Cubetto playset

Who is Cubetto? 

Cubetto is a wonderful wooden robot for boys and girls age 3 and up. Cubetto makes programming accessible to children before they can read or write. I love Cubetto because of its natural look and is user friendly. Using hand-on blocks to write their first programs. 

The Cubbetto play-set includes two small books. One is the "instruction guide" and the other "Cubetto's first day" with some instruction including the world map. 

How does Cubetto work? 

You can only talk to Cubetto with the command panel. You have four different blocks: green: forward, red: rotating right, yellow: rotating left. Blue: repeat function. What does repeat function mean. If you want to give the same set of directions more than once, put that sequence in the function line. Now you can use the blue block in the queue every time you want to repeat that sequence.




There are different maps of Cubetto they all include a story book. Go together with Cubetto on all of his adventures to help him to find the way.
  • Book 1: Cubetto's first day 
  • Book 2: Cubetto gets lost 
  • Book 3: Cubetto's class trip 
  • Book 4: Cubetto deep dive 
  • Book 5: Cubetto leaves earts 

How to introduce Cubetto? 

Work with the maps 

This house map is from the Blue-bot & Bee-bot but you can also perfectly use it for Cubetto. The house map is a cross section, so all the different rooms are visible. The house contains rooms that are recognizable for children, such as the living room, kitchen, bathroom and bedroom, ...  


My own experiences 

I didn't use Cubetto yet in the classroom, but I really like this robot. Because it doesn't look like a robot and looks inviting with its natural look. Do you want to read more about robots in the classroom and how they help children in their development? Read then my previous post about "Steam & Robots".



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