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Children educational lacing game is a wooden base, 4 elements depicting stars, sailboat, watermelon and bus, and 4 multi-colored shoelaces. 4 images are applied on a wooden base with some parts remain unpainted. The unpainted parts correspond to 4 additional elements with 8 or 10 holes. The child needs to attach one of the colored figures to the base with a suitable color lace. Despite the seeming simplicity, lacing has many developmental possibilities. It develops fine motor skills, accuracy, concentration. It teaches to perform targeted actions with laces and details by fastening them together, familiarizes a child with colors and shapes. During the game, discuss why a star, sailboat, watermelon or a bus are laced up exactly to that place. What will happen if they are interchanged (the car cannot be in the water and the boat in the grass). Ask which images can change their place (the ball can be in the water, in the sand, on the road). And of course, each picture can tell its own story.