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Review: CSN Stores

Recently CSN Stores contacted me about doing another product review for them.  Of course, I said yes, and hopped on their website to try to narrow down the thousands of options to one thing.

As usual, I chose something for LP, that's the name of the game when you're a mom I guess!

Since we've been struggling with learning colors a bit, I wanted to choose something that we could use to work on this.  I found these great Melissa & Doug Lacing Beads and thought they would be perfect. 

5out of 5
The package arrived very quickly- much faster than I expected actually, and LP was very excited when I showed him his new toy.  After a few lessons on stringing beads from me he was quickly trying to put the beads on the laces himself.  And I love that the beads have colors, shapes and numbers on them so we can practice more than just one thing at a time.

There are a lot of pieces to this set, so I wish it had come with a storage bag of some kind as there's no way LP is going to put everything neatly back into the small wooden box that Melissa & Doug use for most of their products, but you know me- I whipped up a little fabric bag to keep them in.

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Overall though, this is a great product. It's good quality, made of solid wood, and I'm sure it will stand up to many hours of play.
 Thanks CSN Stores!

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