HAMA Beads - Creative play for growing chrildren Playing with HAMA Beads children learn to recognise colours, grip small objects, tell one shape from another, get an idea of quantities. With a few Hama pegboards and a va riety of colourful Hama beads, the imagination can run riot.The most popular way of playing with Hama beads is to make your design and afterwards make it permanent through ironing.