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This 500 piece creative play set contains a large variety of snap-together beads in different colors, shapes, sizes, and textures to make bracelets, necklaces, rings, and more. Includes six bracelet and twelve ring forms and all store in an easy-to-carry container. Phthalate-free, BPA-free and lead-free.
Approx. Price: $24.99 Box Age Range: 4+ yrs # of Pieces: Over 100 Washability: Surface Wipe Storability: Self Storing Directions: Pictorial Play Locations: Indoor Adjustability: None Levels of Play: Five or More Levels Batteries: None needed
Open-ended
Can Be Used Independently or w/Others
Real Photographs are Used
Many Accessories
Connects/Assembles Securely
Detailed
Provides Visual Cues
Hands-on Approach to Learning
Different Shapes and/or Colors
Self-Contained
Easy to Store
Fosters Imagination/Promotes Creativity
Inviting Due to Uniqueness
Wide Age Range
Visually Stimulating
Tactilely Stimulating
High Contrasting Colors
Lightweight
Developmental processes promoted
Eye-Hand Coordination
Patience
Spatial Relationships e.g. Under, Over, On, Off
Reaching/Arm Extension
Functional Finger Movement and Exploration
Social Interaction
Coordinated Movement
Imagination/Pretend Play
Finger and Hand Control and Dexterity
Tactile Discrimination
Two-Handed Play – Midline Focus and Transferring
Precision
Proprioceptive Input
Motor Planning
Creativity
Matching
Sequential Thought
Cooperative Hand Movements
Counting/Beginning Math
Categorization
Color Recognition and Identification
Hand and Finger Grasp
Fine Motor
Action Concepts e.g. In/Out, Push/Pull, On/Off, Go/Stop
The beads provide the opportunity for open-ended play.
The beads encourage pretend play and social opportunities.
Playing with and connecting beads is a familiar activity and easy for children to understand.
The beads can be interactive when used with more than one child.
Skills
Children are encouraged to learn action concepts and spatial relationships by using phrases such as, “Push the beads together.” and “Pull the beads apart.” Or “Put the beads on the ring.” and “Take the beads off of the ring.”
Social interaction is encouraged when designs are created in a group setting.
Children are encouraged to use their imaginations to create their own designs.
Parallel, interactive and cooperative play can all be facilitated by using this large set of beads.
Play Ideas
Children could be encouraged to create a design for a friend. The child can ask questions such as, “What colors do you like?” “Do you want a necklace, bracelet or ring?”
Ask a child to create jewelry that a princess would wear and then talk about what princesses do and what they wear.
Children can create jewelry designs and then pretend to be getting married (with a ring) or pretend to be a person who wears a lot of jewelry, a grandmother who wears large jewelry, or a princess wearing her jewels.
Adaptation Ideas
For children who are nonverbal, pictures of a ring, bracelet and necklace could be presented to help children understand what can be made. This also helps children who have difficulty with cognitive processing and remembering/recalling objects.
With the difficulty of play, might be important to include a mechanism for the child to express frustrations during play.
Provide sequential pictures of each step in creating a necklace or bracelet.
The bead set can be used to teach more than one concept.
Playing with and connecting beads is a familiar activity for children.
No instructions are needed with the bead set.
Play duration can be easily modified by limiting the number of beads or designs the child can make.
There is no right or wrong way to play.
The bead set offers many skill building opportunities.
Skills
Cause and effect can be taught when putting the beads together or taking them apart.
Designing and making jewelry helps foster the development of creative skills.
Children can be encouraged to use matching skills to follow the patterns created by others. This can help children experience and practice the pre-math skills of order and prediction.
Understanding similarities and differences can be the focus of play when children sort beads by color, size, and shape.
Color recognition and identification can be practiced.
Sequential thought skills are used to methodically choose, pick up and connect beads.
Children learn how to attend to detail when they copy a pattern of beads.
Encourage counting and pre-math skills by counting beads and pieces.
Play Ideas
Make a piece of jewelry as a pattern and ask the child to copy that pattern.
Ask a child to sort the beads by color, shape or texture. Helpful hint: Use a muffin tin to help a child organize and sort.
Pretend you are ordering a specific necklace. Give children verbal directions, such as, “I want a bracelet with only green and blue beads.” Or incorporate math skills and say, “Please make me a necklace that is 24” long.” Children would then have to connect the beads and use their own ruler to measure the necklace.
Have children make necklaces for a tea party – real or imagined.
Incorporate the beads into pretend play. Have the children pretend they are the mice helping Cinderella get ready for the ball.
Make one continuous bead chain and see how far it can be laid out in the house. Does it stretch beyond one room? Does it turn the corner? Does it stretch down the stairs?
Adaptation Ideas
Have a pattern of each type of jewelry to illustrate the concept of putting the beads together.
Present pictures of a ring, bracelet and necklace to help children understand what can be made. This helps children who have difficulty with cognitive processing and remembering/recalling objects.
Provide sequential pictures of each step in creating a necklace or bracelet.
