My 3 year old son wanted to be like her big sister when she made necklaces of beads, put it everywhere and prevented her big sister to play quietly. He did not understand that he did not have enough skill to thread the beads, he got angry. These beads allow him to like her. And there's more screaming like: mamaaaan it stung me my peeerrles heuuu! It is important not to release the monitoring because they remain small enough to be swallowed and the laces are dangerous strangulation hazard. It is a toy that my son loves, he trains to stack the beads to put them, place them in their box.