SkoolzyLinking Math Manipulatives Learning Toys - 120 Rainbow Math Links Counters with Tote & Preschool Learning Activities eBook - Kids Counting Toys Kindergarten Fine Motor Skills with Tote

This product is well-made and I love that it comes with a tote! 120 links is plenty of links to make different color sequences.I feel that the children have MORE than enough items to work with. Nothing is worse than buying an educational product and not having enough items to do anything with. NOT the case with Rainbow links.The sequence download is very well done. It begins with basic solid color patterns and moves to more sophisticated color patterns. It has many options (math, shapes, sorting, and open-ended ideas). The sequence cards are easy to use with a scaffolding approach; starting out basic with assistance and getting increasingly more difficult.I like to use with Learning Resources sorting bowls Learning Resources Sorting BowlsLearning Resources Sorting Bowls

I purchased these for my 3-year-old daughter to use in different activities while I homeschool her older siblings. She easily puts them together and has used them to sort colors, count, as a sensory activity--searching for them in colored rice--and as imaginative play, making as she calls them, "swings", snakes, and more. She even chains some together and puts them in stencils to create shapes and letters. The possibilities are endless, and it's super easy to store. We have the nits and bolts from this same company, and I liked the. So much that I wanted this particular brand for the chain links. Love these!

Perfect size and colorful.

So, this is yet another developmental toy I bought for our son with fine motor therapy targets in mind. I had noticed that he tends to like repetitive tasks a lot, and I thought that playing off of the repetitive nature of the chaining these together might appeal to him. I also like that there are different colors, and for someone using this actually for teaching basic math concepts, that makes these workable for visually discussing things like fractions and percentages, and it would kind of play well with Singapore math. It's also good to be used as a color sorting teaching tool for younger children.In terms of what I bought it for, and this is the reason I am removing a star, it's actually harder then I would like to push these things together. I'm imagining this would be seen in a PreK through 1st grade environment in a typical school, and I'm thinking first graders probably have the hand strength to put these together in a chain, younger kids will probably require assistance. And I know my son surely does, this is a bit more of a challenge for him then I was expecting it to be, so it's one of those we're saving for a little bit further into the future, though I still do bring it out from time to time to work with him on it and see where he's at with it.So I think this is a decent toy, that would be better if it were a little more pliable or flexible. Just a little bit.

Very sturdy. The only problem I have come across was that the cuts to link them together are a little small. Otherwise very good for counting and color sorting.