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Awards 2012: Equipment - Early years and staff equipment: under-threes

Winner - Stacking Hoops, Play to Z.

Stacking Hoops is an innovative product combining what children love doing - building towers, sorting and transporting - with much of the awe and wonder of a treasure basket.

It is an endlessly fascinating and novel approach to the old nursery favourite, the stacking toy. The collection includes about 22 hoops made from a range of unusual natural and recycled materials such as banana leaves, natural reed, soapstone, chamois leather and recycled sari thread - all chosen for their contrasting texture, weight and colour as well as for the stories they tell and the themes they introduce.

The hoops have a rubberwood stand and come with three small bags for sorting, transporting and investigation, as well as activity, fact and story cards.

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