BUBBLES, Spherical cork balancing blocks

Bubbles is a fun balancing game for children based on 4 cork spheres that have a concave part at its base.

The cork used as raw material comes entirely from protected cork oaks and is only extracted during allowed periods, approximately every 9 years. Then spheres are stained with certified vegetable dyes that are totally respectful to children and toxin free.

Stacking these spheres (or bubbles) on top of each other will be a challenge that will test kids’ patience and their spatial vision. Its concave part and cork texture itself facilitate the grip of one another, favouring seemingly impossible inclinations, with which to play and investigate. The difficulty can increase if they try to put the smallest ones at the base and the larger ones on top. Will they be able to use all the bubbles in a tower like that?

Also, of course, these spheres can be used as loose cork pieces for any unstructured open-ended game. They can become key pieces to decorate your small worlds or end up being part of the assortment of a renowned grocery store. Long live to imagination!

Cork is a wonderful sensory material because it introduces new textures that are not usually present in our everyday life: it has a curious volume/weight relation (very different from plastic, metal or wood) and makes very little noise when we handle it. It is not the same to drop a cork material as one of any other material. In short, cork provides a way to expand kids’ sensory universe in a free and respectful way.

An evolutionary toy that we recommend from 1 to 10 years old.