The fifth gift was created by Fröbel as a modification of the third gift. The cube is divided into three layers, creating 27 cubes in smaller shapes. Three of them are further taken apart into another six prisms by diagonal cuts. Three additional cubes are divided through two diagonal cuts in overall twelve corresponding smaller prisms.

The “roof shapes” created by this, stimulate the building of miniature houses. By lining them up, duplex houses are created or a schoolhouse, the town hall or the community administration, the building of the fire brigade, and the church. It is obvious, that in this design the world of the ancient small Thuringian villages is replicated, the world in which the children lived, with whom Fröbel played.