The cubes are nice and soft and just the right size for toddler hands. Unfortunately, I had read that more and 3 are stitched together - for Türmchenbauen or training of fine motor skills, I do not find it useful because when the first 3 are standing and looking the other draufsetzt mostly equal everything can think again, with individual cubes just smaller children would successively put lighter fall. Will they probably have to cut apart.