Bead Threading & Lacing Sets
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Montessori Wooden Shoe Lacing & Tying Activity Toy
This realistic wooden learning shoe is a classic Montessori practical life tool designed to help children from 3 to 5 years master lacing and tying their own shoelaces independently.
Encourages bilateral finger coordination, patience, and confidence for school readiness (15 x 6 x 9 cm).
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Gift option
£2.99Is your order a gift? We will be happy to wrap it to surprise your recipient!
Gift wrapping: Whether the order is for a girl or a boy, we offer different types of gift wrap.
Gift card: A message to pass? We include in your order a card with your personalized message.
Warning: This option is not possible with gripper balls.
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Montessori Wooden Lacing Board Set
£9.99A classic Montessori lacing activity set featuring a smooth wooden threading board and 6 durable colourful laces. Helps toddlers master thread patterns, shoe tying, and finger coordination.
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Montessori Wooden Cheese & Mouse Lacing Toy
£11.99Help the hungry wooden mouse nibble through the cheese with this timeless Montessori Cheese & Mouse Lacing Toy. Attached to a sturdy cord, the smooth wooden mouse threads in and out through varied cheese holes, strengthening fine motor control and concentration.
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Montessori Wooden Strawberry Lacing & Threading Toy
£15.99This delightful wooden strawberry threading toy will enchant your child while refining fine motor precision, patience, and concentration!
Toddlers guide the cute wooden caterpillar \"needle\" through the perforated berry tunnel holes and unthread it back out.
A beloved Montessori practical life material that exercises the pincer grasp and sewing coordination from 18 months.
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Wooden Apple Threading Toy - Caterpillar Lacing Game
£17.99Guide the cheerful wooden caterpillar as it munches through the tunnels of this bright red wooden apple! A classic Montessori fine motor toy that develops concentration, manual dexterity, and hand-eye coordination through soothing threading play.
Threading beads and lacing sets give children aged 3 and up one quiet task: pick up a piece, find the hole, push the lace through and pull. The range covers wooden bead kits, lacing fruit, sewing cards and a shoe tying toy, with one embroidery kit for older children.
Bead kits and lacing fruit
The farm animals kit is the classic set of wooden beads to thread, with animal shapes that invite a story while the string fills up. The caterpillar game works on the same gesture but with a clear goal: build the body bead by bead. For a child who still finds small beads fiddly, the strawberry, the apple with its caterpillar and the cheese with its mouse are easier to start with, because the lace weaves in and out of one large piece that stays put.
Lacing cards, weaving and a first sewing kit
Once the in-and-out movement is familiar, the lacing board set and the three safari animal cards ask for more planning: which hole comes next, and how to finish the outline. The animal weaving cards swap the lace for real wool. The peacock embroidery kit is for ages 8 and up, when a child is ready for a needle and a proper sewing project.
From lacing to tying shoes
The shoe lacing toy lets children practise crossing laces and making a bow on a shoe that does not move, at table height. It pairs well with the locomotive busy board, whose latches and catches train the same fingers for coats and bags.
Threading beads are among the simplest Montessori teaching toys to pack for a long journey or bring out in a waiting room. Before handing over the lace, tie a large knot or a first bead at its end, so the beads cannot slide off and the work is not lost.