The Sensorial Materials provide vital developmental experiences for all senses: visual, auditory, gustatory, tactile and olfactory. Each lesson, whether it is matching the Color Tablets, naming the plane geometric shapes found in the Geometric Cabinet, or building the Pink Tower, plays a crucial role in helping each child to develop a sense of logic, concentration, and sensory discrimination, skills necessary for abstract thinking in Math and Language studies. The pincer grasp, so necessary for controlling a pen or pencil, is continually refined and developed with the Sensorial Materials.
After a child has mastered some of the Sensorial Materials, he/she will continue to experiment and compare them in a more abstract way. Kindergarten students will often build the Pink Tower while blindfolded, grade all the Bells from high C to low C, or compare the Red Rods with the Pink Tower and the Broad Stair to find the similarities and differences between all three.
Education is a natural process carried out by the human individual, and is acquired not by listening to words, but by experiences in the environment.