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Melissa & Doug Abacus - Classic Wooden Educational Counting Toy With 100 Beads
$12.99 sale price when purchased online
$18.99 list price
Target Online store #3991
About this item
Highlights
- Traditional abacus wooden bead counting frame with brightly colored wooden beads
- No loose pieces, no mess
- 11.9"H x 12"L x 3"W
- Practice counting, math, color recognition, and fine motor skills with one activity
- Makes a great gift for 3- to 8-year-olds for hands-on, screen-free play
Description
Kids can count on this wooden "calculator" for years of play and learning! The Melissa & Doug Abacus is beautifully crafted with a solid hardwood base, and 100 brightly colored wooden beads. The sturdy frame holds 10 thick-coated wires with 10 colorful wooden beads on each -- 100 beads in all. Younger kids can slide the beads back and forth to explore different patterns and colors, while practicing their fine motor skills. Older children can enjoy using the abacus as a visual and hands-on way to learn addition and subtraction and other early math concepts. The beads are sized for little hands, and glide easily across the smooth wires. The counting toy comes with eight extension activities to add to your child's learning experience. With no loose pieces and no mess, it's a great toy to pack in a bag for on-the-go play. The abacus makes a great gift for kids ages three and older for hands-on, screen-free play.
Suggested Age: 3 Years and Up
Number of Players: 1 or More Players
Educational Focus: Gross Motor Skills, Teaching Aid, Fine Motor Skills, Math
Includes: Instruction Guide
Material: Wood
Battery: No Battery Used
TCIN: 82439380
UPC: 000772004930
Item Number (DPCI): 204-06-4439
Origin: Imported
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Shipping details
Estimated ship dimensions: 17.8 inches length x 12 inches width x 4.1 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 2.1 pounds
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4.8 out of 5 stars with 45 reviews
broad age appeal: 4.6 out of 5
length of play: 4.6 out of 5
quality: 4.83 out of 5
value: 4.83 out of 5
100% would recommend
4 recommendations
Love
5 out of 5 stars
Thumbs up graphic, would recommend
AGJ - 2 months ago, Verified purchaser
Great toy for kids and can be used for math too! A win-win!
Abacus
5 out of 5 stars
Thumbs up graphic, would recommend
Gabriellesimone - 1 year ago, Verified purchaser
Great toy! Bought for my 9 month old, who currently likes to just chew on it but will be a great toy he can grow into. Such a good quality toy, and will last for many years and children to come. Thank you, Melissa and Doug for an affordable, quality learning toy.
Life saver for Parents
5 out of 5 stars
Thumbs up graphic, would recommend
Do not buy - 1 year ago
It helps my daughter every school year she is now in 3rd grade and still plan to use it for many years to come .
Colorful, Sturdy Abacus!
4 out of 5 stars
Thumbs up graphic, would recommend
Richard Castle - 2 years ago, Verified purchaser
This is a colorful, sturdy abacus, constructed of solid wood! The beads slide very easily! I wish they had used 10 different colors and not repeated any twice.
Great toys children should play with
5 out of 5 stars
Great Toys - 3 years ago, Verified purchaser
Just wrapped for my grandaughrer i know she will love it
Great helper for math
5 out of 5 stars
Carolyn - 4 years ago, Verified purchaser
My granddaughter loves this item, it helps with her math assignments.
I'm very happy, would love to buy more stuff from
5 out of 5 stars
- 4 years ago
originally posted on Melissa and Doug
I'm very happy. I bought two for Grandchilden. Bye
Great product
5 out of 5 stars
- 5 years ago
originally posted on Melissa and Doug
This is great. Bought for my 2 1/2 yr old grandson. The colors are bright and it's a well constructed wooden toy. He can count, learn colors and work on manual dexterity. He loves it. Would highly recommend.
Great product
5 out of 5 stars
Ruth - 5 years ago
originally posted on Melissa and Doug
This is great. Bought for my 2 1/2 yr old grandson. The colors are bright and it's a well constructed wooden toy. He can count, learn colors and work on manual dexterity. He loves it. Would highly recommend.
I would buy this product again
5 out of 5 stars
- 5 years ago
originally posted on Melissa and Doug
This is awesome to have in their little school area. It's educational, my kids love it and will keep interested in it
Looking to help your kiddo with simple + and - this is it.
5 out of 5 stars
- 5 years ago
originally posted on Melissa and Doug
This abacus it has help my special needs child with his addition and subtraction.
Great value.
5 out of 5 stars
- 5 years ago
originally posted on Melissa and Doug
Exceptional quality. This will last a long time for both our little ones to use.
I encourage all parents to enjoy M&D quality learning toys
5 out of 5 stars
- 8 years ago
originally posted on Melissa and Doug
Your wood products are always superior! My son has made great improvements because your products. I hope you're a good company.
Good for kids; not QUITE what we needed for a different use
4 out of 5 stars
- 8 years ago
originally posted on Melissa and Doug
The abacus is sturdy and well-constructed. However, for OUR purposes we would have been happier if it had a wider base to provide more stability. We also think it would be a better learning tool if each row of beads had five beads in one color and five beads in a second color. We are using the abacus for our grown son who had a stroke. He is very slowly recovering but lost the ability to speak and read. He was formerly very number/math-friendly, and we hope the abacus will help with restoring some of that ability. He has shown distinct signs that he still retains some ability with numbers, and we want to enhance that. We realize our intended use diverges from the usual for kids, so take the critical comments with a grain of salt. Had we bought this for a child, we would probably have given it a five-star rating. I will also note that our son was pleased with all of us zinging beads across the wires... maybe not a numerical function, but still fun... and making him laugh is a reward in and of itself !
Good product
5 out of 5 stars
- 15 years ago
originally posted on Melissa and Doug
This product is an excellent addition to my classroom. Very good durability and the children love to learn with the colorful beads.
excellent
5 out of 5 stars
- 15 years ago
originally posted on Melissa and Doug
really good to improve math skills, my daughter is doing much better with this abascus before she didn't understad how to add, count, and substract but this has been a good tool for her to get better. it worth the money.
helps solidify sense of number
5 out of 5 stars
- 15 years ago
originally posted on Melissa and Doug
I use this abacus with my kindergarteners everyday. I have purchased 4 for the classroom, for small group activities. We use our abacus as part of our "Morning Meeting", counting the number of days we've been in school, and then just making numbers. My kids can "read" any number that I make. The abacus' in my room are handled regularly by 20 5/6 year olds so I appreciate their durability. They also look beautiful sitting on the windowsill.
Years of fun to come!!!
5 out of 5 stars
- 16 years ago
originally posted on Melissa and Doug
We love this product. We use it with our 10 month old supervised. It's kinda heavy and could hurt a little toe if you don't help them play with it. He loves it!!! Moving the beads back and forth is fun for him. We can't wait to start teaching him how to count on it. You can even use it to teach colors!!!