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Sorting Beads into color groups refines fine motor skills and helps your child use logic to determine similarities and differences. Sorting Beads is a bridge between practical life skills and more academic activities of sensorial education.

This sorting and sequencing beads  set  is wonderful because it can be used for several functions beyond sorting beads. After sorting beads into groups of colors in each section, string beads together with floss and a large needle. This sewing activity  helps with depth perception and teaches the concepts of up and down and in and out. Also, the sequencing cards are self-teaching because your child matches the card pattern to the bead pattern. 
The study of patterns is the foundation for later reading and mathematics.