Crorey Creations My Friendship Bracelet Maker Kit

I am a mother of 1 eight year old girl, however, I bought this primarly for meself. I design and make beaded jewelry and thought this would be a great addition to the jewelry I currently do. Of course I have incorportated my own beads (not include with the kit). And have been glued since. I have come to know the Crorey pruducts and love this everytime I use it and see my daughter enjoy it. It took some time, but My daughter has now joined in the fun and has made a few. For younger kids, have them start off with regular red heart yarn to practice there knots...trust me they will pick it up soon enough, so don't give up on them they just need a little incurragement and some practice and they will be off creating in no time. If they put it down for awhile, let them, just means there not quite ready yet, but they will be but at there own pace. Plus each child is different, my daughter who was 7 at the time would try and then put down, now she's 8 and has made several. I have checked out the other simular things for making bracelets, and well, this one is far more easier than trying to figure out a wheel version. I have also posted a few of my own pictures (3)to show the different patterns that can be made. You can get the patterns on there website which is also printable. I've heard several cons to that there should be a book with the pattens, well thats what internet is for, most people if not all this day and age has it. Besides, they are constantly adding new patterns as this would be hard to keep up in a book, which is why they have made it easy to obtain them through there website. And I will say this, there instructions are far mor easier then those on other sites...trust me I've been there and tried to know!!. A 2 thumbs up for me, would go more but only came with the two. Hope this has helped

Review By. Carrie Mcmahon "Carries-CMDesigns"

Orbeez - Magic Maker

Product Description

Orbeez are wet and wacky, soft and squishy, fun and funky, bouncy and beautiful. They start off hard and tiny. Add water and watch them grow to more than 100 times their volume. Grow up to 300 Orbeez at once in this amazing gizmo. While they grow have fun shooting your Orbeez through the hoops. Once grown, cascade them down the spiral ramp into the collection tray. Then play with your Orbeez using ideas from the Activity Booklet. With a Play and Display Tray and more than 2,500 Orbeez the fun never ends. Includes: 2,500 Orbeez in 9 Colors, 1 Magic Orbeez Maker, 1 Play and Display Tray, 1 Activity Booklet.

Nail Art Salon Set

My six year old daughter says it's "very good" because of "the little pointy thing that comes with paint that you can shake and make little designs" on your nails, and "your children may like it" because "your parents or your grandparents can give it to you". Also "there's a little baggie that comes with it to put the nail things in it".

Review By. Len

Monster High Artist Tote Compact Portfolio Set

Very cute! Came in perfect condition. My 6yo sister loooooves it. Plenty of reusable stencils. The character outlines are a great starter and the stickers are magically making it onto the pictures instead of the carpet!

Review By. brockstef

Orbeez Jewelry Maker

There have been many jewelry makers over the years, but this is the most unique I have ever seen! My kids are completely consumed by this toy. They have loved Orbeez for months now, and as soon as they saw the Jewelry Maker commercial they begged me for it. Last days of summer I was of course looking for something to keep them busy and this was the ticket.

Review By. manhattanbeacher

Play-Doh Magic Swirl Ice Cream Shoppe

Play Doh's Magic Swirl Ice Cream Shoppe is such a delight and my 3.5 year old daughter has had many happy hours of fun with it. The set comes with 4 cans of play-doh in brown, pink, green,and white sprinkle doh. There are over 40 molds to create tiny confections of delight. It also comes with two plastic cones for making 'ice cream', two sundae plastic containers, a plastic "cake" that can be decorated, three spoons, etc.

The attachments to create swirls of 'ice cream', 'toppings' squeezer, and 'sprinkles' cranker are all easy to fit. My little one was able to manipulate the attachments with some effort but she could do so independently.

This is definitely one of my daughter's favorites of the Play Doh sets that we have and it has been keeping her occupied in creating various confections and 'iced' delights:) Final verdict: a fun and value Play Doh set that will encourage little ones to create and play make-believe!

Review By. Z Hayes

Play-Doh Fun Factory Set

This is a great set to get little ones started in play doh. Although I normally make our own dough, finding play sets with enough pieces for three lil ones is tough. This is just right! The press is practically the same as the one I played with 25 years ago and all three of my girls enjoy it. The playmat is useless since is just a shiny piece of paper with cute pics. That wouldn't hold up to play doh abuse. We just lay a huge play mat on the floor and let them play and make a mess. There are plenty of goodies to play with including a pizza cutter, knife, scissors that are all totally tot safe! I didn't have any trouble cleaning the press out afterwards although a tooth pick would come in handy for the tiny holes in the accesssory plate for the press. My girls love making snakes and pasta.

This will come in hand during our homeschooling since they can press out some long pasta and make the alphabet and numbers. Making letters with dough is great a great hand/eye/mind excercise and makes school just a little bit more fun!

I did pick this set up at a famous big box store with the roll back prices on clearance for an unbeatable price. As in the cost of a footlong sub from Subway! yea cheap! I buy 99% of the time from amazon but in this case you can find it cheaper.

I have to admit I still enjoy playing with play doh, too! Mommy to three kiddos under five!

Review By. momma3under3