Maxi Hama beads

[Bella2010star]

Has anyone tried these with their children are they any good? What something bigger than the origanal ones for my young daughter :)

My 3year old manages these with some minimal help and supervision, often from his older sister :)

Hi,

I know lots about maxi Hama beads (I do sell them in my other life, just for full disclosure :) ).

In my mum life though, I've used them with 3 of my 4 girls and have loved having them in the house. They are nice and chunky and easy to turn about in your fingers, with a good range of colours and too hard to chew easily. They do hurt a bit if you stand on them (!) but are easier to pick up after strewing incidents!

What I like is that the boards are see through and the patterns can go underneath so it is easy to copy plus there are smaller boards which are great for chunky coasters. They are good for fine motor control threading too, so nice and versatile and can be woven easily by older kids when the little ones don't need them any more.

Over the years we've found they go a long way. Little ones rarely need you to iron every pattern as they forget so you can use them as a manipulative toy but reuse them. I only ironed real favourites they spent ages on and then ironed both sides so they could pay with the result so over all that ade the extra cost worth it.

I hope that helps,
Merry
Xxx

Just make sure they don't drop the whole, massive, lidless pot on the floor...

Thank you for the help with def be looking into buying some :)