Monday, February 06, 2012

Fun with Beads




I bought a new game for Jia during my trip to Bandung recently.  It is a set of beads with pegboards and templates.  
It was bought with the intention to keep Jia occupied throughout her trip in Bandung as Bandung does not have many fun activities for kids.  At the end, I find it to be an interesting and useful toy for her as it helps to improve motor skill as well as giving the sense of achievement when she got the shapes done by filling in bead by bead onto the pegboard.
Here's what it looks like inside the box.  It consists of a few packs of beads with different colors, a few templates, and two pegboards. 












This is how it looks like after it is harden by ironing under mild heat for around two minutes.  This is the fun part that excites Jia a lot as she gets to hold and feel the end result which is the harden beads that are joined together.  The harden beads can then be used as decoration by sticking onto wall, or just bringing it around.