Jellyfish Bead Page

The jellyfish has five tentacles and every one of them has beads to move. Slide them down to the bottom, push them back up, line them all up in a row, count them, get it wrong, count them again. This is the page that works when nothing else will: on a plane, in a waiting room, in the ten minutes before dinner. One hand, no pieces to lose, no mess.

Five cords stitched through the page beneath a jellyfish, each strung with pony beads in mixed colours, and glitter spots across the bell to catch the light. Counting, colour naming, and the pincer grip that comes of moving one small bead past another.