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This product is built very well. The seams are secure. It's been used daily in a preschool room for almost two months now and it still looks great. I love the thick gel-like fluid, it makes for a great sensory sensation when pushing on the beads and watching the beads move around. The colors are vibrant and it's easy to read. The younger kids enjoy pushing their hands on it and squishing the product in their hands. The older kids like poking the beads around, regardless of whether the beads go where they want them to. Ironically, the teachers in the classroom enjoy it, too. I often catch them playing with it. I highly recommend this product for children and adults.

Arrived in the original box. Love the concept with this for number recognition and matching colors. Pad itself is large with a little bit weight but, it’s still easy to handle and take with you. Material used for the pad is soft and smooth including the rounded off corners. Pad is completely sealed and able to handle pressure. Inside has a thick transparent gel with silicone like spheres in various quantities and colors for matching. Squares inside of the pad are large and brightly colored. All text for letters and numbers is easy to read. Spheres push through gel easily but, when you’re trying separate one or two spheres away from a group it can be a bit challenging because they can go in the opposite direction. Have found it easier to cup your fingers while using both hands when pushing the spheres so you have more control. This may be challenging for those who are still working on fine motor skills and could see this causing frustration because of the difficulty when separating the colors. Pushing the spheres without using the numbers and colors is a nice activity to help build on fine motor skills and it works great as a usual sensory toy providing the tactile input from the gel.

The media could not be loaded. In my video is my almost 3 year old daughter. She has a pretty tough time using this as intended to actually get the colors in the right spots and just ends up squishing it every which way for a fun, short-lived sensory experience.To be clear, I was the one to complete this lol. It was a little bit challenging even for me at least if you're short on patience haha. It does take a little bit of strategy because putting one color in it's place will easily knock the surrounding colors out of their place.That being said, it's a perfectly fine toy for any kid to play with for sensory satisfaction. But to be able to consistently get the colors in their spots, I think it would generally take an older child than age 3 or an especially determined, patient child.I do know a couple of autistic children but have not tested this toy with them. They really love numbers, letters and putting things in order but get easily frustrated when it's difficult to do so. So I would be reluctant to gift this to them specifically, but of course every child is different! Just consider the specific child when purchasing.

Great little activity for litter learners! Love the sensory aspect to it!

As a travelling teacher I'm always on the lookout for engaging stimuli. MAny kids find the routine of counting soothing. This helps teach coping skills.

This is a really neat concept. I love that it's teaching colors and numbers while giving the kids something to fidget. However, it's a little harder to manipulate the little pompoms into the spaces than I expected. Depending on their temperament, your child may lose interest or grow frustrated long before getting all the balls into the right spots.

This is so cute. It comes in a nice box to store it in.There is a little thank you card inside.The colors on the sensory pad are vibrant and attractive.The clear gel inside makes it fun and challenging to get the balls to move around.It is neat to see my toddler using all different techniques with her fingers and hands to try to move the balls around to the space that she wants them.

This is such a neat idea. You have to direct the little balls to the numbers and I like each number is a different color and each ball is a different color. It helps with counting. It helps with so many different things. This helped me focus.