Skoolzy 46 Pcs Lacing Beads - Large Beads for Preschool Learning Activities, Sensory Toys for Toddlers 3-4, Autism Toys for Toddlers 3-4, Ideal for Cognitive and Motor Skills Development

This is a great toy for my 3 year old and 1 year old. I bought this toy not knowing how well both of them might like it. Toys are sort of hit and miss in my household. I started looking into more educational toys lately to help my 3 year old with her focus and really to gauge where she is on her milestones. I have had this over a week and it has been the toy that is played with the most. I had to guide my 3 year old to string one or two blocks and she got it from there and played with it for a long while, which is longer than the time she spent playing with other toys. I think it brings the creativity out of the kids on what you can string with the beads and it helps with their fine motor skills. Most of all, it was FUN. As for my 1 year old, we are not stringing yet but this helps her to sharpen her fine motor skills as she grabs on to the blocks and I use it as a fun tool to introduce colors and shapes. The shapes are big enough so there is no worry about choking hazard for small children. However, one down side of this toy is that the string, if not used properly could cause strangulation. It is not a problem in our household because I make sure to be there when they play, in particularly this toy, and put it away when they are done playing. Other than that, this is a great toy and it comes with a drawstring bag for proper storage and easy carry.

I purchased 2 of the Jumbo Primary Stringing Bead Set by Skoolzy from Education Treasures. One was for my granddaughters (ages 4 & 2) and a great niece (age 3). All 3 love it! It's one of the first toys they go get to play with. I like seeing them play with other things besides electronics, as many kids do now. Seeing the dexterity and coordination the 2 year old developed so quickly was very impressive! Thanks for making such a great learning toy! I do reviews on things I buy & even though this is for a promotion, I would have done it anyway because I appreciate truthful reviews to help me in my purchases. I've included a picture of my 2 year old granddaughter & 3 year old great niece having fun with the beads! I wanted to edit my review. As I stated above I do reviews on things without being offered anything usually. This company, Education Treasures, sent me an email after I did my review with a message saying "Do you want another kids toy for free" in the subject box. I amended my review to go along with the message in the email of adding that the toy was purchased from Education Treasures and I sent them a copy of my review. I never received the toy so wrote to them. Long story short, it was many emails later with going back and forth them saying they don't give toys, but send thank you gifts (which was stickers or a blow up world globe). The email with the line of "Do You Want Another Kids Toy for Free" was very misleading. Their email to me stated "We apologize if the wording in the email was confusing as we are working to clarify our email to reflect the proper purpose of what we are referring to". I felt it only fair for me to edit my review to include this information for other buyers in case they get the same email that I received and think they will be getting a toy similar to what was purchased. That being said, the Skoolzy beads are wonderful and the girls still love playing with them. There wasn't an issue with the toy at all. Just as I was writing this edited review I received another email from Education Treasures and now they will send an actual toy out for all the confusion over the past few months of going back and forth. I was going to take off 1 star but it was not because there was anything wrong with the toy, it was of the issue with the company I bought the toy from. I decided not to take the star away because the toy is great and the review is really of the toy. The company, Education Treasures sent it out right away and really the only issue with them was their false message of offering a new toy if you followed their steps in your review to make sure to mention you got the toy from them. It took a long time to finally get the toy offered, but they did finally come through.

My daughter is almost 2.5 with no known learning disabilities. We plan to homeschool and have already implemented learning play. We wanted some beads to help her with dexterity, colors, and shapes while being fun. These were a hit right out of the bag! They are colorful, with multiple shapes, and easy to handle. She likes to string them after I've tied a knot around the first one so they don't all fall off. We also make her a necklace that she loves to wear. Other games are stringing colors or shapes together or sorting the beads into cups. The cons: While they are not as big as I thought (which is my own fault) we love them. We do not leave her alone with them because they are not big enough for my liking to do so. There was only one string. The hard part at the end is to short for her to do easily because it disappears into the bead. I would have preferred the hard part to be double the length of a bead to keep kids from getting frustrated. She cannot string them alone only because of the string. We are ordering the primary set to use until she is a little older.

I contemplated making this purchase after reading many, many reviews. Cons: random assortment of colors so you can't do patterning (as mentioned by another reviewer)... Biggest safety concern is the circles and ovals can fit in the mouth of a 20 mo old... I put those shapes away for now and will bring them back out in another 4-6 months... She enjoys the cubes and triangles plenty, and even watching her like a hawk they are soooo fast at this age, that I didn't want to to take any chances. ... the string that is included is flimsy, but works okayish if I thread them and make a necklace for her to 'wear'. Pros... this holds her attention for 3-5 minutes, which is a record.. lol. I found that a thicker shoestring works great (washed one from my snow boots!) and she really focuses on threading the string through the hole. It's a great fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination building fun activity. We reinforce shapes and colors by talking through the activity. Overall, I am very pleased for the price, and glad that I made the purchase.