Description
About the product:
- Article number: 1MM255
- Brand: Heutink / GAM
- Material: wood.
- AMI-certified educational material.
- Curriculum: 0-3 years.
- Classified as teaching material. Recommended age by the manufacturer: 1+
- General note and warning: Please note that generally Montessori materials are not toys, but educational, teaching materials. They are designed to be used under the supervision of professional trained adults in a school environment. Please always use these products under supervision (not only but especially under the recommended age) to make sure they are used correctly and safely. Some of the Montessori materials and tools may contain swallowable, small, rough, pointed or other elements that can cause injury or damage if used improperly.
- Care: We always advice you to clean the material with a wet wipe, before the first use. Please do not expose the wood to excessive wetness, and never immerse it fully in water!
About Heutink International:
For over a century, Heutink has brought craftsmanship and quality to educational supplies. The company produces premium kindergarten and primary school materials, which are geared towards hands-on learning. With their team of educational specialists, Heutink develops traditional as well as innovative materials aimed at supporting play-fueled development, based on internationally proven curricula and learning goals. The Netherlands-based family business was founded by in 1911, and today the third generation of the family leads the Heutink Group as a multi-national distribution and manufacturing business. Heutink produces their products in their own factories in the Netherlands, Sri Lanka and China with the commitment of high-grade craftsmanship, sustainability and environmental and social responsibility. The products are made of sustainable raw materials, such as wood from planted European forests and water-based inks and paints, and meet the demands of various rigorous safety regulations, including EN71 and ASTM. The products are manufactured in such way that they are able to endure for many years of use in childcare and schools.
Under the umbrella of the Heutink group belong such brands as Educo, Jegro or Nienhuis Montessori trusted by many educational institutions all over the world. The company also distributes GAM Montessori supplies, which – beside their own Nienhuis brand – is one of the two European companies whose materials follow the blue print of and approved by the Association Montessori Internationale (AMI).
About GAM:
It was in collaboration with Gonzagarredi that Maria Montessori produced the first Materials. The first traces of this collaboration go back to the early twentieth century and to her friendship with the Marchioness Maria Mariani Guerrieri Gonzaga, who was among the first to endorse and support Maria Montessori’s theories, and invited her to stay on several occasions in Gonzaga. The first fruit of their sincere friendship and close cooperation was the “Casa dei Bambini Carlo Gurerrieri Gonzaga” which opened in 1908. It was during one of her frequent visits to Gonzaga that Maria Montessori commissioned the creation of the first Montessori products to Ernesto Bassoli, who later founded the “Societa Anonima per il Materiale Montessori (Montessori Materials Litmited)”, a company that would later become Gonzagarredi. After the death of Maria Montessori the Gonzagarredi company shared its design with the leading experts and most important Montessori associations throughout the world.
It’s been over a hundred years since the first Montessori materials and furniture were created, but the same principles still govern and drive Gonzagarredi in the development of new products. The objecting is to offer children the highest quality products consistent with the principles laid down by Maria Montessori, which will enable them to grow in complete freedom and autonomy. Each new material is created from the ideas of a team of Montessori professionals who combine the needs of children and Montessori teachers on the one hand and Montessori principles on the other. All products have been built on the principles of Maria Montessori and the company continues to develop those ideas.