#bead maze

Goofysilly Lucid Blocks (Game) Stimboard (with whimsical bead and toy block stims) for Anon

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Sensory room day!

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[image description: two wooden bead mazes. Left hand side: a two-wired bead maze set into a round wooden base. The base is painted yellow and bears the outline drawing of a teddy bear in orange paint. The two wires are blue and orange; the blue wire goes straight across while the orange wire twirls in two circles. Both wires are strung with red, yellow, blue, orange and green wooden beads. Right hand side: a single-wired bead maze set into a plain rectangular wooden base. The wire is green and loops in two circles and is strung with an assortment of green, blue, pink and plain wooden beads. The wire is set beside a stylised wooden yellow giraffe figure, which features an inset white wooden ball as an eye that can be rolled inside the socket.]

Bead maze comparison post!

Left hand/yellow bear maze: $4 AU from The Reject Shop. (They have price tags saying $5, but the shelf tag and the register display as $4.) These are available in several colours and wire arrangements/shapes, and it took a little searching to find one where the paint wasn’t chipping off the base. Sadly, because they feature two wires for pushing the beads, the beads tend to jam up beside each other where the wires grew close. There’s a point on this particular maze (where the yellow and red beads rest on the orange wire) where the wire loops are too close together for the beads to easily move past each other, and it takes quite a bit of forcing. This isn’t a fun stim for me, given my hands.

Right hand/yellow giraffe maze: $3 AU from K-Mart. Only available in this size and configuration, sadly. It only has one wire and fewer bead shapes, but I like this maze much better because the beads don’t get stuck. Rolling the eye in the giraffe is also a little pleasing. The cord tail on the giraffe needs sealing to keep from fraying, though, so I don’t think it any better quality than the first. The beads don’t stick, though, and it is a dollar cheaper, so this is my preferred maze out of the pair.