enjoy playing independently with the chunky double sided figures as they work on building vocabulary and telling stories

The template cards (which slide easily into the base and come in 3 degrees of difficulty) encourage children first to simply line up the figures to match the picture. Next to use their fine motor skills to stack the figures and finally to arrange them in layers front to back!

Set includes 8 chunky beech wood pieces with different illustrations on front and back, allowing for 16 possible choices when constructing a scene. Includes 5 double sided template cards and a baseplate made of birch plywood measuring 6" x 4.5"