This gears building set will help children with shape and colour recognition, hand and eye co-ordination, symmetry and spatial sense, fine motor skills and creativity. This gears building set is packed in a jumbo plastic container with lock and handle. This building set includes gears, nuts, bolts, wheels, a screwdriver and a hammer. A great gears building set which can be used across different ages with varying levels and abilities. This set is suitable for use by children from the age of 2 years for simple activities such as sorting and stacking, older children will be able to explore gears and movement. Try adding it to the toddler room! Construction resources help to promote a variety of cognitive and physical skills. They encourage problem solving and logical thinking to solve issues such as balancing blocks, where the next piece goes and how to make the structure that they want to build. Team work is also a key feature in the use of construction resources. Children can work together to design and build intricate and thoughtful structures using their creativity, imagination and logical thinking. Social, communication and language skills are all improved through playing with construction resources. Children build perseverance as they build their constructions. Play encourages creativity, imagination, perseverance and the development of language and social skills. Children become more confident and develop a stronger sense of identity through play.