Froebel Gifts

The Froebel gifts (German: Fröbelgaben) are educational play materials for young children, originally designed by Friedrich Fröbel for the first kindergarten at Bad Blankenburg. Playing with Froebel's gifts, singing, dancing, and growing plants were each important aspects of this child-centered approach to education. The series was later extended from the original six to at least ten sets of gifts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froebel_gifts

• Fröbel's building forms and accompanying games were forerunners of abstract art as well as a source of inspiration to the Bauhaus movement.[16][17] Many modernist architects were exposed as children to Fröbel's ideas about geometry, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Bucky Fuller.[17] Wright was given a set of the Fröbel's blocks at about age nine, and in his autobiography he cited them indirectly in explaining that he learned the geometry of architecture in kindergarten play.