Super Sorting Pie - Sorting and Matching, Fine Motor Skills, Food Toys, Color Recognition, Counting Game, Preschool, Toddler Math Manipulatives, Gifts for Boys and Girls

This thing is so cute! We recently played with this during library story time and I knew my daughter would love one at home. She just turned 2 and its perfect for her to practice her tweezer grip and color sorting right now. It includes counting cards too so it would be great for an older toddler as well. the fruit pieces are very well made and everything is great quality. Probably best for 2-4 year olds but I know my nieces who are 5 and 10 would also love playing with this. Learning resources makes the best quality toys for open ended play and learning!

This was a huge hit with my children (ages 6, 3, and 1). They played so nicely together and had a blast. My youngest is very OCD and she thought it was great that you had to sort out these little fruits into the pie. She also doesn't put things in her mouth as most one-year-olds typically do. So if your baby puts things in their mouth, this is not for them. Comes with 60 fruit (6 yellow grapefruits, 6 yellow bananas, 6 green bananas, 6 green apples, 6 red apples, 6 red berries, 6 purple berries, 6 purple plums, 6 orange oranges, and 6 orange apricots), 2 tongs, 3 double-sided sorting cards, a pie pan, a pie crust with 5 dividers, and a pie crust top that can be used as a bowl to put the fruit while the kids are sorting them out. The sorting card options: By color, By fruit and color, By fruit, By numbers 1-5 or 6-10. It all seems to be made from very durable plastic. My nieces and nephews (ages 4, 2, and 1) came over and played with it as well and my nephew did put them in his mouth. He even tried to chew on them and I saw no tooth marks on the fruit afterwards. I highly recommend this product! It is great to help children with fine motor skills, how to sort things based on one attribute, learning their numbers and how to count.

We bought this as a gift for our daughter's third birthday. She is about to turn six and still loves playing with this educational toy. It has quickly become one of our very favorite games to gift as well. It includes a sturdy and really cute pie. The pie comes with 5 different colors (red, orange, yellow, purple, and green) of fruit. There are 60 pieces of fruit! Three double sided cards are included: 2 sides show the certain fruits and their colors, 2 sides includes numbers from 1-10, 1 side shows the shape of colorless fruit and the last side shows a color wheel. The crust and dividers remove so that you can place sorting cards in the bottom of the pie to encourage a sorting activity. It also comes with 2 large tweezers that are perfect for little hands to practice working on fine motor skills. My daughter has always been a sorter and organizer so we knew this would be right up her alley. My daughter also loves to pulls this out for pretend play and makes us all kinds of different pies in her play kitchen. I really can't recommend this product enough.

My toddler loves this pie and the fun colorful fruit keep her interested and entertained for a long time. The quality is sturdy and I like that it has many different uses so we can reduce the number of physical toys in our home—for example color matching, type matching, counting, using tweezers/fine motor skills and coming up with different games/exercises.

I first saw this in a preschool classroom and knew I wanted to find one for my daughter. We gave it to her for her third birthday. She gets it out and plays with it everyday, and we were pleasantly surprised that her 6-year old sister likes to play with it too! They love the tweezers and to sort by color, by type or to just "serve" the fruits. With some assistance, it is also a great counting manipulative and has the versatility for the sorting and counting to grow in complexity throughout the preschool and kindergarten years. The tweezers are also a good fine motor-skill manipulative. The set is well made and sturdy. We keep it in the storage box, putting it away on the shelf after each use so that the fruits don't get mixed in with the other toys. This works to both keep the set intact and to make it a "special" toy that is well-looked after. While it costs a little more than some toys, I think it was worth the price for both its educational value and pure enjoyment as a toy.

I ordered this toy not being very familiar with Learning Resources products and I can say I'm impressed in the quality. The tongs are made of a very sturdy plastic and that's a plus because I was afraid of my kids breaking them or being very flimsy. The actual fruit which I also thought would be hollow plastic are not. They are solid, heavy and very realistic. Same with the container (pie), the cards are thick enough but these I do see getting ripped if you have kids who like to chew, bite or suck on things, they are glossy and the colors are real bright. I am still trying to find more creative ways for my kids to play with it other than using the cards which at some point do get boring for them. Fortunately, I paid $17 and some change when it was on sale here on Amazon, quite honestly even though the product is of very high quality I wouldn't have paid full price for it, as I said, it can be limited in the ways you play with it. If you're very creative and can give it a better use other than the cards supplied buy it for your kids but if your kids are not into toys unless they have lights and whistles this may not be too entertaining for them.

We started home schooling our boys and have been looking for good math manipulatives that both my 2 and 4 year old can use and enjoy. This hit the nail on the head for sure. We debated several similar options, to include counting bears, before deciding on this for the price and functionality of it. We love the large, life-like pieces of fruit for the "pie" and the fact that it came with 60 pieces. My youngest child generally knows not to put objects in his mouth, but the large fruit give the extra reassurance that he is not going to pop it in his mouth without my noticing (he has not yet tried this thankfully!). My boys love playing with this together as well as individually if I'm working on something one-on-one with the other child. The activity cards that come with it range in difficulty (3 double sided cards), so for example I can use the color card for my 2 year old to sort by color and the counting card for my 4 year old to sort by number. I see this being used for a while in our home as the fruit themselves can be used for math manipulatives outside of the sorting pie activities. Another reason we appreciate this is it exercises fine motor skills using the tweezers to pick up the fruit. Both my kids struggled when they first started using the sorting pie tweezers but have since mastered using them. This is also great for pre-writing skills for my youngest son. If the math and motor skills aren't enough, this pie also brings out my boy's imaginations. They love "baking pies" for mommy and daddy! Although all the pieces - including the tweezers - fit inside of the pie itself, the pie does not close securely which is probably the only "con" I can think of. If you have a leveled shelf to place it on, this isn't an issue. We keep it in the box it came with so that we can store it upright as this was just more convenient for us. The box is sturdy enough that this has not been an issue.

This has been a super toy/activity for my children. The kids that enjoy this the most are between 2-6, although my 8 year old has had fun with this too. My 2 year old does not put toys in her mouth, and if she did, I do not think this would have been a good toy for that age. 2 and 4 year old love to sort and play with the fruits. I like that there are many different fruits to chose from. The kids use the fruits not only with this set, but also in playing tea party and with their kitchen set. The fruits are a hard rubber type material. Very sturdy and durable. The pie and papers that go in it have definitely taken a beating from tons of play with the 2 and 4 year old, and have help up. This is one toy that I feel has both educational and entertainment value. Definitely worth the money!