These are the pencils built from a stack of coloured beads, and the trick is that no sharpener is ever needed. Each bead carries its own lead tip. When the point at the bottom goes blunt, that bead is pulled out and pushed into the top of the stack, and the next sharp tip drops into place.

For a child that is a small piece of magic and a genuinely practical feature. There is no queue at the class sharpener, no shavings on the floor, and no pencil that gets shorter and shorter until it cannot be held properly. The pencil stays the same length from the first day to the last.

The beads are translucent plastic in rainbow order, red through orange, yellow, green, blue and violet, so the pencil looks like a string of glass beads on a desk. It writes like an ordinary pencil, with a fine graphite tip in each segment.

Four come in a pack, which makes it a sensible party-bag or class-prize buy rather than a single novelty. They are plastic-bodied rather than wooden, so they survive being dropped, though the beads can separate if the pencil is pulled apart deliberately.

Safencia lists the multicolour beaded plastic pencils at Rs. 215 for the pack of four with Cash on Delivery across Pakistan. WhatsApp confirms stock, your city and delivery charges before dispatch.

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