A star-shaped silicon board. Ten bendable silicon strings. No batteries, no screen.

String Lab turns bending and looping into brain-building play: pattern recognition, pincer development, hand-eye coordination and spatial reasoning, one string at a time.

A star-shaped board and ten bendable silicon strings are everything your child needs to start building letters, shapes, faces, and anything else they can picture. They bend a string, they loop it, they press it onto the board, and as they work their fingers are learning the exact control that handwriting will later demand of them. The board never runs out of ideas and it never needs a battery or a screen, so a three-year-old can sit with it and stay with it, building and clearing and building again while their hand-eye coordination and spatial thinking quietly sharpen with every pattern they invent.

What's inside

• Board: 1 star-shaped silicon board
• Strings: 10 silicon strings

How to play

1. Bend a string into the shape you can picture
2. Loop it and press it onto the board
3. Clear the board and build the next one

Practise for everyday skills

• Tying their shoelaces
• Buttoning their school shirt
• Tracing letters on first try
• Making rangoli at the door

Parent tip: Draw a simple shape on paper and ask them to build it in string, as copying from a model stretches them further than freestyling does.

Ages 3+ · Screen-free · Designed with educators