Color Sorting Game – Pompoms & Silicone Cups for Trofast Inserts & Sensory Bins

Color sorting game with pompoms and silicone cups — a hands-on Montessori set designed to teach colour recognition through child-led play. Each set pairs beautifully with our Trofast Inserts and any sensory bin, inviting your little one to pinch, sort, and match in the most satisfying way.

🌈 6 silicone cups in vivid colours – Red, Hot Pink, Blue, Green, Yellow, and Orange. The food-grade silicone is soft, flexible, and perfectly sized at 7 cm in diameter for tiny hands to grip and tip.

🟣 30 fluffy pompoms – Five 25 mm pompoms in each of the six matching colours. Soft, lightweight, and the ideal size for pincer-grasp practice with tweezers, tongs, or little fingers.

🎯 Open-ended sorting work – Match each pompom to its colour cup for classic sorting practice, count by colour, build patterns, or use the cups as mini scoops for rice and other loose parts.

Made from soft acrylic pompoms and food-grade silicone, this set is non-toxic, lightweight, and built for daily play. Drop a single colour into the matching cup to introduce your toddler to first sorting work, or scatter all 30 pompoms across an insert and invite older preschoolers to race the rainbow.

✅ Montessori-aligned
✅ Encourages independent and child-led play
✅ Suitable for ages 1–6 with close adult supervision (small parts)
✅ Perfect for home playrooms, preschools, and homeschool setups

Pairs Beautifully with Our Trofast Inserts

This colour sorting set was made to bring our Trofast Inserts to life. The 25 mm pompoms sit perfectly inside the engraved cavities of our cavity-style sorting boards, and the silicone cups nest neatly inside an IKEA Trofast bin or sit on top of an IKEA Flisat sensory table. Together they create a complete invitation-to-play that grows with your child.

Why Loose Parts Play?

Pompoms are the gateway loose part for early Montessori work — soft enough to feel pleasant in tiny hands, light enough to lift with tweezers, and colourful enough to fuel hours of sorting. With this colour sorting game, your little one isn’t just matching hues; they’re rehearsing the same finger isolation and pincer grasp used to hold a pencil and dress independently. Open-ended materials like these grow with the child, supporting fresh activities at every age.

Perfect for Every Stage – Ages 1 to 6

• 🍼 Ages 1–2 (Young Toddlers): Toddlers explore the soft pompoms through touch and discover the satisfying squish of the silicone cups, building first cause-and-effect understanding through pouring and dumping. Always with close adult supervision — small parts pose a choking hazard.
• 🧒 Ages 2–3 (Older Toddlers): Little ones begin matching pompoms to their colour cup with visible pride, strengthening pincer grasp and learning their first colour names.
• 👧 Ages 3–6 (Preschool): Children invent rules — sort by colour, count by fives, build patterns, race against a timer, or use the pompoms as “ingredients” for pretend cooking inside a sensory insert.

How to Use It

1. Set up your invitation. Place a Montessori sensory insert inside an IKEA Trofast bin or on the IKEA Flisat table. Line up the six silicone cups along one side and scatter the 30 pompoms across the other.
2. Add tools. For older toddlers, add a pair of tweezers or our wooden bamboo tongs to extend pincer-grasp practice. For young toddlers, fingers are perfect.
3. Let your child lead. Younger children will start by simply moving pompoms between cups. Older preschoolers will challenge themselves to sort by colour, count each pile, or invent storytelling games around the colours.
4. Extend the play. Pair the set with our Color Sorting Trofast Insert for direct cavity matching, our Circles Trofast Sensory Insert and Traffic Light Color sorting Insert  for pompom-onto-spike sorting fun.
5. Tidy up together. Invite your child to return each pompom to its matching cup — the clean-up itself becomes the final sorting lesson.

A Gift They’ll Return to Again and Again 🎁

Looking for a meaningful, screen-free gift for a toddler or preschooler? This Montessori colour sorting game is a thoughtful add-on for anyone who already owns a Trofast Insert, or paired with one as a complete bundle for birthdays, Christmas, Easter, or any occasion. Unlike disposable plastic toys, this open-ended Montessori play material grows with the child — from first sorting at 18 months to detailed pattern work at five.

Key Features

• 📏 Size / Quantity: 6 silicone cups (7 cm diameter) and 30 pompoms (25 mm each, 5 per colour). Perfectly sized to fit inside an IKEA Trofast bin or on the engraved cavities of our sensory inserts.
• 🎨 Design: Six vivid, photo-true colours — Red, Hot Pink, Blue, Green, Yellow, and Orange. The high-contrast palette is ideal for early colour recognition work.
• 💡 Material: Soft acrylic pompoms and food-grade silicone cups. Non-toxic, lightweight, and durable enough for daily play in busy homes and preschool classrooms.
• 🧠 Educational focus: Builds pincer grasp, finger isolation, colour recognition, sorting and classification, counting, and the practical-life skills of pouring and transferring.
• 👶 Ideal for ages: 1 to 6 years, with adult supervision — small parts pose a choking hazard for children under three.
• 🤝 Pairs with: Our  Color Sorting Trofast Insert, Circles Trofast Sensory Insert and Traffic Light Color sorting Insert.
• 🏡 Perfect for: Montessori homes, home playrooms, preschools, and homeschool setups.

Add this colour sorting set to your sensory bin alongside our Color Sorting Trofast Insert, Circles Trofast Sensory Insert and Traffic Light Color sorting Insert.

— and watch your little one match, sort, and giggle their way through the rainbow.