They Quack Better Than They Cut (RoseArt Color Start Duck Scissors)

Member Name: DavyMichelle

Product:	RoseArt Color Start Duck Scissors
Date:	11/05/09 (54 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: They Quack Well

Disadvantages: Shame They Don't Cut!

For £3 off Amazon, I didn't expect these scissors to be anything too special. I thought they'd make a few cheap quacking sounds and cut a bit of paper in the shabby manner that kiddie's scissors usually do. The grandson is mad about ducks, so I thought these were a brilliant buy that he'd be really keen on.

When they arrived, he was indeed keen on them. He was as impressed as I had been that they make scissors shaped like ducks that quack as you cut. He tried them out and found that they fitted on his hands okay, although they were a tad on the big size and my fingers actually fitted into them. He tried to quack them and they were really effective at that and made a good loud quack, quack, quack sound when they were opened up.

Then we tried to cut a piece of paper with them. The grandson sat struggling and I watched as the paper kept runching up. I thought maybe there was a knack to it, so I asked if I could try. I tried several different angles, but I couldn't get them to cut anything either!

On opening them up I realised that there were basically just blunt plastic. There's a small section of the scissors that is sharpened, but it's right up the back end of the scissors. I discovered that I could only cut with these if I opened the scissors as wide as they could go and push the edge of thin paper right down into it. Even then, the scissors only made a cut of a couple of centimetres long and not all the way down the blade.

These are such a good idea but we were really disappointed that they don't cut properly. There's no way a young child could be expected to master such a difficult pair of scissors, and they are aimed at three years and over. I would rather have paid an extra £2 or £3 for these and got the great design and quacking feature but with a sharper and better aligned blade that actually cuts things.

Summary: Not Recommended