Wooden Abacus Kit (Each) Art Craft Kits

What you're getting

Right, here's a kit that lets you build your own wooden abacus from scratch. You get the frames, wooden balls, and rods all in one box, but they arrive plain — which is where you come in. Grab your paints and pens and make them your own. Add designs, shapes, doodles, drawings, letters, numbers, whatever takes your fancy.

Once you've decorated them to death, you'll assemble the whole thing and suddenly you've got a counting tool you've actually made yourself. Bit of creativity, bit of maths practice, all wrapped up in one afternoon project that doesn't feel like learning.