My First Maxi Hama Beads- Duck Car and Girl

This box has been a great introduction to Hama to my family. I really don't know what took me so long to get a Hama kit, I didn't realise what we were missing out on! The box contains three peg boards which are fairly large, a large sheet of the ironing paper, three designs to follow which are exactly sized to fit under the transparent boards for easy following, and lots and lots of beads. The beads are surprisingly big, bigger than I imagined as I'd seen the "midi" beads in a local toy shop, which makes them perfect even for younger children (under supervision) and the variety meant that my youngest daughter could happily place beads on a board (she wasn't interested in finishing anything) while my eldest daughter wanted to follow the patterns exactly. My daughters are 4.75 and 2.5 years old at the time of writing.
The eldest asks me to "laminate" the designs when she's finished.

After my eldest had made one girl and one car (following the colours given on the patterns) I filled the duck (following pattern), car and girl boards with the remaining beads when the girls were asleep to see how far the beads would go and was only 8 beads short of filling all three boards (which could have been lost as my youngest was putting the beads into bags "shopping" and wandering around the house before I did this!) so it looks like you can probably get 5 large models from this kit, or definitely 4 plus a smaller design of your own making. (I did put the beads back in the box after I’d filled the boards, but it was a nice calming activity to fill the boards...)

My eldest can be quite reticent to believe in her own abilities, so the patterns were good for her to start to get the idea of this new craft but the ease of making the designs and her delight in the "toy" that results after the beads have been heated have encouraged her to branch out to do things "in my own way" very quickly. We would definitely recommend this kit (or any of the similar sized kits) and will definitely be stocking up on more Hama in the future :-)