Pop Bead Books

Pop Bead Books - Pop beads can help strengthen fingers.

Each set includes a simple board book and assorted beads. The round beads are a bit smaller than the standard pop beads and thus a little harder to handle. The books are simple, with a few finished examples to recreate, and a few play background pages. The individual must be able to work from a finished model in the book because there are no step-by-step photos. The beads do take a good push to snap together and a good pull to take apart. Not a starting place for weak hands.


Book - Pop bead people to make.

Book - Play pages for pop bead people.

Try this:

• Copy the models inside the book or make up your own.
• Roll the bead in-hand at the fingertips if it is not in the correct orientation for placement.
• Lay each bead at the base of the fingertips and have the child use the thumb to push it up to the fingertips.
• Memorize the sequence of colors for the arm or leg and see if you can put it together without looking at the book again. Rehearsing the colors in order out loud two or three times may help you remember.
• Use a mechanical pencil with no lead or a closed pen (to avoid marking in the book) to point to each piece as you go if the individual cannot look down and up without losing his place.
• Use a pointer and point to each piece to assemble if the individual does not know the order to snap beads together to create the model.
• Work on finger and manual dexterity, distal finger control, in-hand manipulation, finger and hand strength, visual discrimination, visual closure, figure ground, visual memory, palmar arches, pincer grasp, separation of two sides of hand, sequencing, executive functioning skills, process skills, play and leisure exploration and participation

In the container: Enough beads to make each character once, board story book.

Ages 4+
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