Ninth in a series of 10 Gifts, this set includes a grid card and 576 wood dots, 64 of each of the following nine colors:
Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Violet Natural White Black
Continuing the logical cycle, from the solid forms of Gifts 1-6, the surface of Gift 7, the lines of Gift 8, and now to Gift 9, where objects are formed using points.
This progression of abstraction has reached a profound level - a point with no dimension, only position. Froebel understood that children cannot be taught these abstract concepts, but they can discover them through play and internalize these ideas. The impressions formed by doing creates a solid foundation of understanding.