Wooden bead maze - coloured beads with little animals

Description

This bead maze stands on two solid wooden base blocks. Between them run curved, coated wires in blue, green and pink, and wooden beads glide along them: round balls in green, blue, orange and pink, alternating with wider cylinder beads.

Several of those cylinders carry pictures of animals, among them a rabbit and an owl. A child hunts for them, points at them, names them and then pushes them on round the bend. Following a loop with the fingers takes just enough steering to keep a preschooler at it.

Between the base blocks there are also two crossbars with flat coloured discs. These slide back and forth as on an abacus and make a quieter second game alongside the work up top.

Everything is fixed to the frame, so nothing goes missing and there is nothing to tidy away afterwards. That makes it a rewarding piece of toy to leave standing in the living room, or to keep at the grandparents' for when the grandchildren come.