The bead shelf is not a real (wooden) shelf but a plastic shelf with pins. You can put fun figures on it, with big beads. For fine motor skills and because it's just fun, children can be creative with the bead board! On this page you will find 4 great examples to explain!

In schools, beaded boards are widely used to practice colors, shapes and counting. The colored plastic beads are placed on the pins, and when the figure is finished, the beads go back and another (new) figure can be laid. Of course, it is nice, if the figure can be well admired first, by teacher, master, carers or the other children.

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Laying the beads can be done in several ways:

1. Place the example next to the shelf. Look at the example and try to recreate the figure. That is not very easy, because you have to look carefully and count where and which bead you put.

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