Melissa & Doug Primary Lacing Beads - Educational Toy with 30 Wooden Beads and 2 Laces for Toddlers, Fine Motor Skills Lacing Toys for Toddlers and Kids Ages 3+

Great toy for preschooler! Helps with fine motor building, creating patterns, and identifying shapes and colors. Nice quality and durable. The beads are pretty large, so they won't get lost easily.

These beads are nice and big to play with. Our granddaughters love them and enjoy making necklaces. The only thing it’s missing is a cover for the box to put them in-maybe a bag.

My 2-year-old granddaughter loves these beads! The colors of the different shapes are very vibrant, and they are well-made and should hold up for years to come. Until she got used to pulling the string through and holding on to it, I taped on a q-tip. Now she's stringing like a champ, and loves reciting the colors as she does.

I’ve wanted one of these types of toys for my toddler and finally got him this one for Xmas. These are good quality for the price. They are great for hand coordination and the holes for the beads are big enough to make it easy to use.

A perfect toy for my toddler to practice stringing beads! She stays busy with it for a while and enjoys it when she can do it by herself. The size is good. I only rated four stars because they sent me a box that had two blue cubes (missing green) but it’s ok!! Overall great quality, durable toy and easy to put away!

My granddaughter love it!

I gave this set to my 17month old grandson for Christmas. He loves them! The are sturdy, solid wooden pieces. The paint is deeply coated (I don't think they will ever have paint chips coming off) and the hole in the middle is just the right size. The beading strings are sturdy with long enough good plastic ends to lace the string. There are one color of each different shape. (1 blue: square, circle, oval etc....) I think these are a great way to teach children both color and shapes at the same time. As well as helping them to develop their fine motor control skills. We sat on the floor for a long time stringing bead after bead and then emptying the lace, which sounded great on my son's hardwood floors - lol My daughter-in-law sent me a video of my grandson going on a walk through the house dragging his string of beads behind him noisily on those hardwood floors!! Bonus use!! (I was banned from getting a popping popcorn vacuum cleaner for him to push - hahaha) I think these beads will last for generations, they are really well made. All in all it turned out to be a great gift he truly loved and grandma snuck in way for it to be educational too. (They weren't all that too noisy! Just right!!)

I didn't expect much, because I don't like Melissa and and Doug puzzles and I've found a lot of their other toys to be cheaply made. I was pleasantly surprised by this bead set. The colors are vibrant. It's pretty and durable. I got it for my almost 17 month old, who learned to string beads from the Lovevery bead toy. Even better, these beads fit the Lovevery string! I actually prefer the Melissa and Doug beads, but I like that we can use them together, since my daughter still has trouble with the shoelace string. She also immediately put the beads in her mouth, but I expected that and supervise her. Some of the pieces are smaller than I'd like, but I've seen worse from toys that didn't recommend 3+. Her fingers are too large to get stuck in the holes, so that's not a concern either. I also like that beads can be used as loose parts. Overall, it's a great toy for the price that will grow with her.