Start with four craft sticks. Place two craft sticks horizontally (or going sideways). Then place a dab of hot glue in each of the corners and place the third and fourth popsicle sticks on each of the corners on one side creating a square or frame.

Next, take your thread or fishing line, wire or fishing line, and measure out the width of the frame. Cut 5 pieces. Start with one piece of thread, and add your colorful beads to the thread. I recommend either 5 or 10 depending on the size of your beads.

Glue each of the ends of the beaded thread to the top portion of your frame.

Next, add the bottom beaded thread to the frame with hot glue. This will help with spacing for the remaining three strands.

Add the other three strands of beads to the frame.

The last step is to hot glue another popsicle stick over the vertical (up and down) popsicle stick covering the hot-glued ends of the thread. Making it clean and ready for abacus learning!