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Manufacturer: Melissa and Doug
Brand: Melissa & Doug
List Price: $25.10
Our Price: $16.70
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Stack the durable, brightly colored wooden beads on five hardwood dowels in sequence to match the design on one of the pattern cards. This Bead Sequencing Set builds complex reasoning skills as well as sorting and coordination. Includes over 45 brilliantly colored beads, five dowels, and 10 patterns that increase in difficulty.


DESCRIPTION:

Amazon Maximum Age: 6
Manufacturer Maximum Age: 8
Amazon Minimum Age: 36
Binding: Toy
Brand: Melissa & Doug
EAN: 0000772005708
Feature: 3 years & up
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Melissa and Doug
Legal Disclaimer: no_warning_applicable
Manufacturer: Melissa and Doug
Manufacturer Minimum Age: 48
Model: 570
Publisher: Melissa and Doug
Studio: Melissa and Doug


FEATURES:

• 3 years & up
• Develops shape recognition & spatial relations
• Wooden storage case



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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Customer Rating:
Summary: Great toy for all ages-- with a little modification
Comment: I rated this toy 5 stars because it is very economical. I tried to make my own bead sequencing set for my three year old but couldn't put it together for less than the cost of this complete set.

I agree that the blue and purple colored beads are a little tough to distinguish and some of the pictures on the control cards don't readily match the real beads which makes this hard for three and four year olds.

However, in the Montessori preschool books I've read, this activity is set up a little differently. You take a tray and put one or two control cards with the necessary beads and a single shoe lace. At the start, I plan to make one lace, tie it off, and then put identical beads in the basket for my son to match. Then the young child has more chance of getting used to the process.

This kit has the capability of challenging a child for a few years as you add more colors and shapes of beads and increase the length and difficulty of the sequence.

I'm a do it your self type, but I love this toy!

Customer Rating:
Summary: It kept a super-active toddler's interest!
Comment: My daughter is 2 and is amazingly active. She is rarely interested in anything for more than a couple of minutes, tops. The first time she played with this, she was engrossed for over an hour, and then went back to play with it some more about 3 other times in the same day. This has truly never happened before!

It has really improved her fine motor skills as well as her pattern recognition. There are a lot of little touches to this product that make it nice, too - a slot to hold the pattern "cards" upright, a nice clear lid to keep it all together, etc. I do agree with what others have said about the blue and purple being very close in appearance. Other than that, this toy is absolutely perfect!

Customer Rating:
Summary: Not impressed
Comment: Having purchased many Melissa & Doug products for my son, I did not hestitate to buy this. I was extremly disappointed. The blue & purple beads are so close in color that I cannot tell them apart, let alone my 2 year old! There are not enough beads to complete some of the sequence cards and the shapes are hard to determine. My son still loves to play with the set but as a teaching tool it is useless.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Agree - Great concept, needs refinement
Comment: My son seemed to enjoy this item and I love it for the educational aspect. Patterns and sequencing are very important concepts in the early school years and even into the higher elementary grades, patterns/sequences show up in math homework & reading (i.e. sequence of a story). Sequence/pattern questions are also prominent on standardized tests. So this item is a great introduction, however, I agree with the previous reviewer, some beads are very similar making it difficult to discern on the pattern card - even I goofed on the first look. Blue does look too much like the purple and cylinders and squares look too similar on the pattern cards. Also, it needs more beads - my son wanted to fill all 5 posts but ran out of the 'right' bead to complete the additional patterns. As with all M&D toys, the quality of construction is great and even given the few minor flaws I mentioned, I would still purchase this item again.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Great concept, needs refinement
Comment: I love Melissa & Doug toys and this one is a great concept. The patterns (that you copy with beads on poles) are on sturdy wood and vary in difficulty. However, there are lots of different bead shapes, and the pictures are sometimes hard to follow -- the oval bead looks a lot like the cylinder bead, blue looks like purple, etc. I found that I had to figure out what bead each picture was supposed to represent (not easy), teach that to my son (3 yrs), and THEN let him copy the patterns.

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