{"product_id":"vilac-fruit-beads","title":"Vilac Fruit Beads","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eThere is a stage, somewhere around eighteen months, where threading something onto something else becomes the most important project in the world. Everything else stops. The focus is extraordinary. This little watermelon kit from Vilac is made precisely for that moment, and it is so cheerful and bright and beautifully made that honestly, you will enjoy watching it almost as much as they enjoy doing it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWe love it because:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAndy Westface's artwork makes this feel like a tiny gallery of fruit and vegetables rather than a learning toy. Colourful, joyful and genuinely lovely to look at, which means it gets picked up again and again.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe beads are a generous 4cm, just the right size for newly confident fingers that are ready for a challenge but not quite ready for fiddly.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt is two toys in one without making a big fuss about it. Younger children play with the fruit and vegetable figurines as characters and companions. When they are ready, those same pieces become the beads. The toy grows with them quietly and naturally.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe string has safety clips, which means this is genuinely suitable from eighteen months without any worry.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe watermelon-shaped fabric case is a genuinely good idea. Everything goes back inside it, which is the kind of detail that matters enormously at tidy-up time.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThreading beads is one of those milestones that feels small and is actually enormous. Hand-eye coordination, dexterity, concentration, spatial reasoning. All of it, happening over a pile of little wooden strawberries.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat's in the box:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e14 wooden fruit beads (4cm each)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA watermelon-shaped fabric storage case\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA threading cord with safety clips\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGreat for:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAges 18 months and up\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA first birthday or half-birthday gift that actually gets used rather than admired from a shelf\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe stage when threading, posting and putting-things-through-holes becomes a complete obsession\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFine motor development, hand-eye coordination and concentration in the gentlest, most appealing way\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA toy that packs up neatly and travels well, which is never a small thing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eImportant to know:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSuitable from 18 months, tested and compliant with European safety standards (Directive 2009\/48\/EC)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBead size: 4cm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMade from wood, illustrated by Andy Westface\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWipe clean with a dry or slightly damp cloth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe watermelon case keeps everything together, so it is worth making friends with it from day one\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Vilac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55587402940792,"sku":"08a-V7416","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1568\/1037\/files\/vilac-fruit-beads.jpg?v=1782241827","url":"https:\/\/www.mysmallworld.co.uk\/products\/vilac-fruit-beads","provider":"My Small World Toy Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}